Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-01
PotiEcs L.
Pe~~oqeSasia
By ss,e Ex-Conu1itseezzAa


Bar Association is disgusted with the
working of the nonpartisan primary
act and il asks for the re-establish-
ment of the former system of nomf-
mating judicial candidates by con-
ventions. Why nominate judges by
conventions and leave every other
candidate to be nominated by di-
rect primary?
Whether conventions or the di-
rect vote is the better way OF noml-
mating candidates for office is still a.
moot question. 1t is not, however,
the direct primary for party candi-
dates that is complained of so much
as the nonpartisan ticket. In this
the voter is without the guidance
either of convention or a party
classification so in his blindness he
votes alphabetically. AS a result
the state narrowly escaped two
years ago electing an humble notary
public to be justice of the Supreme
Court and in the last election a Mr..
| HuSelton was nominated against his
VIII and intent for the Superior
bench and might have been elected
at the primary for no other reason
| than that his name preceded that of
! Judge Porter on the ticket and there
fore received the cross mark of a
| great multitude of undiscriminating
voters.
The Constitution contemplates
| that at the election next year a Re-
publican and a Democrat shall be
| elected to the Supreme bench under
| the rule that where there are two
vacancies on that bench to be filed
each voter shall vote for only one
| candidate. It is expected that Judges
1 Simpson and Fox will be candidates,
| but as they cannot be classified on
the ticket by party and an Adams
or Baker may precede them on the
| list it is quite possible that the
nominations may go wild and two
quite incompetent men be candidates
| to choose from in November because
| alphabetically their names lead all
| the rest.
The so-called intelligent voter
| needs some guidance when he votes
and the nonpartisan ballot gives him
none"
In discussing the congressional
| chances of Edward S. Brooks, who
was elected a member of the Re-
publican State Committee in 1916
from York county, the PhiladeI-
phia Inquirer says: MIR. Brooks is
making plans for his campaign, and
has received the assurances of hun
dreds of friends throughout the dis
u lNNs AOAlA anu
Gratis, of their active support at the
polls. With the Democratic party
split over the factional fight which
developed at the primaries for the
Congressional nomination, Mr..
Brooks and his friends feel confident
of the ultimate successful outcome
of his campaign"
Democrats all over Pennsylvania |
are interested in the meeting next !
Saturday of the Lehigh Democratic |
County Standing Committee. There |
is no doubt about the reelection of |
County Chairman Jonathan F.. Fred |
erick, and it is also probable that |
Secretary Arthur r. Berlin and |
Treasurer Arthur ]. d. Koenig will ]
be reelected. On account of the |
prohibition bill before Congress and |
the miXed-up result among the DEM |
ocratic state nominees, the meeting |
may be one of the most interesting |
in years. The idol of the committee |
is Congressman Arthur G.. Dewalt, |
and the support of the organization |
will be given to Judge Bonniwell.
for governor.
The Philadelphia Press says of |
the supreme court situation: Judge |
John w. Kephart, of the superior
court. will be the candidate of the
Republican state organization for
election to the supreme court next
November. and will receive its un-
divided support. This will mean that
the organization turns down" Jus
tice Alexander Simpson, Jr., of Phila-
delphia. whom Governor Brumbaugh |
recently appointed to one of the two
unexpired terms existing as the re-
cff1 n g af
trezat and Potter. 1t has been said |
by friends of Justice Simpson that |
he would be a candidate next fall /
for the full term and newspaper
dispatches from Harrisburg Friday I
said he had stopped in Harrisburg |
on his way back from the State Bar !
Association meeting to look into the |
question of getting out nomination |
papers"
The Miffiin County Republican
Committee, with the entire twenty |
six districts represented, Saturday /
went on record at Lewistown as in |
dorsing the Republican candidates |
nominated at the recent primaries |
and requesting the state committee |
to use all honorable efforts to have |
the next session of the Legislature |
ratify the national prohibition |
amendment. s. Frank Fisher, chair |
man; H. S. Lantz, secretary, and |
Henry ]. Sherman, treasurer. were
re- elected.
Republican leaders of North |
ampton county are planning a cam |
paign that will bring to the polls in |
November a big vote for Senator
William c. Sproul ana his associates /
on the state ticket and for Professor /
Francis A. March for Congress. |
Harry G. Seip, who has just been re-
elected county chairman, daily is
meeting active Republicans of the |
county at his headquarters and the |
candidacy of Professor March has |
strongly appealed to the people.
The accounts filed at Scranton |
by executors show there is s143,775 |
of the estate of the late Frederick |
w. Felitz to be set aside for the bene- |
ficiaries. The property originally in |
ventoried at S153,326 and the in
come has been more than $4,000. |
Expenditures have amounted to over
s47, 900.
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