Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-30
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By the Ex-Committeeman

The time and place of the meeting
OF the Republican state committee
and probably some tentative candi-
dates for the two Supreme Court va
cancies will be determined upon
within the next few days by Repub-
hcan state leaders who have been
conferring with Senator Boies Pen
rose. The Senator is at Atlantic City
where w. Harry Baker, secretary of
the Republican state committee, who
may be the next state chairman, If he
wishes, has gone.
There is move to have the state
committee meet somewhere else
than Harrisburg. Lately it has been
meeting in Philadelphia or Pitts
burgh, and both cities are said to
want it. Some of the upstate men
want to come to this city. The Demo-
cratic leaders will announce in a day
or so where their meeting will be
held. 1t will in all likelihood be in
Harrisburg.
The gubernatorial candidates of
both parties will have a good bit to
say about the chairmen of the state
committees. In each case their per-
Sonal preferences will be consulted
Both the leading candidates are
taking a rest after the strenuous
campaign work.
-Ihe sorrow in the Democratic
state windmill over the rout of the
Guney faction continues to be in
tense and the bosses as they scan
returns can find no comfort and if
Holstein should turn out to be the
nominee for second place there
would be deep mourning. Judge
Bonniwell has sent word that he
wants his own state chairman and
that is taken here as notice that he
does not want any of the reorgani-
zatlon crowd around. The judge
comes right from the rank and file
of the party with their approval and
the leaders who hold all the partv
offices have nothing to do but accent.
Their conduct at the state commit
tee meeting, which will probably be
held here, will be we'll worth watch
ing.
Philadelphia now is furnishing
some interesting developments
which indicate that the Wares and
Mayor Smith have received the re-
suit of the election with a chastened
spirit. The Mayor has ordered a
number of men to quit politics or
quit city places. This action, how
ever, was superinduced by the Com
mittee of Seventy which threatened
to start something.
The Good Government people
IN Philadelphia have also inaugu-
rated moves to show the Ware work
ers that they cannot defy the Dau-
phin county court, warrants having
been issued for arrest of over 100
who tried to stop Town Meeting
voters from voting Republican
Judge Kunkel decided that the Town
Meeting was local party and that
men could continue to be Repub-
licans.
The reappointment of William
A. Magee to the Public Service Con-
mission by Governor Brumbaugh has
been expected ever since he was de-
feated for mayor of Pittsburgh in
November. Magee held off for a
long time, but finally the pressure
for more commissioners to handle
the work became so strong that
last week he was called and asked
what he was going to do, about it.
He accepted and the Governor YES
terday announced the appointment.
but Mr.. Magee did not come here
to be sworn in although men at the
Capitol waited until nearly 6 o'clock
last night for him to arrive.
People at the Capitol are en-
deavoring to discourage talk of op-
position to Justice Alexander Simp-
son, Jr., but there is a disposition
to wait and see what Governor
Brumbaugh does about the other
vacancy. Mr.. Simpson is backed nv
many lawyers, but the appointment
was held off so long and announced
under such peculiar circumstances
that 1t has not been as we'll received
as might have been.
Returns from the Seventeenth
Congressional district primary show
that Congressman B. K. Focht car
ried all counties. but Huntingdon.
His total vote was 6,982 against s.
800 for r. w. Williamson, the state
administration choice. In the scat
tering vote Williamson got fourteen
Washington and Focht eleven and
Williamson received six Prohibition
and Focht two. AS most of this scat
tering was done IN Franklin county
1t looks as though packers of viii
hanson had been preparing for
something.
And the Philadelphia grand Jury
declared against the liquor traffic.
Montgomery county will have a
woman aspirant for election to the
Legislature. She is Mary Culvert.
who, by a single vote given her at
the primaries last week, becomes the
Socialist nominee for the office
from the First Assembly District.