Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-07

here, will no longer be active, but
be maintained as body which can
be called together should occasion
arise.
Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh
is at work on his farewell message
TO the Legislature. Under the Con-
stitution, the retiring Governor
submits ideas and recommendation
70 the General Assembly, which
meets just before he goes out of
office. AS rule, these messages
are more or less of a review and
the Governor has asked the head
OF each department, commission or
state bureau to submit statements
to him OF what has been done. The
Governor has given no intimations
OF what he may recommend, except
an increase of the Reserve Militia.
Democratic legislators will be
scarcer during the coming session
than in any one since the birth of
the majority of the men who are
now bossing the official machine of
the Pennsylvania Democracy. The
official record shows six Democrat
ic Senator'S and twenty-three DEM
ocratic representatives. The Wash
ington and Socialist parties repre-
sentation in the General Assembly
disappeared in the tremendous Re-
publican vote piled up last month
and search of the records for years
does not disclose any time when the
Democratic list in a keystone State
Legislature was so small. The men
at the Democratic state headuuar-
ters, which are now visited by the
men so prominent as leaders half a
dozen years ago about once a year,
have attempted no explanation of
the decline in the Democratic men,
bership in the Legislature of the
home state of the Democratic ma
tlonal chairman in year when the
expense account shows a widespread
interest in party contributions on
the part OF federal officeholders
they seem to have left that job on
the titular leaders who are too busy
preparing for the coming of storms
at Washington to pay much atten-
tion to the uncomfortable situation
For the last fortnight there have
been rumors that the rout of
the Democratic state ticket by
such tremendous majority and the
drop of Democratic representation
in legislative halls to the lowest
point would be made the occasion
of demand for a reorganization of
the party machinery such as that
which enabled the Mccormick Pal
mer-Morris crowd to ride into power
in 1911, but it has not amounted
to anything. That a majority of the
state committeeman would approve
a reorganization of the official end
of the party is. believed, but it is
not thought that anything to tear
down the present party chiefs will
be essayed until the national out
look clarifies. Meanwhile it is
probable that the rank and file Of
the party will allow the leaders of
the state organization to carry the
$4,000 notes. This debt is said to
have been incurred in other years
and there is a disposition to let the
men who got the glory of the war
in perfectly safe jobs at Washing
ton meet the obligations.
Albert l&olb is the new presi-
dent of the Scranton school board.
Marcus Aaron, member of the
state board of education and of the
board of public education of Pitts
burgh, created a stir at that city
when he told members of the Cham
ber of Commerce that Pennsylvania
taxing laws were antiquated and
urged the members to support the
state boards bill to be presented to
the Legislature, providing for q 25
per cent increase in the salaries of
public school teachers of Pennsyl-
vania. Our taxing laws need to be
'scrapped, said Mr.. Aaron. I'VE
in Pennsylvania need much more
money than is now collected
throughout the state for education
Teaching must eventually receive
greater reward than the 25 per cent
increase that is now suggested. So
long as real estate foots the bill, it
will not come to pass"
Congressman John NJ. Rose had
8,179 majority in the Nineteenth
Captain Il. L. Taylor was re-