Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-12
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Ps~na4esa~ia
BY the Ex-Committeeman

| fiNed for September IL Will fall upon
the first day for personal registra-
! ton of voters in all cities of Penn
sylvania has been made to the ONCE
of Provost Marshal General E. H.
Crowder, in Washington, and people
here are awaiting more definite in
formation. While September 5 has
not been fixed IL has been indicated
as the day in MESA ges from the War
Department and men active in poll
tics are in a quandary about it.
There will be three registration
days this fall, all cities having the
| same day. and as it is proposed to
utilize the experienced men on cleo
ton boards, registrars and others
familiar with people of their re-
spective districts the collision in
dates would make trouble. The other
registration days are September II
and October 8, and as this is a
gubernatorial year and many changes
in residence have been made by men
because of war industry the regis
trars will have much to do.
The developments in the case of
district appeal board No. 2. in Phila-
delphia. whose removal has been
recommended, are being watched
with interest here, but none of the
state or draft officials will discuss
the matter.
Philadelphia newspapers are
printing articles which indicate that
some people have an idea that Will
! liam H. Ball, private secretary TO
Governor Brumbaugh, has been in
some way responsible for the con-
tinuance of the board in office. The
Philadelphia Inquirer yesterday gave
| considerable attention to this angle
of the situation and the North Amer
lean to-day in a signed article by
Einar Barfod says in part: Full
responsibility for keeping district
appeal board No. . in office and
shielding il against the consequences
OF its serious neglect and failure"
punishable with imprisonment un-
der the selective service law, now
has been placed with Governor
Brum baugh and his secretary, w. II.
Ball. II IS now charged that Walter
Willard, chairman--of- district appeal
board No. 2, is private counsel for
w. H. Ball, secretary to Governor
Brumbaugh, and that Secretary Ball
has not only been instrumental in
keeping the Governor from agreeing
| TO the demand of the federal author
titles for the dismissal of the district
board, but that Secretary Ball even
has usurped considerable draft ser
vice authority which in no way be-
longs 10 the office of secretary to the
Governor. Secretary Ball, accord
ing TO letters given out by Secretary
John P. Dwyer, OF the Overbrook
draft board, rot only has shown 4
remarkable tendency to procrasti-
nate and thereby obstruct a fair and
| honest administration of the selec-
tive draft service law. but even has
gone so far as on at least one occa-
sion to sit in Judgment on charges
as If he were the high and supreme
/ draft official of the state"
-Lycoming county is lining up
for the Republican ticket early. On
/ Saturday at Williamsport the County
! Republican Committee held its an
nual meeting and elected Albert z.
! Wilkinson county chairman, William
| X. Bastian, vice-chairman; Harry
! Dingler, treasurer, and Lee Berry,
secretary. Emerson Collins, Deputy
Attorney General. made a rousing
speech, advocating and forecasting
the election by a tremendous major
| ity of Senator William c. Sproul for
Governor. together with the whole
Republican ticket down to the last
man. Mr.. Wilkinson. who is state
highway superintendent for the dis
trict. succeeds George P. Stryker.
Scranton has turned to soldiers
! for her officials. Colonel E. H. Rip
/ pie, newly-appointed Director of
| Public Safety, has assumed his du-
| ties with the announcement that
every fireman and policeman in the
| city will be required to comply to
\ the letter with the rules of the de-
| partnent. The former commander
| of the Thirteenth Regiment sue
ceeds Arthur Davis, whose sudden
resignation is still the talk of the
town. Colonel Ripple says he is
planning no shakeup among any of
the fire or police officials, but that he
Will insist on hearty cooperation.
/ An Altoona dispatch TO the Phil
adelphia Inquirer says: blair coun-
l " is preparing 10 give at the next
election one of the greatest majori-
ties for Senator Sproul and the whole
Republican ticket that was ever re-
corded in its history. Chairman Will
liam H. Orr and his fellow members
OF the county committee are already
at work and from the splendid re-
ports being received by them from
every precinct il is safely predicted
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the county by at least 1000 major
iity. These figures sent by Chairman
Orr recently TO Secretary W. Harry
Baker, of the Republican State
Committee. are based from all ac-
counts not only on the popularity of
I the candidates on the ticket, includ-
| ing Senator Sproul for Governor,
who has a large personal following
here, but also upon the harmony ex-
isting within the party"
! The Insider, writing in the Phil
adelphia Press, says: After all, w.
/ Harry Baker, of Harrisburg. known
I TO the public as the Secretary of the
Senate and to those in touch with
| politics as the man who makes the
wheels go round in the state organi-
zation, is not to be snatched out of
| the state and drafted by National
Chairman Will H. Hays as an aid in
the national campaign. Dispatches
were printed in the papers last week
saying that Baker was to go to New
York to help Hays. While this in
I formation was given out in perfect
good faith by the organization,
events have since shaped up differ
entity. The proposition was a great
compliment to Baker, however"
/ Bar associations in six coun-
ties in northeastern Pennsylvania
have indorsed the candidacy of
Charles B. Lenehan, of Wilkes
Barre. for a place on the Supreme
was the first in line. Republicans
and Democrats joining hands. to in
dorse the Lenehan candidacy, mas
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