Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-10
SPROUL VISITS
MILL DISTRICTS
Goes Through Industrial Sec
tons of Allegheny County;
Beidleman After Scott

Senator William c.. Sproul, who
toured Cambria county yesterday and
received a greeting as enthusiastic
as he did in Blair the day before. is
in Pittsburgh for the weekend and
touring the mill districts. Yesterday
was an off day for his rival, j. Denny
O'Neil, who devoted himself to High
way Department work and CONFER
ences, leaving last night to take up
his campaigning with long sched-
ule. Senator Beidleman campaigned
in western counties and John II. *.
Scott, whose absentee record in Con-
gress is something talked about, at
tackled Senator Penrose for not be-
ing in his seat at Washington.
A dispatch from Pittsburgh says:
Senator William c. Sproul, Repub-
lican candidate for Governor. cam
paigning Thursday in Cambria
county and coming into Pittsburgh
Thursday night, declared he is meet
ing with the heartiest reception
| everywhere. In Cambria county
the candidate met and shook hands
with a thousand voters. Coming to
| the William Penn Hotel. Senator
| Sproul found Senator E. E. Beidle-
ernor; Representative James F.
Woodward, candidate for Secretary
of Internal Affairs, and State Chair
man William E. Crow, with Mayor
e. V. Bataock. Senator Charles H
Kline and big delegation of Allie
gheny county Republican leaders or
hand to greet him.
"Beidleman and Woodward cam
| paigned in Braddock and vicinity, in
tow of Register of Wills William
Connor, and talked to two crowds
packing the meeting halls. Senator
Beidleman, reiterating his challenge
| to John r. X. Scott, to tell his audi.
ences how he proposes to have the
next Lieutenant Governor reorgan.
ize a State Senate which would be
organized and doing business fifteer
| days before the Lieutenant Cover.
nor is sworn in, did so purposely
because Scott is in town. He forced
Scott to drop this feature of his
nightly talk, but got no answer tc
his challenge.
Senator Sproul will be nominated
for Governor by over 100000 ma.
jority," was a prediction made yes.
terday by Congressman Charles w
! Rowland, of Philipsburg, Center
county. in, Philadelphia. ST make
this statement advisedly," continued
the congressman. The people OF
Pennsylvania are alive to the situa,
ton. They know of the high char.
acter and the exceptional qualifica.
tions of Senator Sproul and are also
aware of the delinquencies of hi.
| opponent. There is a spirit OF
patriotism manifested in every sec.
ton and the people are thinking fol
! themselves and will vote accordingly
at the coming primary. Sproul i,
getting stronger every day as he i.
becoming better known to the voters
This is particularly true of western
counties from which 1 have direc
and reliable information"
we propose here in Luzernt
county to throttle, at the outset
any attempt by the factional Phila.
| delphia boss to gain foothold in oul
section" said A. H. Bleckley, las
night in Wilkes-Barre at a meetins
of business men who had gathered
to form a Luzerne county branch Of
the Pennsylvania Patriotic Union
The Officers elected were: Chair.
man. A. H. Bleckley, president Dor,
ranceton Silk Works; secretary, H
| c. Sham, manager of Lazaru:
Brothers; treasurer, Ambrose West
proprietor West Knitting Mills.