Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-08
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committee has been called for about
the latest time that it can legally
meet under the primary act regulat-
ing election of members of state COM
mittees is taken to mean that the
clique which was unhorsed by the
Democratic voters of Pennsylvania
on May 21, proposes to hold on as
long as possible and to use the time
to gain all the advantage obtainable:
The Palmer r-McCormick leaders, find
that they are in even a worse position
than their opponents were in the
warning days of 1911 when the old
lGuffey- -Dewalt- -Donnelley organiza-
ton was separated with the utmost
rudeness from control of the Demo-
cratic state machine. On that historic
occasion the reorganiZers won the
legal title to the state committee
management by couple of votes in
a meeting of the committeeman
which was always more or less ques-
toned by their rivals. A year later
the Democratic voters of the state
gave the Palmer-McCormick faction
q. their approval. This was the basis of
the much advertised control of the
state organization based upon right,
| justice and morality. 1t has been
dinned into the ears of everyone that
the title of the Palmer Mccormick
leadership rested on the votes of the
party. Now the Palmer Mccormick
| candidate for Governor has been de-
feated by thousands in an open pri-
mary and the voters have given their
| approval to candidate who has al
ways been openly hostile to the re-
organizers. There is nothing left for
the reorganizers to do but fight aginst
what they have always contended was
right or else get out And the chances
are that they will be thrown out.
Ex-Congressman ]. Washington
| Logue, successful candidate for the
| Democratic nomination for lieuten-
ant governor, declared yesterday he
| would soon issue a statement defin-
| ing his position. Mr.. Logue cam
| paigned as a dry" candidate, and, as
Judge Eugene c. Bonniwell, the DEM
| ocratic gubernatorial nominee, won
on q wet platform, there has been
| considerable speculation over the pc
culiar formation of the ticket. Il
have nothing to say at this time.
Mr.. Logue said yesterday. Things
will develop very quickly now and l
will soon have something to say"
The Philadelphia Record says:
1T is believed that Mr.. Logue will
withdraw and permit Judge Bonni-
we'll to select his own running mate.
In this event, it is believed, a promi-
nent Democrat from the western end
of the state will be chosen as can
didate for lieutenant governor 1T
was said yesterday that there is also
a strong possibility of Asher r. John
son, Democratic nominee for secre-
tary of internal affairs, withdrawing
from the fight. All vacancies on the
ticket will be filled at a meeting of
the Democratic state committee TO
be held in Harrisburg on June 10.
Prominent Democrats living in all
parts of the state have already an
nounced that state chairman
should be selected who is accepta-
BILE to the gubernatorial nominee.
Judge Bonniwell has announced that
either Jonathan, Frederick or NAL
colin R. Gross, both of Lehigh coun-
ty, would meet his requirements for
the position"
The meeting of the Republican
state committee will be a love feast
from all accounts. Men allied with
all factions will attend and unite
with Sproul.
Members of the Prohibition
state committee are commencing to
find out that they were elected as
the late returns are coming.
No change of any consequence
occurred in the Porter-Huselton
vote to-day. The comment of
newspapers about the voters of the
state casting ballots by thousands
for man who withdrew will prob
ably have some effect on the next
Legislature, because the non-parti-
san act is not considered perfect.
From all accounts meetings of
Republican ward committees in
Pittsburgh were a bit rough. The
city administration and the "out"
faction had some differences which
required police.
Senator Frank P. Graft, who will
be buried tomorrow from his home
in Worthington, Armstrong county,
is the third member of the State
senate of 1917 to die during his term
and there will be three special cleo
tions of senators to fill vacancies
caused by deaths. These elections
will be for the terms of Senators
James P. McNichol, Philadelphia,
and Charles j. Magee, Allegheny,
and Senator Graft. In addition a
fourth special election has been
called because of the resignation of
AuQlJOr lTeneral CndfleS A. SnYuef,
Schuylkill They will form the
largest number of such elections to
be known at one time in years. In
the event that Senator William C..
Sproul is elected governor and Sena-
tor Edward E. Beidleman, lieuten-
ant-governor, special elections to
select their successors will be held
next winter after Inauguration day
in all probability. This is the first
| time the two leading candidates on
| a Republican ticket have been SEN
ators and it is also interesting that
| the nominee for secretary of in
| ternal affairs on the same ticket is
also a legislator, being James F.
Woodward, member of the House
from Allegheny and chairman of the
appropriations committee for sew
eral sessions.
Expense accounts filed at the
State Capitol by candidates who ran
at the recent primaries have less
than usual of the number of unusual
items. Often there are payments
stated which are so out of the or
| dinary as to cause comment and
some have furnished amusement.
This year dissemination of in
| formation" appears to be the chief
way of camouflaging expenditures.
| In the expense account of Con-
gresham John r. X. Scott appears
an item of twenty pounds of tacks
presumably to- put up the placards of
the candidate for lieutenant COVER
nor although he seems to have been
| liberal with DaVnn ants to advarfiSipoy