Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-16
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Pe~naqeSa~;a
BY the Ex-Committeeman

the taking of the vote of the soldiers
as virtually preventing the sending
of more than one or two commits
sioners abroad TO take the vote at
best. 1t is believed that the appoint
ments of commissioners will be linn
tied to the cantonments and posts in
this country and that if the votes of
men in France or the Philippines are
to be taken they will be handled by
the military and turned over to COM
missioners at headquarters.
In any event steps will be taken
imm ediately at the State Department
to provide for the taking of the votes
of about 100000 soldiers and Chief
Clerk Thorn will have the instruc-
tions, opinion of the Attorney Gem
eral and other supplies ready wheth-
er they go abroad or not.
Military exigency is believed to
have been referred to by General
March as an indication that no one
can foretell what will be going on in
November.
Senator William c. Sproul is ex-
pected to pass through Harrisburg
late to-day on his way to Franklin
county to attend the Path valley pic
mic and will be Joined here by sew
eral friends. The Senator has some
other speaking engagements of like
character next week and is doing
some informal campaigning. While
he is al work his Democratic rival.
Judge Eugene c. Bonniwell. is busy
in the western end of the state per-
fecting his fences and getting ready
| to set his own committeeman at
work.
At Democratic state headquarters
in this city preparations are being
made for meetings of the Democratic
platform committee next week and
for a conference of candidates.
These will be held preparatory to the
meeting of the state committee here
the latter part of the month.
The Philadelphia Inquirer prints
| the following as showing that in
dustrial activity in time of war can
make even municipal jobs go beg
ging: Unprecedented conditions in
the industrial situation of Philadel-
phia are reflected in the news that
appointees as registrars by the board
of registration commissioners are in
many instances taking their time in
qualifying for the positions. which
pay $40 day. Never before has
there been any hesitation. every ar-
pointee, almost without exception,
Qualifying before August Is,
although he is given until August
80 If he so desires. The Forty-sixth
wards seems to have the largest
number of men who seemingly are
too prosperous in war occupations
TO qualify for the registration boards.
In this ward forty-nine Democrats
and sixteen Republicans have so far
failed to put in an appearance"
State Chief of Mines Seward
Rr1rrnn iS 'eittfnc- oh IN, IL.
of the storm created by his recent
speech and is not inclined to answer
any of the attacks made upon him.
| The chief refused to discuss them
while here this week, except to init
| mate that they were the work of
| enemies. A dispatch from Freeland
tells of movement to bring the But
! ton speech to the attention of the
Governor. 1t says: Among others
who have taken up the fight against
Governor Brumbaugh's mining chief
is the Rev. Charles j, Manley. pas
tor of st. AIMS Roman Catholic
Church, Freeland. In speaking from
the. altar Father Manley declared
that the attitude of Chief Button in
! relation to the miners. as shown in
published reports of statements at
| tributed to him, was nothing short Of
reasonable and the most dangerous
king of German propaganda. He de-
nounced the studied attempt to hold
the miners up to contempt and 10
excite suspicious of people of out
/ side communities against them"
Bail bonds aggregating S45. 900
were entered yesterday at West
! Chester for the seven Philadelphians
| convicted Wednesday in the Fifth
ward conspiracy cases and the po-
/ ltcemen went back to their official
| duties. The sum of $4,000 each was
| required for Isaac Deutsch and Lieu
| tenant Bennett. and $1,000 each for
| Uram, Murphy. wirtschaffer, Field
J man and Hayden, the patrolmen.
! The Ledger says: "A lengthy con-
| ference among Congressman Ware.
| State Senator Ware and their atto--
neys in the law offices here of At
| torney General Francis Skunk Brown
/ yesterday was an aftermath of the
conviction of the Fifth ward con-
| spirators."
The Philadelphia Record init
mates that the conviction of the DO
| licemen in the West Chester case
was shock to the Smith admin
istration in Philadelphia and that the
Mayor is now opposed to going on
with trial before winter.
| The Wilkes Barre police airing
is to be resumed in court, it is said
| up that way
| 1t took State Senator William
E. Crow just twenty days to recover
sufficiently from an appendicitis
| operation to be discharged from the
Cniontown Hospital. The Senate
left that institution yesterday and
was whirled away to his mountain
home at Chalk Hill. His recovery
| now seems 10 be a matter of gaining
strength, and il is believed he will
soon be able to look after his busi-
ness.
| United States District Attorney
Kane has designated Ma agistrate Rem
shaw to sit as an acting United States
| Commissioner to hear Stacker cases
in Philadelphia. AS a result Com
missioner Long has his war paint
on and threatens to carry the mat
ter to the Judges of the District
Court, who. he says, are the only
ones who have the right to name
a commissioner. IT will not recog-
nize any one appointed by Mr.. Kane
as having a legal right to sit as
| commissioner" was Longs final dec
laration. II had no thought of side
| tracking Mr.. Long as he seems to
think" said Mr.. Kane.
They Wonder Why
It is said that returned travellers
from Germany report the people
there are asking whv thav have M