Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-12
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Pe~~ateOa~io
BY the Ex-Committccrnan

| People at the Capitol say that the
votes of the soldiers show the usual
proportion as to purties as prevails
In their homo counties, but that
many of the commissioners report
that soldiers did not vote. The great
est interest is being shown in the
soldiers Congressional votes in the
IIuzerne and Lackawanna districts.
! but tho scattering figures received
since Saturday noon have not made
any substantial difference.
The accounts of tho commission
ers, who get ten cents mile travel
cd by a direct route and nothing
more, will be sent to the Auditor
General in few days.
1t is probable that the next Legis-
lature Will enact n law to put the
taking of soldiers votes on q modern
basis. The state is operating un-
der the act of 1864.
The Philadelphia Evening Bull
letin last evening opened speculation
regarding the cabinet of the new
governor and its article furnishes the
basis for some Democratic specula-
ton in the Mccormick morning
newspaper to-day. 1t revives the
reports that William 1. Schaffer can
be attorney general If he wishes and
the four-year-old prediction that w.
Harry Baker, secretary of the Re-
publican state committee, Is to bc
secretary of the Commonwealth. Mr..
Baker is stated by the Bulletin to be
an invaluable legislative official, how
ever. Tho Bulletin declares that Will
liam II. Ball, secretary to the Cow
ernor. and DR.. b. +. Roger, acting
commissioner of health, are booked
to sever all connection with the state
government.
The general belief at the Capt.
tol is that Harry S. McDeVitt, special
deputy auditor general, will become
deputy attorney general, place
he has long desired.
Tho Philadelphia Press says edi-
torially to-day: Some people arc
now fixing up a cabinet for Cover
nor-elect Sproul who must know that
the Governor-elect is better qualified
than anyone else for that job"
Richard w. Iobst, of Emaus,
just appointed 20 the vacancy in the
office of district attorney of Lehigh
county is the first Moravian to hold
that office. He started in life as a
Tie has DGen
one of the prominent younger DEM
ocrats.
-Ephrata borough, at the recent
election, voted almost unanimously
for its fellow -townsman, ex-Burgess
Joseph T, Evans, one of the four
Assemblymen-elect of Lancaster
county. Mr.. Evans issa member of
the Lancaster bar and a native of
Montgomery county, where he taught
school for number of years.
e. n. Carpenter, Republican,
leads John j. Casey, Democrat, for
Congress by eighteen votes in the
Luzerne district. 1t will require the
soldier vote to decide the election.
This vote will not be tabulated for at
least two weeks. Returns from fif-
teen military camps have been re-
ceived. Carpenter received 1856
votes on the Republican ticket, $40
on the Prohibition, and "A on the
Washington, a total of 6,468. Casey
received 1902 on the Democratic
ticket, $50 on the Socialist, 407 on
the Roosevelt Progressive, and Ill
on the Fair Play, a total of 16,450.
The Altoona Tribune says: "The
SOOuSE IGpuDllCtln l6duGTS SlOp lllTI-
ing with the liquor men the better
will 1t be for them and the party"
Joseph +. German, who ran on
the Democratic ticket in the recent
campaign for Congressman-at-Lar
has been appointed by Federal Gus
todian of Alien Property y. Mitchell
Palmer as special appraiser of Ger
man-owned breweries, and is in the
West.
The computing board of the
Lehigh county election returns has
reported that Congressman Dewalt,
Democrat, running for the third
term, carried the county over +.
Wilmer Fisher, his Republican op-
ponent, by a plurality of only S35,
polling 1915 votes to 1867 for
Fisher.
Senator Sproul has attracted
considerable attention by this por-
ton of his interview in the Philadel-
phia Ledger: There are many
things to be done, so many that, as
said, / shall not adopt the attitude
of a man with ambitions. I shall
not seek leadership, 1 shall be the
Governor. Look the field over Here
is a state with great departments
OIL lle GoNeTHHleHI WHICH SnOulQ be
co-ordinated and put upon a CO.
operative basis. They are great de-
partments. but their efficiency, their
worth to the Commonwealth, can
be immeasurably increased by the
right sort of effort. Men tell me
have displayed some ability in or
ganiZing and handling my CONNER
cial affairs. / have carried on nv
enterprises with some success, and
with a minimum of constrained eff
fort. Therefore 1 hope to be able
to apply some of these methods to
the business of the Government of
Pennsylvania"
An Allentown dispatch to the
Inquirer says: "One of the reasons
for the remarkable victory of State
Senator Horace w. Schantz, the Re-
publican county chairman, who was
reelected on Tuesday, was the fact
known to Lehigh people that if
Senator Schantz were sent back he
would be a ranking and influential
member Few first termers achieved
such standing as did Senator Schantz
either in the Senate or at home with
the people, and an idea developed
in the minds of the voters that if he
were returned, Lehigh would be
represented by a man who would
stand with the leaders in the high
est lawmaking body of the state"