Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-13
PeeHc4 IL
Pe~ma4esaia
BY the Ex-Committeeman


ganization faction of the Pennsyl-
vania State Democracy will be de-
termined at a meeting to be held in
Philadelphia within the next week
Under the action taken by the DEM
ocratic State Committee when 1t
adjourned its June session the COM
mittee was to be called together be-
forc September 1 to adopt a plat
form di d arrange other details of
the campaign. Since that time both
the off1cia: end of the State Com
m:ttee and the friends of Judge
Eugene c. Bonniwell. the guberna-
torial nominee, have been playing
a waiting game and the next move
seems to bo up to the State Chair
man.
1t will be determined at the meet
ing in Philadelphia when the can
didates shall be called together to
select tho campaign committed. the
selection OF whose chairman will be
tendered 20 Judge Bonniwell and at
the same time the committee in
charge of the platform will submit
d preliminary draft. The general
idea is that the State Committee will
meet hore about August 2S.
The Republican State Committee,
place and time of meeting. have not
yet been determined. owing to the
illness of State Chairman William E.
Crow. but prospects are that the
committee will meet late in the
month, either here or in Pittsburgh
"A policy of silence seems to have
been adopted at the State Capitol
in regard to the charges against the
manner in which the Governors Of
flee handled matters in connection
with district appeal board No. 2, of
Philadelphia, and other draft mat
ters and also the demand of miners
of the Kulpmont district that Chief
of Mines Button be removed. It Is
not likely that anything will be done
in either case. but that the storms
will be allowed to blow over while
the Governor is in Maine on his va
cation.
Chester city council is giving the
latest illustration of the third class
city law, the mayor and members
of council being hopelessly tied UP
over an appointment. 1t is probable
that what has happened lately in
Chester will accentuate the demand
for a revision of the third class city
law.
The interest the Lackawanna
county Republican Senatorial contest
is exciting is illustrated by the fol-
lowing from the Philadelphia In
quirer: Statewide interest is being
taken in the contest over the Repub-
lican nomination for. state Senator in
the Scranton district where allega-
tions of fraud resulted in the local
court throwing out the returns from
several election precincts and reverS-
ing figures of the official count and
giving the nomination to Represen-
tative Albert Davis instead of Pro-
fessor David w. Philips. Mr.. Davis
made his fight mainly upon the coal
mine cave issue. He attacked the coal
companies and made a determined
drive for the vote of the citizens who
have been leading the movement for
legislation for the protection of sur
face property owners who are suf-
fering from the 'robbing' of the pill
lars of the coal veins under the city
of Scranton.
Congressman A. R. Brodbeck, of
the York-Adams district, is openly
at odds with the Democratic county
committee of York county and it is
intimated that he will name his own
Congressional committee and leave
the county committee do as 1t
pleases. Brodbeck is a reorganization
factionist, while the committee seems
to have some Bonniwell men on it..
There are also some men opposing
Brodbeck who are Palmer adherents.
The Pittsburgh Gazette-Tim es
gives this interesting item from
Washington county, which indicates
what the Bonniwell wing of the
Democrats are likely to do: Some
of the Washington county supporters
of Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell, the
Democratic nominee for governor,
are intimating that an independent
ticket in the interest of the Bonui-
we'll candidacy is soon to be launch
ed in the state. 1t would be used
here in an attempt to elect a wet
state senator and three representa-
tives pledged to oppose the ratifica-
tion of the prohibition amendment
to the Federal constitution. During
the recent visit of Judge Bonniwell
to western Pennsylvania, he gave as
surance to Washington county
'wets" that the prospect of an inde-
pendent ticket being formed is good.
He wants to make it absolutely
wet" 1t would carry his name
and those of antiprohibitionists for
lieutenant governor and secretary of
internal affairs. Effort was made to
tenant governor and James F. Wood
ward for secretary of internal af-
fairs, Republican nominees, to al
low the use of their names. but they
declined"