Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-05
PoeHcA Ss
Pe~'tageO@~;o
BY the Ex-C Committeeman

Men familiar with the Democratic
party in Pennsylvania the last quar-
ter of a century were wondering
whether history is going to repeat
itself and the men who used the re-
suit in the gubernatorial election of
1910 to "reorganizei' the party in
the Keystone State in 1911 and put
themselves into power will not face
a demand for an accounting them
selves in 1919. Eight years is a
long time for one faction to be in
control of the works of the Demo-
cratic machine.
1t is generally believed that when
the figures are all in hand that there
will be appeals to the Democratic
voters of Pennsylvania to clean
house. That this has been feared
by National Committeeman A. Nit
chell Palmer and his pals was dem
onstrated by the Palmer charges
made in this city on the eve of the
reputation of the nominee at q
direct primary with Democratic Ma
tional Chairman Vance c. ,McCor-
mick sitting in.
The coming winter is going to
be an interesting one for the titu-
lar heads of the Democracy in Penn
sylvania. They will have to account
to the President for some things and
to the voters of the state FOR others.
Regarding the situation in Phil
adelphia as it's relates to the Bon
niwell cries and the federal govern
ment activities the Philadelphia
Press to-day says: THE ~vote-secur-
ing powers of leading members of
President Wilson's Cabinet has been
thrown to the support of Judge
Eugene G. Bonniwell, Democratic
nominee for Governor of. Pennsylva-
MIA. This vas made known last night
at the Bonniwell headquarters Judge
Bonniwell announced that he has re-
ceived the assurance of Attorney
General Gregory, at Washington,
that the complete force of the local
Department of Justice office will be
sent into the Ware wards to guard
against fraudulent voting. This fol-
lowed the charge made by Judge
Bonniwell to the effect hat approx
mately $4,000 illegal ballots are cast
in the downtown wards at a general
| election. The charge is too foolish to
warrant an answer said Congress-
man Ware"
Mayor il. v. BaDcOck, of Pitts
burgh, who has been critical of the
course of the state administration in
the influenza quarantine, seems to
have become very indignant over the
developments of yesterday in Pitts
burgh. In answer to some of the
statements of DR.. B. F. Roger, the
acting State Commissioner of Health,
he is quoted as saying: Commits
sioner Roger is drunk with power. 1
am convinced that there is in the ac-
tions of the State Health Depart
ment some Interior purpose, some
thing other than a desire to preserve
public health. Unless forced by law
l will not provide police service to
make arrests for alleged violations of
the influenza ban placed on this city
by Acting Commissioner of Health
Roger. In case arrests are made I
will be responsible to the magistrates
or Judges"
Men in Philadelphia, Lancaster
and other places who have been in
close touch with the influenza situa-
ton and the states steps to combat
the plague, say there is no doubt
whatever that every move made by
Acting Commissioner b. +. Rover
was with the knowledge and ap-
prevail Of Governor B~rumbaugh and
Attorney General Brown.
Here are the final predictions
from the opposing camps In regard
to the election in Pennsylvania. One
is from a rock=ribbed Republican