Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-07
|29 RAILROADERS
MUST GET OFF
McAdoo Order Will Affect
Many Candidates For Leg
iSlative Seats This Fall

Twenty rfine men who are candi-
dates for Congress or LEGISLATURE in
pennsylvania come within the ruling
of Director General w. G.. McAdoo
that railroad men must get out of
politics. This does not include Sam
uel X. Tarner, Democratic candidate
for Congress-at-Large. who was for
years an active railroad man and
who is prominent in Brotherhood
affairs, but who is now said not to
be actively connected, but it does
include William ]. Burke, Pitts
burgh councilman and Republican
candidate for Congress-at-Large.
Mr. Burke is a member of the
committee of the allied brotherhoods
IN charge of legislative matters and
is head of division embracing most
OF the eastern states on behalf of
the order of Railway Conductors
and the Brotherhood of Trainmen.
Among the men who must retire
are Congressman John NJ. Rose. of
Johnstown. railroad attorney, and
j. I. Davis, of Blairsville, a legisla-
tive candidate, who is secretary of
Railroad Y. NJ. C. A.
The list of men affected, if the
ruling stands are as follows:
Congress-at t-Large, Republican,
William j. Burke, Pittsburgh.
Representatives in Congress
John M. Rose, Johnstown, Repub-
lican: Bernard j. Clark. Altoona,
Democratic, Nineteenth district;
Walter V. Tyler Socialist, New Cas-
tie, Twentyfourth district; ]. H.
Lohr, Williamsburg. Socialist, Thir-
tieth district.
State Senate-Thomas ]. Forbes,
Altoona, Democratic-Sociali Blair
Huntingdon district; James A. Fox.
Pitcairn, Socialist. Fortieth district
(part of Allegheny county,.
Representatives in General AS
sembly-James A. Martin, Pitts
burgh, Socialist. Third district of
Allegheny county; William j. Man
gan, Pittsburgh, Republican-Demo-
cratic Washington, Sixth district of
Allegheny county; T. +. Shuster.
Pittsburgh, Democratic, Seventh
district of Allegheny county; Charles
A. Fike, Braddock, Socialist, Tenth
district of Allegheny county; c. N.
Smell, Conway, Socialist, Beaver
county; Walter A. Ringler. Reading,
Democratic, First district of Berks
publican Prohibition Washington.
and Thomas L. Kearns, Altoona,
Democratic, First district of Blair
/ county; George d. Stephens. Wav-
erly, n. Y, (post. Office address)
Democratic, Bradford county; An
i drew Scarborough. New Hope, DEM
ocratic, Bucks county; Lewis Treg-
low, Remove, Democratic, Clinton
county; Albert Miller. Republican,
and A. Ramsey S. Black, Demo-
cratic, Harrisburg, First district of
| Dauphin county; Duncan Sinclair,
Brownsville, Republican, Thomas
| D. Schuyler, Dawson, Democratic
! Prohibition, Second district of Fay
cite county; ]. T. Davis, Blairsville,
Republican Prohibition, Indiana
county; George w. Stevenson. Punk
sutawney, Republican-Dem
Prohibition, Jefferson county; Noble
Clements, Shamokin, Republican,
Daniel w. Helt, Shamokin, Repub-
| lican- Prohibition. and William B,
Koch, Sunbury, Socialist. Northum-
| berland county; Robert ]. Kantner,
| Tamaqua, Republican, Third dis
trict of Schuylkill county; George
| B. Bryson, Derry. Democratic, First
district of Westm oreland county.
| Members of state committees af-
| fected are-Gus A. Geisel. Demo
cratic. Dauphin county; r. H.
Brandt, Democratic, Erie county;
John A. Dougherty, Democratic,
| Philadelphia No. 2.