Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-09
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BY the Ex-Committecman

the view that the regulations an
nounced from Washington for talk
ing or the votes of soldiers in the
nome camps meant that no commits
sioners would so abroad from any of
the states. Governor Brumbaugh
has not yet named any commission
ers' but 1t has been the intention to
select some men to go to France and
England, II practicable. The War
! Department regulations will proba-
Oily cause the commissioners to be
named only to camps and stations in
TINS country, and as soon as received
! tney VIII be printed for instruction
OF the men chosen TO handle the SOL
| dier vote.
| The regulations were announced
by Acting Secretary Crowell. The
general staff has arranged to permit
election officials to go into the vari-
Gus camps and establish headquar-
| ters Tor registering the men and TAX
ing their ballots. and state represent
atlNes or political organizations have
oeen asked to designate representa-
| tiVes Tor the purpose. Literature de-
| signed to instruct the voter in the
manner of casting his ballot may be
| distributed from the camp election
booths. but distribution of literature
! designed to influence him in regard
TO his choice is forbidden.
Philadelphia judicial authori-
tles nave now ruled that the men,
bers of the Board of Recreation and
| other bodies in that city need not
contribute to campaign funds asked
oy the city committees in that mu-
nicipality unless they want to.
! The Philadelphia Press to-day
says: IF the belligerent Democrats
OF pennsylvania will just watch what
is going on in international war they
! may learn one or more ways to get
the suspension of hostilities which
they need almost as much as the
Kaiser does"
complete returns of the regis
trauon of voters in Pittsburgh
showed that the total registration in
Pittsburgh for this falls election
is 53,SS1. This is a loss of 31,47l.
or about 81 per cent. of the total
as compared with the total for 1917,
which was S5,352. The great fall
ing OFF in the number of voters regis
tered is believed to be due mainly to
the taking of men from Pittsburgh
Tor the Army and Navy. There is
undoubtedly. however, a lack of in
terest in politics due to the war.
Reading city politicians who
noted big drop in registration are
inclined to reorganize the nonparti
san movement to prevent reelection
OF James H. Maurer, the Socialist
legislator.
&c. 5. Smith, the new Mexican
county Republican chairman. nlans
ively drive when the Liberty Loan
work is over.
The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times
says; The light registration was
unfortunate, but it's effects can be
partly nullif1ed if every voter who
ala register does his duty by William
= Sproul on election day. A Re
puoilcan who fails to cast his ballot
is giving Bonniwell a vote.
Considerable doubt is being ex-
pressed about the State CapitoI
whether the protest of the Lancaster
Law and Order Society against al
leged gambling at the Lancaster Fair
VIII get very far. Under the Act
OF 1917, providing for aid for county
Ialrs, there was much discussion of
now rar the state should regulate
the matter. 1t is believed that the
low does not have a full set of teeth
and that 1t may be difficult to stop
the payment of the state subsidy.
This is the first complaint to be made
at the Capitol against the manner in
Which lair was conducted, and ii
VIII be considered at the Auditor
Generals Department. For years
there has been more or less temnt.
ing of fortune at fairs throughout
the state and half a dozen years ago
it cost some Central Pennsylvania
fairs their money.
State Grange officials have not
made much headway in the cam
paign they started some months ago
against the s5O,000,000 road bond
issue and one of the reasons as
signed is that the people are rather
desirous of good roads and do not
regard $50, 100000 with as much awe
as they did before the days of Lib
erty Loans. There is more or less
general inclination to get the good
roads. even If they do cost a lot of
money. and the remarks made by
men from various sections visiting
here are to the effect that there is
not the antagonism to the big loan
amendment in the rural districts that
/ there was half-decade ago. The
! ballot is so big that many people
may not look at the amendment.
The Philadelphia Bulletin Joins
the Public Ledger in criticising the
ballot. After all that has been said
and written. and demanded and
promised. in the course of many
years, on the subject of providing
the people of Pennsylvania with a
ballot which they may mark intelli-
gently and vote conveniently, the
customary annoying and perplexing
sheet is to be prepared for the cleo
tion," says the influential Philadel-
phia daily. "It will be so big that
the voter will have difficulty in han
ding it in the polling booth, and 1t
will be so full of names of candidates
and the text of proposed constitu-
tional amendments that 1t will prob
ably bother him more than ordinarily
If he shall mark it in full. Is not the
organized intelligence of the Repub-
lican party in this state equal to the
job of devising ballot which shall
be small in size, simple in form and
easy of comprehension? The next
governor and Legislature at Harris
burg ought to take special pains at
the winter session of that body to
get rid of this cumbersome and
stupid nuisance"
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