Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-09
ADMINISTRATION
IS SWINGING AXE
FOR DENNY O'NEIL
Man Whose Salary Was Rails
ed For efficiency" Fired
For Politics

ously as the date for the primary
comes closer and there are signs on
Capitol Hill that more employees who
do not go out and cheer will be
decapitated. To-day il was an
nounced that Factory Inspector w.
G. Fisher, OF Sunbury. who got an
Increase of salary of $500 on March
10. had been notified that he was
to go. Fisher was told on April II
that he was to so on May 1. but
protested.
because l would not throw down
my friends. They gave me O'Neil
petitions. l gave one to friend to
have filled and turned it in. did
not circulate the others. SO they
have fired me-"
+. c. Fisher. of Milton. will sue
ceed Fisher. They are not relatives.
He is a protege of O'Neirs man
ayers in Northum berland county.
Others Dismissed
The Sproul campaign committee
to-day issued this statement on the
Fisher episode and some others:
While Fisher. of Sunbury. is the
only state employe who was given
salary raise and discharged sixty
days later he is not the only en-
ploye who has been discharged be-
cause of political reasons. The list
includes the following:
Norman d. Gray, of West Ches-
ter, for fifteen years assistant state
librarian, who was succeeded by
spider Reagan, West Chester.
ThomaS j. Dunn, of Pittsburgh,
referee for the State Workmen's
Compensation Board. who was dis
charged to make room in the Pitts
burgh office for a Brumbaugh-
O'Neil man. Dunn, a patient in a
New York sanatorium for weeks,
has not been told by his family of
his discharge.
Harry w. Honan, Chester. Del
aware county. inspector for the De-
partment of Labor and Industry.
'B. Frank Roeller, Royersford,
Montgomery county, inspector for
the Department of Labor and In
dustry.
Thomas n. Ryan. New Hope,
Bucks county inspector in the De-
partment of Labor and Industry.
Thomas d. Beidleman. Harris
burg, assistant foreman of grounds,
Department of Public Grounds and
Buildings. He is the father of Sem
attor Edward E. Beidleman, of Har-
risburg, candidate for the Repub-
lican nomination for Lieutenant
Governor.
Thomas j. Toomey. Dauphin
county, for years chairman for the
Department of Public Grounds and
Buildings and suddenly discovered
to be incompetent
Elmer E. Eshenour, Harrisburg.
painter, in employ of Department of
Public Grounds and Buildings.
Boyd Manbeck, Juniata county,
Capitol guide; relative of former
Senator William Manbeck. of Mif-
fin.
This list does not contain the
removals made in the force of coun-
ty superintendents of highways.
State Highway Department, nor the
road foremen. Nor does it include
the names of the Democratic road
superintendent in Columbia county
and the Democratic road foremen
in the same county. who are work
ing for the Brum baugh -O'Neil or
ganization and have not been dis
charged.
Had No Friends
Gray had no friends anyhow"
said state official the day following
the recent release of Assistant Lii
brarian Norman d. Gray. He was
efficient. but the truth of the mat
ter was that he had no influence
in his home county any longer, hav-
ing been away practically continu-
ously for fifteen years, and he
couldn't do us any good. Reagan, on
the other hand, is popular and will
get us votes we need in the West
Chester district"
Referee Thomas j. Dunn was re-
garded as one of the really efficient
compensation board referees. His
decisions were rarely reversed His
discharge was ordered by Governor
Brumbaugh himself, because Dunn
was not in sympathy with the ad-
ministration. Dunn was taken sick
some time before he was discharged.
He was in a sanatorium when the
removal was announced in Harris
burg, and has been there since. He
does not know that he is no longer
referee in the Pittsburgh district.
Godcharles Incident
"All of the employees named were
discharged for political reasons Of
ficials. however. do not look for the
removal of Deputy Secretary of the
until after the primary election
Godcharles was harshly berated
Tuesday by Senator Edwin S. Ware.
of Philadelphia, for his testimony
in the Philadelphia Woodward case,
wherein il was sought to compel the
filing of an auto drivers nomination
petition.
James ]. Walker. of the Labor
and Industry Department. is de-
clared to be the official liner up in
that department.
Walker told me-" said dis
charged Inspector Fisher to-day,
that the time had come for every
employe of that department to de-
clare himself one way or the other.
You can't carry water on both
shoulders around here he said to
me. IF you're going to be for O'Neil
| you must come out and say so; and
| if you're not say So. After he told
me that / went to Attorney General
Brown, thinking there must be some
mistake about my discharge so soon
after | had been given an increase
in salary. Brown said he would
make an investigation; for me to go
no farther. / did not go to see the
Governor for that reason. Then
Acting Commissioner Lew r. Palmer
notified me shortly before the date
set for my dismissal-May THAT
I would be given fifteen days more.
In the meantime / saw Denny
O'Neil, who held out no encourage
ment. 1 have been notified that my
time ends May 10. l couldn't be for
O'Neil. job or no job"
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