Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-16
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BY the Ex-Committeeman

4 III ny thC EX-OOmm1tteeman
The primary campaign for sta te
nominations in Pennsylvania is en-
tering upon it's final stages to-day.
Men connected with the state gov
ernment have started to go to their
homes to perfect their lines and
there are hurried conferences being
held with the leaders of the fac
tlons of the two major. The re-
ports are commencing to reach the
headquarters and the activity of men
VINO are supported TO get out the
vote" is rather significant.
The dry organizations are COM
mencing to stir around on the leg
islative situation as it is realized
that unless the voters are gotten to
the polls the ''wets". will nail down
nominations which dry men now
thlnk they have cinched. Through
OUT the state it seems to be the idea
OF Republican voters that there is
hothlng to choose between SprouI
and O'Neil in regard to prohibition
ana that they stand for the same
thing.
/. The Democratic campaign is a fine
ola row in which the "wets" and
the Old Guard are out taking rut
sh0ts at Joseph F. Guffey and his
colIeasues on the machine ticket.
Guifey is very indignant that any one
should think of opposing him when
the President is for him.
senator Sproul will be in the
eastern counties the remainder of
the week and his friends claim
that he will not only carry Phila-
delphia in style, but roll up a com
Portable majority in the rest of the
state. This claim is angrily refuted
~ the O,Neil people who say that
- Nell Will go to the Philadelpnia
me with 10000 majority and have
nice majority inside of the city
Mr. Gutfey claims big majority and
Judge Bonniwell says he is going to
win by $4,000.
:. The whole thing in the Repub-
llcan fight turns on the Wares and
1t is strongly suspected that while
the wares themselves will swing their
wards for O'Neil the rest of the Ware
organization will be for SprouI.
-Governor Brumbaugh and Com
missioner O'Neil held forth at Pitts
burgh and i'm various towns round.
about yesterday and the Governor
attacked Senator Sproul. At the
same time Mayor r. V. Babcock
made q strong speech for the Della
ware man. The Governor and O'Neil
are due at Reading to-day. Attorney
General Brown is in Allegheny coun-
ty to direct the wind-up there.
Senator e. r. Beidleman is
touring the anthracite region and
meeting many friends, while John
r. X. Scott is busy around Phila-
delphia and seeming to keep away
from O'Neil.
While Judge Bonniwen is in the
CleaTfield region the Guffey party is
lining >up Lackawdnna county.
The Dry Federation Is out with
circular in which it denies that it
is personally-cond enterprise
of O'Neil and that attacks on it are
due to its refusal to endorse Sproul
The actions of the Federation speak
for themselves.
Speaking of the judicial appoint
ment situation, the Philadelphia
Press joins the Evening Bulletin in
rcgretting what has come to pass.
The Press says: THE Governor will
appoint no judges until after the
| primaries and maybe- not then II
he were looking for good judicial
| material to put on the bench the
primaries would not interest him.
There are no Supreme judges to be
nonainated this year and the pri-
maries Will give no popular express
sion of opinion on that point. 1t
may show, however, the force and
| strength of the factional political
currents. For that reason, Governor
Brumbaugh will keep the seats in the
| Supreme bench vacant until he sees
clearly the political slant that from
his point of view ought to be given
to these important appointments.
Altogether. we hardly expect that
any high-class selection for the Su-
preme bench will be made by Gov
ernor Brumbaugh, whether he shall
name them before or after the pri-
mary election"
The Insider, writing in the
Philadelphia Press has this to say
on the incidents in Philadelphia and
the attitude of the Wares: "An i'm
partial consideration of what facts
are available, including the reports
of the canvasses that indicate Sproul
sentiment, would lead to the conclu-
sion that the Ware organization
knows Senator Sproul is the popular
candidate with it's workers and vot-
ers. There is hardly any doubt of
the fact that If the issue were purely
between Senator Sproul and Com
missioner O'Neil, with nothing else
involved, they would long since have
been out in unqualified endorsement
of the Senator from Delaware.
But. of course, the issue is far
from being purely between Sproul
and O'Neil. AS far as the Ware fac
ton is concerned, the issue is be-
tween Penrose and Governor Brum-
baugh. The Wares have put up Con-
gresham Scott as direct test of
strength in Philadelphia, if not in
the state, between themselves and
Senator Penrose. And as a wheel
within wheel. they are tangled UP
whether they will or not, with Gov
ernor Brumbaugh's feud against
Penrose, which is separate from
their own in essence. The Cover
nors feud is expressed in his de-
termination to beat Senator Penrose
by the espousal of O'Neil for guber-
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