Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-04
Peeit;ce In
Pe~moqeOo~io
By the Ex-Committeeman

Completion of certification of the
petitions filed for the primary has
been followed by preparation for ad-
vertising the constitutional amend
ments to be voted upon in Novem-
ber. the fact that the state will be
called upon to vote again on the
proposition to borrow $50, 200, 600 for
road building having been generally
lost sight ofa 1t is estimated that i'll
the neighboThood of 3 5000 nominot-
ing petitions We're certified and the
returns of all of them will be record
ed at the State Capitol through Of
fetal returns from counties. Big
sheets for the computing of the vote
on statewide candidates have been
prepared.
There will be two constitutional
amendments to be voted upon for
the last time and four for the first
time. The two were voted upon at
the hast general election. One pro-
vides for the issuance of $5O,000,0OO
of road-building bonds and the ether
for the increase of the debt of Phila-
delphia under certain conditions.
The bond issue is in line with that
which was issued in 1913 but de-
feated. Advertisement of these
amendments will be made thirteen
weeks before the November election
and the payments are to be made by
the Auditor General under a general
plan which has been worked out ac-
cording to circulation. 1t is likely
that because of the uncertainty of
movements of Pennsylvania soldiers
no steps will be taken toward the
elections for soldiers until late in
the summer and then commissioners
will be sent to the cantonments.
AS soon as the Dauphin county
court disposes of the mandamus
case brought by George Woodward,
a Philadelphia chauffeur, backed by
Ware men to run for n Senatorial
nomination in a district where DIR.
George Woodward is also a con-
tender, is out of the way, steps will
probably be taken in the proceed
ings growing out of the first Wood
ward case. which involved interfer
ence with a subpoena of the Dauphin
county court The latest Woodward
case will go on again on Monday
before Judge s. ]. NJ. McCarrell
when the court will rule on the
motion of DIR. George Woodward to
intervene. The petitioner is suing to
compel the Secretary of the Com
monwealth to certify his name and
the Secretary's Department holds
that enough names We're not filed
for him. Woodward himself has
never appeared in the proceedings.
The whole thing seems to be similar
to the first Woodward case wherein
a man of similar name sought to
run as "camouflage" and was knock
ed out because of irregularities in
papers. The Dauphin county court
has been busy this week with GRIM
inal court and the chances are that
the testimony in the first Woodward
case wherein interference with
witness was charged will be certified
by the Court or District Attorney to
the Berks county court as the Of
fense is alleged to have been COM
mitted in that county.
Men in this city who have been
predicting that the Wares would
swing in for J. Denny O'Neil were
somewhat astonished to-day to read
the statement in the Philadelphia
North American to-day that Mayor
E. V. Babcock. of Pittsburgh. had
declared in a speech that among the
men in Eastern Pennsylvania for
Sproul was Mayor Smith, of Phila-
delphia.
The rival Republican candidates
ernor are very much in action just
now and will be more so in the next
ten days. Mr.. O'Neil with Governor
Brum baugh and Attorney General
Brown. will be in Philadelphia over
the weekend while Senator Sproul
will be in Pittsburgh.
While Joseph +. Guffey has
been busy with the Liberty Loan in
Pittsburgh. Judge Eugene G. Bonni-
WELL his rival for the Democratic
nomination, has been busy working
in the anthracite region. He was in
Scranton yesterday and will be this
way before long. 1t looks as though
the old Ryan organization which
gave the Democratic state machine
such a tussle in the Democratic
gubernatorial primary four years
ago was being reconstructed. Cuff
fey, however, is backed by the whole
force of the National Democratic
administration and believes that
with the state machine in his grip,
as he is still state chairman, he can
win without trouble.
1t commences to look very much
as though the state was going to
suffer another outbreak of Philadel-
phia factional politics as the Wares
are getting ready to charge Penrose
with the responsibility for some of
the legislation that did not get
I through. Governor Brumbaugh says
I he vetoed some as unfair"
No one seems to be getting very
much satisfaction out of the regis
/ tration in third class cities. 1t was of
kind that shows people are not eX-
: cited over this campaign.
The Committee of Seventy last
night made public the names and
J addresses of city employees who. it is
| alleged, are politically active in vio-
lation of the act of June l. 1885. re-
lative to Philadelphia. The names
were sent to Mayor Smith with let
s., ter calling his attention to the fact
that in a statement which he issued
| recently the assertion was made that
political activity among municipal
| employees would be prevented The
committee declares that in it's in
vestigation it has found that city en-
ployes often are responsible for cleo
ton offenses.
The burgess and other officers
of Luzerne appear to have been get
ting into trouble They are accused
i of having caused arrests and then
keeping certain sums which il is
contended are public property.