Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22
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BY the Ex-Committeeman

Members of the Democratic state
committee may not be called to meet
in Harrisburg to consider the draft
of the proposed platform until after
September 1. The committee in
charge of the document upon which
the state organization intends to go
before the. voters has not yet de-
termined upon the declarations and
is also disposed to await the result
of some overtures said to have been
pointed in the direction of Judge
Eugene c. Bonniwell. the candidate
for Governor, who insists on running
on his own platform regardless of
the state committee.
The state committee provided that
1t should be reconVened before Sep
tember l to hear the report of the
platform committee, but it is said
that State Chairman George r. Nc
Lean has been informed that the
platform builders may not be ready.
The original plan was to have the
state committee meet August %.
Secretary Warren VanDyke, of the
state committee, said to-day that he
expected the state committee to meet,
denying reports that 1t would not.
Republicans from a dozen coun-
ties will gather at Neff's, the historic
meeting place of the Lehigh county
Republicans, for the opening of the
Republican campaign on Saturday.
This meeting has for years been held
Immediately after the Democratic
meeting to start things and this year
the Republicans will have a notable
assembly. Gubernatorial Candidate
- L. \ o..1 Pnt
man, and Representative James f.
Woodward, nominees for Lieutenant
Governor and Secretary of Internal
Affairs, respectively, have both an
nounced an intention of being pres
ent and it is quite likely that all Of
the nominees for Congressman-at-
Large; William j. Burke, of Pitts
burgh, Allegheny county; Thomas S.
Crago, of Waynesboro, Greene coun-
ty; Mahlon M. Garland, of Edge
wood, Allegheny county, and Ander-
son H. Walters, of Johnstown, Cam
bria county, will also be there.
SENATOR Sproul has accepted an
invitation to attend meeting of the
Republican county committee OF
Montgomery county, at Norristown
on September 7, and he will later
visit number of plants in the coun-
ty for informal meetings with the
voters. 1t is not likely that there will
be any meetings scheduled by the
state committee before the latter
part of September. There may, be two
parties of orators tour the state, and
owing to the uncertainty of railroad
connections, autom obiles will be used
largely in making the visits from
county to county.
T,,I. L, ~
at the York fair yesterday and there
is small comfort for the organiZa-
ton faction in what transpired in the
big Democratic county. The judge
spoke to a large crowd at the faiI
and after the speechmaking held
meetings i'll York with prominent
Democrats. The city and county
committees lined up with him and al
last Congressman A. r. Brodbeck
turned up beside him. This condi-
ton is interesting in view of the way
prominent Federal jobholders idea-
titled with the Palmer -McCormich
group have been trooping into York
county to hold the line.
Mayor A. T. Connell, of Scran.
ton- who was here yesterday, sale
that the troubles in his city over
firemen and highway workers were
Mayor" he remarked.
Charles B. Lenahan, the Wilkes.
Barre lawyer, who persists in run.
| ming for Supreme Court justice ovel
the mer-McCormick choice, Jus.
tice e. J. Fox, is in Pittsburgh look.
ing after some of his fences and pre-.
pairing for some energetic work.
Friends of Henry Budd, the
prominent Philadelphia lawyer, have
been getting very busy in his behal.
for Supreme Court in this city.
People here are still discussinf
the resignation of ]. M. Coughlin
| the Wilkes-Barre educator and one
of the oldest friends of the Governor
from the State Board of Education
The fact that 1t was kept so quiet i!
what is making it such an interest
ing topic of conversation.
People interested in third class
| city affairs are watching with much
interest the outcome of the situa-
| ton in Johnstown. where the Clark
act, the civil service act for police
men. the, city fathers and others
have come into many-sided collision
The Clark act seems to be the cause
of more or less perturbation, espe.
cially in Chester, Wilkes-B Barre and
Johnstown. 1t bids fair to be a tar,
get next winter when the Legislature
meets. The Johnstown row occur.
red when the Civil Service Commits.
sion announced that all candidate.
for the office of chief of police, which
becomes vacant August 81, must file
written applications with the Com.
mission and submit to physical anc
mental examination under a rule
fnI Ixrt Il ,-1
FRANKIE and other members of Coun.
Gil contend that the vacancy shall
be filed by promotion, without the
formality of such examination. from
the ranks of the present force. The
Commission rules, they declare, hav,
never been approved by Council ant
would not be effective. anyhow, Il
they conf1icted with the state laws
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