Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-06
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STRONGLY REPUBLICAN
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Congressman Il. X. Focht, of the
Seventeenth or 'Shoestring" dis
trict, overwhelming,y defeated SEN
ator Scott $. Leiby, of Marysville,
the hand picked Mccormick nomi-
nee. Leiby had the full support of
the Mccormick federal machine In
every one of the eight counties in
the district and may have lost them
all, even with the newspapers of the
! Democratic national chairman dis
tributing thousands of copies among
the voters. The Marysville Senator,
who got elected to the upper house
ny an accident, found that the voters
thoroughly understood him at last.
The Democrats appear to have
lost the Congressional seats in the
York-Adams, Northumberland and
I Fayette county districts. The sitting
Congressmen who aligned them
selves with the Mccormick machine.
! seem to have gone down in the
crash. Congressman Arthur G. De-
walt, of the Berks-Lehigh district,
and Congressman Henry j. Steele, of
the Easton district. who were an
tagonized by the Mccormick ele-
ment, were elected by the Democrats
of those districts who are still voting
for jackson.
Republican Legislators
The sweep of the Republican state
ticket, with thousands upon thou
sands of. voters marking their bal
lots straight" as a rebuke to the
Presidents partisan effort to force
them into the Democratic party re-
suited in Republican victories for the
Legislature in districts that other
wise might have been doubtful. All
over the state the Congressional issue
raised by the President was respon-
sible for the prohibition issue being
lost in the shuttle and Wet candi-
dates who otherwise would have been
defeated were carried into office by
maiorities that in some cases APP
proach those of the heads of the
, ticket. If the neXt Legislature is
wet" as indications are that lit will
he, the plea of the President for
Democratic votes and the resultant
Indignation is responsible.
Nowhere was this better eXempli-
fed than in Harrisburg. on the
other hand in Cumberland county
where all the candidates were dry
but where the Republicans were
vigorously opposed by the McCor-
mick machine, Ross l.. Beckley. of
Lower Allen, and William c. Bow
man. of Lemoyne, were elected by
tremendously large majorities for
hat county. Cumberland going Re
publican in handsome style.
Perry, Juniata, Adams. Miffin.
Huntingdon, Lebanon, Lancaster,
Northumberland. Snyder, Union,
, Bedford, Center and even possibly
Fulton, elected Republican members
of the House and Senators where
they We're to be chosen. Schuylkill
is Republican as usual.
James IL. Maurer, president of the
/ State Federation of Labor, and elect
ed to the Legislature three times as
a Socialist, was defeated yesterday
for a fourth term by Reading voters.
James r. Norton, formerly coroner
by Governors appointment, was
chosen to the Legislature to MI the
! seat of Maurer. Norton, a Repub-
lican. ran on a platform in which
prohibition and labor planks were
combined. .Maurer was Il candidate
for the nomination of President of
the United States on the Socialist
! ticket in 1916. He is the only So
cialist ever chosen to the Legislature
in this state.
soldier Vote Needed
Men experienced in politics in the
Sixteenth Congressional District de-
clared to-day hat returns were so
close hat ii would take the soldier
vote to determine whether Congress
man John V. Lesher or A. w. Duy
had won. The district was carried
by Mr.. Lesher, in 1914 and 1915 and
is composed of northumberland. Co
J lumbia, Montour and sullivan coun-
ties and it is estimated that there
are between 400 and 500 soldiers and
sailors in camps or stations in this
r.s1A awa aNunlffah n vote
Next to the rererberating crash in
southern Pennsylvania caused by the
fall of those Democratic stalwarts.
| Congressman Brodbeck and Senator
Henry Washers, of York. which went
! heavily for Bonniwell, by the way,
men at the Capitol were talking OF
the reelection of a Republican sena-
tor from that other citadel of De-
mocracy, Lehigh county. Four years
ago when Vance C. Mccormick was
a candidate for. Governor the people
of Lehigh county celebrated that kill
ing by electing a Republican as a
senator for the first time in 102 years
and yesterday in the year of the great
kpersonal plea for Democratic Con-
gressmen they again observed the
occasion by re-electing Senator II. w.
! Schantz. Republican, from all ac-
counts.
HOUSE
{" indicates re-election.)
Philadelphia, Nov. 6.-Elections
to the State House of Representa-
! tives resulted ss follows:
DISTRICT
Allegheny (An Republican,
Thomas Paul Geary.* Joseph
kC. Marcus.
2-william ]. McCaig.' John C.
Sullivan.
S-John Lauler."
Edward b. Goehrfng.
5--Harry b. Todd.
William j. Mangen," Albert X.
Krugh. George II. Soffel.
CHARLES A. Michel" James B,
Wettach."
s-Edward NJ. Hough." W. F.
Stadlander.'
1O-Carl C. Baldridge,' w. H.
Martin, Samuel J.. McKim.
11-W. Heber Dithrich,' j. II. W,
Simpson," Joseph G. Steedle, Will
liam c. Wagner"
12-Nelson McVicar," John W.
w. Vickerman."
Armstrong
Charles F. Armstrong. A. E. Cur
ry (R).
Adams
c. Arthur Griest, (R).
Berks
I'D. A. Rothenberger." Wilson G.
| Sarig.' Cyrus X. Brendle CD.
Bradford
Charles p. Dewey w. Worth
Jennings" (R).
Butler
Victor A. Barnhart, George l.
Woner (R).
Beaver