Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-07
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BY the Ex-Committeeman

commonwealth to-day, having been
sent by Representative Frederick C.
Reichenbacher, Honesdale, candi-
date for Republican denomination
for the House in the Wayne county
IS received within forty eight hours
after the time for circulating begins.
Saturday was the first day to circu-
late papers.
The State Department has sent out
hundreds of nominating petitions to
men who have asked for papers to
permit them to become legislative
candidates and there has also been
a brisk demand for congressional
papers.
Lieutenant Governor McClain will
shortly issue the writs for special
elections to fill vacancies in the dis
tricts formerly represented by Audi
tor General Charles A. Snyder and
the late Senators J. P. McNichol,
Philadelphia, and Charles J. Magee,
Pittsburgh.
The prohibition amendment is
sue, which has been seriously dis
cussed by Senator Penrose with a
number of influential Republicans,
many of whom have advised him
that 1t is going to be the big thing
thls campaign, is assuming shape in
Philadelphia and the Wares are talk
ing about it far more earnestly than
ever before. There are signs of dis
tinct alignments on the subject in
many counties among both Repub-
licans and Democrats and between
now and the first of May there will
be numerous conferences to discuss
the trend of sentiment which is
growing n n ant
every day. The liquor people are
now planning to concentrate upon
legislative elections, recognizing that
the Governor will not have anything
at all to do with the amendment
which will be before the Legislature
solely.
Just as an indication of the at
tention being given to the prohibi-
ton amendment the following from
the Philadelphia Record is inter-
esting: 1.-The prohibition amend
ment looks as though it is going to
be big issue and probably the only
issue, was the answer which Sena-
tor Ware gave yesterday When asked |
whether he thought the amendment |
would figure as an issue in the COM |
Ing campaign. His brother Con-
gresham Ware, subscribed to the |
same sentiment. Senator Ware also |
added that the churchgoing people |
OF the state, irrespective of denomi-
nation, were going to be a factor in
naming the next gubernatorial can
didate of the Republican party. The
Senator declared that information
he had received from over the state
showed that the church people were
organizing their forces to support
committed to the amend
ment"
The Record is furnishing much
entertainment for Republicans and /
for Democrats by it's edi-
torials insisting that the Democrats |
nominate a big man for governor.
1t takes this whack to-day at the
party bosses who have been making
Acting State Chairman Joe Guffey
trot around like a candidate. The
election of a Democrat fit to be gov
ernor of Pennsylvania at the No
vember election is not likely to be
aided by the fact that the nominee
of the party is the choice of those
who have been selected to hold Fed
eral jobs under President Wilson's
administration. This is not to ques-
ton the fact that some able Penn
sylvanians have been honored by
appointment by the President but
they as well as the others have
enough to do to attend to the busi-
ness for which they are paid with
out trying to bluff their fellow
Democrats into the belief that their
choice of a candidate for governor
carries the conviction that they rep
resent the Presidents personal views
as to the best nominee for the gov
of Pennsylvania"
Treatment accorded John M.
Nobre, the Philadelphia city sur
veyOr, who made the charges against
Senator E. III. Ware, when the Phila-
delphia policemen arrested him on
a warrant charging libel, was de-
nounced by newspapers last night
and this morning as brutal" Sena-
tor Ware demonstrated with officials
about it and after he had told the
people at City Hall what he thought
of their performances Director Will
liam II. Wilson issued this state
ment: THE treatment accorded Mr..
Nobre after his arrest was entirely
uncalfed for. Had l known about it
it never would have taken place. 1
did not even know of his arrest un-
til long after he was taken into Gus
tody. He should have been treated
with every courtesy which is usually
extended to a person under similar
and similar charges"
last House and who are candidates
this year with a strictly prohibition
standing in addition to Robert S.
Spangler,s of York, are expected to
be Samuel -McCurdy, Blair; Harry B.
Scott, Centre; Allan d. Miller, Sus-
quehanna; George w. Williams,
Tioga and C. G. Corbin. Miflin.
Two Juniata county legislators
j. q. Dill, Huntingdon county,
and c. c. Corbin, Mifflin county, are
for reelection
Clark NJ. Bower is preparing a
lively legislative campaign in Perry
County He is a permanent member
of the State Board of Agriculture.
Western Pennsylvania Demo-
Gratis have just awakened to the fact
that the bill to create a third fed
eral judge for that part of the state |
is about to become law and that |
w. A. Griffith of Pittsburgh, has
many papers started for his ap-
pointment to the place. Griffith is
a great friend to the powers that
rule the Democracy in western
Allegheny county commission
ers, says the Pittsburgh Post. are
going to. Washington to offer hospi- |
tails and sites to the government. |
The commissioners seem to be some |
since O'Neil got out.
Considerable interest is being
throughout the state in |
what will happen Is months from
now, when the Perry -tuniata iudi-
the most votes, but the "dry" major
ity in Juniata is pcoportionately
greater.