Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-21
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BY the Ex- Committeeman

oehdCor william =. Sproul Will
make very few speeches during the
remainder of the campaign in Penn
sylVania this year and the extent of
his tours of the state and the par
ticipation of other candidates will
likely be determined within the next
forty-eight hours. The death of the
gubernatorial nominees son-in-law
and the influenza outbreak have
forced the abandonment of plans
which had been made by the Re-
publican state committee.
The scope of the Republican cam
paign is to be discussed in Philadel-
phia to-day by Senator Boies PEN
rose and other prominent Republi-
cans who are gathering there James
F. Woodward, the nominee for Sec
rotary of internal affairs, was here
last night on his way to Philadelphia
and said that he was ready for any
thing which should be decided. SEN
ator Edward f. Beidleman, nominee
for lieutenant governor, is awaiting
the call in this city.
The influenza outbreak has forced
a similar cessation of activity by
Democratic candidates and the can
collation. of the meeting of the
Democratic state executive commit
tee on Saturday is taken to mean
| that like the Republicans the Demo-
Gratis intend to wait the outcome of
the influenza epidemic.
Senator Penrose while in Phila-
delphia yesterday said his reports
from the interior of the state indi-
cate that, while there is natural
apathy resulting from war conditions
and the influenza, the Republican
] lines are intact and unat Senator
| Sproul, the nominee for Governor,
and all of his colleagues on the Re-
publican slate ticket will be elected
! by large majorities and the Repub-
licans will certainly make gains in
the congressional delegation and in
the State Legislature. The Senator
| said he expects to come to this city
Immediately upon Congress taking
its recess over the election and give
| as much attention as possible to the
furtherance of the Republican cam
paign.
This is the last day upon which
candidate for any place to be filled
at the November election can with
draw and there are going to be some
surprises for men who have been
thinking over the situation and in
tending to act later in the week
The fact that there is no DEM
ocratic candidate for Congress in the
I ln Ii NtFN HAwz -
trict the home" district of National
Chairman Vance C. Mccormick is
causing comment in many places.
Men in other states have been re-
marking upon the situation. And
now on top of it's comes the state
ment that e-Chairman Cummings
is going to run the congressional
campaigns and Mccormick will de-
vote time and talents to the War
Trade Board
David Phillips, who lost the
contest for the Republican sena-
torial nomination in Lackawanna, is !
out in statement that he will sup.
port Albert Davis, his successful
rival.
Death of Municipal Court Judge
Bernard Gilpin in Philadelphia
makes another vacancy for Cover
nor Brumbaugh to fill. The West
moreland county judgeship is re-
garded as having been placed in cold
storage until Representative D. J..
Snyder can legally assume the place
by expiration of his legislative term.
Writing in the Philadelphia
Press j. o. Hauser comments upon
the quietness of the campaign and
says: The vote this year can
scarcely fail to set a new record
flor Gubernatorial elections. The
| registration is everywhere reported
| to be far below the normal for a
general election year. Still, there
are apparently some thousands of
people who intend to VOTE There
will be mild furry the morning
after election until the returns are
all in, and then politics will once
more settle down into innocuous
desuetude, where it will abide until
the inauguration of the new Cover
nor and the opening of the Legis-
lature at Harrisburg galvanizes it
into life for the moment Alreadx
there is talk that the approachingN
legislative session will be held
down to unprecedented shortness
and lack of fuss and feathers One
of the subjects the Legislature will
probably take up will be certain
reforms in the direct primary law.
AS the law stands in Pennsylvania,
one of the details that has brought
the most friction is the matter of al
phabetical position on the ballot"
The Philadelphia Ledger in re-
marking on the abandonment of
political meetings this week in. Phil
adelphia says: Republican leaders
! have not yet decided whether they
will make a campaign in the state.
A conference of Senator Sprouts
supporters will be held tomorrow
or Tuesday to decide whether the
campaign, called off when the
Liberty Loan drive started, will be
resumed. Several prominent Dem
ocrats came to Philadelphia yester-
day to attend meeting of the execu-
tive committee of the state COM
mittee, but found it postponed be-
cause of the epidemic"
William l. Schaffer, of Delaware
lcounty lawyer, who is active in the
! Sproul campaign says things are
! looking very we'll. He also said the
counties had all been we'll organized.
and he looks for large and hand
some majority for Sproul. He also
said there can be no question of
getting out the vote, because the
Sproul forces have been we'll organ
lied in every section in the state.
In Delaware county as we'll as Ches-
ter county, Senator Sproul will re-
ceive such a vote of which any
man running for public office might
we'll be proud.