Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-15
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By the Ex-oonmitteeman

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Plans to name one election COM
missioner to conduct the elections
on November for each 1900 SOL
ldiers from Pennsylvania in the camps
and cantonments of the United States
may be changed and one man be
named for each 1000 in the camps
where there are many men from
the Keystone State and to detail
commissioners for camps where
there are small numbers. This is
the day whereon camp commanders
were asked to report to the Adju-
tant General the number of Penn
isylvanians in their camps. The re-
ports are expected to be completed
by the end of the week and the
commissioners will then be named
and likely be called to meet here
next week for instructions by the
Secretary of the Commonwealth, the
officer in charge.
Holding of the elections is not
going to be an easy job this year
as the men are scattered through
many units in various camps and 1t
is estimated that there are well over
$4,000 in the big camps of the
country and hundreds scattered
through aviation and other stations
where men are being given special
lied training, being organized into
United States Guards or for special
service. Over 10000 more men will
go out before the end of the month
Men will be given honorary COM
missions for foreign service in event
that II is possible they may be al
lowed TO have supervision of cleo
tions abroad. but that hope is very
dim.
places and it is expected that the
selections this year will be different
in personnel from those of 1917.
Democratic State Executive
Committeeman who will meet in
Philadelphia Saturday to fill vacancies
and decide upon how far the Dem
ocratic state organization shall go
into the campaign have been sound
ing sentiment as to whether the |
State Headquarters should confine |
itself to Congressional elections or /
the Palmer Mccormick regime go |
on the stump. Some OF the Demo-
cratic leaders. scenting a demand
for reorganization when the returns
are in, think the state organization
should not emphasize the split in
the party. No candidates are in
sight as yet for the vacancy in the
18th Congressional district.
State officials are arranging to I
ask early argument in the escheat |,
act test in which President Judge 1
George Kunkel. of the Dauphin |
county court, upheld the constitu-
uonality of the law, and Inherent /
tally. the act of 1917, supplementing
the statute of 1915, which it is ex-
pected will be Immediately appeal
ed to the Supreme Court. The Kun
kel decision was given after the case |
had been sent back for an opinion
on constitutional questions and pre- I
parations have been made by state /
officials to defend ii. Frank NJ. Eas- |
man of this city, is the special coun- |
sci in charge of the proceedings. The |
Auditor Generals Office has been |
getting ready TO enforce the law /
against which Pittsburgh banks and |
attorneys have been fighting for i
three years. Many thousands of dol |
lars will be involved it is believed /
here.
A Harrisburg dispatch to the |
Philadelphia Inquirer SAYS: "Ofl
more than $4,000 men registered or
enrolled as qualified to vote at the |
November election In Dauphin |
county, over 1000 are Republicans, |
according to the official lists. These |
figures are taken directly from the |
personal declarations of the voters |
themselves and are the most strik- |
ing commentary upon the manner in |
which the Republican organization |
in the home county of Democratic |
National Chairman Vance c Nc
Cormick has been at work. 1t is |
the greatest preponderance of Re-
NJ fnar l-F In. h.
in the districts in the county out
side of the city and one of the most |
remarkable ever known in Harris |
burg since the enactment of the |
personal registration law for cities.'
Registration in Pottsville shows |
that there are 3.764. Republicans |
registered and 1906 Democrats, a |
ratio of nearly three Republicans 10 |
one Democrat. There are but three |
registered as Washington Party, sew |
en- Prohibitionists Rd eleven So |
cialists. The Democfatic candidates |
can take no comfort from those fig
ures. 1t is believed that the reg
istration throughout Schuylkill coun- |
ty will also show big gains by the |
Republicans.
Senators Sproul and Beidleman.
the Republican candidates for Gov
ernor and Lieutenant-Gover and !
Representative James T. Woodward, |
nominee for Secretary of Internal
Affairs, will sweep the county with |
the largest pluralities in the history
of the party for state candidates.
They will more than repeat the vote
cast for Colonel Roosevelt for Presi-
dent" is a Schuylkill prediction.
For Congress, John Reber, = of
Pottsville, the Republican, is gain
ing in popularity every day. He is
making a campaign without any
bombast."
ONLY RY SURRENDER