Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-21
Poe;tc4 IL
Pe~~aqesa~ia
BY the Ex-Committeeman

of counties the chiefs of the reor.
ganization faction of the Democratic
state committee are having a series
of meetings to plan against his offen-
sive, which seems to be gathering
considerable momentum. There are
suspicious among a good many peo-
pie that the judge is running not SO
much for Governor as to put the
Palmer-McCormick machine into the
scrap heap and the federal jobhold-
ers' union is very busy trying to pre-.
vent the calamity.
The date for the meeting of the
| Democratic state committee in thi:
city may be set to-day and it is be-
lieved 1t will be next Wednesday
| although some men would prefer tc
wait until after Labor Day. Mean
while efforts will be made to round
| up the various state candidates, who
nave failed to show any sympathy
with the platform committee and 1t
is even intimated that the bosses, il
they see rocks ahead, may ditch the
whole plan for meeting of the state
| committee.
| According to Philadelphia news
| papers efforts are again being made
to force j.. Washington Logue off the
| Democratic ticket as candidate fol-
| Lieutenant Governor. The idea s-that
| Logue is dry" man and If he stays
on the ticket Judge Eugene c. Bon
| niwell and the ''wets" will have to
trot out wet" ticket which would
put them into the position of running
in partial opposition to the Demo-
cratic state ticket named at the same
primary and give the reorganization
bosses a chance to say things. Logue
insists on remaining on the ticket,
knowing that if he is there some of
the 'wets" will balk at it. The Phil
adelphia Record says:
1T is claimed by leading DEM
ocrats who are eager for party har-
mony that Mr.. Logue is a candidate
for incompatible offices and that he
must make his selection within a
short time. 1t is further pointed out
that Mr.. Logue was unopposed for
the nomination for Congress in the
Sixth district, while he won the NOM
ination for Lieutenant Governor over
Howard o. Holstein, of Harrisburg,
by only 210 votes. The official vote
was: Logue. 70,039, and Holstein,
69,S29. 1t is further contended that
in 1912, Mr.. Logue won seat in
Congress from the Sixth Congress
vote his efforts to contesting for this
Office"
Some of the news in the morn
ing newspapers is interesting from
a political standpoint. In Philadel-
phia Senator Sam" Salus was before
tie federal grand jury which is in
vestigating draft conditions. es-
pecially regarding draft boards in
the section of the city where he
holds political sway. He said he was
glad to answer any questions. Ex-
Mayor w. F. Shanaman, of Reading,
he was boarding. Scranton may
have trouble in keeping it's fire de-
partment intact because of wages.
The LuZerne county grand jury
ignored disorderly house cases in
spite of instructions from Judge H.
A. Fuller. Pittsburgh firemen threat
en- 10 strike Saturday unless pay is
raised.
Judge Eugene c. Bonniwell is in
York county to-day and will do all
he can to organize his own friends.
many of whom are openly at odds
with certain candidates who wear
the reorganization colors.
Senator Boies Penrose will be
here next Tuesday night on his way
TO Lebanon to attend the P. o. S.
of A. convention.
Judge John w. Kephart, of the
Superior Court, who is the busiest
candidate for the Supreme bench
since {. LaRue Munson's day, was
here last night. The judge has been
in almost every county in the state
recently.
At Republican state headquar-
ters, which will be formally opened
on September 8. an itinerary for the
visits of the candidates to the sew
eral counties is being tentatively
made up. 1t will be finally sched-
uled after there shall be a confer
ence of the candidates in the second
week of September. Meanwhile the
candidates will go it alone and make
such arrangements as they may see
fit to meet the voters in accordance
with their personal arrangements.
For a number of years the annual
meeting of the Republicans of Le-
high county has been attended by
the Republican gubernatorial cam
didate and his associates upon the
party ticket and there has always
been a great gathering of the active
Republicans of the county at this
function. There will be no exception
to the rule this year, when the Re-
publicans of Lehigh will meet at
Neff's on Saturday next.
RESOLUTIONS lauding Secretary
w. f. McAdoo's services as Secretary
of the Treasury and Railroad Direc-
tor. were adopted by the Blair Coun-
ty Democratic Committee Saturday.
A. " DiveIy, Altoona. was indorsed
for Supreme Court Judge. p. J.
Reilly, Altoona, was elected county
chairman, John Condo secretary and
D. S. Brumbaugh treasurer.
The Philadelphia Press SAYS in
it's political column. written by "The
Insider:" ''In the efforts to be made
in the Legislature to put through a
new police bill, small Councils bill
and other similar municipal reforms
for Philadelphia. the Fifth ward
trial, of course, will be trotted out
and exhibited again. 1t can be pre-
dicted pretty confidently that. as said
before, the Fifth ward case is des-
tined to go down the corridors of
time as favorite horrible example,
We shall hear much of it between
now and the next municipal election.
And probably we shall all be thor
cughly sick of the name before we
hear the last of it,
Telegraph's Policy Approved
IFrom Young Republican, Phila.1