Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-13
CANDIDATES ON
THE FINALLAPS
Sproul, O'Neil. Guffey and
Bonniwell Will Speak Dur
ing the Present Week

The primary election for the nomi-
nation of state. Congressional and
legislative tickets will be held one
week from tomorrow and the aspir-
ants for state nominations will all be
making speeches this week. while
candidates for district nominations
will be busy swinging around
Everyone is claiming everything
now.
Senator Sproul, who has been gain
ing rapidly and for whom most OF
the Philadelphia city leaders have de-
clared, is spending to-day in the
Philadelphia district and will be in
Lebanon tomorrow. coming to this
city on his way to Adams county on
Tuesday.
Commissioner o'Neil. who was in
Philadelphia Saturday, comforting
with the Attorney General, spoke
yesterday in a number of churches
a practice to which the Philadelphia
Inquirer objects in an editorial which
says the churches should not be
used in a primary campaign. Mr..
O'Neil will be in eastern counties to-
day and he and Governor BrumbauSh
will speak together at Reading.
While O'Neil was in Philadelphia he
heard of declarations made for
Sproul by Sheriff Harry c. Ransley'
of the Second ward; Director OF PUP
lie safety William H. Wilson. leader
of the Forty-eighth ward. and Mag
istrate Thomas f. Watson, of the
Twenty second ward.
The Philadelphia Record says:
"Undaunted by the declarations of
support for Sproul by many leaders
Highway Commissioner O'Nen an
nounced he would receive majority
OF the votes cast in this city at the
primaries. He declared he would
carry fifty counties of the state and
would win the nomination without
any trouble. Proof that the Wares
have finally decided not to rally un-
der the McKeesport candidates
standard is seen in the change of
Congressman Scott's campaign plans.
Scott has been campaigning with
ONeil in various parts of the state
and next Wednesday the Fourteenth
waru leader was scheduled to appear
with the Highway Commissioner and
Governor Brumbaugh in Reading.
TINS arrangement is now off, 1t was
announced. and Scott will not be one
of the spellbinders in Re1ding.'
Edward L. Beidleman, who is op-
posing Scott for Lieutenant-G Govern
or, yeSr,Iday conferred with lnde-
psadcrt leaders in Philadelphia, and
left last night for Wilkes-Barre. lie
expects to spend the greater part OF
the week in the hard-CVEl regions.
He will be in I.uzerne county to-day
and tomorrow and on Wednesday
and Thursday will be in LsCkawan-
ma county, He said before leaving
Philadelphia last night that he was
well satisfied with the eNp' eSsions or
support rendered to him there. Scott
was given another blast by the re-
formers of Philadelphia again yes
terday.
The state campaign of Joseph +.
Guffcy, who is seeking the Democrat
il nomina tion for Governor, is to be
wound up next Saturday in Pitts
burgh with a Democratic Dollar
Dinner The affair. at which the
principal speakers will be former
Congressman a. Mitchell Palmer,
National Democratic Chairman Vance
e. Mccormick ard Guffey, is to be
held at the FoIt Pitt Hotel. Seven
hundred reservations have been
made. Guffey, who came here sat
urday from Pottsville. was miffed at
the small crowd th1e turned out TO
hear hir on Saturday hight in Har-
risburg. He left for Pittsburgh aft
er taking with National Chairman
Mccormick Tonight Guffey and his
party VIII be in Erie and tomorrow
the candidates will make stops in
Warren. Kane. Ridgway, Remove and
Lock Haven. reaching Williamsport
late Tuesday afternoon for recep-
tion in the Park Hotel and dinner
aud meeting in the evening. Wednes-
day they will visit Scranton in the
afternoon. attending a reception ar
ranged for Hotel Casey, and in the
evening will be guests of Demo-
cratic set-together meeting in the
Hotel Sterling. Wilkes-Barre. Guffey
is very confident.
Mr.. Guffey's rival. Judge Eugene
Bonniwell, spent Saturday ins Car
Isle, meeting local Democrats after
two busy days in the eastern part
of the state. The i-prohibition
candidate spent Friday in Berks
county and Harrisburg. Judge Bon
niwel said that he was convinced
from his tour of the state that the
proiihi;Ion amendment would be
downCd in Pennsylvania and that he
would be nominated in decisive
fashion.
Jonn r. X. Scott declared yester-
day Senator Penrose was afraid to
meet him on the stump and paid his
respects to men who oppose him.