Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-23
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BY the Ex-Committeeman

Folks about the Democratic state
headquarters, who have been trying
to figure out some way to offset the
effect of the meeting to be held in
Philadelphia to-day by Judge Eu-
gene c. Bonniwell, the Democratic
candidate for governor as q result of
the direct primary, for the formation
of his own state committee. were in
| tensely relieved to-day when they
learned that Director General w. G.
McAdoo had modified his order about
railroad men being candidates for
office. The effect of this order will
be to permit men who are candidates
to run while holding railroad jobs.
when the term of office begins they
must get out. This will make more
trouble.
The Bonniwell meeting is sched-
uled to take place this afternoon and
men from every county in the state
have been invited to attend. Those
who do not attend will send proxies
so that there will be crowd, any
way. The judge has been visiting
various sections of the state and
while not successful by any means in
rallying to his flag all men opposed
TO the Palmer regime
owing to his wet" feelings, has
managed to align a pretty infiuen-
tial body of men with him. He has
not the ghost of a show of election,
but he will be able to make no end
of trouble for the bosses of the rna-
chine and the creaking of the old
apparatus may even reach the portico
of the White House.
speaking at Pittsburgh, Senator
Penrose said he felt confident, after
a general study of politics that the
November election will give the
Republicans control of the Lower
House of Congress. l have care
| fully gone over the situation with
the national leaders and the re-
ports show that a Republican VIC
tory is assured. In Pennsylvania
we will hold all of the present Re-
publican districts and defeat the
Democrats in the Fayette, York,
Warren and Northumberland dis
tricts."
This is Mayor Smiths idea on
lieve any political organization has
the right to mace any one, parti-
cularly the little fellows who draw
small salaries. I have always made
political contributions even before
became an otficeholder. How
can a political organization exist
without money? How can it carry
on business if its supporters do not
contribute to its success? I do not
believe in assessing the policemen
and firemen or any city employe who
draws but & moderate salary"
Judge Eugene c. Bonniwell
Democratic nominee for Governor,
campaigned vigorously in Allegheny
county last week. In company with
Jury Commissioner P. F. Brennan
and Samuel R. Tarner, a Democratic
nominee for Congressman -at-Large,
Judge Bonniwell visited East Pitts
burgh, Wilmerding, McKeesport and
Braddock and at night was in
Sharpsburs and Millvale. At noon
he spoke to Westinghouse employees
at East Pittsburgh and at $3.50
o'clock in the afternoon Judge Bon
niwell addressed a crowd of en-
ployes leaving the steel mills at
Braddock.
The Delaware county Grand
Jury reported against license on
saturday. Its action read this way:
Resolved, by the Grand Jury of
the September term of court of Del
aware County, That it is recon-
mended 10 the Court that in order
to reduce crime and to increase the
production in industries engaged in
essential war work that on and after
January, l, 1919, the Court refuse
1nanSa
liquor as being either necessary or
desirable for the welfare of the peo-
pie of Delaware County or for .he
good of the people of the United
States"
The resolution was signed by
Joseph NJ. Rogers, foreman of the
Jury, and w. C. Hunter, of Radnor,
clerk of the jury.
Judge Johnson accepted the
report without comment.
County Solicitor Ira G. Kutz, one
of Berks County's representatives on
the Democratic State Committee, is
still sticking to Bonniwell, the wet
candidate for Governor. He claims
to have cast the only vote against
the anti-Bonniwell resolutions at the
committee meeting az Harrisburg
says a Reading dispatch to the Phil
adelphia Press.
-Norristown political prophets
say the organization headed by
| Charles Johnson will sweep Mont
gomery County this fall.
An Ebensburg dispatch says:
The committee of lawyers, of Cam
bria county which has been direct
ing the canvass in support of Super
ior Court Judge John w. Kephart
for election to the Supreme Court
on the Non-Partisan ballot on No
vember EeXt, is receiving encour-
aging reports from every section of
the Commonwealth. The express
ions of approval of his candidacy
and the predictions of his success
at the polls from leading newspap-
ers of the state, have been very
| gratifying to Judge Kephart's ad-
mirers. Editor Anderson H. WAL
ters, of the Johnston Tribune, who
is one of the Republican candidates
for Congressman-at upon the
ticket headed by William c. Sproul
! for Governor, in editorially COM
menting upon the action of the MEM
bers of the bar of this county. among
| other things, wrote: "The indorse-
ment of Superior Court Judge John
! w. Kephart for Justice of the Su-
preme Court by the Cambria County
| Bar Association is a handsome tri-
| butte to n member and a well-de-
served compliment to a Judge who
! has in a comparatively brief SER
| vice, won an enviable place among
| the jurists Of the day. Judge Keep
! hart has distinguished himself. on