Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-02
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Pe~nA4eSoia
By the Ex-Committeeman

Senator William c. Sproul and
| senator Edward Z. Beidleman. can
dldate for Governor and Lieutenant
governor on the Republican ticket.
VIII make an informal start of their
campaign tomorrow at the Shade
Gap picnic in the Orbisonia district
OF huntington county. This gather
ing Is noted one for the Juniata
valley and originally planned as a
soldiers picnic il has become an
event among the people of Hunting
oon' Mlff1in. Juniata and other coun-
ues ana the Senators have been as
| sured or a warm welcome
| senator Sproul will arrive here
during the morning from Philadel-
phia and be Joined in Harrisburg by
Senator Beidleman and Auditor Cen
! eral Charles A. Snyder. A number of
| men connected with the Republican
state organization and the state gov
ernment will accompany them,
Monday the two Senators will ad-
dress the Lancaster county Repub-
llcan committee and then go to
Montgomery county.
Democratic state windmill men
are all ears now over Judge Eugene
{. Bonniwell. their somewhat recall
cltrant candidate for Governor. They
are not saying much but they are
listening attentively to everything
that the judge does or says about the
campaign. State Chairman Mclean.
who Is in Washington. will continue
to hold the title of state chairman.
but Warren VanDyke. the secretary.
will do the work. Major Mclean
planned to take a leave of absence
when he went into the Army and to
name an acting chairman, but it was
the occasion for a fresh demand on
the part of Bonniwell that he sur
render the levers of the machine and
the major concluded TO hold on. His
course has the approval of National
Committeeman A. Mitchell Palmer
and his pals.
The Philadelphia Inquirer saws
that Judge Bonniwell is in earnest
in demanding that ]. washington
Logue quit the ticket as candidate
for Lieutenant Governor, in order
that some one may be named who is
IN sympathy with the Bonniwell plat
form. The Inquirer says: "Logue.
VINO is former president of the
Catholic Total Abstinence Society. is
regarded as out of place upon a
ticket the head of which has pro-
claimed against sumptuary legisla-
ton of all kinds and is unqualifedly
opposed 10 the ratification of the
proposed prohibition amendment to
the federal constitution.
In calling again for the with
drawal of Candidate Logue, Judge
Bonniwell, among other things, said:
"Logue was nominated for Congress
N f~fh
whelming majority and since the
President needs Democrats in Con-
gress to uphold him in carving
through his policies. it is Mr.. Logue's
duty to withdraw from the state
ticket and run for Congress. Mr..
Logue. however. gives no indication
of obliging Judge Bonniwell and
quitting the race.
-Berks county Democrats do re-
sign office. 1t has just been announc-
ed that Herbert Schwartz has quit as
warden of the county prison to sue
ceed his brother in the hotel busi-
ness.
The claim is now made in
Wilkes-Barr that police officers ac-
cused merely did their duty in the
rounding up of grafters. The pros
poets are that there will be some
court actions.
-Johnstown has put policemen's
salaries up to S115 a month and has
vacancies, while York is going to the
S110 mark. All over the state the DO
lice situation is most unusual and
has upset local political conditions
in dozen places.
There are signs that the Fifth
ward case may end next week. The
defendants are developing bad mem
ories.
1t is probable that one of the
earliest matters TO be considered by
the next state administration will be
the relation of men holding appoin-
tive places under the present admin
istration and who go into military
service to the state payroll. Under
the act OF 1917 it is provided that ap-
pointive employees on going into the
service shall be entitled to half nav
and are not to be removed. I'm
der this act a number of men have
gone into service and their friends
claim they are safe as long as the
war lasts no matter how antago-
nistic they may be to the incoming of
ficials. A legal test is likely. The
present administration has held very
strongly that the power which can
appoint may remove.
A. Nevin DIETRICH. examiner-in-
/ chief of the State Insurance Depart
ment, late chairman of the late
Washington party and lately a field
man for the O'Nei1 campaign, will on
Monday enter the United States sery-
ice and make application to be nut
on the half pay list.