Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-18
SPROUL SPEAKS
ON SATURDAY
Will Make Formal Announce
ment at Swarthmore Meet
ing at End of the Week

Senator William c. Sproul will
make formal announcement of his
candidacy at the meeting of his
friends and neighbors at Swarthmore
on Saturday. This will be gather
ing of Eastern Pennsylvania Swarth-
more alumni, and will attract ma
tional attention as the Pennsylvania
contest is now a matter of more than
statewide interest.
Highway Commissioner j. Denny
O'Neil plans to make some speeches
and visits throughout the state This
week. The commissioner went from
Philadelphia to the hard coal region
Saturday and yesterday addressed
three big meetings in Williamsport,
speaking at Newberry Methodist aud
First Baptist Churches and at a
mems meeting attended by 200 Vot-
erS. He raped the liquor interests
in politics and called on the men TO
register and to put rum down and
out.
There is considerable interest In
what Governor Brumbaugh proposes
to do in the campaign. The Cover
nor intimated last week that he
would continue to find texts in his
diary and the opposing forces inti-
mated that if he did they would ask
him questions. Congressman B. X.
Focht, of Lewisburg, in an interview
at Washington attacked the Governor
for dropping William Hertzler as
deputy secretary of the Common
wealth and not appointing William
+. Eckbert, of Mifflin county, as q
factory Inspector, and assailed the
administrations record. The Cover
nor returned here to-day, but gave
no intimation of what he intends to
do.
Regarding the second place on the
ticket it looks like a fight. According
to the Philadelphia Ledger Senator
Ware yesterday said the proposed
conference between the mayor, the
Ware county officials, ward leaders
and members of the city committee
would be held at the headquarters Of
the Republican city committee with
in ten days. No indication natural
ly has been given as to the guberna-
torial choice to be effected there, but
the prospects of an Endorsement of
Senator .Sproul, the Ware leaders as
sert, hangs on the manner in which
the Sproul element takes the candi-
dacy OF Representative John r. X.
Scott for lieutenant governor. For
Senator Ware and those associated
with him throughout the state have
determined that the congressman
will be named for second place on the
state ticket"
Secretary of Internal Affairs Paul
w. Houck is furnishing much of the
interest in politics at the State Capt.
tol as his friends have secured blank
petitions for secretary of internal al
fairs and state senator. The impress
sion here is that Houck will be q
candidate for denomination, although
he has not made any announcement.
He is not here to-day and in his alb
sence friends at the Capitol will not
say anything that would commit him.
Lex n. Mitchell, member of the
House from Jefferson. county, who is
out with an announcement of candi-
dacy for Republican nomination for
-at-large, has announced
himself for woman suffrage, the dry
amendment, state and national pro-
hibitary laws and humane legisla-
ton.
Peter E. Costello, Philadelphia, to-
day filed the first congressional
nominating petition for the May pri-
mary He will be candidate for
Republican denomination in the Fifth
district. Lawrence Ii. Rupp and
George Kuhl, Democrats, filed petit
tions to be candidates for senatorial
nomination in the Lehigh county dis
trict, and Representatives w. NJ.
Benninger. Democrat, Northumber-
land; r. l.. Wallace, Republican, of
Lawrence, and B. Morris Strauss,
Democrat, Second Berks, filed for re-
nomination. J.. f. Wills, Republi-
can, Miffiin, and S. G. Hartsock, Re-
publican, First Blair, also filed petit
tions.