Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-08
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candidate for Supreme Court justice
of Pennsylvania and sounded what
| appeared to be a war cry.
| 1t will be recalled that every time
! the Democratic leaders of the past
had everything nicely arranged Mr..
! DlVely would hop in and break the
! glass When the Democratic State
| committee met here last month for
its reorganization Mr.. Dively turned
up as the member from Blair and
fortune once more pushed him to
/ the center Of the stage. He was
chairman of the committee which
| invited Judge Eugene G. Bonniwell,
! the gubernatorial nominee, to ad-
dress the committee and was soundly
berated for his plans. Incidentally
Mr. Dively objected to the scheme of
A. MITCHELL Palmer, Parke II. Davis
and other bosses of sew up" the
Democracy for the election of JUS
tice Edward j. Fox, of Easton, the
Governors appointee and naively let
1t be known that he has ambitions
himself. He said that he had re-
fused to be considered for appoint
ment by Republican governor and
Joining hands with c. B. Lenahan, a
Luzerne man, who is also a candi-
cate, and some friends of Judge
Bechtel, of Schuylkill, helped force
the elimination of the pledge to JUS
tice Fox.
Messrs. Bechtel and Lenahan have
been put out as full fiedged candi-
dates and now here comes the stormy
petrol from the mountain top to
make more trouble for the Demo-
Gratis who can only vote for one can
didate for the highest bench.
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Philadelphia Press looks forward to
an entertaining compaign. He writes:
Present indications are that the
Pennsylvania Democracy will run
touring circus this fall Gene
Bonnlwell, candidate of the "wets"
FOR governor, has announced that he
Will hold his own meetings, provide
his own speakers and he will run
for governor upon his own politics,
the same being prohibition and
out with Mitchell Palmer" Wash"
Logue, the Democratic candidate for
lieutenant governor, will hold forth
with ring No. 2. He also will have
troop of speakers who will join
with him in preaching prohibition.
The upshot of course will be bedlam,
and licking the like of which even
Pennsylvania democracy has seldom
well and his followers will make a
determined effort to wrest control of
the Democratic state committee from
the Palmer Mccormick faction.
Present appearances are that this is
all the Democratic fight amounts to.
Senator Sproul, without doubt, will
have one of the greatest majorities
ever given to a candidate for COVER
nor of Pennsylvania. This assur-
ance is a mighty good thing for the
state. 1t frees Senator Sprouts hands
in the conduct of his high office. No
faction can claim that it was neces-
sary to either his nomination or his
election. He will not be tied by
strings or promises. No CLIQUE can
write his platform; no boss can hold
him in check. The measure of his
opportunity is the full measure of
his power as Governor. Pennsylva-
mans of varying political faiths are
looking forward expectantly to his
administration as one that promises
much for the welfare of the Key
stone state"
Bethlehem has Joined Altoona
in the city manager conducted class.
The new official has just been picked
| by Mayor Arch Johnston and his
commissioners. w. L. Miller, lately
city manager OF st. Augustine, Flor
ida, is the man selected. He has for
SOM etime been employed at Hog
| Island, Philadelphia. Mr.. Miller was
at one time assistant city manager
at Dayton. Florida. 1t is said his
/ salary will be $4,000 a year, al
though the city will pay him only 81,
the rest being made up by the COM
missioners and Mayor pooling their
salaries.
| Charges that large sums of
money were spent in the last mayor
atty campaign in behalf of Mayor
! E. V. Babcock and with his knowl-
edge and constant consent to Sc
cure votes by buying the influence
of members of the German-American
! Alliance and the Iron City Trades
Council are made in a supplemental
bill of particulars filed in quarter
sessions at Pittsburgh by the ex-
ceptants to the expense account
filed by the mayor and John A.
Sharp, treasurer of the L. V. Bah
cock ticket committee. 1t is also
charged that money was expended
| in treating in clubs and in dissent
mating German propaganda.
Notwithstanding denials of any
appointments at the State Highway
Department. a Reading dispatch
says: Wayne NJ. High, contractor
and architect, and son of the late
Postmaster A. II. High, who was a
close friend of Senator Penrose, has
received notice of his appointment
as superintendent of state highways
for Berks county. He will succeed
T.. n. Burnett, who resigned last
week. Mr.. High has been promi-
nent in local Republican politics and
in the recent primary he was elected
state committeeman from Berks
county. Mr.. Burnett, who resigned
has secured a more lucrative posi-
ton with Philadelphia contracting
firm"
-Lackawanna county politics is
centered on the appeal taken to the
Supreme Court by David Phillips
from the ruling of the Lackawanna
/ judges that Albert Davis won the
u Republican nomination for state SEN
ator and in the threatened investi-
CATION of wholesale election frauds
at the primaries by the grand jury
and District Attorney MaXey's prom
Use to "go the limit to place the bal
lotbox suffers behind prison bars,
The Supreme Court will act on Mr.,
Phillips appeal on September 16 at
Pittsburgh.
The Lehigh County Democratic
Committee will open the campaign
at a "dry" place. This was settled
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