Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-06

| S10,USo.oo, OF 'wnlch all Dut rev
hundred dollars went to his cam
paign committee. The Bonniwell
statement showed nearly $1,000.
"A story is going the rounds that
William S. Leib, county chairman of
Schuylkill county and now resident
| clerk of the House, has a boom for
chief clerk of the House to succeed
the veteran Thomas H. Garvin, who
| is seriously i'll.
1t is evident that the Prohibition
state committee proposes to make
some endorsements of legislative
candidates this year. 1t will be a
contest is close.
Senator Edward E. Beidleman,
of Harrisburg, and Congressman
John r. X. Scott, of Philadelphia,
| rival candidates for Republican
| nomination for Lieutenant Governor,
were the last of the statewide can
didates to file expense accounts at
the Capitol. Senator Beidleman GER
titled to expenditures of S2,250, S2,-
! 600 of which he gave to the Beidle-
man campaign committee; 500 to
the Candidates committee of Dau-
| phin county and $3.50 used for trav-
cling expenses. Congressman Scott
vi NAAACd IildI 4lS lAdu tAptIldtu co.
| 929.SS and that bills amounting to
s2,s64.67 were not yet paid. Senator
Ware contributed $4,000 to Mr.. Scott
Expenses accounts of campaign COM
mittees of candidates are to be filed
at the State Department before
June 20.
Formal calls for the meeting of
the newly-elected Democratic state
committeeman to elect a state chair
man will be issued from the head
quarters in a few days. The meeting
will probably be held here on June
l19,
-Four counties have not yet filed
their official returns on Superior
Court Judge. They are Allegheny,
Lackawanna, Luzerne and Lehigh
and on their figures hangs the ques-
ton whether Superior Court Judge
| w. D. Porter will be the sole nom
| inee or not.
Insurance Commissioner Charles
A. Amber. defeated candidate for
the Republican nomination for State
Senator in Montgomery, spent S5,-
| 500, and Fletcher W. Sites, who un-
successfully sought to be nominated
| for Congress, expended 5000, ac-
cording to their expense accounts
| filed in court to-day. James S. Boyd,
who defeated Amber, spent $2,S99.
Reports that election frauds
were practiced at the nomination of
the Republicans for Congress in the
Schuylkin district at the recent pri-
maries were given color late yester-
day when G.. F. Brumm, of Miners
Vile, one of the candidates. asked
the Court to review the election in
eight of the most important districts
of the county.
The meeting of the Republican
State Committee in Philadelphia on
Flag Day will mark the formal start
of the Republican campaign. Sena-
tor Sproul, who is to address the
meeting, will consult with county
leaders and arrange for some visits
in advance of the regular itinerary
| for the fall campaign which the
State Committee will arrange. The
general expectation is that the meet
| ing will be love feast and the Phil
adelphia Inquirer to-day says: Fol
lowing the reorganization of the Re-
publican City Committee next Wed
nesday a luncheon will be given at
the Hotel Adelphia, to which men,
bers of the committee, the ward
chairmen, candidates for Congress
and the Legislature in this city, and
Senator Sproul, Senator Beidleman
Representative Woodward and the
other candidates on the Republican
state ticket and prominent city Of
ficials will be invited. 1t was an
} nounced at the Ware Headquarters
yesterday that the entire Republican
City Committee will attend the meet
ing of the Republican State Commit
tee, which, is to be held at the Belle
vue-Stratford next Friday. upon
which occasion Republican National
Chairman Will H. Hays, Senator
Penrose and the candidates on the
Republican state ticket win make
addresses"
The Philadelphia Record SAYS 1,
cost Joseph F. Guffey 81 for every
vote he received in Philadelphia.
The Insider writing in the Phila.
delphia Press says of the Republican
primary: 1T is evident that Sena-
tor Penrose has almost clean sweeu
of the leading state offices, should
the Republican ticket be elected, and
there Is every indication that it will
be. Leaving the Governorship out
OF the question, as Senator Sproul
viii, II elected. probably remain neu-
trail between the Wares and Penrose,
IL will be seen that the Lieutenant
Governor, the Secretary of Internal
Affairs, the Auditor General and the
| State Treasurer are out-and-out
Penrose men. With the exception OF
State Treasurer Kephart, these men
were all opposed in the primaries by
the Vafes and owe them nothing.
In addition to the elective offices
named above, the president protein
pore of the Senate, Senator Buck
man, is Penrose man. This
strengthens the Penrose organization
considerably for it has had the
Governor actively against it with all
the influence and patronage that the
Governor commands. Senator SprouI.
If elected governor, certainly will re-
organize the Penrose organization as
party agent for the state. and in
Philadelphia matters will give it an
equal share with the Ware organiza-
| ton at least"