Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-20
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By the Ex-Couauuftfeernau

& III III
Leadership in the two older parties
In Pennsylvania depends in great
measure upon the result of the pri-
. maries tomorrow, although the DEM
ocrats about the Market Square wind
mill insist that their party is united
tickets will be nominated in all
| parties and the Republicans and
Democrats will have contests over
every place. The only statewide can
didate sure of no opposition is Judge
w. d. Porter of the superior court
/, whose opponent has withdrawn, but
the judges friends are urged to vote
for him to make his election at the
primary.
The candidates. their managers
and their partisans are all making
claims to-day and if the majorities
claimed were aggregated they would
probably exceed the voting strength
of any party. The newspapers to-day
indicate very clearly that notwith-
standing the claims of candidates the \
! politicians fear light vote. 1t is in
teresting to note that the Philadel- |
| phta Ledger, which had refrained |
! from any editorial announcement on !
! the Republican Governorship al !
| though most of the newspapers in |
that city are for Sproul, comes out ,
! to-day for the Delaware Senator. but ,
/ does it grudgingly. 1t says: "O'Neil's |
| open alliance with Scott, the espousal |
/ of his cause by the Brumbaugh ad- |
ministration with its fragrant abuse I
/ of its power to coerce state employees |
! into partisan political activity, plainly |
makes the nomination of Sproul the /
| lesser evil"
I mi n to
delphia that Governor Brumbaugh !
and the Wares have split because the
| Wares refuse TO endorse O'Neil and
/ that the Governor and his friends
are consequently keeping quiet about
John r. X. Scott. The fact is the
bulk of the Ware leaders are openly
for Sproul.
Senator Penrose is out in a cir
cular in which he urges Sproul,
/ Beidleman and Woodward with
Crago. Garland, Mclaughlin and
Walters for Congress -at-Large.
The Town Meeting people last
night gave terrific farewell blast to
John r. X. Scott and called for his
defeat.
, The Philadelphia Record has
fun with circular sent out from
I Democratic state headquarters sign
ed by \. Mitchell Palmer in which he
announces his tour for votes for Gov
ernor. 1t seems that some one used
the wrong rubber stamp on Guffeys
printed thunder.
Machine Democrats had a great
banquet in Pittsburgh on Saturday
at which Palmer lined up the place
holders for Guffey. While he was do
ing II Judge Bonniweli was speaking
in Erie.
The Ware registration board in
Philadelphia has lost a court decision
and names must be restored to the
rolls.
-Philadelphia newspapers charge
that politics was behind the removal
of Bank Examiner a. L. Taber.
The Philadelphia Press in its is
sue of yesterday devoted many COL
umns 10 review of the situation in
the Republican party and prints a
map showing Sproul sure of twenty
seven counties, including Philadel-
phla, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Erie
Fayette, Cambria, York and Lancas-
ter and O'Neil sure of twentv-one.
including Allegheny. In the eighteen
doubtful are included Berks, Clear
field. Schuylkill, Perry, Washington.
Montgomery, Franklin, Bradford,
Westmoreland and Crawford. Dau-
phin is also made doubtful. In its
review by The Insider, The Press
! SeAs III AilG INGpuDllCdH contest
, there are three important forces. We
have the state administration, headed
by the Governor and the Attorney
General, fighting a battle for control
OF the party with the state organiZa-
ton, led by Senator Penrose, and,
hanging on the outskirts of the fight,
in the part allied with one force, and
in part with the other, stands the city
organization of Philadelphia, led by
. prta a int Of fsrc
where this organization stands and
what it really will do complicates
still further the already complicated
situation between the Brumbaugh-
. Brown and the Penrose elements. In
the gubernatorial fight, Senator
Sproul represents the hopes of the
state organization and Highways
Commissioner ]. Denny O'Neil the
am bitions of the Governors group.
There are two other candidates, Rob
ert P. Habgood and Asa r. Weimer,
but they have long since been rele-
gated to the background by political
observers. Conflicting claims are
made by the ampaign managers of
Senator Sproul and Mr.. O'Neil; as
will be seen by reference to other
sections of this newspaper. But
the indications are that Senator
Sproul will be the victor"
Other Philadelphia newspapers
content themselves with printing
conflicting claims and some COM
ment upon the apathy of the people.
Most of them consider that Guffey
will defeat Bonniwell. Much inter-
est is shown in the leadership con-
tests among Republicans such as the
J fights between Johnson and Amber
in Montgomery and Long and Pome-
roy in Franklin, the drives against
Lafean in York. Seidel in Reading
and the state administration leaders
in Luzerne and Lackawanna. The
Allegheny outcome is also being
awaited with interest.
Senator Charles H. Kline, of
Pittsburgh. former president pro tenn
of the Senate, takes Mr.. O'Neil to
task for his remarks about oppo-
nents, especially for comparing SEN
ator Penrose to the kaiser. Senator
Kline says: when a candidate for
office finds himself so hard pressed
that he has to elevate the German
kaiser over a United States Senator
in order to get votes, IT is clearly
evident that he is desperate and is
facing defeat. Mr.. O'Neil has placed
himself on record to the effect that
the American citizen who does not
agree with him in politics Is worse
than the beast of Berlin. When he
! does this, Mr.. O'Neil wounds every
| American, because there ia not a