Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-13

meeting 10 be held next week. The
place has been vacant ever since
the resignation of E. Is. Dorset last
winter. Mr.. Dorsett. who is the state
farm adviser in charge of marketing
matters. may be chosen again. The
Commission will consider the farm
tractor situation and take steps to
urge greater acreage in wheat. Re-
ports which have been gathered by
members of this body indicate a
record breaking planting of buck
wheat in Pennsylvania this summer,
appointment of Judge Harold
NJ. Mcclure, of Lewisburg to be a
Public Service Commissioner, will
probably result in breaking a con-
dition which has prevailed among
members of the Commission for sew
eral weeks in several cases, being
known about the State Capitol as
the three to three deadlock" 1t
is q matter of comment about the
Capitol that weeks ago the situation
in the Commission was brought to
the attention of Governor Martin G..
Brumbaugh and that members of the
Commission were desirous of having
all of the places filled so that i'm
portant cases could be determined.
The new member will take his seat
for Monday. at which the Philadel-
phia Rapid Transit and other big
matters will come up.
| The death of President Judge
L. w. Doty, of Weshnoreland county,
will add to the unusual list of ju-
dicial appointments which the Gov
ernor has had to make during his
term. Judge A. D.. Mcconnell will
now be commissioned as president
judge.
Politics does not seem to have
been adjourned in Philadelphia be-
! cause there are statements being
made in newspapers which indicate
that in event that the Ware men at
the head of the Philadelphia city
committee do not act soon in the
matter of the contests of the seats of
various committeeman of Penrose
leanings there will be an appeal to
the Republican state committee. The
! Philadelphia Ledger intimates that
there is a chance of the independents
selecting their own city committee.
| The Town Meeting committee
yesterday determined to call upon
Philadelphia legislative candidates
| to declare whether they favored a
change in the city's charter. The
| committee favors a small council and
will draft bill. Signs are ripe for
much Philadelphia stuff in the next
Legislature.
Out in Pittsburgh there are
some signs that the row in the state
| democracy will crop out in local af-
fairs. The Guffey control is said to
have become seriously undermined
J by the primary.
! The Philadelphia Ledger de-
clares that the Wares are getting
ready to ..'fiaunt the civil service law"
in their effort to have E. r. Gudehus
chosen as head of the recreation
centers.
The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times in
the course of a review of the early
days of the campaign says: Judge
: Bonniwell, the Democratic nominee,
( is doing everything in his power to
get the fight away from party lines
and make it a straight wet and
dry battle. He is also hopeful of
| the aid of President Woodrow Will
son, and is figuring that war condi-
tions will result in light vote, sit
uation beneficial to him. Senator
| Sproul will make a vigorous cam
paign, presenting all of the import
ant issues to the voters of the state,
and every effort will be made to
make them see the necessity of going
to the polls in November"
! The War Department and the
! governors of the states do not seem
| to have agreed as yet upon ways and
means 1cr taking the votes of the
| soldiers. Newspapers have been
| filled with recommendations, but as
most of them do not contemplate
! the naming of commissioners, which
1 10 ar
doing, there are chances of a dis
agreement. The Army officers do
not regard an election in the midst
| of a critical period of q great war
as important as do some people in
| terested ir politics. And neither do
they consider a commission to take
votes as valuable as soldier armed
to fight.
The Philadelphia North Amer
lean says this morning that The
Philadelphia draft scandals are now
put squarely up to Governor BruEl-
! baugh" and intimates that they
might have been settled long tso.
| The Governor told newspap ermen
here a couple of weeks ago that
there were no draft scandals in
Philadelphia.
1t has been stated by the Gov
ernor that recommendations for ap-
! pointment Of board members in Phil
adelphia were made by Mayor Smith
land it is reported at the Capitol shat
men close to the Governor were
friends of members of district appeal
board No. 2, which it is now propos-
ed to consolidate with board No. /,
dropping out the friends of the men
| at court.
The Altoona Tribune is having
fun with the Dively boom for Su-
preme Court. 1t says: Among re-
cent developm ents in Pennsylvania
politics is the announcement by our
distinguished sometimes extin-
guished- friend, Amer
icus Vespucius Dively, of this city,
that he means to be a candidate for
the office of justice of the Supreme
Court of Pennsylvania at the COM
ing election. He will be 'nonparti-
san' of course. to all outward ep-
pearances, but his candidacy is
meant TO deal a more or less fatal
blow to the prospects of Justice Fox,
recently named for one of the va
cancies on the bench and who will
undoubtedly be a candidate for the
full term
J Further reductions of force al
the Internal Affairs Department are
probable in opinion OF men at the
, Capitol There have been some en-
forced layoffs at the State Insurance
Fund offices which Indicate that
there are more to follow. Lack al
, funds is the reason.
-Lackawanna county authorities
are dealing with slot machines In