Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-11
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By the Tx Committeeman

| who have studied the returns OF
| Tuesdays election is that there
should have been conditions ape
preaching panic among Republicans
In some sections of the state week
ago, There were places In Pennsyl-
vania which were covered with a
blue haze seven or eight days ago,
Some Republican leaders of long ex-
| perience were depressed over the
situation and inclined to give ear to
! the eXtravagant claims or Demo-
Gratis and to disregard the predio-
tions from tho Republican state
headquarters.
liam =. Crow calmly stated that the
Republican majority for the state
ticket was going to go close 20 2O0'-
900, but observers, accustomed TO
| the vagaries of Pennsylvania politics,
| took different view and talked or
| $4,000. The truth of the matter Is
| that between the noise made by the
Democrats in their insistence that
| Democratic Congressman had to be
elected to win the war and other re-
markable prediction statements
and the din made by the liquor in
terests and the "experinced boost
rs about Judge Bonniwell many
men were led astray.
The result has shown that State
Chairman Crow and the people at
Republican headquarters had their
ears to the ground week ago and
got it right incidentally. Senator
| Sproul, who made 10000 as his
mark, received a very pleasant sur
prise in a majority which distanced
even his record vote over and above
his opponent at the primary.
The conclusions to be drawn are
fhof fhn RnntIhlinanG nnifp6 and
did not realize how much the Presi-
dents appeal had damaged his own
party, already rent by the row be-
tween Mccormick and Palmer on
the one hand and Bonniwell on the
other.
Men who have followed politics
will regret the death of Samuel e.
Hudson, dean of political writer's In
Pennsylvania. Sam" Hudson, as he
was known to every man who ever
got anywhere in state or Philadel-
phia affairs in the last forty years,
entered newspaper work early in the
seventies and became noted as a
Washington correspondent for the
Philadelphia Bulletin and as a legis-
lative correspondent. He was varied
and prolific writer, most entertain
ing and with fund of reminiscence
which he had lately been writing for
the North Americans Sunday issue.
Mr.. Hudson was connected with most
of the Philadelphia newspapers in
his day and was a figure at many
legislative sessions.
1t will take the soldier vote to
decide the LuZerne county Congress
sional contest. Lackawanna's result
will not be changed by the soldier
vote and it looks as though the Dem
ocrats had won the seat
Mayor Smith is out for a lower
tax rate in Philadelphia.
Pittsburgh people will demand
creation of State Health Commits
sion to review acts of the Commits
sioner of Health as a result of the
influenza controversy.
james NJ. Hamilton. figure in
the battles against the Mcclure peo-
pie in Delaware county, has retired
from politics, 1t is said. He was some
tighter and cost the McClures wake
full nights and large expenditures.
The manner in which every
northern tier county went Republi-
can is somewhat interesting because
it means Republican peace even If
the perennial Philadelphia row does
try to break out again.
The boom for Representative
Aaron B. Hess, of Lancaster city,
for speaker is said to be now in the
finishing shop. 1t will appear soon.
The general impression is that
there will be very little opposition
to the nomination Of Frank A. Smith,
former Republican county chairman,
for Senator to succeed Lieutenant
Governor Edward e. Beidleman.
There will be a special election in
the winter. Mr.. Smith is favored
by many Republicans in city and
| county.
All expense accounts of the 126
commissioners dispatched to camps
and stations of the army and navy
and marine corps in this country
to take the votes in the national
service will be audited by the Dep
uty Secretary of the Commonwealth
and paid by the Auditor Generals
| Department without question, ac-
cording to a statement heard to-day.
! The appointment of commissioners
was matter in the discretion of the
| Governor and there is over $4,000
! in the State Treasury to pay the ex-
penses. The state allows ten cents a
mile Travelled. The state will be call
! ed upon to pay a pretty penny for
| expenses of some of the commission
ers who were sent as far as Salt
Lake, Fort Sill, Fort Russell and
other places in the Far West where
few Pennsylvanians were reported,
while the cost of the six or eight
sent to Pacific coast states will run
| high HOngi6RrinR fha nTF,o6nr 80
votes polled.
The Philadelphia and Pitts
burgh newspapers print considerable
interesting speculation from Wash
ington about the figure Pennsylvania
will cut in the next Congress. The
Inquirer, for instance, says: "In
the House, where the latest returns
show a net gain of two Republi-
cans in the Pennsylvania delega-
ton, Representative Thomas S. But
Ter, of Pennsylvania, doubtless will
be made chairman of the committee
on naval affairs. Representative
Benjamin K. Focht, of the Seven
teenth Pennsylvania district, is
ranking Republican of the war
claims committee, which will in
crease in Importance. Representative
j. Hampton Moore, of Philadelphia,
will loom large in the Investigations
which the Republicans will launch to
see how the war appropriations have
been expended. He has tried both
in the ways and means committee
and on the floor of the House to Sc
cure legislation looking toward the
creation of a joint committee on
expenditures, and has invariably
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