Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-23
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BY the Ex- Committeeman

Reports reaching Republican state
| headquarters in Philadelphia indi-
cate that while war activities, the
Liberty Loan campaign and the in
! fluenZa epidemic have put politics
on the shelf in many counties there
! is small doubt of the keystone State
! rolling UP a majority for Senator
William c. Sproul and his colleagues
on the Republican state ticket that
will be fairly proportionate to the
majorities of other years. In some
sections of the state leaders are op-
| timistic about duplicating the sue
cess of the Delaware senator in the
primary at the general election,
while others say that the reports of
inroads made by the Bonniwell
"gumshoe" campaign and the liquor
mems attacks on Sproul are not
overdrawn.
The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
in discussing the reports as received
at the Republican headquarters
says: "The Republican state COM
mittee will within the next day or
two forecast a plurality for State
Senator William c. Sproul, Republi-
can candidate for Governor, of not
less than 10000. Governor Brum-
baugh's plurality four years ago was
! 134,S25. State Senator William E.
| Crow, chairman of the state COM
mittee, has authorized the claim not
only that Senator Sproul will be
elected on November 5, but that the
| present Democratic Congressional
delegation of seven members from
this state will be reduced to at least
three. A minimum Sproul plurality
of 100000 over Judge Eugene C.
Bonniwell, his Democratic opponent,
was declared to-day to be based on
rock-bottom estimates" turned in
to the state committee at the re-
quest of Senator Crow by Republi-
can chairmen of the various coun-
ties"
On the other hand, the Phila-
delphia Inquirer says that State
Chairman Crow has sent out what it
calls "a note of warning" to leaders
and committeeman not to assume
that the Republicans will have a
huge majority, but to work to see
that 1t is assured. The inquirer
says: IF the plans mapped out for
the closing days of the canvass are
carried out, Chairman Crow believes
that Senator Sprouts majority will
not be less than 10000 and that it
may exceed 200, 900. There are thou
sands of Democrats who will NOT
support Bonniwell and who will
vote for Sproul in reputation of the
men and interests that are behind
the Bonniwell candidacy"
The Philadelphia Press Joins in
lthe careful discussion of the cam
paign and warns that too much
SHOULD not be taken for granted. The
Democratic Philadelphia Record,
Iwhfln n f.nfor,.iner
lstealthy manner in which the Dem
ocratic nominee for Governor has
been going about the state even in
the midst of the Liberty Loan cam
Ipaign, says that distress sienals''
were hoisted at the Republican state
headquarters and that "amusing es-
Inmates" are being made. The Phila-
ldelphia North American seems to
lbe determined that pople shall know
that Sproul typifies the prohibition
sentiment and that other men should
Join in and help.
The estimates which annoy the
philadelphia Record are that Sproul
will carry Delaware by $4,000 be-
Icause men of all shades of political
belief are for him; Chester by 5000;
Montgomery by $4,000; Dauphin by
5000 and Bucks by 5000.
In the midst of it all the Demo
cratic state windmill is silent and
Isuch things as vacancy on the
Democratic Congressional ticket in
the home district of the Democratic
national chairman, are not popular
topics on Market Square.
The Pittsburgh Gazette-T Times
prints an interesting account of a
Injecting in Pittsburgh at which the
Legislative leader of the dry" forces,
Representative John w. Vickerman,
icharged that liquor interests were
deliberately lying about Senator w.
IC. Sproul in connection with the in
Ifuenza quarantine in the hope of
making votes for Judge e. C. Bon
lniwell, the Democratic gubernatorial
candidate. The Pittsburgh newspaper
lsays: Ever since the liquor dealers
were closed by the State Department
Iof Health as a part of the program
in preventing the spread of influenza.
effort has been made by the Bohni-
well forces to use the quarantine as
q meanfg of influencing votes against
Senator Sproul, the Republican
lnomines. Some liquor men spread