Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-11
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By the Ex-Committeeman

! Senator William c. Sproul will am
plify the declaration in favor of the
national prohibition amendment
which he made Saturday before the
Chester County Republican commit
tee at West Chester and friends say
that he will take a positive stand,
one that cannot be question. The
! Senator's formal announcement of
candidacy for the Republican guber-
Material nomination will be made
within a week. 1t was intended to
issue it to-day, bat the death of the
Senator's father and some engage
ments prevented completion of the
| document.
The Sproul declaration was bit
terly assailed by Highway Commits
sioner J. Benny O'Neil, the Senator's
rival for the Republican nomination
for Governor, at Pittsburgh last
night. Mr.. O'Neil said that he
challenged" Senator Sprouts sin
! cerity, charged false pretence,"
''chicanery," and other things and
asserted that the Sproul candidacy
was put forward to defeat the Pro-
IllDlllOn L.
The Public Ledger to-day devotes
about half a page to discussion of
the situation caused by the Sproul
statement, one dispatch from Wash
ington saying that national prohibi-
ton leaders saw the amendment be-
ing taken out of politics and made
matter of course. 1t also prints q
series of dispatches from various cit
les like Wilkes-Barre, Pottsville
York and other places in which or
ganization Republican leaders COM
mended the Sproul stand as tending
to make the amendment something
for which the Republican party as a
whole should stand.
A. Mitchell Palmer, speaking for
the Democrats, assails Sproul and
says his stand will have to be more
positive.
Newspapers generally give promi-
nence to what Senator Sproul said
and the O'Neil reply, but do not
comment to any extent editorially.
Congressman Arthur G. Dewalt,
of the Berks-Lehigh district, has
challenged his rivals, w. NJ. Croll
and c. b. Spatz, to debate the issues
of the campaign, but they will
hardly do so, as Dewalt may say
some things about the bosses which
would not sound well.
Mayor A. T. Connell. is said by
Scranton papers to have telephoned
to the Governors office that he
would resign as registration COM
missioner, when the governor named
Ambrose Altemus, his private Sec
retary, as commissioner in his place.
Representatives w. T. Ramsey
and Harry Hepburn, of Delaware
county, will be candidates for re-
election.
Warren Van Dyke, secretary of
the Democratic State Committee, is
to be a candidate for the House in
the Carbon county district, accord
ing to a Mauch Chunk dispatch in
the Philadelphia Press yesterday.
He used to be recorder of deeds of
that county, and was chief clerk to
the county commissioners. Repre-
sentative Harry Zanders, will be a
candidate for Republican renomina-
ton and will give the genial Van an
awful fight.
-Ex-Representative Mandus w.
Reeser, of Sullivan. will be a can
didate again.
The Blair county Anti-Saloon
League has endorsed Senator p. w.
Snyder for denomination. Senator
James w. Endsley, of Somerset, will
not run again. Senator e. f. James,
of Hazleton. will not be q candidate
for the State Senate, but Ex-senator
e. B. Hardenburg, of Wayne, will
be in his. district.
Albert w. Duy, Columbia coun-
tvs first Republican district attor-
ney, is candidate for the Republic
n
Sixteenth District, which Is taken to
mean that General c. NJ. Clement
will not run. Congressman John v.
Lesher, has opposition in his own
party for denomination.
Attention among people who
have been following license courts,
will be directed this week to Allie
gheny county, where there are 1.347
applications. 1t is said that as in
Lackawanna, Luzerne, Dauphin and
other wet" counties, there will be
no new licenses granted. In Lack
awanna, about 900 licenses were al
lowed during last week, while Bea-
yer, Warren and Perry went dry"
again. Cambria had the usual num-
ber of licenses.
Allegheny county "drys" are
organizing in every district and a
complete set of dry" candidates
will be set up in the county.
H. e. Mitchell, sealer of weights
and measures in Johnstown, since
the place was created, has resigned
the place, to work for a scale com
pany.
Jonathan Mould, we'll known in
third class city affairs has been re-
elected chairman of the Reading CITY
| planning commission.
Lester II. Huber, new deputy
sheriff of Franklin, is widely known
among Pennsylvania Guardsmen. as
he served in the old Eighth Infantry
for years and rose to be a major.
State Senator Raymond e.
Smith is the only candidate thus
far in Crawford county for State
Senator. DR.. B. A. Montgomery, of
Grove City, Mercer county, will be
a candidate for the Republican NOM
ination for that office.
Mayor e. Y. Babcocl1, of Pitts
burgh, has reappointed as members
of the Civil Service Commission the
three officials who served under the
Armstrong administration, the only
change made being in the selection
of chairman. The Commission as
now constituted is: DR.. f. II. Fred
erick. chairman; Joseph F. joyce
and Homer e. Leslie. The Commits
sion at its first meeting reelected
William Ball secretary and placed
the recently-created position of as
sistant to the Director of the De-
partment of Public Safety in the ex-
empt class. This latter ruling naves
the way for the appointment of
Daniel Winters II to that nnri