Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-02
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By the E1-Committeeman

| I'OuShSS upOIl lHe SldIe TO present TO
the Democracy of Pennsylvania with
the blessing of the President will be
held in Philadelphia the latter part
of the week. 1t will not be a great
state meeting with men from every
county. such as was held some weeks
ago and which resulted in a split on
the prohibition amendment, but a
nice, cosy meeting of the bosses. In
other words, the clique which
framed the slate for 1914 on the
banks of the Potomac will meet at
the confluence of the Delaware and
Schuylkill for appearances sake, but
it will be the inside ring of the Key
stone State Democracy with all of
the power of the national admins
tration behind it.
Indications are that Acting State
Chairman Joseph F. Guffey, who is
head of some big Pittsburgh public
utilities and who is reputed to have
made a lot of money out of Okla
homa oil lands. will be slated for
Governor; Robert S. Bright, repre-
sentative of the Philadelphia high
brow reorganization element, for
Lieutenant Governor, and Asher r.
Johnson, of Mexican county, for
Secretary of Internal Affairs. In
Difference to National Chairman
Vance c. Mccormick, who is still
being urged to be a sacrifice for Gov
ernor himself, Guffey will declare
dry"
Plans to slate ex-Congressman
John j. Casey, of Wilkes-Barre, for
Congress-at-Large, are said to be op-
posed. The field is now being
scanned for men with "wads" to be
candidates.
Highway Commissioner O'Neil
! came back to the Capitol to-day aft
er vigorous Monday in Allegheny
and Washington counties wherein he
assailed Senator Sprouts sincerity in
declaring for the dry" amendment,
position which seems TO be favor
ite one not only with the commits
sioner but with state administration
officials. The commissioner address,
ed the Protestant Ministers Associa-
ton in Pittsburgh and made a sharp
assault upon his rival, especially his
recognition of the preponderance of
sentiment for the amendment. Later.
in the day he addressed people in
Washington county, closing with a
meeting in the county seat last night.
An intimation that Mr.. O'Neil
will issue platform is given in a
letter he wrote to Miss Anna Penny
packer, daughter of the former Gov
ernor, in which he says he will make
plain his favor for women suffrage
in his platform.
-ACCordino IN AI1antowp4 naopIa
the national administration folks are
diSpleaSed at the way attacks have
been made upon Congressman De-
walt and may withdraw w. NJ. Croll
as a candidate. Croll is the candidate
of Palmer and his pals and his cam
paign has been much like that waged
to satisfy grudges against Congress
man II. j. Steele.
William Finn went home sick
from his visit to Camp Meade. He
was to have met O'Neil and others in
Pittsburgh yesterday, but was too i'll
to see them.
The Philadelphia Record says
that the Town Meeting people and
the Philadelphia Independents have
decided to endorse the Republican
candidates favored by Senator Pen
rose and that they propose to push
the war on the Wares as vigorously
as possible. Senator Ware declared
last night in an interview in the Phil
adelphia Bulletin that the attack on
vice conditions in Philadelphia was
inspired by politics.
The fight between John Reber
and Representative c. M. Palmer for
Republican Senatorial honors in
Schuylkill is attracting as much at
tention in the state at large as the
Boyd Amber battle in Montgomery.
Prof w. S. Phillips, of Scranton,
who is a candidate for Republican
Senatorial honors in Lackawanna, is
a Lafayette graduate and last fall
managed Mayor A. T. Connell's cam
paign for Governor.
-EX-Governor Edwin S. Stuart
will make the speech for Senator
William c. Sproul at the dinner of
the home folks to the Chester Sen
ator Thursday. 1t is said by Sproul
men that if Mcclure, the leader of
the liquor men, shows resentment it
will be the end of his leadership,
says the Public Ledger.
The fact that w. H. Burd and
H. A. Englehart, of Cambria county,
who were active in the campaign for
! Superior Court Judge John w. KEEP
hart are busy at Sproul headquarters,
is taken to mean that about 1922 the
judge will be very much of candi-
date for Governor.
Col. p. C. Boyle, of the State
Board of Public Charities, is out for
Sproul fora Governor.
| -Swissvale voted yesterday against
annexation to Pittsburgh.
DIR. M. S. Bennett, Philadelphia
legislator, may become chief of
housing of Philadelphia. He is a
! Ware man.
|
In commenting upon the fact
that Mccormick. Wilson and Palmer
all refuse to enter the Democratic
race for governorship honors, the
Altoona Tribune, says: "At all
events, the president trusts all three
and they are equally devoted to him
and, as we believe to the welfare of
the country. Their decision, how
ever, will be a sad disappointment to
many members of the Democratic
party, for it foreshadows Republi-
can victory in November, unless the
Republican party should play the
fool"
At the annual meeting of the Ly-
coming county Democratic Standing
committee, which took place in the
courthouse at Williamsport. G. Ed
mund Gilmore was reelected county
chairman and Jewett Shirm was re-
elected secretary. The following
executive committee was appointed:
C. Edmund Gilmore, George B.
Wolfe, j. Fred Katzmaier, Andrew
c. Davis and DIR. ]. E. Shaffer.
Representative Guy, e. Camp
bell, Democrat, of the Thirty-second
L.