Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-08


state.
To-day it is announced that Mr..
Guffey will retire as acting state
chairman when the Democratic state
committee meets, as division chair
man at the same time and as Alle-
gheny county chairman at once. john
w. Robinson will succeed him I'M
No. job.
While various maneuvers to get
harmony deal on the Republican
state ticket were under way Satur
day and yesterday nothing came of
them and indications are that the at
tacks on the Wares and the Smith
administration in Philadelphia will
be kept up. Senator Sproul spent a
few quiet days at his headquarters,
while at Pittsburgh yesterday ].
Denny O'Neil made a savage attack
on Penrose and again paid his re-
spects to the German-American al
| lance.
The Philadelphia Record says
that Amber Republicans tried to ar
range fusion with Democrats in
Montgomery county, but that over
lures were rejected.
Edwin T. Kunkle, former Demos
cratic representative from Monroe.
has upset calculations. by deciding
/ 10 run again. ne Will run uIS.
Following the announcement of
| former Congressman Warren Worth
! Bailey, of Johnstown, that he would
not be a candidate for the Demo-
cratic nomination for Congress this
year, Bernard J. Clark, of Altoona,
| former chief of police, has entered
the race. Il is understood that DR..
Americus Enfield, of Bedford, also
will be in the ring. The district is
overwhelmingly Republican although
Bailey was elected twice because of
the split Republican vote when the
Washington party was active.
Senator Penrose, Who is not
candidate in this campaign, was at
| tackled yesterday in Philadelphia
| Dulpits. The sharpest attack came
! from advocates of the dry" amend
| ment.
William Ward, Jr., former legis-
| lator and former mayor of Chester,
is out as a candidate for the Chester
| city legislative seat now held by w.
T. Ramsey, chairman of the rules
committee of the last House. Ward
| is oil a dry" platform.
Sunday newspapers have stories
| from Reading and Allentown to the
effect tnat Secretary of the Treasury
| McAdoo, is favoring Congressman
Dewalt's candidacy for another term.
]. Wilmer Fisher, Reading business
man, will be the Republican con-
| gressional candidate in the Berks-
Lehigh district.
The Altoona Tribune is indig-
nant at the fight being made against
/ Congressman John M. Rose and is
demanding that Republican leaders
get together.
/ Readings move to unite the
parties TO fight the Socialists seems
to have fallen through. James II.
Maurer, chairman of the State Old
Age Commission and state labor
leader, is a candidate for renomina-
ton on the Socialist ticket.
-Lackawanna county is lndulging
, in a real old-fashioned fight over
the county school superintendency.
1t will be settled tomorrow There
are battles on in a score of counties.
l Register of Wills. William Con-
ner a former legislator, has just
won an interesting fight in Allegheny
county, when the quarter sessions
2 judges named William l.. Callahan
D as burgess of Braddock. He fills a
q vacancy and was picked out of six
candidates. The chief candidate
against the new burgess was w. ]
tracey, DaCheO ny l.. II. I1OllZHldIl
3 long a leader in Braddock. In the
| Republican primaries of last Septem-
ber, when the late Burgess Shallen
berger was nominated, he had Mr.
= Callahan for his opponent. The con.
= test was close. When the office be.
q came vacant Mr.. Callahan became
a candidate for the appointment. Mr.
E Conner and his friends in Braddocl
s got behind him and for the last three
|, weeks the contest has been the
Z absorbing topic of conversation in
Braddock.
District Attorney George w
e Maxey, of Lackawanna, has appoint
? ed Con Morosini. Scranton, to the
. county detective force, to take the
y place which has been vacant since
! iThomas Reese resigned early II
July. Along with announcing the
I appointment of Morosini,, Mr.
$ Maxey named Phil Rinsland, wht
n has been a county detective for foul
2 years. az chief of the bureau. Rims
land will be in direct charge of tn
5 operations of the detectives. Undel
= the law. the district attorneys o.
d Lackawanna and Luzerne' countie,
: are each entitled to appoint foul
county detectives.
Bishop Joseph f. Berry. of tn,
? Methodist Episcopal Church, an
+ nounced yesterday that he intends
: to fight to a finish" to have Penn
( sylvania ratify the federal prohibi
tion amendment. He will go on th'
stump, IL necessary. to secure th'
e candidates for the Legislature whit
flavor. ratification. .--.--e ~