Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-07
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BY the Ex-C Committeeman

by the Ex-COlnmitteeman
While men who figured. in the
clash between the Republican and
Democratic parties in Pennsylvania
are exchanging compliments upon
the results and the n of con-
Quoting the campaign, nov hat it is
all over and the people of the Key
stone state are resuming their great
work or aiding materially in the
winning or the war, it is to be no.
tlced that there has been no sign
OF abatement of hostilities between
the FACTIONS of the Pennsylvania De-
mocracy. Judge Eugene C. Bonni-
well, the Democratic candidate for
governor, whose calculations on his
vote were about $4,000 out of the
way has sent congratulations to
Governor-elect William G. Sproul
and thanked his friends; and other
candidates, successful and unsuccess-
ful, have handed about pleasant
words. But the Democratic state
machine leaders are sulking under
meath the wagons which they have
been using in their flight.
The Democratic state leaders are
now getting ready for what one of
them termed "eventualities," and it
would surprise no one to see the
Bonniwell people take a leaf out of
the Book of Reorganization and call
q meeting of the Democratic State
Committee, when the returns are all
in' o the purpose of administering
discipline, always with an eye to the
control of the Pennsylvania delega-
ton to the next Democratic national
convention.
-Ther e are many compliments
being heard for Chairman William
g.. Grow and Secretary w. Harry
Baker, of the Republican State Com
mittee, who kept their heads during
one of the most trying campaigns
ever known by the Republicans of
Pennsylvania, and whose predictions, |
which some men received with
doubts, have been verified. The
comments of the Philadelphia In
quirer and other newspapers which
nave noted the unanimity of the Re-
publicans of Pennsylvania are now
being appreciated by newspapers in
other states, while the fact seems
to have made a deep impression on
the banks of the Potomac.
While some of the Republican
calculators at the State Capitol say
that the Democrats will have only
four Congressman from P~ennsylva-
MIA, Secretary Warren Van Dyke, of
the Democratic state committee,
says that they will have five. Mr..
Van Dyke says that he has no doubt
at all but that Congressman John r.
Farr has been defeated in the
Lackawanna district. Mr.. Van Dyke
said to-day that the Democrats had
elected Dewalt in the Thirteenth;
Steele in the Twenty-siXth; Lesher in
the Sixteenth; Campbell in the Thir-
t~y-second, and McLane in the Tenth.
He did not appear to be impressed
with claims about the Eleventh,
Twenty-third or Twenty eighth.
People here are commenting up
on the fact that in a number of
Democratic strongholds Logue and
Johnson ran ahead of Bonniwell. In
other places Bonniwell distanced his
colleagues. This fact will be made
much use of when the time for
reckoning up accounts by the Dem
ocratic leaders arrives.
The fall of such Democratic cita-
dels as York and Lehigh counties,
where there are Republican senators
has been received with more or less
dismay at the Democratic state
windmill and the election of a Re-
publican member in Fulton, where
Glenn Chestnut was defeated and the
Democratic grip for years and years
was broken by Sproul, is as inter
esting as the rout of the Mccormick
forces who endeavored to defeat
Field Marshal Ben Focht.
Another report interesting them
at the Capitol is the defeat Of So
cialist Representative James A.
Maurer in Reading. Maurer has
been made much of around the
Governors office the last two years,
chiefly, it is believed, because Of
his influence with labor.
General praise for the campaign
waged by A. W. Duey against Con-
gresham Lesher is heard here. Duey
made a splendid fight and upset
Democratic precedents and calcula-
tons in Columbia county and II
Northumberland had done as well
would have won. S. S. Riddle, of the
Department of Labor and Industry,
a Columbia countian, was a factor
in organizing Duey's strenuous bat
tie line.
Appointment of a municipal
court Judge to succeed the late Judge
Bernard Gilpin is expected to be
made very soon by Governor Martin
G. Brumbaugh and there Is much
speculation as to how strong Repub-
lican leaders are with the Governor.
The McNichol and Walsh booms are
very strong.
1t is not expected that the Gov
ernor will appoint Representative d.
]. Snyder as judge in Westmoreland
until after his term as a legislator
ends the first Monday of next month.
Although there has been mich
camoufage at the Governors office
there has been little doubt aboutSny-
der's appointment.
From all accounts Walter Nc
Nichols, the new Acting Commits
sioner of Labor and Industry, is go
ing to maintain a very even keel.
McNichols is somewhat noted for
having a level head and it is believed
that he will keep things much as
they are, although pressure to make
some half-past the eleventh hour APP
pointments may be expected.
If other commissioners have the
same experience as the man named
to go clear to Salt Lake to take the
votes of twenty-eight soldiers the
state will have some fine expense
bills, but few votes to show for the
appointments announced so lavishly
last week.