Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-06
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Ps~~eqasania
BY the Ex-Committeeman


MIA gubernatorial arena this year and
have started to erect lightning rods
for favorite sons, although some of
them are said to reason that the
chances for a Democrat being elect
ed in the Keystone State even in the
face of a serious Republican fac
tional row must not be very good or
else Mccormick would surely be Il
candidate.
According to Philadelphia news
papers a. Mitchell Palmer, the ma
tional committeeman and other east
ern leaders, have put the stop on
any gubernatorial ambitions of Will
liam H. Berry. collector of the port
of Philadelphia, and several other
eastern men, and this morning Pitts
burgh dispatches tell of the declara-
ton of Congressman Guy l.. Camp
bell, of Pittsburgh, for Acting State
Chairman and Petroleum Admins
traitor Joseph f. Guffey, public utility
man, for Governor. At the same time
United States District Attorney E.
Lowry Humes makes noise like a
recurrence of his gubernatorial
hopes.
All of the Democrats mentioned
have long titles indicating connec-
ton with the federal payroll and it
shows pretty conclusively that the
Democratic bosses are longing for
places on Pennsylvania payrolls in
the name of patriotism or anything
else that will do to cloak personal
ambition. They promised Pennsyl-
vania If they got Wilson in 1912, but
they have never been able to deliver
Governor Brumbaugh said last
night in regards to the report that
rho
about made up their minds to declare
for local option in the state plat
form. The Republican party ought
to go much farther. 1t should de-
clare for prohibition and woman suf-
frage."
The meeting of numerous relig-
ious and anti-liquor bodies here this
week and the activity of O'Neil par
tisans among them does not appear
to be lost on men of all parties. The
effect of the meetings is being watch
ed carefully, although Democrats do
not like ii.
Sprouts announcement is
due this week and is being awaited
as the signal to start things moving.
The Wares seem to be about to
begin decapitation of members of
that committee who were for the
Town Meeting ticket. This will prob
ably speed up the proposed rem ovals
at the Capitol. The Philadelphia In
quirer says regarding this Philadel-
phia committee plan: The meeting
of the committee may also be taken
advantage of to inaugurate the plan
of Senator Ware that the members
from the several wards shall indi-
cate the preference of their constitu-
ents in the matter of the most avail
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known that a majority of the ward
leaders affiliated with the Wares are
of the opinion that Senator William
c. Sproul, of Delaware county, is
the logical candidate for the Repub-
lican nomination for Governor. The
situation may be complicated if at
the same time there is a move to in
dorse the candidacy of John r. X.
Scott, the Ware favorite, for the
Lieutenant Governorship."
Charles w. Kiser, of wilkins
burg, treasurer of one of the Pitts
burgh trust companies, is to be the
treasurer of the ]. Denny O'Neil
campaign. Mr.. Kiser has been
prominent in the Pittsburgh chapter
of the Institute of Banking and ac-
tive in civic and religious affairs in
Williamsburg and vicinity.
Commissioner O'Neil. who is
addressing the Anti-Saloon League
superintendents to-day and speak
ing at the State Society luncheon,
will go to Carlisle tomorrow to ad-
dress the businessmen of Cumber-
land county and on the following
day he will speak at the same place
TO the Cumberland road supervisors.
Saturday he will speak at Red
Lion, York county.
Attitude of Mayor a. T. Connell,
of Scranton, in the coming guber-
material campaign appears to be
arousing much comment here. Mr.
Connell was formerly aligned with
the Penrose people, but he was
named as one of the Scranton reg
istration commissioners and also as
a member of the commission on
banking laws.
An appointment of interest
from Scranton is that of Jerome K.
Barrett, well-known newspaperman,
as assistant city solicitor. He be-
gan his career on newspaper and
is still actively connected with it.
Says a special dispatch to the
Philadelphia Press from Wilkes
Barre: Republicans in this section
are practically unanimous in their
demands that the Penrose and Ware
forces bury the hatchet and get to-
gether on a State ticket. There has
not been time in many years when
the upstate party men have been
more harmonious and when the
chances for an fashioned party
vote doomed brighter if the Wares
and Penrose come to an understand
ing"
Scranton newspapers intimate
that the visit of Harry c. Huber to
see Governor Brumbaugh Thursday
was to get State administration sup
port for a fight against Congressman
John r. Farr. However, Secretary
William II. Ball said the visit was
without political significance.
james S. Beacon, former leg
! islator and state treasurer, has
shown the stuff he is made of by
responding to the call of his neigh
bors to serve on the Greensburg
| borough council. He is it's presi-
dent and works at the job.
! John Hartneady, brother of the
sheriff of Carbon, has lost his job
as night watchman in the Carbon
! jail.
Friends of oliver Burke Jr.,
SAYS the Scranton Republican, are
! making an effort to induce him to
| become a candidate for the DEM
ocRatic nomination for state legis-
| lature against Patrick H. Wynne,
who has represented the Pittston
district for the past two years. The
| district is one of the Democratic
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