Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-03
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BY the Ex-Committeeman

committee In Philadelphia to be re-
opened in September, when the cam
paign will start. The Democratic
campaign started the instant Judge
Eugene C. Bonniwell was nominated
for governor against the wishes of
the Democratic machine and there
will be two Democratic headquarters
in full swing as the windmill here is
running already and Judge Bonni-
well will form his own committee
e. ]. Fithian. the cold water candi-
date for governor, has begun his tour
| of the state by truck and the state
headquarters here is very busy is
suing trumpet calls. 1t may only be
the beginning of August but state
politics Is under way.
w. Harry Baker, secretary of
tho Republican state committee, who
was in Philadelphia yesterday, said
the headquarters of the state COM
mittee will be opened in the first
week in September and that mean
while correspondence will be carried
on with the various county chair
men relative to the perfection of the
local organizations and to sugges-
1 tons for meetings to be held when
the campaign gets we'll under way.
There will be no formal program
mapped out for meetings to be held
under auspices of the state commit
tee until September,w when an timer
ary will be arranged for the visits of
| the candidates on the state ticket
| to different localities.
Senator Sproul has accepted an
invitation to make an address at a
meeting of Western Pennsylvania
| flremen at Myersdale, Somerset
county, on Wednesday, and he is also
| booked to speak at a meeting of
poultrymen at Morton, Delaware
county, next Thursday Monday he
will be in Lancaster with Senator
Beidleman.
According to a study of the lists
| of mem bers of the various boards
having to do with the administration
| of the draft in Pennsylvania one can
| didate for Congress and seven nomi-
nees for the lower house of the Leg
islature are members of district or
local boards. In addition one Is
state factory inspector and others
are connected with the city govern
ment in Philadelphia. There is moth
ing in the law forbidding men who
are candidates from serving as mem
bSlo VI dIdlL pOdTO5, DuL IHe ulSCON-
cry that there were nine candidates
caused some comment here when it
was made this week. Milton w.
Shreve, of Erie. member of the dis
trict appeal board for the northwest
ern part of the state, is a candidate
| for Congress and by an odd coinci-
| dence, the man whom he defeated
| for the nomination, James NJ Dick
ey, was member of local board
in Erie, but resigned before the pri-
| mary. James e. Norton, candidate
for the Legislature in Reading, is q
member of one of the eastern Penn
sylvania district appeal boards, while
the following candidates for assem-
bly, are members of local boards:
DR.. H. w. Day, Westmoreland, No.
8; DR.. Charles H, Clifford, Allegheny,
No. IL; w. L. Metzenbacher, Craw-
ford county; J. T. Evans, Lancaster
| county No. q; F. A. Bell, Altoona No.
2; H. A. Fricke, Philadelphia No.
45, while s. Ephraim, appeal agent
for philadelphia No. 36, is also a
| legislative candidate.
Terms of twelve Common Pleas
judges and two Orphans Court
judges will expire early in 1920 and
from what has been heard here there
| are already numerous booms for
seats on the bench to be launched
early in the coming year. The names
of some of the judges whose terms
end with the coming year have been
heard as possible candidates for Su-
preme Court this year or in 1920
when a successor to Chief Justice ].
Hay Brown will be chosen.
The Common Pleas judges whose
terms expire with the coming year
| are: John G. Haymaker, John A.
Evans and Henry G.. Wasson. the
latter gubernatorial appointee, AL
legheny; Gustave A. Endlich and
George w. Wagner, Berks; Charles
I. Landis Lancaster; John M. Gar
| man, LuZerne; James ]. Neill, Lacka-
wanna; James I. Brownson. Wash
| ington, appointed this year; Sam
uel r. Shull, Monroe-Pike district,
appointed this wear: jeremiah N.
Keller. Perry-Juniata district ap-
pointed this year.
There will also be a successor
elected to succeed the late L. w.
Doty in Westmoreland county, where
an appointment is expected soon
The Orphans Court judges
whose terms will end early in 1920
are MacHenry Wilhelm, Schuyllsill,
and George Henderson, Philadelphia,
the latter an appointee this yeaf.
|
papers for the Supreme Court vacan-
cies to be filled in November of this
year expires in a little over five
weeks. About dozen sets of pa
pers have been taken out.
Senator William G. Sproul, the
gubernatorial nominee who passed
through here to-day on his way to
Shade Gap, where he spoke this aft
ernoon with Senator Beidleman and
Auditor General Snyder, is just home
from vacation spent at Hot
Springs. He is in prime condition
and warmly greeted friends.
-Wilkes-Barre people say that
the only way to thoroughly try out
the police graft is for the matter to
go to court. The charges being
made now are denied and explained
and then reiterated.
Congressman b. X. Focht, of
Lewisburg, opened his campaign for
reelection at the Shape Gap meet
ing to-day. He was given a notable
PERCEPTION by the people of that dis
trict.
William A. Gray, chief of coun-
sci for the defense in the Fifth ward
cases, is indignant at the newspa-
pers. He rallied at them in court yes
terday. according to the Public
Ledger, but does not seem to have
4 gotten very far.
i Word was received yesterday
/ from Senator William e. Crow,
chairman of the State Committee
who was operated upon last week
for appendicitis, and who is in the