Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-12
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BY the Ex-C Committeeman
Plans for the Republican state
candidates to start their campaign
work next week have been material
ly affected by the influenza outbreak
and the State Health Departments
order against meetings of any kind
and the indications are that the
of the Liberty Loan may not begin
before October 81. Democratic state
committee officers say that nothing
will be done, for a week at least on
their side.
1t had been intended to have the
Republican state candidates speak
in the central and western counties.
among the places listed being the
Gratz fair in this county, but ac-
cording to word received here to-day
everything has been cancelled. New
arrangements will be made next
week.
! Democratic state headquarters
men say that beyond tentative plans
for the meeting of the executive
committee to fill vacancies, nothing
has been arranged.
According to western newspapers.
! DR.. E. ]. Fithian, the Prohibition
candidate for Governor, is making
tours in Somerset and other coun-
ties.
The fact that New Jersey state
authorities have started to mail bal
lots to 12O,O New Jersey soldiers
in camps and cantonments and over
seas does not affect the situation in
regard to the ballots for Pennsylva-
mia soldiers because the two states
have very different laws relative to
taking the votes of citizens in mill
tary service say officials here. I'm
der the Pennsylvania law the men
must vote on one day and cannot
be given the ballots except at that
time. The New Jersey law permits
ballots to be mailed. Governor
Brumbaugh has not given any signs |
as TO when he will name the COM
missioners to take the Pennsylvania |
soldiers vote, but it is believed it |
will not be long delayed. The spe-
cial ballots are being printed and |
supplies assembled.
-Four members of the State Com |
mission of Agriculture spent several |
hours here on Thursday in an ef- |
fort to find out what was in store |
for the commission and along what !
lines the prospective reorganization |
of the Department of Agriculture to |
put it on more efficient basis would |
be worked out. Members of the |
commission had an idea that they |
were to have an active part in the |
administration of the department, |
but they were speedily enlightened f!
and the commission in the long run |
has exercised little authority. The |
agricultural board had a talk with |
the Governor about what he had in |
mind and then went to the depart |
ment where estimates of what it |
will cost to run the department were |
solemnly gone over, although the |
next General Assembly will deter |
mine what sums shall be voted.
Governor Brumbaugh is not ex-
pected to name any one to perma-
nently fill the place of Fire Mar |
shall G. Chal Port, one of the most |
popular men on the Hill, but will |
likely designate Chief Assistant |
Charles d. Wolfe to act.
Gossip is already being heard |
here about changes on Capitol Hill |
when the Sproul administration
comes in. William I. Shaffer is gen.
orally believed to be the man in line (
for Attorney General and DIR. Will
mer Krusen, of Philadelphia, for
Commissioner of Health. DIR. Krusen
is said to have been offered the |
health commissionership some time
ago, but was not readyto take it. The
belief among men we'll posted in
politics is that Acting Health Com
missioner B. F. Roger, Insurance
Commissioner Charles A. Amber,
Superintendent of Printing D. z.
Long and Secretary of Agriculture
Charles E. Patton will be among
the first to be replaced
According to the Philadelphia |
Record. Philadelphia City Councils |
may take a hand in the recreation |
board fuss and demand that the |
Mayor submit the names of recrea- !
ton chiefs.
Women are now replacing men |
as members of health boards in some |
of the smaller towns, especially in |
Eastern Pennsylvania.
-Concerningregistr the Phil |
adelphia Bulletin says: "In consider
alton of the fact that political cam |
paign activity in Philadelphia has |
been wholly suspended, and that the |
war and the influenza overshadow |
everything else in the public mind, |
the registration of more than 240,- |
900 voters for the November election |
is not small as compared with the !
275,000 in the campaign of last |
autumn. 1t is particularly to be borne |
in mind that not fewer than about |
sixty thousand men from Philadel- |
phia have gone into the Army and |
the Navy, and that the decline of |
thirty-four thousand in the electoral |
lists would thus be readily account |
ed for. In view of the adverse cir |
cumstances it is a matter of wonder |
that the registration did not turn out |
to be much less than what it is"
Writing in the Philadelphia In |
quirer, George j. Brennan gives tris |
interesting bit of political history:
Congressman w. w. Griest a few |
days ago called Senator Sprouts at |
tention to an article in the Columbia |
Spy, of Colum bia, Lancaster coun- |
Senator ]. Donald Cameron renounc- !
ed his voting residence in Harris |
burg and enrolled as a voter in the |
Maytown district in East Donegal |
township. Lancaster county. AL !
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