Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-21
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Pe~~eqeso~ia
BY the Ex-Committeeman

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Primary elections being held
throughout Pennsylvania to-day will
be paid for by the counties instead
of the state. the act of 1915 having
relieved the state of the payment of
the cost which was imposed by the
uniform primary act of 1906. Some
OF the bills for primary elections held
prior to 1915 are still in litigation.
Under the law the primary results
Will be computed by the county
commissioners instead of by the
courts, as is done in a general cleo
| ton, and the returns will probably
not be filed as promptly as in the
November elections. The returns of
this years primary must be sent to
the Secretary of the Commonwealth
for recording. The statements of ex-
penses incurred at the primary must
be filed at the State Department not
later than June in the case of can
dldates or committees in charge of
campaigns of candidates for state
wide nominations and in county
towns of home districts where men
go before the people for district NOM
! nations.
A change made by an act of 1917
rs that the state committees are to
| meet Tor organization not later than
| the fifth Wednesday after tbs-elec-
| ton. Under the former act they had
10 meet before the third Wednesday.
| The general impression among
men who have followed the course
Oh the campaign is that the vote will
De nght, except in the cities where
there are fights over the liquor issue,
local antagonisms and efforts on the
part of either men who are in power
TO stay there or ambitious young men
VINO wish to break in. AS a general
rule the situation is ripe in many
parts of the state for some surprises
and some old leaders may topple in
counties where they have long held
sway. The action of the Governor
| IN hitching endorsement of his ad-
| mlnlstration to the O'Neil candidacy
and the state administration drive
against some legislators opened the
way to fight out things along we'll
defined lines.
The attitude of the Wares in de-
Gliding to fly against the Dauphin
county court decision in the Town
Meeting vote qualification case is
now matter of statewide concern.
The Ware dictum is that men VINO
voted Town Meeting shall not be al
lowed to vote Republican no matter
what the Dauphin court says. The
Philadelphia district attorney says
men shall be allowed to vote.
Concerning 1t the Philadelphia
Ledger says: THE Ware faction,
through the county commissioners,
Yesterday sent out challenge aff1da-
Wits to every election division in the
city. This was in defiance of the 6e-
c1sion of Judge Kunkel, of the Dau-
phin county court, who declared that
electors who registered as Republ-
| cans previous to the last election
| could vote in the Republican pri-
mary. letter, purporting to fur
nish the laws governing to-day's cleo
ton, was sent to thousands of voters,
informing them that the decision of
| the court had no connection what
ever with the qualification necessary
| to participate in the election to-day.
| When asked for instructions yester-
| day on the matter of challenging the
| county commissioners read to a judge
| of elections an option given the COM
l'missioners by their attorney, Alex
| ander Simpson, Jr., to the effect that
4 GltClOIS COulu De anu PAt-
vented from voting unless they took
| affidavit that they voted for a ma
jority of the Republicans in the party
column at the last election. This
was in direct contradiction to the
decision of the Dauphin county
court"
Alexander Simpson, Jr., is the
man who is commonly believed slat-
ed for Supreme Court appointment
and it will come along in a few days
i in opinion of men at the Capitol
There is no one mentioned much
who seems likely to get the Demo-
cratic place. Whether there will be
a fight on Simpson at the November
election depends largely on what
Happens in Philadelphia today.
Governor Brumbaugh is spend
ing the bulk of this week in Phila-
delphia in an effort to line up the
Wares for O'Neil. The Governor is
said to be much disappointed at the
refusal to give O'Nel formal en-
dorsement
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh
newspapers are filled with last card"
stories and it is very apparent that
the two cities will be the big points
i of interest.
Governor Brumbaugh and state
officials will return here tomorrow
or Thursday and 1t is expected that
the future course of the administra-
ton will soon develop.
in a dozen districts there are in
teresting battles on for Congressional
honors and not the least is the Re-
publican contest in the Seventeenth
district between Congressman B. X.
Focht and r. w. Williamson.
Chester will annex large tract
of land near the city which will be
used for housing operations.
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