Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-15
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attracted national attention and is
taken to mean that the Keystone
state is not going to have any close
contest this year. The divisions in
the Democratic party, so recently
reorganized and harmonized, have
assumed a serious stage and with the
Republicans united there is small
doubt of a big majority for Sproul
and the whole ticket together with
the election of large number of Re-
publican congressman and legisla-
tors.
The appearance of ]. Denny O'Neil
and his speech pledging support to
the ticket ends any chance of any
third ticket. While the state ad-
ministration, except for ONeil, was
conspicuous by absence, this it not
taken to mean anything except some
personal feeling which will soon
pass away. Mr.. O'Neil was well re-
ceived as was John r. K. Scott.
Things are now in shape to have
the platform drafted and early in the
fall the state campaign will be open
ed. The reelection of w. Harry
Baker as secretary of the state COM
mittee.-has been q matter of state
wide commendation and an energetic
campaign will now be waged.
The Bonniwell faction of the
state Democracy is not taking the de-
fiance of it's attempt to get control
of the Democratic machine with any
degree of equanimity. The Bonni-
we'll people are going to have a big
meeting of Representative" Demo-
Gratis in Philadelphia to-day. This
meeting will supplement the Pitts
burgh conference and is designed to
get some authority for a demand
that the reorganizers submit to re-
organization.
Leaders of the Palmer McCor-
mick faction, who met in Philadel-
phia day or so ago, have sent word
to the Bonniwell people that the
Judge as nominee for governor is
just one man and that he may name
the state chairman and nothing else.
The judge holds that his nominal
ton indicates a lack of confidence
in the present rulers of the party and
that they should take a long voyage
and not be in a hurry about re-
turning.
line WnOle row IS over the con-
troll of the offices of the state COM
mittee and the writing of the plat
form.
The gloom was very dense about
about the Democratic state head
quarters to-day because of the
chances of a bitter fight here next
Wednesday and owing to the har-
mony which was so noticeable about
the state committee meeting of the
Republicans yesterday.
Rooms in Harrisburg hotels
went to a premium to-day because
of the requests for reservations which
poured in from Democrats who are
coming here to attend the meeting of
the state committee. Most of the re-
servations began with Tuesday and
it is evident that there will be a
gathering of Democrats here such as
has not been seen since the old state
convention days. The closing of the
Commonwealth Hotel and the fact
that the new Penn Harris is not yet
complete has reduced the hotel ca
pacity in this city materially.
The meeting of the Democratic
state committee will be in the old
Board of Trade hall, where the re-
organization faction, which is now
niwell people for control, won its
victories in 1911.
Time for filing expense accounts
of campaign committees which han
died funds for candidates will eX-
pire next Thursday according to peo-
Pile at the Capitol and most of the
big accounts are to come in. The
O'Neil committee is the only one of
any size to file as yet. A number of
small committees, county organiZa-
tons and similar bodies have entered
their accounts, among them Carbon,
Susquehanna, Columbia, Huntingdon
and others.
-Certifcation of the men elected
to the Democratic state committee
which will meet here Wednesday for
reorganization has been completed at
the State Department. Fifty-four of
the members, or about half were re-
elected.
Notwithstanding that G. Frank
Brumm, of Minersville, obtained the
Washington party nomination for
Congress, in this, the Twelfth district,
he desires the nomination upon the
Republican ticket says a Pottsville
dispatch. He hopes to get that by
a contest in the courts. He has filed
ballotboxes of eight of the 166 dis
tricts in the county impounded to
have them reopened and to have the
ballots recounted in the presence of
the court. He was defeated by a.
vote of 397 at the primaries by John
Reber, of this city, for the Repub-
lican nomination.
The biennial dissatisfaction with
the nonpartisan primary law and the
system which does not expedite pri-
mary election official returns is be-
ing heard at the Capitol. 1t is be-
lieved that it will be reflected in
some bills next winter. Governor
Brumbaugh started out to reform
the election laws, especially those
relative to the primaries and asked
judges for their suggestions. Some
wrote long articles on the subject
and some terse suggestions, while
the late Judge C. N. Brumm brought
wire hallotboX to the Governors
office as means of preventing
fraud. But the Governor got busy
on something else.
The Scranton Republican says:
"As a result of the primary elections
held in this state last week there is
Generalization among the Demo-
Gratis of Pennsylvania. State, county
and city leaders in the party were
dazed by the rejection of Mr.. Guffey,
the gubernatorial candidate put for
ward by A. Mitchell Palmer and
Vance Mccormick, and the decisive
victory of JudRa Ronniwell of phil