Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-04
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BY the Ex-Committeeman

CertificaJion of the nominations for
the November election will be made
to the commissioners of the sixty
seven counties of Pennsylvania Sat
urday night by the Secretary of the
Commonwealth. Whether charges
due to Withdrawals and substitutions
are made after that date will be a
matter for counties and will depend
upon the stage of printing of the
ballots.
!, The forms of the ballot with the
state wide nominations printed have
been prepared and the congressional,
tions will be filed in. Changes have
been made almost daily lately and
word had been received that Demo-
Gratis propose to have a new candi-
date in at least one congressional
district and that the Republicans
and Democrats will file nominations
Il for senator in the Armstrong Butler
district whose representative in the
upper house died a short time ago.
i The law requires us to certify the
nominations thirty days before the
election and that time is up on Sat
urday when we will certify" said
| George D. Thorn, acting deputy Sec
retary to the Commonwealth who is
in charge of the details of cert!ti-
cations.
! The special election in the Arm
strong Butler district will make four
! such elections to be held. The
others are III Philadelphia, and Allie
| gheny counties where senators died
and in SchuyIkill where Charles A.
| Snyder resigned to become auditor
general. The men to be elected i'll
! these four districts will serve two
years each. The twenty-five sena-
! tors to be elected in other districts
will be for four year terms. In the
: event that Senator Sproul and Beid-
| leman are elected to state office on
! the Republican ticket in November
! special elections would be required
! in the Delaware and Dauphin dis
! tricts to give those counties repre-
sentation in the session of 1919.
| The Philadelphia Inquirer says
| that Senators Sproul and BeidlemLn
placed themselves ION solid ground"
! by adjourning politics until the Lib
| erty Loan is out of the way. This
is in marked contrast to the manner
in which Judge Bonniwell is troop
ing about the state. Senator Sprouts
attitude has been commended gen.
| orally.
The York fair people have in
vited Senator Sproul to visit that
80
week.
Senator Crows warning not to
take the Republican victory for
granted, but to get out and work for
| il is being supported by Republican
newspapers generally
! No one seems to know whether
! there will be any meeting of the
| Democratic state executive commit
! tee to fill vacancies tomorrow or
Monday. The state windmill is flap
ping dismally and the millers are
wondering where the grain is to
come from for this falls grinding.
Judge Bonniwell arrived IN
Scranton to-day for a reception"
to be rendered him tomorrow. The
judge is touring Lackawanna and
adjoining counties. J. Washington
Logue, his colleague in state politics
and opponent in factional politics, Is
not touring, but is staying in his
home city working for the Loan.
"A general call has been sound
ed by Republican city chairmen all
over Pennsylvania for the commit
lteemen to get the voters registered
Tomorrow and the Democrats are in
a regular state of panic because of
the fact that very few followers of
Palmer and Mccormick seem to care
anything about registering and the
! partiSanS of Bonniwell are sitting
about wondering what to do next
The truth is that with almost 3OO,-
900 men in the national service and
the average Pennsylvania interest
ed in winning the war and putting
over the Loan, there are thousands
of names not on the lists which in
istered early. The problem is to get
a majority of the voters of the state
qualified to vote next month.
Registrars will be at the polling
places at the hours designated and
unless there is rush the total num-
ber of men qualified to vote will look
sick.
Liquor interests are reported to
: have arranged to see that their peo-
pie register. 1t is up to the other
people to see that their names are
put down, say Republican leaders.
1 John D. Carr has been chosen
mayor of Uniontown to succeed j.
NJ. Bailey, who retired because of
illness.
The Forty-sixth ward of Phila-
delphia. was divided by court order
yesterday and the people will vote
on it next month. The Record
} charges that it was done to oblige
the Wares.
In the event that Senator z. W.
Patton is chosen to I'LL the vacancy
on the county commissioner board
; in Philadelphia to-day 1t will mean
, another Senatorial vacancy to fill.
Republican city chairmen in
Philadelphia, Pittsburgh. Scranton
and other cities are out with calls
to voters to register and make party
success sure.
. I'm outlining the Montgomery
Bucks Congressional contest a Nor.
ristown dispatch says:
: The last hope for a possible
, chance for the Democratic candi.
; date for Congress in the Bucks
Montgomery district went a gllmer.
: ing when Fletcher w. Sites, oil
Nsrberth; withdrew as the nominee
: of the Washington Party for sea-
in the lower House at Washington
1t was believed by the Democrats
that II Sites would stay in the race
) he might draw away from Congress.
man HanrV w Watson RonuhIi,.o IN n