Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-14
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By the Ex- Committeeman

supreme Court were very much in
evidence among the members of the
Democrats state committee and the
county leaders gathered here from
various sections of the state for to-
days meeting of the bellicose body
with indications that the heralds Of
another would be present before the
sun sets. Two Democrats have ell
tered their nomination papers for the
| campaign and the signatures for two
others are being assembled in a
score or more of counties.
A. V. Dively, Demdcratic state
committeeman from Blair county,
! was here exhibiting his own boom
which was formally launched a few
! days ago, while James Fox, of Eas-
| ton. brother of Justice E. ]. Fox,
who has also filed papers, was circu-
| lating with much vigor among the
| Democrats and doing his best to keep
| the boom out of the factional row.
Friends of Charles B. Lenahan, who
mas been in many counties. were
here telling how acceptable he would
be to every one, while some of the
Bonniwell men were passing out the
word that Henry Budds papers
would be filed very soon.
The only Republican to file papers
Is Justice Alexander Simpson, Jr.,
but the Kephart papers are said to
be in the ofllng.
To-day's meeting of the Demo-
cratic state committee is one of the
big things of national politics just
now. The course of National Commit
teeman a. Mitchell Palmer in repudi-
ating the nominee of his party for
Governor of Pennsylvania at direct
primary and the approval and ap-
plause given him by the Democratic
national chairman are such unheard
of proceedings that men all over the
country are watching the develop
ments in Harrisburg to-day.
Some people here profess to see
new phase of presidential interfer-
ence in party affairs. Heretofore the
President as the leader of the party
has taken a hand in primaries, but
If he is at the back of the two bosses
1t will be the first tine that the pow
er and prestige of the chief magis-
trate has been thrown against a
man who holds the certificate of
nomination by the Democratic voters
of state in a direct primary, where
in the candidate defeated was the
pet of federal jobholders.
The upshot of the matter will
probably be that the Democratic
state organization will conduct a
campaign for decapitated state
ticket, while the nominee for Gov
ernor will run his own show. Such
an anomalous condition would be the
logical result of the management of
the Democratic party in Pennsylva-
mia in the last seven years.
There are bets being made at
the CAnifnl that pnnnSxy1x-o ~ 1ryi1I
not send any commissioners to take
the votes of the Keystone state SOL
dlers in France, but that steps are
being taken to salve the feelings
OF those who looked for exciting
overseas trips by nice assignments to
camps in the United States. For
some time it has been the opinion,
outside of the Governors office, that
the taking of votes would be con-
fined to camps and cantonments such
as was the case last November.
There will probably be fifty camps,
posts, forts, stations and similar
places, including colleges and schools
where men are getting special train
ing, to which commissioners will be
sent at ten cents per mile. Originally
the act provided that there should
be one man for each regiment, but
this was disregarded in assigning
men to go to the Mexican border so
that it has precedent. The chances
| are that the commissioners will be
| named on a nominal basis of one to
each 1000 men and as there may
( be posts with less than 100 men the
| chances are good for several hun
dred men being selected to take
! trips. The books and statutes and
rulings on the subject are being
| printed and when all the nomination
papers are in and the various with
drawals and substitutions are accom-.
! plished the special tickets will be
made ready. Compared to last year
things will be simple. The state bal
lot will be the same and will have
| some nine spaces while there will be
congressional and legislative NOM
inees together with the nonpartisan
| blocks.
| Senator William C. Sproul and
Senator Edward Z. Beidleman, Re-
| publican state ticket leaders, who
are to speak in Doylestown to-day,
in Montgomery county Tuesday and
then go to Pittsburgh for the last
two days of the week, may visit Har-
risburg and vicinity late this month
or early in October. No definite
|
lican leaders have been so impor-
tuned for their presence that a series
of meetings may be arranged. If the
meeting can be planned it will be
| for a Saturday so that the people of
the farming and industrial districts
will have opportunity to hear the
two candidates. Owing to Senator
Sprouts extended legislative service
and his successful business and
| farming enterprises near here he
has many admirers and Harrisburg
is making bids for a place some-
where up near the start of the cam
paign instead of coming along at
the end.
| Congressman Aaron S. Kreider
will speak here with the state candi-
! dates. His own campaign is in eX-
| Washington seems to be meeting
such general approval that there
are doubts EXPRESSED whether his
Democratic rival, H. II. Mercer, of
| Cumberland, will get anywhere at
home. Dauphin and Lebanon will
go heavily for Kreider Mention of
the name of Frank A. Smith as can
didate for Senator to succeed Mr..
Beidleman when he becomes Lieu
tenant Governor. has been favorably
received all over the county.
The compilation of the regis
tration of Dauphin county voters
outside of the city shows that 2O,-
| 151 have been enrolled this year, OF
/ which 12,765 are Republicans, a
remarkable showing when it is con-
sidered how many young men have
oana m war The lack of Dan, tio