Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-06

rapidly h next President is going
to be a Republican.
Pennsylvania will not only have
n of the most experienced legis-
lators and businessmen of the state
to be Governor the next four years,
but have experienced men, men who
knows its interests, in responsible
places in Harrisburg and Washing
ton.
Senator Sprouts election seems
to have been as decisive as his vic
tory at the primary. The Republicans
had the usual scare over the result
and there were panic conditions last
Saturday. The results have demon
strated that there was much to that
assertion of the Philadelphia Press
hat Judge Eugene c. Bonniwell and
the politicians and liquor men who
backed him are experienced
boasters." while the remark of the
Pittsburgh Gazette-Times, in the
other end of the state. that the
people of Pennsylvania will vote with
a of the responsibility of their
ballots this year seems to have
summed it up.
The Republican state organiza-
ton has again demonstrated its
thoroughness and it's power. State
Chairman William L. Crow and
Secretary W. Harry Baker have
made good on everything they prom
Used. In spite of the fact hat there
was no campaign and that the DEM
ocratic candidate "gumshoed' the
state and interests that know nc
party were noisy in his behalf and
E1IaA Tho mir With thrnafC tho Pc
publican ticket has gone through as
predicted.
The plight of Democratic Ma
tional Chairman Vance c. McCor-
mick is something that will attract
attention all over the land. Every
thing and every man he opposed
won out, except Judge Bonniwell,
who was repudiated by the Palmer
Mccormick controlled state COM
mittee after being named at a direct
primary. Mccormick supported the
Prohibition candidate, who was a
sideshow and got the usual consider
ton. He fought Sproul, Beidleman
and other winners; he demanded
more Democratic congressman from
Pennsylvania and he got fewer. He
insisted on debating the legislative
representatives in his own county
and the result was as significantly
against him as what happened to
him at home when he was a candi-
date for governor four years ago.
There is little doubt but what
the Bonniwell forces will demand
an accounting and that the state
will be edited by a continuation OF
the fight over control or the works
of the Democratic machine so that
one faction or the other shall boss
the delegation to the next Demo-
cratic national convention.
According to men aligned with
the Bonniwell faction of the Demo-
cratic State Committee they are not
going to be long about ''starting
something" Open defiance OF the
verdict of a popular primary in re-
gard to the ~gubernatorial nomination
would be enough under ordinary cir
cumstances to hale leaders before
the state committee, but when with
all the federal patronage at their
disposal and federalS officeholders
called upon for contributions the
facts that the state machine leaders
actually lose Democratic Congress
men when the President expressly
asked more and that the Democratic
| organization is in shreds will be used
to the limit. Mccormick and his
group got into power on less. They
made much noise about it, but when
it comes down to making a racket
| the Bonniwell crowd has Mccormick
and the windmill crew breaten by
many miles per hour.
rpnu~aggt,a N d L ETaahf Whn
was a target for McCormick's news
papers second only to Bonniwell at
certain stages of the campaign, said
/ this morning that he was thankful
for his majority, of course, but
thankful hat the people of the Sew
enteenth district were next to Nc
Cormick."
The opposition to the road loan
was dazed early this morning by the
figures which showed the way people
were thinking about that issue. The
political junkers of the State Grange
and the Mccormick clique did not
understand that, either.
Judge S. j. NJ. McCarrell, of the
Dauphin county courts, the %preceptor
in the law of Lieutenant Governor
elect Edward L. Beidleman, said to-
udN L dHl pLOuu VI bGluleHldn.
Beidleman succeeded in time to
Judge McCarrelrs seat in the Senate
and to the presidency pro tenn. which
the Judge had held. Both have felt
the lash of Vance c. Mccormick. But
the people have elected them every
time.
Writing for yesterdays Phila-
/ HaInhfa Tnnnirar ahnnf Hba nI-.As--
George J.. Brennan made this inter-
esting comment: In the contest
which will decide to-day William c.
Sproul has the backing of the lead
ers of both Republican factions in
Philadelphia, with the Penrose CO.
horts vieing with the Ware bench
men to roll up the biggest possible
majorities in their respective wards.
In Allegheny county, Pittsburgh's
Mayor, E. V. Babcock, and his entir
administration forces, are heartily in
line for the whole ticket and former
Senator George T. Oliver and former
Mayor William A. Magee, Jr., of rival
interests in the past, are together in
this contest. In fact, every organized
element in the party is for Sproul. j.
Denny O'Neil, who was the favorite
of some churehmen and radical dry
workers at the primaries, has been
on the stump for Sproul and Roose-
welt shouters and Taft conservatives
throughout the state are all whoop-
ing it up for SprGul and the whole
ticket. AS to the United Democracy
always essentia, for the success of a
minority party nominee, there has
been no such thing in the woods in
this campaign
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