Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-08
BY the Ex-Committecman

phia Public Ledger to-day quotes
the Senator as saying that the state
ment is coming. The Ledger says
L will make statement in a few
days., said Senator Sproul at hi
Chester home last night. In it
will give my views on prohibition
Beyond that 1 do not desire to b,
quoted at the present time Poll
ticians close to the Delaware count!
senator say that his failure to com
NIT himself on prohibition thus fal
has been due to the fact that he il
eXerting every effort to bring
number of powerful political friends
to his view on the question. They
point out that his Quaker ancestry
his connection with Swarthmore Col.
| lege, a Friends institution; his opin.
ions on liquor as large employer OF
labor and his known private prefer.
| ences naturally would align him with
the supporters of ratification"
The Philadelphia Inquirer to-
| day says a general meeting of the
| Republican county committee of
Chester county will be held in West
| Chester Saturday, at which State
| Senator William c. Sproul will make
| his first appearance before a Chester
county audience since the informal
governor. County Chairman Mac
Donald has been active for the past
few weeks in arranging for the meet
ing and anticipates a large attend
ance. Others prominent in Republi-
can circles of the county, who have
given assurance of their attendance,
are Captain S. A. Whitaker, of
Phoenixville, now stationed at Camp
Hancock; Congressman T. S. Butler,
and State Senator T. L. Eyre. A
number of prominent Republicans
from Delaware county are expected
to accompany Senator Sproul.
Highway Commissioner O'Neil
will spend to-day and tonight in
Johnstown where he will be the chief
speaker at meeting of men of all
churches, an occasion which will
start a drive for the dry" amend
ment in that county. Tomorrow the
Commissioner will be in Pittsburgh
and he will speak at several places
on Sunday and Monday, church
meetings having been arranged. Il
am very we'll satisfied with the out
look" said he last night.
r. P. Habgood has gone home TO
Mexican county well satisfied with
the prospects for his campaign as a
harmony" candidats. He spent
some time in Philadelphia and talk
ed things over with number of
friends. Representative A. A. Wei
mer is in Philadelphia on the same
mission.
Philadelphia newspapers to-day
sharply attacked the manner in
which the Ware majority in Coun-
ellis passed legislation yesterday after
reversing the chair on rules. The
Press says that the object of some
bills is to rip out Penrose men,"
The Bulletin editorially attacks the
conduct of the police in the Nobre
case, while the North American re-
news attacks on the Smith admins
tration.
The declaration of the Altoona
Tribune in favor of a return to the
old state convention is interesting.
Some of the men now noisy in poll
tics were among those who took
pleasure in proclaiming in Harris
burg hotel corridors in 1912 that the
days of conventions were over and
if some recollections are correct
they also took cracks at the Repub-
lican party's days.
Reports current in political
circles, says the Scranton Repub-
lican, are to the effect that Mayor
Alex T. Connell will submit his res
ignation as registration commission
er to Governor Martin G. Brum-
baugh this week, and that the Gov
ernor will follow it up Immediately
by naming D. Phil Williams to sue
ceed tue Mayor. Some weeks ago
when the battle for the place was
hot Williams loomed up as strong
contender. Mayor Connelrs choice
for the place has been Ambrose AL
temus, who is now his private Sec
retary.
Erie newspapers say that Con-
gresham Henry A. Clark may be
opposed for Republican renomina-
tion by Milton w. Shreve, former
Congressman, while c. N. Crosby, of
Meadville, may attempt to gain the
honor for Crawford county.
-Johnstown Council has added
to the cosmopolitan character of
it's police force by naming a native
Serbian as an officer
United States Marshall James S.
Magee, of New Bloomfield and
Scranton, will retain his present
force, having received his new COM
mission.
Harry G. Huber president of
| the Scranton Chamber of Commerce.
is a candidate for Congress against
| Congressman John r. Farr in plat
form half a column long. Albert
| Davis, former member, is can
| didate for the Republican senatorial
nomination.
Newspapers tell of a move on
to unite the two Stroudsburgs, which
would make a fair city, and also
| to add !, 200 people to Lebanon. A
greater Greensburg and big increase
| in Erie are also likely.
Congressman Fl. w. Temple, of
the Washington-Be Beaver-Lawrence
district, is circulating papers for re-
nomination and will have little op-
position.
| Congressman L. T. McFadden,
of the Bradford county district, has
taken some practical steps to secure
raising of more foodstuffs. He has
named county committee to take
charge of the work.
"A Bellefonte dispatch says:
Though Representative Harry B.
Scott, of Philipsburg, has as yet
made no formal announcement of
his candidacy for a third term in the
State Assembly, he has made a pub
lie announcement of his position in
favor. of the National Prohibition
Amendment and it. is expected that
he will be a Republican candidate
at the May primaries to succeed him.
self Thus far there have been no
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