Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-05


may base his selections of commits
sloners to take the votes of the sol
dlers. AS soon as the information is
In hand the commissioners will be
appointed and given instructions
and supplies. They will be paid ten
cents mile for travelling, but moth
ing else.
sioners may be named to take the
votes of soldiers in France, Russia
and other countries in the event that
the War Department finds it prac-
tlcaole for them to go. officials at
the Capitol say that it is not likely
that any will cross the seas.
This will be the third successive
year wherein the state has named
commissioners to take the votes of
Pennsylvanians in active service. In
1916 commissioners went to Camp
Stewart at Ell Paso to take the
votes of the division and last year
they went to various camps and sta
tions in this country.
Special ballots will have to be
provided for the soldiers to vote and
commissioners will have to see that
polling places are organized and
ballots made available for men from
various Congressional and Legisla-
tive districts. The pollbooks have
been printed. They are half the size
OF those used last year.
Estimates made at the Capitol
are that it will take a quarter of a
million dollars year to adjust the
salaries of men connected with the
struck by the high cost of living and
who are subsisting on salaries fixed
years ago when it did not cost much
in Harrisburg and when they were
we'll placed. The situation at the
Capitol has become very unpleasant
for many of the attaches and they
are being paid less than what men
in the building trades are earning
and quite few have left state en-
tably in the State Highway De-
partment where men on roads get
more than superintendents.
When the conditions became
acute Auditor General Charles A.
Snyder started an investigation and
it developed that increases which
could be considered ''justifiable"
would aggregate $275,000. This was
scaled down. At the same time it
was made known that If these ad-
vances Were granted by the con-
troller under existing laws or au-
thorized by legislative action that
they would be subject to review
when conditions become normal. In
some cases men were told that in
years gone by they had pleasant
berths and that it should be taken
into consideration.
Senator William c. Sproul and his
colleagues on the Republican state
ticket have abandoned all campaign
plans until the influenza situation
nf
the gubernatorial nominee and some
OF his colleagues to make only
speeches in behalf of the Liberty
loan next week, but even these have
been given up owing to the situa-
ton which has arisen because of in
fiuenza and the precautions taken by
the State Department of Health.
From all accounts the influenza
epidemic put crop in the "recep-
ton" planned for Judge Eugene c,
Bonniwell at Scranton last night
The judge toured Lackawanna coun-
ty, but between the Liberty Loan
rallies and work and the influenza
precautions he did not meet as many
people as he had planned.
Congressman B. K. Focht' s
broadside III answer to the chirp OF
Senator S. S. Leiby, who was recent
ly put on the Democratic ticket as a
stopgap IN the Seventeenth district
has set people smiling everywhere
Leiby seems to have gotten it into
his head since he has the approval
of the Democratic national chairman
that he has become a statesman
Focht has taken very effective
means of answering the ambitious
young man from Marysville, whose
speech against an investigation oi
various matters at the Capitol las
year has not been forgotten.
From all accounts the board OF
judges in Philadelphia seems to have
passed up" the Wares in the mat
ter of naming county commission
er to succeed Robrt J. Moore. II
was generally believed that the
judges would name Senator e. w
Patton, the Ware leader of West
Philadelphia, but as Moore was a
Penrose man it seemed to be the
idea that the Wares having George
! L. Holmes as commissioner should
be satisfied and that the Penrose
people should be recognized. Hence
James II. Gay, a retired carpet man.
! ufacturer and prominent business
man was chosen. The Philadelphia
Record says: "Mr. Gays appoint
ment was distinct surprise to the
politicians and, it is claimed, the
lineup of the judges in their voting
to fill the vacancy, shows conclusive
ly that the Ware brothers are not il
control of the board. Senator Ed
ward W. Patton, who enjoyed tn,
backing of the contractors, was abl,
| to muster only six of the fifteer
votes cast by the judges. Mr.. Gay re
ceived eight votes on the third ballo
and was declared the appointee
Those who were applicants for tn,
$4,000 job, besides Senator Pattol
and Mr.. Gay were Henry Scatter
good, Thomas w. Hicks and Johi
C, McAvoy.
I'VE are certifying the nomina
tions for the November election. t
the various counties to-day and i
| there are any substitutions comin
they will have to go to the counties
We cannot wait any longer. Whethe
the nominations made by substitu
ton get on the ballot will depent
upon the progress of the printing o
the ballots in the counties" sal,
George d. Thorn, deputy secretar
of the commonwealth to-day. Wor
reached the Capitol to-day tina
! some changes in nominations wer
being discussed in certain districts
but Mr.. Thorn held that the time 70
certifying has arrived and must b
obeyed.
| Warren VanDyke, secretary of tn
Democratic State Committee, sal
that no meeting of the Democrat
executive committee, had been calle
to act on the vacancies on the Dem
ocratic tickets in the Eighteenth
Congressional and Forty-first Sena
torial districts. Z,