Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-08
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By the Ex-Comnrftteeman


there will be no endorsement given
10 any candidates for the Republican
nomination for governor until after
the primary is held. Similar posi-
tlons have been taken by Allegheny,
Lackawanna and other county Re-
publican organizations.
This position is taken to mean
that the Wares are going to be busy at
home and that they do not care in
the face of a drive by the Town
Meeting people, the reformers and
the independents to be at odds with
any OF the big ward leaders. although
1T is said that Congressman Ware
would like to endorse O'Neil for the
sake of the Governor and Attorney
General Brown.
The North Am erican says to-
day: Endorsement of candidates
| Tor governor, lieutenant governor,
secretary of Internal affairs and con-
gressmen-at-large by the Republican
city committee, controlled by the
Wares, the subject of much discussion
by Senator Ware during the earlier
part of the primary campaign, will
not be given, according to an intima-
ton yesterday of Congressman
Ware. When asked whether a meet
ing of the city committee and mu.
nictpal officials is to be held before
the primaries to determine to whom
the Ware support for governor and
other state offices will go, Congress-
man Ware said: L take the same
position on such a matter as the
chairman of the Republican national
committee. The city committee does
not indorse candidates to be voted
on at primary. l have never talked
about the matter
Senator Penrose declared the in
dorsement of candidates by the city
committee to be highly Irregular
Neither the city committee nor the
state committee ought to be called
upon to indorse candidates of any
kind said Senator Penrose.'
Both Senator Sproul and Com
missioner O'Neil campaigned yester-
day in rural counties. The Senator
was west of the mountains and the
Commissioner in Chester county. Mr..
Sproul will be in Blair county to-
morrow for a big tour of the county
and Mr.. O'Neil will be in Northum-
berland. Joseph F. Guffey went into
York and Lancaster to line up the
machine Democrats, having started
his campaign tour here. Guffey is
very confident that he will trim"
Judge Bonniwell and the judge is
busy building fences in an effort to
head him off.
One of the interesting things
about the campaign yesterday was
that Mr.. O'Neil declared that Senator
Sproul should remain in the Senate
and not run for Governor. After clos
ing his Chester tour he said: Sen
ator Sprouts neighbors take a view
of his recent declaration for pro-
hibition which appeals to me as quite
logical and sensible. 1t was pointed
out to me yesterday that by remain
ing in the Senate, Senator Sproul
can be of real value to prohibition
through his vote, but should he re-
sign his Senate seat the choice of his
successor would be vested not in the
Republican voters of Delaware coun-
ty, but in the political committee
controlled by the Mcclure liquor
ring"
Senator Sproul has declined to
take any personal slants in his
speeches.
Governor Brumbaugh has told
friends that he is very we'll pleased
with prospects for O'Neil as a result
of the tour which the Governor and
the campaign party made in the an
thracite region.
Senator Penrose yesterday took
fling at the Ware proposition to
nave The FnllduSlpIlld CITY COiIlInlL-
tee and city hall officeholders decide
whom the city organization would
support. Appearance yesterday or
placards and posters in the Ware
political clubs of Philadelphia Nine
teenth and Twentieth wards of SEN
ator William c. Sproul for the Re-
publican nomination for Governor,
and activity of Ware workers in the
Forty-siXth and other West Phila-
delphia wards for Sproul, indicated
that, while Congressman John r. K.
Scott is touring the state with High
way Commissioner ]. Denny O'Neil,
the combined Ware forces in this
city are not by any means turning in
for the choice of Governor Brum-
baugh.
The announcement by the Pitts
burgh Gazette-Times that Mr.. O'Neil
has declined to make positive
statement as to what he will do if
defeated in the Republican primary
appears to have taken the edge off
the declaration of William A. Ma
gee for the highway commissioner.
While Magee and the highway COM
missioner have been at swords points
ever since the last Pittsburgh may
orally election a declaration by Ma
gee was not unexpected. 1t attracted
more attention by its assertion that
while Magee did not approve of the
O'Neil position on the liquor question
he found other grounds on which he
could support him. Support of O'Neil
by Scott and Magee forces is one of
the things which puzzles many peo-
pie not used to Pennsylvania fac
tional politics. Speaking at Pitts
burgh yesterday Councilman w. Y.
English made this statement:
"Brumbaugh is an honored man to-
day because he would not listen to
the orders of Penrose, and O'Neil will
go along in the same path il elect
ed"
Claims are made by Pottsville
Republicans that Sproul will carry
that county.
If the farmers of the Juniata
Valley do much voting on May 81
it will be a surprise. Every farmer
appears to be extremely busy and
even women are working in the fields.
From the way they talk the polling
boxes will have to be brought around
for them.
-Luzerne county's latest muss is
ended. 1t is now held that the
council of Swoyersville was legally
elected.
Addressing a patriotic meeting
in Pittsburgh, William s. Bigger,
candidate for the Republican nomi-
nation for Congress in the Twenty
ninth Congressional district, threw
new light on the record of his oppon-
ent, Congressman Stephen q. Porter.
The Gazette-Times says he showed
that since the United States entered
the war Mr.. Porter had been absent
from the House on 100 roIIcalIs hud