Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-17
Poet;ce L.
Pe~~o4eSania
By the Ex- Committeeman

j A question which will probably
affect every city in the State at the
coming primary and which has an
added significance because of the re-
! peal of the nonpartisan act as ap-
piled to mayoralty and councilmanlc
! elections in third-class cities has
arisen in Philadelphia over what
constitutes personal registration
| The Ware element undertook TO get
names of thousands of men regis
tered as soon as the newly-appointed
board could get down to business
and the question promptly assumed
proportions that became SURPRISING
Representative Leopolu Ilass'
counsel for the Republican city COM
mittee, contended that properly
signed request with such legal at
testations as are required constituted
enough to register man, Ihe
opposition Immediately set up the
claim that actual personal appear
ance was needed to get men regis
tered.
There are lively times ahead for
the new registration mmlSSlonerS
in Philadelphia. and the contending
forces are starting right out to make
things interesting.
judicial aspirants in many sec
tions of the State have opened the
battles for places on the bench and
the nonpartisan act Will give some
new displays In nWestmoreland coun-
ty Orphans Court Judge c. d. Cope
land, who sought to be named judge
of common pleas when Governor
Brumbaugh named Judge d. j.
SNYDER, has filed papers as has
Judge Snyder. George Plummer
Baker, former legislator, has filed
papers for Orphans Court judge IN
Washington, and Representative VIII
liam Davis has up lightning fou
in Cambria for Orphans Court. The
Allegheny judges are hoping to get
by with only one contest, that made
by James B. Drew. The Philadel-
phia people have not commenced to
file papers as yet.
George j. Brennan, writing In
the Philadelphia Inquirer, hlnts
that Mayor e. V. Babcock, OF PITTS
burgh, has aspirations. He says:
"Whether it shall be seat in the
United States Senate to succeed Phil
ander Chase Knox when his term eX-
pires, or the succession to William
Cameron Sproul in the Governor
ship, Mayor Babcock's friends are
not ready to say at this time what
his aspirations are likely to be-"
The Mayor may get involved in
the fight what is being organized
against Senator Max G. Leslie in
Allegheny. This battle bids fair to
he historic and the Mayor has been
told, by some of the big men OF the
community that he may have to
make choice when the time comes.
The Mayor and the Senator nave
been very close. Another thing that
has turned up is the Babcock veto
of the ordinance which requires con-
tractors on city work financed py
the $22,000,000 bond issue to pay
their employees the same wages that
are paid for like work by private en-
ployers and to work them the num-
Der of hours stipulated by organized
labor.
New Castle, the stronghold of
the nonpartisan election people, is
stirred up. A dispatch from the
Lawrence capital says: with the
return of third class city elections to
partisan politics, the list of candi-
dates for the offices of mayor, county
commissioner and city treasurer has
begun to assume large proportions.
There will be candidates in the field
all parties. Interest IS
centered on the mayoralty fight, in
asmuch as at the last partisan cleo
ton heled here, Walter V. Taylor
was elected by the Socialists over
his Republican and Independent
opponents
Here is an interesting item from
the Pittsburgh Gazette Times:
"Since the wartime prohibition law
went into effect the policemen of
Rankin, Braddock, North Braddock,
East Pittsburgh. Turtle Creek and
Wilmerding are having such an easy
time that there is talk among the
councilmen of the boroughs of re-
ducing the forces. The only arrest
made for drunkenness in the six
boroughs, which have a combined
population of about $4,000, was in
Braddock on the morning of July l,
and this was called a hangover
from the night of June 80"
This is a view of the results of
the repeal of the nonpartisan third
CLASS CITY Id" IIOlll lllG DSllllSllSiil
Globe. THE repeal of the nom
partisan provision for the election
of officials in cities of the third class
has resulted in quickening of poll
tical interest in the election to be
held on November 4th next. The
Bethlehem electors have revived old
and new party issues and the cam
paign here promises to be the most
interesting and exciting in years.. 1t
may be said that Altoona, Wilkes
Barre, Allentown and Connellsville
papers say the same thing in sub
stance.
Proposals for a fusion of parties,
in a combine against the radical
element in the city, has been re-
ceived throughout the city with
great interest, says the Evening Dis
patch: There will always be party
strife and it is difficult to convince
leaders that this is a critical time
and one in which all true Americans
should be on the alert" said a promi-
nent official to the Dispatch.
-Easton, which has been prepar-
ing for partisan elections again was
jolted by an announcement that the
Central Labor Union has decided on
n ticket. This ticket is as follows:
City Commissioners, ]. Russell
White, of the Electrical Workers;
Ralph B. Burwell, Machinists' Union;
F. P. Horn, Carpenters Union, and