Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-23
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Ps's~s4esas.in
BY the Ex-Committeeman

counties. In at least a dozen counties
there have been protests and objec-
tions filed to the way the votes were
returned, while Election Board men,
bers are being hailed in half the
courts and County Commissioners
offices in the State to explain what
they were trying to do. 1t is the
business of the courts to count the
vote and the State officers can only
certify what is returned. However,
they are following all of the pro-
ceedings closely.
No one here takes very seriously
! the suggestion thrown out in Phila-
delphia that there may be a contest
of the whole election in that city
because of the alleged failure of the
County Commissioners to comply
with certain provisions of the law.
1t is certain, however, that there will
be an overhauling of Election
Boards that will accomplish some
good. The newspapers of Philadcl-
phia, notably the Inquirer and Eve
ming Bulletin are demanding that
the election frauds be leaned up and
others express belief that Congress
man j. Hampton Moore, when he
gets into his office, will insist upon
better things in that line.
In addition to the ruction in
Philadelphia over the ballot boxes
there have been steps taken to i'm
pound the ballot boxes in Delaware
and Cambria. From all accounts the
ballots were numbered in some dis
| tricts in the latter county. Schuyl-
XII county has real fight on owe"
election ballots in one district of
Pottsville and boxes have been order
ed impound. ]. b. Dengler, n candi-
date for council threatens row
There are also steps being taken in
Lackawanna and other counties
where close results may bring con-
tests.
In regard to the judicial situ-
aticn the Philadelphia Press says:
Judge Wasson, of Allegheny Com
mon Pleas. who was a candidate for
nomination at the recent primary
and fai' ed to get votes enough 10
entitle him to have his name print.
cd on the official ballot fer the No
Nembcr election. proposes to test
the constitutionality of the Act which
virtually gives the election to the
judicial candidate having fifty-one
per cent. of the vote cast at tho
primary and leaves all others off the
ballot. He intends to request tho
Secretary of the Commonwealth to
certify his name. and failing there
viii take the matter to the Dauphir
County Court, and ultimately to the
Supreme Court il necessary. There
has been n good deal of speculation
about this feature of the nonparti-
san judiciary Act. but it has never
been passed upon in any case before
'hc Supreme Court. 1t may not bo
undesirable to have n decision OH Il
from the highest authority"
-Juniata county was first of the
counties of the State to file its Of
ficial return for the primary fer
superior court judge last Tuesday
Cameron camo in second, only n
short time behind. Both counties
also filed returns on the primary for
associate judge. Each elects one this
year. The State Department will
keep a table on the superior court
judicial primary and also list the
judicial nominations for formal
certification for tho ballot.
In response to letters which
have come here aslinC for judicial
nomination papers the State officials
have issued notice that no judicial
nominations can be made except at
"a primary. The time for filinm
nomination papers for county offices
expires on October Z.
Close attention is being paid to
tho progress of the official count in
various counties owing to the chances
that matters needing corrective legis-
lation may arise.
Completion of the official count
of the votes cast in the primary cleo
ton in LuZerne furnished some SUR
prises for candidates and others in
terested in the proceeding. The
count shows that Charles Treth-
away. of Parsons, has beaten p. ].
HAYDEN. of Swoyersville, for the
Dem ocratic nomination by over 500
votes. This gives Trethawav both
nominations. Boyle, of Wilkes
Barre, who was conceded the Demo-
cratic nomination for recorder, has
lost out to Charles Berger. The count
also shows that Sergeant Matt Steph-
ems, CT the 109th Artillery. lost the
Republican nomination for Wilkes
Barre city controller. He was beaten
by ninety-two votes by Dallas
Schobert, former councilman.
In discussing the Democratic
slump the Philadelphia Evening
Bulletin says: The vote cast in
Presidential years for candidates
such as Bryan, Parker and Wilson
has been an almost pitiable min
ority as compared with what it
should have been in the customary
progress and ratio of political par
/ ties. For example, nearly forty
years ago General Hancock polled
as many as 10000 Democratic votes
| in Philadelphia; at the same rate
in the present population he would
have more than 10000. But the
other day, when the municipal
campaign for the ayoralty
| brought the entire vote of the city
to it's high-water mark, there were
actually fewer Democrats who vot-
| ed than there were when the whole
party went to smash in the wreck
age of the ill-fated campaign for
Horace Greeley, in 1872!
-Adell Hauser writing in the
Philadelphia Press says Mr.. Moore
will be Mayor of Philadelphia ac-
cording to his own ideas and then
makes this suggestion: THE logic
of the present situation calls for an
entirely new lineup, namely, a
death to the present Vare-Penrose
! factional strife, and a coalition of
the three influences of Penrose.
Ware and Moore, whereby the lat
ter is free to run the city Govern
ment according to his own ideas.
| Penrose is free to go back to the