Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-02
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BY the Ex-CommitteeInao

practical. hard headed Democrats
are going to run the Pennsylvania
machine with. Mr.. Blakslee as the
driver.
Mr. Blakslees remark that At
torney General A. Mitchell Palmer
would be candidate for President
and would resign from the Demo-
cratic National Committee in the
event that the President did not
/ want to run again surprised no one.
But ii interested people to hear
blakslee say it. The authoritative
way he spoke and his positive state
ment that the Democrats would stop
lighting and get behind Palmer
| prove up stories that something was
under way this summer. Equally
interesting, but not so unexpected
as his prediction of harmony among
! the Democrats, was his blunt re
mark that Vance c. Mccormick had
had enough" and would not he
made national committeeman. That
Is taken TO mean that Blakslee and
the practical boys are going to boss
the party in this State and that the
| former national chairman will be an
advisor who will be listened to ac-
cordtng to the size CT his contribu-
ton. an no. unknown situation IN
PENNSYLVANIA Democratic affairs in
the taSt lZU years.
Biakslee has always been ConSid-
cred by Republican leaders as the
iableSt of the Democratic State lead
ers. He was the brains and push of
the 1911 reorganization movement
ana had much to do with making
the Pennsylvania delegation to the
| baltimore convention the Keystone
OF the Wilson movement With
. u akslee as national committeeman
from PENNSYLVANIA. his hand on all
the postotliceS and Federal places
and his card index brain and Un-
bounded energy at the disposal of
Il party organization. il will mean
IA strenuous time for one Judge Eu-
gene G. Bonniwell and the fragment
OF the Old Guard.
The Philadelphia Inquirer says
party loyalty is at stake in the
Philadelphia mayoralty campaign
because of the McLaughlin-Cl Clark
party fray. After referring to the
defeat of George II. Earle. Jr., for
mayor few days ago the Inquirer
says: The Nare-controlled city
reorganization is under suspicion be
cause of the fact that at least two
of the Ware men who submitted
their names to the Republican
voters for nomination have permit
ted II TO be proclaimed that they
are to he parties to Il rump ticket,
(which aims to defeat the choice of
the Republican voters for mayor,
Congressman j. Hampton Moore.
Coroner William Il. Knight and Re
corder of Deeds, James M. HaZlett,
have been announced as candidates
of the Charter Party. If they shall
permit their names to remain on tho
aEl .f - 1
of the Republican nominee for
mayor or any of his loyal :tepubli-
can associates, they may meet with
opposition which will imperil their
reelection.
The North American adds this
| interesting incident to the Phila-
! delphia situation: John r. X.
| Scott took the trouble to tell the
election court that the Wares won't
run an independent ticket. OF
course, nobody ever thought that
they would. But so low is the in
! terest in the counting of the primary
! ballots. that "Scotty's" assertion of
an undisputed fact was easily the
! high light of the days work. Scott
made his great remuneration by way
! of n decla ration that the Republi-
! can city committee will support the
regular Republican nominee. This
statement was thrown out in the
course of a long argument over new
petitions, in an attempt to prevent
Moore attorneys from Opposing
/ Scott's demands. Like several other
/ Ware plans, it fell on stony ground
and Scott will be required to show
/ cause for every new petition grant
! ed
Independent tickets appear to
, be popular means of getting men to
| spend money in the chance of fish
ing up something from the troubled
workers. In. Lancaster John F.
Smith, defeated for a mayoralty
nomination, will run on rump
ticket and in Reading W. Harry
Orr. a banker, is being urged to
head a new party for the mayoralty
honor.
Assurance has been given that
all ballotboxes in the city of Chester
and other precincts in Delaware
| county where fraud or error is
charged and can be shown by affi-
davits will be opened was given at
Media by Judge William B. Broom
all. who is presiding over the return
board.
The Philadelphia Press com
pliments Judges Audenreid and
Ferguson for the manner in which
they have handled the election
count in Philadelphia and especial
ly their notice to stop talking of
contests and of bringing up all
sorts of excuses for delaying the
count. The Press says: "These
Judges are pioneers in executing q
new law. They have discovered
difficulties which were not contem
plated in framing it. BY their in
dependent decisions they have cut
several Gordian knots which threat
ened serious complications. One OF
these-probably the most important
lis the sitting of two separate courts
each of which is presided over by
one of the Judges regularly assign
Led in conformity with the law
Clearly it is n decision in accordance
with pract ;cal common sense and
tha public is interested.
The count of the vote at the re-
cent primaries shows that in Ly.
coming county there are 239 ties to
be settled by drawing lots for the
nomination. In every instance the
ties are for minor offices. The Re-
publican pr m a / es developed
seventy-six ties, the Democratic
primary seventy -eight ties. and the
Prohibition party which cast tota
of about eighty votes in Lycomins
county, has seventy-five ties tC
settle. The Socialist party has tel
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