Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-21
By tho Ex-Committeenan

ters. excuses the action by saying
that 1t has no novelty and that any
way. the Republican State organiza-
ton collects from people on the
state pay roll. This activity of the
Republican State organization,
which has been confined to the State
government, has always been de-
nounced by the Mccormick news
papers and their ilk as something
dreadful. They have wept over the
poor officeholders on Capitol Hill
who made contributions. Accord
ing to the Public Ledger the send
ing of the letters asking for contri-
buttons from federal employees
violates the national civil service
law.
But the Democratic machine,
which is jingling in many joints be-
cause OF rough going experienced
since the primary of 1918, has to be
patched up for the race for control
OF the presidential convention dele
CATION from this State next year.
which the Bonniwell faction is al
ready preparing to enter.
The Democratic State machine is
also being belted by some southern
pennsylvania Democrats for abolish
ing the job of Revenue Collector
pen DAVIS, OF Lancaster, and tack
that of Philadelphia when the Scran-
ton district, close to the home health
or A. Mitchell Palmer is undisturbed.
DAVIS, 1t will be recalled, was an
ardent partisan of Vance C. McCor-
mick In the Reorganization" of the
party and in the gubernatorial cam
palgn OF 1914. He has made fights
tpe and again for Mccormick and
Palmer in Lancaster county and has
Kept his lance pennons bright for
any fray in their behalf in anv
part OF his district. Some of his
friends are saying unkind things
about bosses
AN interesting local viewpoint
Is turnlshed by the Lancaster Ex-
aminer which says editorially "The
love OF Democratic administration
for this community has been exen,-
plihed most definitely" and remarks
in a first page story: "At least fiftv
revenue deputies will have to seek
pastures new and the local collec-
tor, Benjamin F. Davis, will lose an
office paying $1,000 per annum
Lancaster will be a way station" of
the Revenue Bureau. ONLY several
clerks will be employed to take care
OF the sales OF cigar and tobacco
stamps"
1t will only be a short time IN
til the results of the sleuthinp
through the State of Parke H. Davis
and Bruce Sterling. the Palmer
emissaries will be revealed. They
nave oeen out setting up pins for
~
in a number of districts that tha
Bonniwell crowd has also been husv
and hatched the finest line of fiehts
for Democratic county nominations
In long time. The Holstein cam
dldacy here. the Myer candidacy in
Alesheny county, and the situa-
tons in Lackawanna, Luzerne
Berks and other counties are ALI mart
OF the game. Even the Democrats
in such strongholds of RepubIican~
ism as Delaware and Monteomerv
nave been set to fighting for emntv
honors this fall.
-Abner I. Hartman has been re-
nominated for postmaster of I,eba-
non, which also contributes to the
serenlty or the Democratic situation
trict.
Senator Horace w. scbantz of
Lehigh county, has announced bis
candidacy for the new judgeshin in
Lehigh' county. The Senator was tha
nrst Republican Senator elected in
tne county in a century and won his
toga IN the flower time of the Demo-
cratc reorganization" in Penn
syiVanla. His friends say he will
cut formidable figure in the ron
partisan contest in LehiRh which
used to be Democratic stronghold
but Is now debateable land.
John e. Sones, former LeeisI.-
tor from Pottsville, is out as a can
dtdate for Orphans Court iudes IN
Schuyikill against Judge MacHenrv
Wiihelm. M. A. Kilker, of Girard-
Vile, may also run.
Representative Jacob Han,,+o.
of Montgomery county. will run CO..
sheriff OF that county with ~
strongest kind of backing. Incl
dentally ex-State Senator G. 7 paisar
wants one of the Democratic nomi-
nations for county commissioner IN
Montgomery. III
-Odell Hauser, writing in tha
Philadelphia Press, supplements On
interesting review of the records nf
members of the House by summariz-
ing the records of the Senator'S
Each gets notice, some of them is
apt and happy Characterization,
Clifford Pinchot broke loose a+
the meeting of the Snyder countv
oranges on Saturday and favsS
Senator W. C. Mcconnell because
of his legislative. activities, notable
the water eminent domain prohibi.
tion repeater. John A. McSparran
master of the State Grange, also
spoke.
Representative Cyrus NJ. Pal
mer, who Is a candidate for the Re
publican nomination for District
Attorney of Schuylkili county, will
have opposition from former Repre-
sentative r. J. Graeff. of Tamaoua.
Roy Hicks, OF Frackville, and Mar
tin Duffy, of Pottsville, are also
candidates. The latter Is an AS
sistant District Attorney under Dis
trict Attorney Whitehouse and is at
present on the high seas, hasten
ing home from France to get into
the fight