Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-16
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BY the Ex-Committeeman

II By the Ex- x-Committeeman
According to what Senator Edwin
II. ware, chief opponent to the Phil
| adelphia charter bill, says the fight
| over that much-discussed piece of
| legislation rs over and it will soon
! ne law with the Wares already
! prepared to battle for control of the
city government under its provis-
ions. The fight over the registration
| bills for Philadelphia, which are
the real point in the prolonged
struggle in the Legislature, will be
renewed as soon as the conference
| committee gets together.
1t is interesting to note how
| quickly the men active in politics
began to ask questions as to what
would happen to the charter bill if
| the Legislature did not act on the
registration bills before it adjourn
| ed. The plan is to have meetings
| OF the conference committee as soon
as possible to see what Senator Ware
will say. The committee is generally
regarded as anti Ware. In this con-
! nection it is to be noted that the in
| dependent element is already de-
manding to be let in on the pro-
posed new registration board. One
Well-lnformed newspaper says:
Governor Sproul will be asked to
include a member of the Town
Meeting party when he names the
proposed new Board of Registration
Commissioners. A committee will
go to Harrisburg to lay this plea
before him. Meanwhile a movement
has been launched to combine all in
dependent voters in one organiza-
tion to defeat the Ware forces at the
coming municipal election. An
nouncement of these moves by the
reform element has been made by
George w. Coles, chairman of the
Town Meeting party. Mr.. Coles has
ramed committee. headed by eX-
Senator Frank Gable, as chairman"
Tho events in the House of
Representatives when two thirds OF
the members were held in technical
contempt are being still commented
upon. The Philadelphia Evening
Bulletin chides the absentees and
the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times says:
Though fully grown, the majority
of the House members at Harris
burg are not above playing
hockey" Baseball or fishing al
ways were more fun than work in
says editorially: That's a brand
new idea of Speaker Spangler that
members of the Legislature ought
to earn their fifteen hundred dollars
by occasionally being on hand to
vote; and comparatively few of
them have anything else to do"
The Philadelphia Inquirer says
Senator Ware accepted defeat
gracefully" Complete agreement
on the measure. which has been Wig
orously fought by Senator Ware
since its introduction in the Senate
on March 3, was announced in Phil
adelphia b yboth Thomas Raeburn
White, counsel for the charter re-
vision committee, and Senator Ware
himself. The bill, amended in minor
particulars, will be voted on in the
Senate next Tuesday, and will then
he sent back to the House for con-
currence. The new charter is eX-
pecIcd to receive the signature of
Governor Sproul next Wednesday,
just sixteen weeks after its intro
duction in the Senate by Senator
Woodward. The amendments. it is
understood, are designed to meet the
objections raised by Edwin o. Lewis,
counsel for the Republican city COM
mit'ee.
The Mayoralty situation in Phil
adelphia, which has been kept in
the background as much as possible
during the charter discussion, is the
cause cf comment by the Philadel-
phia Bulletin, which says: "The pri-
mary, or nominating, election is only
"a little more than three months dis
tant, but the first sight of anything
like a real boom or movement
has yet TO be noted. Never before
at this stage of a Mayoralty year
has there been quite as much shy
ei1HnNa 11nn0 tho
line as there is now. Who will be
the first man to say right out aloud,
SO that he can be plainly heard,
that he would like to be Mayor of
Philadelphia, and that he is not
afa!id TO say so?"
While Senator Penrose says in an
interview at Williamsport that the
country is going dry and people
phia Inquirer remarks; Attorney
General Palmer, with less neatness
than dispatch, side-stepl,sd the
hard cider question. Is it possible
that there is any connection between
this well-known agent of total tenn
purary paralysis and the disinclina-
ton Of the farmer to get up an hour
earlier i'll the summer"
--Luzerne politics are always
complicated by two more candi-
dates. One is Captain John Mac
Cluskie. leader of the One Hundred
and Ninth Field Artillery band, who
recently returned from France. Mr..
MIcCluskie is to be a candidate FOR
the Republican nomination for
sheriff. o. G.. Davies, of Wilkes
Barre, seeks the Republican nomi-
ration for county commissioner.
Both men have been active in Re
publican circles for a number of
years, MI MacCluskie having served
as a deputy sheriff before entering
the army.
There is talk of ex-Deputy At
torney General II. K. Daugherty for
the Senate in Mercer county. Ex-
Representative c. Victor Johnson,
of Crawford, is believed to have am
| bitions.
Considerable comment has been
caused among legislators by Gov
ernor Sprouts speech at Pittsburgh
in which he urged young men 10
take a hand in politics. The Gov
ernor also said: THE answer to
anarchy should be an insistence of
the people to form clean and pop-
ular government and the general
education. If they the enemies of
the gov ernment, do not care to ioin
us in citizenship they should go
somewhere else. In these days it is
surely easy for restless spirits to
find a suitable government some
where"