Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-29
Pee;t;co ;s
Pe~~aqesa~ia
BY the Ex-Committeeman

upon which candidates for state
wide congressional and legislative
nominations and for national dele
gate and State committee places can
circulate their petitions for the May
primary, according to the way Chief
George d. Thorn, of the bureau of
elections in the State department,
has figured out the operation of the
amended election laws. Although
TINS day is some two months away
there have been numerous inquiries
for blanks and for information rela-
tive to the time and manner of cir
culatlng such papers with every in
dlcation that there will be a strenu-
GUS primary campaign. Many of
the inquiries have come regarding
congressional nominations.
Chief Thorn says that the time
for filing nominating petitions will
expire on April 8, which will be a
change from former dates. Owing
to the large number of nominations
to be made next May and to the
delegate elections there will prob
ably be heavy filing of papers and
the usual strenuous final day
The blanks for the nominating pc
utions are now in the hands of the
State printer and Chief Thorn is
compiling a statement which will
show the time for circulating and
filing petitions. together with other
changes in the laws.
With Governor William c..
Sproul here this week to hold a
series of conferences with heads of
State departments and many men
n hnr xN1n
eral Charles A. Snyder scheduled to
announce the appointments of mer.
camille appraisers, Harrisburg will
be an interesting place politically.
The Auditor General is expected to
give out his list tomorrow or next
day. The first of the changes long
anticipated in various departments
will be made about the middle OF
January.
Situations in the State Depart
ment OF Forestry are to be laid be-
fore Governor William C. Sproul
both in regard to operation without
n budget system and problems at
tending the contracts for cutting
timber. and the State executive will
then determine what changes are
to be made. The Commission is
scheduled to meet on Friday and at
the last meeting the proposition of
whether the meetings. in view of
the controversies which have been
waged lately over contracts and ad-
should be open to the
public came up. No one has ever at |
ended the meetings except commits |
5ioners Considerable differences of |
opinion as to the management of |
he Department. which has evolved |
ts own system in recent years, have |
arisen between Commissioner Rob |
art s. Conklin and Clifford Pinchot, |
4 member Of the commission, and
said to want a scientific forester put !
m charge instead of Mr.. Conklin, |
VINO has been connected with the |
department since it's foundation.
Governor William G. Sproul |
has given Philadelphia newspapers |
and politicians something real to |
ak about in the lat-footed way in |
which he came out in support of |
Mayor-elect J. Hampton Moore at n |
Inner in Philadelphia. Ever since |
Mr.. Moore announced that he pro- |
posed to put adamper on the blazing !
among Republicans |
N Philadelphia he has been en-
broiled with Ware leaders, including |
Senator David Martin and other |
puissant personages. Now the Gov |
ernor has bluntly said he is behind |
Moore and says it this way, accord |
ng to the Philadelphia Inquirer: |
Following complimentary remark |
On the class of men that Mr.. Moore |
has selected as his political asso- |
;iates in the various city depart |
nents, Governor Sproul said: II
want to say something to you, |
Mayor Moore, and maybe some |
'olks will consider this the import |
INT thing, that while we don't want /
% interfere in local affairs, we do |
'ealize that to work out the plans |
which you have in mind, and that |
he people expect of you, you have |
% have harmony and undivided po- |
lucal support in this town or You |
won't get along as you ought to get |
along. In support of that, l want |
% say to you here that the State !
will uphold your
hands and do everything we can to !
help you, and that nothing, in ap-
oointments or anything else, will be |
lone in this town without due re-
gard to their effect upon your ad- F.
and the great work |
which you are trying to do"
The battle between Republicans
ihu DeinocratS lot control of the |
register of wills office in Columbia |
county. which is rapidly losing it's |
equation as q Democratic strong |
hold, is entering on another stage. !
Judge John G.. Harman, of Column |
oia county, has granted the motion |
of a number of qualified electors of |
Bloomsbury seeking to have the ex-
pense account of Clyde S. Shuman, |
Of Bloomsbury, declared to have |
been elected Register and Recorder
Of Columbia county at the recent |
election, audited. Attorney r. o.
Brocway, of Berwick. was named |
auditor. This is the second step |
aiken by Abe II. Gennaria's friends |
10 contest the election of Shuman |
over Gennaria by four votes.
The Republicans have been led |
oy A. w. Duy, who came near beinr |
elected Congressman last year in a |
hitherto Democratic baliwick.
"A Northumberland dispatch TO
he Philadelphia Press says: Robert |
Lesher, brother. of Congressman |
John v. Lesher, of Sunbury, to-day |
as postmaster of Northum- |
oerland, a place which he held for |
several years. 1t pays $1,000 a |
year 1t is said Lesher was forced |
% resign under pressure from the |
Post Office Department, because of |
alleged inefficiency in his work.
Rumor has been for several months |
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