Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-20
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By the Ex. committeeman

1t seems to be pretty generally
agreed throughout the State that
the results of the Republican pri-
mary on Tuesday end any chance
of there being launched even an
annoying fight against the re-eiec-
ton of Senator Boies Penrose next
year. If the Philadelphia mayoral-
ty contest had gone the other way
there would have been an immed-
late campaign started and much
noisy comment But since the re-
suits OF the strenuous primary in
Philadelphia and in Allegheny and
| in other counties where Penrose
adherents are prominent have been
announced there has not been very
much heard about 1920.
The Senator has been following
up the campaign developments in
Philadelphia fully as closely as he
did the progress of the charter leg
islation in the Legislature and as
soon as the session of Congress
ends, will start his campaign in
Pennsylvania. The primary next
year will be in May when in addi-
| ton to the Senatorial candidates
there will be Presidential delegates
elected.
No one has been heard of as a
possible candidate against the Sem
ator except Clifford Pinchot and it
is believed that the activity of the
former forester in calling his pro-
gressive conference here late in
July and in touring the State,
speaking to Oranges and various
agricultural meetings is part of his
preliminary campaign. Pinchot is
better known In Pennsylvania than
he was six years ago.
1t is very apparent that the
/ Democratic State bosses plan to
| capture the Keystone delegation to
the next national convention by the
| use of federal patronage, fiattery
and fuss. Attorney General A.
Mitchell Palmer, is more willing
than usual to make speeches in
Pennsylvania and there has been a
systematic effort to boom him. The
small Democratic registration this
year while it is an evidence of in
capable leadership and disgust of
rank and file will be, if anything,
help to Palmer. Between the fed
eral jobholders, who constitute
about all the machine Palmer and
his pals have left, and the hide
bound Democrats who vote under
the sign of the Democratic rooster
he is assured of enough votes to
win quite a few delegates and to
put up a fight in districts where
Bonniwell Democrats were taking
an interest in Republican primar-
les and where the chances of en-
gaging in a fight tempted some men
to forego their party allegiance this
fall, facts which may rise to
plague them in the spring of next
year.
Governor William C. Sproul
will make speeches in two States
this fall under the auspices of the
Republican National Committee
and also take part in various po-
litical meetings in Pennsylvania,
according to what has been learn
ed at the Capitol. Some time ago
an inquiry was made at the Capitol
as to whether the Pennsylvania
Governor. who made a considerable
impression upon the men at the
conference of the Governors in
Salt Lake City, would consent to
make some speeches for the Ma
tional committee. 1t was suggested
that he speak in New Jersey and
Massachusetts because of the i'm
portance of the gubernatorial bat
ties in those Commonwealths. The
Governor will likely devote the last
two weeks of October to these
tours.
Although there have been ru-
mors and reports going around. it
looks very much as though the re-
organization of couple of depart
ments of the State government and
the organization of some bureaus
about which much was heard this
summer and which was deferred
until after the primary" would be
postponed until after the cleo
ton" The Governor has not shown
much inclination to make changes
or to upset things.
-Dauphin county has two new
| residents. DR.. Thomas e. Finegan,
State superintendent of Public In
struction, and DIR. George H. Ash
ley. State Geologist, both of whom
have made Harrisburg their home
| and who are credited on official
| records as of Harrisburg, Dauphin
county.
One of the interesting things in
connection with the primary as
brought here by men connected
with the State government is the
failure of the Prohibition party to
| make county or municipal nomina-
tions. This seems to have been
general, even in counties where in
years gone by the Prohibitionists
were a factor in local contests and
| occasionally in county and legis-
| lative battles.
The outcome of the primary in
| Chester city and Delaware county
| has enhanced the prestige of Gov
ernor Sproul considerably People
up the State were watching what
would happen in Delaware county
] very closely in view of the break
between the Governor and the Nc
Clue people during the Legislature
and the militant way in which the
Governor backed the new Republi-
| can League won much commenda-
| ton. The editorials in the Ches-
ter Times, the Governors own
throughout the State and the Wig
orous manner in which the Cover
nor calls for reckoning with
money in politics will form a theme
for much discussion in the long
winter evenings in more than one
election district.
The Philadelphia newspapers
are very frank in declaring belief
that the nomination for mayor OF
Congressman ]. Hampton Moore
now conceded means better things
The Public Ledger says that IL
means "the opening of a new era. -
While the Press calls on the peo-