Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-18

x ONE interesting Harrisburg
stuff" as newspaper men call
it, is contained iA George ].
Brennan's Who's Who in Pennsyl-
vania" in n recent issue of the Phil
adelphia Inquirer. This is what he
writes:
Among the visitors at Harrisburg
to witness the Inauguration of
Governor Sproul was Colonel George
Il. Mapes, who for years has been
an active factor in the politics OF
Pennsylvania. He was chairman of
the Independent Republican State
committee in the campaign of 1890
which supported Robert l.. Pattison,
the Dem ocratic nominee, who de-
feated George Wallace Delamater
for the governorship. AS mem
ber of the Assembly, Colonel Mapes
participated in the Inauguration of
Henry M. Hoyt as governor just
forty years ago. He was then in
the vigor of youth. He represent
ed the county in which Colonel E.
J.. Drake struck the first oil well,
Nenango, in the sessions of 1877,
1873, 1879 and 1881. He came to
Philadelphia to become a member
of the editorial staff of Colonel A.
K. McClure's Philadelphia Times
one year before the expiration of
his last term as membe of the
House. Nenango county was then
entitled to three Representatives in
the House in harrisburg. The col
leagues of Colonel Mapes in the ses-
sions of 1877 and 1873 were John
NJ. Dickey and William Cotes. In
1879 his colleagues were Samuel b.
Myers and J. p. De Woody and in
the session of 1881, his fellow mem
bers from Nenango were Samuel b.
Myers and Willis J. Hulings. OF
these, Hulings is the only survivor
and it was the good fortune of
Colonel Mapes to meet him on his
recent visit to the state capital and
TO congratulate him on his second
election to Congress from his old
oil county district. Since he was a
Venango county assemblyman, HUI
lings has been a state Senator, a
Brigadier General of the National
Guard, and commander of the forces
that captured Porto Rico in the
Spanish American war, and he has
just been elected to Congress for
the second time.
Colonel Mapes when introduced
in a hotel lobby by a mutual friend
to State Senator w. Clayton Hack
ett, of Easton, remarked that the
latter's father, J. NJ. Hackett, was a
ampton county in 1879 and served
with him on the committee of
eleven which prosecuted the riot
bill bribers of that session.
land we worked in entire har-
mony and. accord remarked the
veteran former legislator to the son
of his old colleague.
Colonel Mapes also recalled that
Colonel Asher Miner, of Wilkes
Barre, who has just returned home
from France, crippled and Scared
with wounds and covered with
glory, was the son of Charles A.
Miner, who sat with him in the leg
islative session of 1877 and 1878
from IuZerne county.
Among other pleasures OF his
trip was a call upon Edwin w.
Jackson, who was q member from
Mercer county and the Republican
leader of the House in the sessions
of 1877 and 1878. Jackson fell in
love with q Harrisburg girl, who in
duced him to forsake Mercer county
and become member of the Dau-
phin county bar. This, he added,
suggested the drawing power of a
pretty woman from Maine, who at
tracted James G.. Blaine, a son of
Pennsylvania, to her native state to
become a famous statesman, which
distinction he might have missed
by remaining here.
Attorney James A. Stranahan, u
former Deputy Attorney General and
one-time chairman of the Demo-
cratic State committee. greeted
Colonel Mapes cheerily and swapped
recollections of the olden time for
an hour at stretch. Now in his
eightieth year, Stranahan attends to
his law practice daily and scouts
the idea of retiring.
He complains, however, when he
revists Mercer county. the sons OF
the men who were his youthful
contemporaries insist on calling him
'Mr. Stranahan' instead of Jim as
their fathers did.
"a fellow visitor to the Inaugural
ton, who gave Colonel Mapes a
hearty handshake, was Captain ].
d. Walker, of Pittsburgh. who was
member of the House from Allie
gheny county in the sessions of 1877
apd 1878, and with his wife and q
little daughter, boarded at the same
house with Colonel Mapes and his
wife. Captain Walkers little ,daugh-