Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-10
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BY the Ex- committeeman

anead 1t Is probable that there will
pc an early announcing season and
.hat numerous aspirants for office
| Will be heard of. Already several
men prominent in congressional and
| legislative affairs have been sending
out word that they intend to get into
contests, some of these notices being
warnings to keep off premises and
others challenges.
| In the next few months Republi-
can State leaders will get together
ana discuss candidates for judicial
and State offices. 1t seems to be
taken for granted that Auditor Gen
eral Charles A. Snyder will get very
| lnnuential support for State Treas
| urer, but the Auditor General nomi-
| nation is in the air so to speak, with
samuel 5. Lewis and Col. Joseph H.
thompson talked of. Present indi-
cations are that the State adminis-
tration may not have a candidate.
,, Superior Court Judge William B.
Linn, just appointed to fill the Will
llams vacancy, will be nominated for
the full term, but there is lots of
speculation as to who will run for
supreme court to succeed Chief JUS
tice j. Hay Brown. The distin-
gulshed Lancaster jurist will com
plete tWenty-one years on the high
est appellate court bench in 1921
and is not eligible for reelection
under the constitution.
Much mention of Governor Will
liam Z. Sproul as a presidential fa-
Vorite is likely. Pottsville is to the
front with story that Auditor Gen
eral Snyder is being urged to be a
candidate for Republican national
delegate with the express purpose of
presenting the name of the Governor
for President. The Governor recent
iy remarked that presidential bees
were not buzzing around him. But
his friends and increasing number
of admirers are busy.
The lining up of the Democrats
or the State for Attorney General
A. Mitchell Palmer for presidential
honors by the Democrats is already
under way in northeastern counties.
me Palmer forces have succeeded
in pacifying some of the old oppo-
nents of the Attorney General in
Lackawanna and are hopeful that
as result of the virtuallyunopposed
reelection of Judge John NJ. Gar
man in Luzerne that the third larg-
est county'S Democrats will see some
good in Palmer. 1t Is likely that the
State will see much of James I.
Blakslee in the next few months.
With the election out of the way
newspapers are looking for the Gov
ernor to name the new Constitu-
tional Revision Commission very
soon. The Governor has been at
work on this list for weeks and
weeks and has given his best thought
to the personnel. The Philadelphia
Press, in an article by Odell Hauser,
says that the Governor intends to
make this revision one of the big
things of his administration and that
Attorney General William l. Schaffer
will be chairman. He says: "It
would not be at all surprising If the
report of the Commission should
take the form of an almost complete
draft of new constitution. If it
does not go so far, it will at least
make its recommendation so strong
and pointed as to afford definite lines
which the constitutional convention
called by the Legislature cannot af-
ford to ignore. The Governor has
strong views on the need for revi-
sion of the constitution. AS men,
ber of the Senate and now as Gov
ernor. he has been up against this
constitution for more than a score
of years and he knows II well. He
is upon intimate enough terms with
it to call each fault and each excel
lence by it's first name. The view
of the Governor and of other critics
of the present constitution is that it
is a document of limitations. 1t
tells more about what you shall not
do than what you may do, stating
the problem in a broad way. 1t does
n a a rNtsftt txIo 80
government and leave its working
out to the spirit of the times, but
1t attempts in many instances to de-
fine the details. And when 1919 finds
itself bound down to the point of
view of 1878 there is room for an
aggrieved feeling"
Just as illustrations of the way
Republicans won all along the line
last Tuesday in the State which
some ambitious men declared in 1919
and in 1916 they were going to make
Republican, these dispatches in Phil
adelphia newspapers may be quoted: !:
Williamport-With the cleo
| ton by large majorities of the
entire Republican county ticket
and all but one candidate on the
city ticket, Lycoming county,
which last year gave big ma
jority for Governor Sproul,
ceased to be known longer as
"nominally Democratic" and took
rank with the full-fiedged Re-
publican counties of the State.
Thomas M. Gray. who was elect
ed sheriff, was given the highest
vote ever accorded a candidate
for the office in Lycoming
county. He polled 8,064 votes.
close to $500 more than his op-
ponent.
Scranton-The decisive vic
tory achieved at the polls on
Tuesday has placed the Repub-
lican party in stronger control
of affairs in Scranton and Lack
awanna counties than has been
the case in the past quarter of
century. 1t means that after
| January 1 the Republicans will
have two of the three places
on the bench, and that the only
| Democrats. holding office in the
court house will be one jury
com missioner. and"the minority
county commissioner, places due
one party under the law. In
will also be in complete control
for the next few years. Mayor
Connell. though named as
nonpartisan candidate, is recog-
nized as a Republican leader
here.
| Senator Edwin H. Ware has
stirred UP hornets nest by hi