Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-02
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Pe~~aqGania
BY the Ex-Committeeman

Committee in Washington next week
as one of the representative Repub-
hcans of the Eastern states is going
10 make the Governor very much
talked about as presidential timber,
and already the hackers of General
Leonard Wood have started observ-
ing the trend of affairs in the Key
stone State. 1t was taken for granted
by some of the Wood boomers that
PENNSYLVANIA would be for the Gem
eral because of the strong Roosevelt
sentiment and the feeling that he
received raw deal from the Wilson
administration
Should Sproul announce his candi-
dacy there would be no doubt of q
solid delegation for him, but many
people believe that there will be an
unpledged delegation and that Penn
sylvania will cut a considerable
figure in the convention, with all
kinds of possibilities.
The Democratic situation is quite
the reverse. The candidacy of A.
Mitchell Palmer for the presidential
nomination is the big thing among
the Democrats and the machine
leaders are already striving to set
up delegates who can win as out
and out Palmer men. They have
encountered some trouble in the
have easy sailing in other districts
where the arrogance which marked
the early days of the reorganization
machine has not been forgotten and
the Old Guard influence is strong.
But Palmer has been busy on the
men who do things and it is even
possible that he may turn up with
old opponents in his camp just as
he won Charles T. DonneIley and
Others to his side in Philadelphia.
News from Senator Penrose's
residence in Philadelphia is reas-
suring and the Senator now hopes
to be able to get back to Washing
ton in January. His brother and
other physicians will insist that he
take complete rest this month and
will probably induce him to go to
one of the southern states.
News of the Senator's illness has
caused a rush of kilograms to Phila-
delphia. and even men who have
opposed him, but who recognize his
Importance to State interests at
Washington have expressed hopes
for an early return of his former
vigor,
From what some upstate peo-
pie say, it is by no means certain
that ex-senator w. w. Hindman, of
the Clarion district, will accept the
place of prohibition enforcer for the
State. Hindman is a young Demo-
crat who has ambitions and means
and his ideas are not said to run in
the direction of such a thorny path
as the man who would see that
Pennsylvania stays dry"
-HindmanS selection is inter-
esting from the fact that he was not
always Palmer man. There are
some stories from Washington that
dry" forces looked for the selection
of some other man.
There has been a recurrence of
the talk that the nomination for
Auditor General may go west. Names
of Samuel c. Jamison, of Allegheny,
and Joseph II. Thompson, of Beaver,
are still being heard. The western
leaders were not inclined to favor
such u move for a while, owing to
gubernatOrial possibilities, but GER
tain of them are said to have be-
come impressed with Susquehanna
valley timber.
Judging from what is being
printed in newspapers, some people
have been barking back, to the files
of papers printed in the strenuous
days of the Legislature of 1919,
tSptCldilN NItIl L U Ill II Z III > 1t l. " IL
amendments were under discussion
Auditor General Charles A.
snyder is being complimented by
many people for the showing made
in his departments collection of the
revenues. The record is one which
is striking when the figures of for
mer years are reviewed and when
one considers the misgivings attend
ing the approval of appropriations
last summer.
The Allegheny county treasurer
is about to receive q commission
from the Governor in pursuance of
an old act. He is the only treasurer
in the State who receives. such Il
parchment.
From indications the State
Democrats will have to figure on u
new KutZ-Croll situation in BerkS
county next spring. Both of the
! leaders have definite ambitions and
they are not in accord.
There is another thing about
Berks politics that shoulds prove in
| teresting. a The election of Walter
| A. Ringler as Il county commissioner
means that there will be a new
Democratic member from the city,
assuming that the Democrats will
get one of the Reading men. and
! there is Il possibility that Repre-
sentative james E. Norton may be
Republican candidate for Senator
with a look-in due TO the Sassaman-
! Sarig fight. Sarig will not run for
! the House again, and as ID. A. Roth
enberger died recently, G. X. Brendle
is the only man likely TO run again.
| i. b. Brown, of West Leesport; IL.
G.. MCGOWAN. a former member; |. p.
I Fessler, of West Reading, and O. a.
| II. Jacobs, OF Boyertown, are said
| TO have ambitions buzzing around.
Brown is newspaperman with a
wide acquaintance.
The Cumberland situation is
rapidly taking shape that looks like
r. j. Ferguson as the county's candi-
] date for the senatorial honors, with
Perry and Juniata likely to accord
| Cumberland the preference. Ross
l.. Beckley will run again and George
| IL. Stewart Jr.. of Shippensburg,
will probably be the upper end
candidate. The Democrats are so
rumpus that they have not Indicated
any standard bearers.
Congressman j. Hampton Moore
appears to have Il good many cabinet
makers dizzy in Philadelphia He
has been making appointments to
suit himself and sending applicants
for the various places to the Civil
Service Commission.
Philadelphia people are men
tioning state Treasurer IL. NJ. Kep-
hart for Congress at large. lie has
not expressed any desires as yet.