Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-06
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Pe~~a4esa~ia
BY the Ex-Committecman


anticipate as prolonged counting as
occurred in the primary contests
this year. The count will be under
supervision of the courts. whereas,
! except where county commissioners
were candidates, the primary count
was in charge of commissioners.
The only returns which will have
! to be certified to the Secretary of
the Commonwealth this year are
those for superior court judge and
the various judicial results. The
State will commission various
county officers.
A number of inquiries as to the
/ regulations for the primary of 1920
: which will take place May is, have
| already been made at the bureau of
elections in the State Department.
General impressions of the re-
suits of the election in Pennsyl-
vania on Tuesday are that the Re-
! publicans won where it counted.
Ninety fights, either in cities or in
! counties, were out of the ordinary
and victory in them meant import
| ant political advantage. The Repub-
| licans appear to have won most of
those which really amounted to
| something. They recovered control
of some county offices which Demo-
Gratis had taken from them and
won offices in Columbia, Carbon,
| Centre and the like, which used to
be regarded as in the same class as
| Berks, Pike and York. 1t may be
remarked in passing that the show
ing made by the Republicans in the
drive for county offices in York
county was one of the most spirited
in the State and attracted wide at
| tention. The Democrats were
| thoroughly alarmed and appear to
| have won in some sections by APP
pealing to ancestral sentiments of
voters whose forefathers used to
fight for Jackson.
The victory won by A. w. Duy
and his organization in Columbia
county is going to be talked about.
Taking up Lieutenant Abe Genearia
the Republican organization elected
him as recorder and register in
spite of all the orchard militia and
hedgerow corps that the old Demo-
cratic clans in that county could
muster. Congressman Lesher, or
who ever happens to be the Demo-
cratic nominee for Congress in the
Sixteenth District next year, will
have the battle of his life.
1t may be remarked in passing
tIldl I SuIllpeFlilu COuHlS Will IltlS-
after be as staunch a Republican
bastion as Dauphin. The Cumber
land county election was one in
which the Democrats of every fac
ton seemed to get together in an
effort to retrieve their prestige, as
did certain Democratic leaders in
Dauphin county. They were de-
cisively defeated and sent to the
realm of history.
The Democracy of Pennsyl-
vania does not present a very invit-
ing machine upon which to enter
presidential race. For the last two
or three years the machine has been
showing signs of wear and tear and
last year was shaken so that it
jingled and ratified in every joint
Lately it has been disturbed by in
ternal combustion strongly sugges-
tive of the quadrennial indigestion
that it used to suffer in past de-
cades. And now it is standing on
flat tires with lot of dents and
cracks which developed Tuesday.
In Philadelphia the factional fight
ing kept down the hoped for
Democratic vote. while in Allie
gheny county the Houlahan and
Myer forces are still saying things
about each other The organiza-
tions in Northampton, Berks and
Luzerne counties are on an armed
peace basis and in Cambria county
there is open warfare. In Erie one
dominant faction will have none of
the Palmer leadership, while the
rout of the Democratic forces which
endeavored to stage a comeback in
Harrisburg has attracted State
wide attention. Chester, North
umberland, Schuylkill, Lackawanna
and other counties where Democrats
| used to stand a chance have gone
Republican almost bodily, while the
story of Cumberland in this decade
| is that of Westmoreland in years
gone by. Westmoreland used to be
| called the Star of the West" by
| called "Old Mother" and the
Juniata valley was as likely to go
| Democratic as Dauphin was Repub-
: lican.
in a short time the Democrats
will have to convene a board of
survey to see what the old machine
will cost to rehabilitate for the
1920 contest, especially when there
is a real live aspirant for the honor
very much in the limelight and
eager to emulate James Buchanan's
efforts for the White House.
The sticller campaign launched
| in behalf of Judge d. j. Snyder in
| Westmoreland county seems TO have
been hit by the frost. There were
not many used and Judge Copeland
was an easy winner, thanks TO the
vote he got at the primary.
In Allegheny county thousands
of votes were cast on the Prohibition
ticket for Col. S. D. Foster for county
commissioner, although he had been
nominated on that ticket without his
knowledge and Issued a statement :.
few days before the election that
! having been a candidate for Re-
publican nomination and having
been defeated. he would support the
Republican ticket.
Some sticker and handwriting
votes were cast for Judge n. G..
Wasson in Allegheny county, but not
enough to make any difference.
Scranton has two women school
directors One of those elected a
few years ago was reelected.
Congressman ]. Hampton Moore
is beng industriously interviewed On
almost every municipal subject un-
der the sun just now and much
speculation is being INDUCED in re-
garding his cabinet. He says he is
much interested now in the prepara-
ton of plans for real waterways 5nd
for Republican Congressman next
year.
Appointment of William B
Linn, the noted Philadelphia lawyer
to be judge of the superior court
|