Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-09
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BY the Ex-Committecman

State, but the National campaign
next year is commencing to be
realized. and there is as much in
terest being manifested in the
Philadelphia mayoralty contest in
| Williamsport, as there is in the
Allegheny county struggle in Du-
! Bois. People who have generally
regarded the political outbreaks in
] the two big counties as the Key
stone States hardy ANIMALS are
noting every days developments and
/ specializing on what it may mean
year from now. Washington and
New York people are observing the
movements and in Chicago. the out
come of the Quaker City battle is
being awaited with an eye on 1920.
Similarly, there are other con-
tests with a slant on State affairs
| just like our primary in Dauphin
! and the judicial struggles in Cam
bria, Washington, Westmoreland
and other counties and the Scran-
ton school board. the Altoona, city
manager mayoralty issue. and the
! Reading municipal affairs.
The Philadelphia Press in an
! interesting review of a couple OF
contests points out this State wide
significance. 1t says in an article by
Odell Hauser, it's legislative repre-
sentative: The coming Presidential
campaign will be momentous
enough. goodness knows, but 1t will
! have an added significance in Penn
sylvania on account of the Penrose
! candidacy. That is why it Is worth
I while paying particular attention to
these county contests. At the pres
ent moment they are more than
mere local squabbles."
The Press comments on Gov
ernor Sprouts activity against the
Mcclure ring, in the city of Chester
and says there was a big registra-
ton.
With politicians explaining, and
newspapers predicting on the
amazing size of the Philadelphia
registration, which broke all rec
ords and many a mans reputation
as prophet, the State is now
watching the result of Pittsburgh's
second day of registration. and some
charges and counter charges are be-
ing heard about it, The registration
estimated. The Gazette-Times
says: I'm 1915 the first days regis
tration was 80, AIS and in 1917, 49,
Ala. The total for 1915 was S4,-
3S9 and that for 1917, S5,352. In
each year there We're county and
city elections, as there are the pres
ent year. The number of voters in
terested on these occasions nearly
always exceeds the number OF those
who wish to participate in Presi-
dental election"
The Scranton Times says of the
registration in that city: "On Thurs
day, the Republicans registered g.
$50, and the Democrats, 2,156.
Scattered registrations. Thursday,
include 36 prohibitionists, % Social
lists and 43 non-committals. Thurs
days registration totaled 1923, as
against 1869 in 1917.
The Lackawanna county seat is
a center of interest because two
women are running for school di-
rector. Scranton had two women
school directors, and one died, and
one resigned. Men and women are
speaking on corners in the interest
of the candidacy of Mrs. Thomas
Murphy and Mrs. Edwin Gearhart.
Mrs. Murphy and Mrs. Gearhart
will also speak from automobiles.
One other woman, Mrs. A. E. Cor
nell. is also a candidate.
One of the side lights of the
Allegheny campaign, is the battle
for the Republican county trea-
surer nomination, between En-
Mayor ]. E. Armstrong and Captain
John H. Shenkel. Shenkel is the
soldier honored by the Belgian gov
ernment for extreme bravery on the
battlefield. and is very popular. For
clerk of courts, John Douglass is in
the transfer and hauling business,
and during the late street car strike
became endeared to the people by
carrying workingmen and women
to and from their work without
charge, while profiteers mulctied
the public a dollar a day for the
same service.
-Prohibitionists of Delaware
county are satisfied with the new
law governing the sale of intoxi-
cants but have decided to continue
the party organization for a time,
at least. At a conference held in
Chester Daniel G. Hendricks pre-
sided. and candidates for city and
county offices were indorsed.
C. II. Galloway, who resigned
from the United States Civil Serv-
ice Commission with a blast at
Postmaster General Burleson's pol
itical Vaccinations the very same
day that Pennsylvania postmasters
commended Mr.. Burleson, is we'll
known here. He says he means to
keep up the fight.
F. L. Truth is the name of n
candidate for sheriff of Beaver
county, where by the way, Judge G..
A. Baldwin decided that a woman
could not be a candidate for the
office or clerk CT the courts.
Herman F. Reich. a returned
soldier, living at Sunbury, has been
appointed deputy clerk of the
United States Courts of the middle
district. He will serve at Sunbury
and this city.
F. r. Hendershot, candidate
for denomination as county con-
troller of Luzerne, says in his ad
vertisements that he has handled
$14, 900, 900, boosted coal land val
| uations, and saved money and never
audited any mans religion, politics
or color.
wyoming, is on all tickets for the
primary and has no opposition on
any OF them.
-Lehigh county people say that
because of the Democratic row in
that county, there Is n chance of
Senator ii. w. Schantz becoming
the sole nominee for the new judge
ship in that county.
-Hazleton people are consider
ing 100000 bond issue for i'm
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