Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-08
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Pennsylvania
BY the Tx Committeeman

terest in Pennsylvania politics to-
day and it is estimated by the Pitts
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES that about 54,-
600 persons will be entitled to vote
at the polls to-day. The campaign
has been strenuously waged, quite
in keeping with Pittsburgh's way
of doing things and meetings, pa
rades and the like have taken place.
Mayor Re. V. Babcock has been a
prominent figure on the stump in
behalf of the loan.
The Gazette-Times says the Mayor
is confident that the Sc, 600, 900 sub
way item, which the Pittsburgh Dis
patch has been fighting, will carry
two to one. The Dispatch says that
the defeat of the item is probable
and urges voters to vote as they
talk. The Pittsburgh Post strongly
urges the people to send every item
over the top, as we did everyone
of our war quotas"
There are eve items and the
program is the most extensive ever
known in the State outside of Phila-
delphia.
People who follow politics are
commencing to discuss what an in
teresting situation will be presented
at the judicial primaries and general
~ Aht1AA aAANAS VI l. III
sylvania this fall when there will
be no liquor issue in the land. For
years every judicial election has
been torn up by the liquor license
issue and more than one judge of
prominence has gone down to de-
feat because of it. There is no sign
of the issue being raised in any of
the counties as yet, but it will posi-
bly, arise and there may be contests
r.- -
ment, although if it is made a con-
gresSional matters the voters will not
have much to say about it.
Pennsylvania Congressman are
commencing to hear from people
throughout the State about the way
the prohibition situation has been
handled and it is reported that some
have received letters urging action.
Capitol Hill is commencing to
display nervousness owe the posi-
bility that there may be a pay day
on July Is without pay, such as
occurred a couple of times during
the Brumbaugh administration. The
emergency appropriation, designed
to take care of the pay of people
connected with the State Govern
ment n to meet h expenses OF
the various departments until the
general appropriation bill was APP
proved, did not provide for anything
beyond the first of July, 1t being
hoped that the general a~ppropria-
ton bill could be signed before the
fifteenth. However, there are all
sorts of possibilities in general bills,
especially when they carry over S44,-
600, 900 such as that now on the
desk of the Governor takes with 1t,
and there may be some close con-
nections. The heads of the various
departments who gave the appro-
priation chairmen figures on the
livery least they could get along
on have been asked to send to the
Governor statements of their real
minimum estimates and also what
positions they consider essential"
The Governor is expected TO
take up the general and the cnarl-
table appropriation bills with Au-
ditor General Charles A. Snyder and
Chairman William ]. McCaig. of the
House appropriations committee, TINS
evening and will probably commence
to his action on the DIS
There are over $50 in his hands
and the time is up on uly 20
1t is commencing to look k
an old fashioned fight for the may
orally of Lebanon, as Mayor Georse
T. Spang has announced that he Will
be a candidate succeed himself
and city Commissioner George c.
Krause. we'll known to many Har-
risburgers, has let it be known that
he intends to seek the mayoralty,
too. These two men have been rivals
in Lebanon politics for years. Spang
is a Republican, and Krause a DEM
ocrat. and whether the election is
nonpartisan or not, it will be worth
watching.
Or. Homer w. Tope, superin-
tendent of the Anti-Saloon League
at Philadelphia, who is active n the
movement for election of dry" men
to the next LEGISLATURE, says that he
believes worldwide prohibition is
coming.
Joseph s. Mclaughlin. director
of supplies of Philadelphia, Is said
to have a mayorality idea, but 1t is
not meeting with favor in the Ware
camp where Kendrick stock is quot
ed at high figures.
CONGRESSMAN J. Hampton Moore
has written in his column in the
Philadelphia Evening Ledger this
Interesting story about a State of
official: DR.. Francis D.. Patterson,
Of the Department of Labor and In
dustry at Harrisburg, rushed to
Washington at the instance of Gov
ernor Sproul the other day in an eff
fort to destroy n rider giving addi-
tional powers to the Federal Bureau
Of Mines. which had been sneaked
in on the Senate side without notice
TO the House. The doctor was hot
under the cellar, as were a number
of other State officials. who COM
plained they had been taken by sur
prise. The purpose of the rider was
to give the bureau of mines fifteen
new inspectors at fat salaries, and
the States representatives contend
ed that they would only interfere
with efficient State regulations and
harass business men. A quickhsht
was made against the rider and it
went out. the House for once stand
ing unanimous against the invasion
of the Senate.