Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-04
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BY the Ex-Committccman


ed some judges by remarks in his
annual report about enforcement Of
forest fire laws judging from letters
and inquiries coming to Capitol Hill.
The Chief Warden said bluntly that
it was hard to get judges and attor-
neys interested enough to convict
men who set woods on fire and that
considering the loss due to forest
fires, the prosecution policy was lax.
He also dealt a rap at county at
torneys to push violations of the
forest laws as a better measure of
fairness would be obtained.
The criticisms were the most
severe that have come off Capitol
Hill in a long time and the Interest
evinced seems to be in counties
where there are forest reserves. This
is the first time an official publica-
ton of the Forestry Department has
taken county authorities to task.
-This is the final week for fling
petitions for judicial nominations.
The time will expire on Thursday
night and the last week has been
marked by a rush of requests for
blank petitions which have been
sent out from the State Department
by the dozens. The records thus
far show that in some counties
where there are judges to be filed
no petitions have been filed and that
in others where contests loom up
only one or two have been put in.
The usual eleventh hour rush is ex-
pected with all its attendant possl-
bilities that petitions may go. down
because not in form. Last year over
ten petitions were rejected because
defects that could not be cured in
time were discovered. Three peti-
tons fell for this reason in the last
half hour of the filing period.
While most observers in politics
in Pennsylvania are of the opinion
that the Pinchot movement was d
personally conducted one and that
it will not amount to much in tne
long run, Odell Hauser writing Ill
the Philadelphia Press says that il
is going to be a factor in 1920. He
says: THE Ware strength will prob
bly, be behind it. Anyone would
think that Ware crowd had enough
of a fight on its hands in Philadel-
phia during the next few weeks to
keep it from going way up to Har-
risburg to look for another fight.
But apparently they don't think so.
1t looks as though their motto
might be a reversal of Washington's
famous maxim which would run
something like I'm time of war pre-
pare for another one" 1t is emin-
entity fitting that the Ware organiza-
ton should align itself with the
Progressives. They have one purpose
in common very strongly, namely
to whack Penrose. There may be
others, but they are not conspicu-
Gus.
The opposing candidates for
the Republican Mayoralty' nomina-
ton in Philadelphia will be un-
blanketed this week. The Evening
Bulletin says that many petitions
are out asking A. Lincoln Acker to
run and that John T. Windrim will
not be a candidate. The Inquirer
says: Notwithstanding Senator
Vare's statement that he is not conf
mitted to any candidate for Mayor
and his linking of the names of
John 7. Windrim, former Mayor
Edwin S, Stuart, City Solicitor John
P. Connelly and George Wharton
Pepper, with those of Receiver OF
Taxes w. Freeland Kendrick and
Judge John M. Patterson as avail
ables, the opinion prevails among
potential Ware lieutenants that
Judge Patterson will ultimately DE
picked as the Ware candidate.
Friends of Judge Patterson stated
yesterday that they look for Re-
ceiver Kendrick to formally with
draw from the race this week and
come out for the nomination of
Patterson and to ask his friends to
do likewise" The Public Ledger
presents this thought: "It is believ-
ed that with the expected an
nouncement from Mr.. Kendrick,
urging support for Judge John NJ.
Patterson, the Wares will end their
dilatory tactics and that Judge Pat
terson will at once make a public
statement declaring himself a can
didate for the mayoralty."
This is from the Pittsburgh
GazetteTimes "If the action of the
Postal Telegraph-Cabl Company in
reducing rates as soon as the wires
were turned over by the Govern
ment may be taken as a criterion,
the way to reduce the cost of Nv
ing is to remove Government con-
troll.
Various candidates for District
Attorney of Lycoming county have
withdrawn in favor of Lieutenant
Carl A. Schug, who abandoned his
law practice to enlist in the u. S.
Army, served with distinction in
France and came home with a
wound, which laid him up for some
time.
Cambria county now has three
candidates for Judge and Somerset
four.
Many Democrats heard with
sorrow of the death of Ex-Repre-
sentative Fred T. Ikeler, of Blooms
burg, for several years one of the
fghting Democrats in the Legisla-
ture. He was quite figure in Stat .
politics when some present Demo-
cratic leaders were field mice.
-Congressman j. Hampton
Moore writing in the Evening pub
lie Ledger on the way Attorney
General A. Mitchell Palmer has biz
business with him remarks: The
secret of Mr.. Palmer's popularity
with the big financiers and business
men, who had very little interest in
him when he was boosting Wilson
for President, is due to the manner
IN which the alien property custo-
dian office has been managed,
City Treasurer George N. Burk-
| halter has the inside track for post
| master of Butler by a civil service
examination. The place has been
kept vacant since November, when
| W. T. Mechling died. Mechling was
well known here.
Reading, Republicans have de.
cided to try to put over a slate for
Berks county. Robert e. Harvey,
| of Reading, will head it for Sheriff.
New Castle newspapers say pro-
htbition decreased arrests $50 Der
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