Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-13
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Soldier candidates are looming up
I everywhere, but in none more nu-
merously than in Lancaster county.
! William c. Rehm, Lancaster's city
solicitor, former commander OF
| Company B, 1Osth Machine Gun
| Battalion, is being mentioned as a
! possibility for the office of district
attorney He is likely to be slated
for the office by the Republican
party This announcement created
| great surprise. 1t had been generally
| conceded that Sumner V. Hoster-
+ man, now assistant district attorney,
and during the war period, in the
! absence of Lieutenant Colonel Cleon
n. Bernth eisel, acting district attor-
ney would be given the office. The
petition of General Edward c. Shan
non, of Columbia, for place on the
| Republican ticket as a candidate for
prothonotary is in circulation. Major
! Q. o. Reitzel will be the candidate
/ for register.
| A statement was issued yester-
| day by the Republican organiza-
ton of Pittsburgh, setting forth that
| five sitting common pleas court
! judges, who are seeking reelection
! in Allegheny county, and Judge II.
| Walton Mitchell of the orphans
court, who also is seeking full
term. He was appointed recently
by Governor William c. Sproul. The
| common pleas judges are John A.
Evans, John C. Haymaker, Henry G.
! Wasson, Charles H. Kline and
Stephen Stone. The statement in part
, follows:
1T has been fixed policy in Allie
! gheny county to retain on the bench
men who have served with fidelity.
The Regular Republican OrganiZa-
tion is desirouS of observing the pro-
visions of the law which now gov
erns the election of judges and
keeping the bench clear of partisan
politics. maintaining the high stand
ard in which our judiciary has been
Regarded and in adhering to the we'll
settled rule of keeping on the bench
men who have rendered faithful
service, has at the outset of this
campaign indorsed and will in the
coming primary election support the
candidates. of Judges Evans, Hay
maker, Wasson, Kline, Stone and
Mitchell"
A bombshell was thrown into
New Castle politics this week when
Councilman James E. Love present
ed resolution calling for a public
hearing for Councilman w. c.
Shanafelt, superintendent of public
safety and Republican candidate for
mayor at the coming primaries.
Shanafelt is charged in the resolu-
ton, with official misconduct. Fol-
lowing the proclamation of the res
olution, council voted to call upon
the city legal department to de-
termine whether there is sufficient
evidence to justify a public hearing.
Councilman Shanefelt himself voted
in favor of the move, asserting that
he "courted investigation in the
matter" and proclaimed his inno-
cence. Love has been a member of
New Castle council but a short time,
having taken the place made vacant
by the death of James A. Horton.
1t was asserted that in looking over
the city accounts Councilman Love
discovered a discrepancy. Action on
the matter followed almost immedi-
ately.
The reappointment of L.
Lowry Humes, of Pittsburgh, to be
United States Attorney for the
Western District. of Pennsylvania, an
office he resigned to serve in the
army during the war, was no sur
prise.
- he L TIllduSlpilld inquirer
says that when Representative
Ramsey, of Chester county, return
ed from Harrisburg for while he
seemed to think favorably of a prop
osition from some of his admirers
among the wet" forces that he
become a candidate for Congress in
the Delaware district, to
succeed Representative Thomas S.
Butler, but he has given up that
idea and will probably accept the
offer of influential leaders who are
prepared to back him for the office
of register of wills, for which an
election will be held next Novem-
ber.
State Senator William E. Crow, ac-
cording to Western Pennsylvania
politicians who have been east dur
ing the last few weeks, is more
than a receptive candidate to sue
ceed Philander Chase Knox in the
United States Senate, the Philadel-
phia Inquirer says, and continues:
admirers of Crow say that he has
been looking over the field and has
received assurances of support
which justify him in giving serious
consideration to the proposition. He
| has held the craftsmanship of the
Republicai State Committee since
1913 and as the leader of the State
Senate, he has come in contact with
active Republicans in every county
in the State and he has been in
position to serve many of them in
various ways, both at Harrisburg
and through the channels of the
party organization.
Now that the United States Sem
ators are nominated and elected by
popular vote friends of the State
chairman say he would have an
advantage in canvass through the
wide acquaintanceship he has in
every district in the Commonwealth.
But many things will happen
politically before this issue shall be
| termined."
Friends of the People
[From the New York Times.l
When the members of the fallen
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