Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-29
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BY the Ex-Committceman

Reorganizations of departments
of the State government affected by
acts recently approved by the Gov
ernor have been definitely put off
until September. Some were sched-
uled to be made early in August
but in accordance with Governor
William c. Sprouts desire the chiefs
of departments will first submit
their plans to him. AS a result a
number of changes which would
have gone into effect the first two
weeks of August have gone over un-
til after the vacation period, some
people getting new lease of life
as State attaches.
one of the reasons assigned for
the postponement of changes is the
Governors desire that departmental
methods shall not be upset and
that new systems which have been
under consideration and in accord
with ideas of modern business shall
become effective with new people
In the case of the Department of
Agriculture there will be much new
work undertaken. The Workmen's
compensation Bureau will operate
as 1T has been for the present; the
officers having been renamed.
Auditor General Charles A. Sny-
der, who returned to Harrisburg. to-
day, is preparing TO, put into effect
the changes in the taxation and
similar laws which have been
authorized by recent acts. He will
not make any moves in regard to
the mercantile appraiser appoint
ments until fall.
Tr ThprnoS
superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton, also plans to begin the changes
in his department this fall.
The Scranton Times SAYS: "The
reappointment of John Durkin as
postmaster meets with very general
approval. Mr.. Durkin during the
past four years of his incumbencv
mas made a splendid postmaster and
given unsparingly of his personal at
tentlon to the office. He has served
well during a trying period. Mr..
Durkin is the seventh postmaster of
scranton since the formation Of
Lackawanna county. 1t NAV he
said he is the first Scranton post
master to be reappointed."
councilman p. j. McArdle. Rob-
ert Garland, John II. Henderson
w. II. Robertson and Daniel Winters
OF Pittsburgh, who are candidates
TO succeed themselves, have enter
ed INTO an agreement to conduct n
JOINT campaign in the September
primaries and the November eIec-
ton.
The Johnstown Tribune cor,-
menting on Bryan's plan for Fed
eral supervision of newspapers
says: Not even the existing Dem
ocratic autocracy has broached such
plan. 1t has gone the limit in
censorship, but has not proposed a
permanent news bureau to take the
place OF existing agencies for the
collection of news.
-Ihe Somerset judicial campaign
is all upset. John NJ. Berkev and
Norman T. Boose had the field 70
themselves until few days apo
A Somerset letter says: "The sitro
tlon was changed over night when
attorneys Ernest o. Kooser and
Charles Il. Uhl became candidates
1or the nonpartisan nomination. and
there is now abundant material
from which the most fastidious
voter may select his man for judicial
TIMBER. one thing is now as certain
as anything can be: No one candi-
cate VIII receive 81 per centum of
the votes cast in the primary cleo
ton and the threatened catastronbe
is thus happily averted."
-Berks county, the citadel of tho
Democracy in Pennsylvania, is fur
nishing an interesting example of
the way the once famous organiza-
tion has been split up the back nv
factionaliSm. There are two we'll
defined factions in that county. both
of which are well organized. and
which will fight to a finish, proba blv
even after the primary, because of
the bitterness displayed. One of the
| Democratic factions is headed bv
Lott w. Reiff, who is United States
naval officer at the port of Philadel-
! phia, and the anti-Reiff contingent
, is led by Ira w. Kutz, former District
Attorney, and prospective aspirant
for the Congressional nomination
next year, and John f. Ancona, for
mer county chairman. The latter
two are followeds of Judge Bonni-
well, of Philadelphia, while Reiff
represents the Palmer McCo Cormick
element.
Chester city politicians are all
heated up over the endorsement
given by Governor Sprouts news
papers to the new Chester Republi-
| can League. The Philadelphia Press
fsays: while the platform of the
new political organization is general
! in it's character, having for it's prin-
! cipal purpose better men for Mayor
and City Council in Chester and for
good men for the county Offices, yet
lin the background the underlying
object of, the league is the forcing