Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-15
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Ps~'ss4ssassia
BY the Ex-Committeeman

/ An official State guide on how to
mark ballot at the November cleo
ton under the act passed by the
recent Legislature will be issued in
few days from the Department of
the Secretary of the Commonwealth
1t was compiled by George D. Thorn,
chief of the Bureau of Elections,
and prepared in response to many
requests.
The booklet will give the act of
1903 with the amendmnt of July
! 3, 1919, regarding the way to vote
for candidates where there are a
group to be elected such as Congress
at large in even numbered years
and city council in odd numbered
years. The ways to vote a straight
ticket and to vote for candidates in
party columns are also shown.
Eight illustrations given on a
condensed ballot form are presented.
They were made up from dozens of
inquiries as to situations which
might arise in marking ballots.
Many of them were reported in cleo
tions last year.
The Attorney Generals Department
will appear in behalf of the State at
the argument in the Supreme Court
at Pittsburgh on the appeal from
| the decision of the Dauphin county
court in the Wasson sole nominee"
case. Until this case is decided the
Allegheny county judicial nominal
tions cannot be certified. All other
| judicial nominations have been cer-
titled.
| Official returns on the superior
court judicial nominations show
| that there were but 1856 scattering
/ votes cast for that office. Judge
William IL. Keller, the certified can
didate, got all the rest.
Representative Hugh A. Daw
son, of Scranton, chairman of the
important Ways and Means Commit
tee of the House of Representatives
was here yesterday to look after
Lackawanna county matters and was
congratulated by many friends upon
the record he made in the House. /
Mr.. Dawson has already announced
that he will be u candidate for re- !
nomination next year, and there are |
many men who would like to see |
him be Speaker. With Representa- |
tives Z. r. Cox and S. ]. Cans, Of /
Philadelphia, and w. T. Ramsey, of
Delaware, three veterans out of the
House, the Lackawanna man will
loom up among the veterans, and !
with his qualities of leadership will |
surely occupy a big place in the next
Legislature. Incidentally Mr.. Daw-
son, while the demands are heavy |
upon his time, seems able to get |
many things attended to for his !
district.
Governor Wil'iam c. Sproul is
having his own troubles meeting en-
gagements these days. He has so
many demands for speeches and |
visits tlNt he cannot accept ono
tenth of them, and the one-tenth |
take up much more time than i've
feels he should give from his work.
The Governor, it is not generally |
known, works as hard at his job as |
he did when he was building up his |
own enterprises. and keeps in touch |
with the routine of the departme |
in an amazing way. While he has |
the facility of quickly grasping sit
uations, the multiplicity of the things |
he must know as Governor make |
him work long hours. He is as busy
on railroad trains as he is in his |
office.
Chester county will have only
two columns on the ballot this year. |
cratic.
Lawsuits to prevent people from |
getting on the Equal Rights party !
ticket are being started at PottSvillc. |
Montgomery county has Il Single !
Tax party ticket this Year among
other troubles.
-CongreSsman j. Hampton Moore
writes in the Evening Ledger: |
'Wh ether the plans to make Thomas !
Robins congressional candidate in |
the Second district works out or not. |
there are indications that that dis
trict. now represented by former
District Attorney George S. Graham. !
viii be contested. Tsadorc Stern. |
who was the star witness in the
Fifth Ward murder trial, let it he |
known in Washington on his last
visit that he is thihking of running
for Congress. Isadore does not now
live in the Fifth Ward, but has aiken
up his residence in the Second Con- |
gressional district. Mrs Stern, who
went through all the Fifth Ward |
trouble with her husband is one of
the active spirits in the Philadelphia
Sec ton, Council of Jewish Women.
headed by Mrs. f. A. Margolis."
The Philadelphia Inquirer OF
yesterday said: while Lawrence II. |
Rupp, of Allentown, will likely re-
main the Democratic State chair
man, he will be more or less of a
t.tular officer The Palmer cam ,
paign calls for a more energetic
party manager and Assistant Post
master General James l. Baksleo
will be the field marshal. The
Democratic State headquarters will
be the center of the Palmer cam
paign and every effort will be made
to give the move to corral dele
gates an official cast. While the
plans are being made very thor
oughly it does not look as though
Vance c. Mccormick, the former
Democratic national chairman, will
have very much to do with things.
Palmer will have beside BIakslpe.
Joseph f. Guffey, of Pittsburgh:
the Mclean brothers, of Wilkes
Barre; f. j. Lynett. of Scranton;
Postmaster John M. Thornton, of
Philadelphia and Bruce f. Sterling.
of Fayette county, and others of
like energy and ability around his
council table"
Allentown Democrats have con-
graduated Postmaster Martin
Kl!nger on being reappointed. He
is widely known as the leader of
Allentown's most famous band.
The high cost OF politics in the
Democratic ranks of PENNSYLVANIA
is still mounting. M. J. Porter.
/, postmaster at Wayne. told the Joint
| committee of Congress investigating
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