Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-29
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By the Ex-Committeeman

"spottiest'' in years. In some coun-
Ties there are partisan contests that
| recall old days, in others there are
| independent movements, while in
stlll others loan campaigns create
! new angles, but in the majority of
! the counties the campaigns close is
| quiet.
; 1t is apparent that generally the
Republicans have gotten over their
sharp primary contests and are pre-
pairing for a sweep next week as a
means of putting things into proper
shape for presidential, congress
sional and legislative year. Demo-
cratlc factionalism has cropped out
IN a score of counties.
Tho Philadelphia and Allegheny
county situations, which created
some uneasiness because of the
strenuosity of the primary contests,
nave quieted down and the Nc
Laughlin baying at the moon and
the chickering's over councilmanic
seats are about the only excitement
| scranton, Erie, Reading, Wilkes
Barre and Johnstown are affording
good examples of the partisan con-
tests just now, in each place there
being a Democratic effort to come
! BECK. The Socialists are busy liz
Reading and Allentown, but as a
rule, 1t is not expected that Labor
parties will do much.
In Philadelphia yesterday Con-
gresham j. Hampton Moore, read
the riot act to Republican leaders
VINO were disposed to take things
for granted, told policemen to keep
out of politics and ignored the fan
tastlc calls of Joe MacLaughlin for
| joint debate.
County Chairman Harry Doug
lass, of Allegheny, has issued a call
to the Republican county commit
teemen of his county to get on the
job at once and to be prepared to
submit reports at a meeting to be
held on Saturday.
-Hughey Jennings, the baseball
manager, is taking part in the
Democratic campaigns in Lacka-
wanna and Luzerne counties.
Senator Edwin Ware says that
there is too much apathy in the
campaign in his city.
The big Altoona meeting ar
ranged for tomorrow night has had
to be postponed. Small ward meet
ings will be held.
The Johnstown Tribune is max
ing some caustic comments these
days upon the divided state into
which the Democracy of Cambria
has fallen and is also having fun
with Brother Warren Worth Bailey,
of the Johnstown Democrat. Mr..
Bailey is not in sympathy with the
way the Democratic State or coun-
ty machines are run and is not
backward about presenting his
views. The Tribune quotes q Bailey
thunderbolt and then says: Editor
Bailey warns Messrs. Caulfield,
GomperS, and the other Democratic
candidates that late elections have
afforded n painful yet sanitary re-
minder to Democrats of the disfavor
into which their party has fallen
Mr.. Bailey sees what is ahead. He
would not have men with whom he
is associated in politics deliberately
seek defeat. He offers n plan which
will. at least, preserve the self-re-
spect of the Democratic candi-
dates"
Eight boroughs in Allegheny
county will vote on bond issues
totaling S1,257,503 at the general
election. November 4. The money,
if authorized, will be spent for new
school buildings, municipal build
ings, purchase of parks and recrea-
ton centers and for street improve
ments. The boroughs are Avalon,
Bellevue, Ben Avon, Carnegie, Sc
wickley, Swissvale, Tarentum, West
View and Port Vue.
Just as an instance of the way
things are continuing to go in
Lackawanna county and the real
old time partisan fight that is being
waged these paragraphs from the
Scranton Republican may be cited
n fnly nj rnIg nf
the sort that does duty in every
political campaign in this commun-
ity, are now working overtime to de-
ceive the public. No. sooner is one
of those fabrications exposed than
others take its place, like the heads
of the tabled hydra that multiplied
the more they were cut off. Coun-
ty Commissioner Won Bergen tore
the trap rock falsehood to shreds,
and showed that instead of Minor
ity Commissioner Boland protesting
! against the use of Campbell's Ledge
stone for road repairs, as he had
been claiming in Il loud voice and
flour-sack type, he actually partici-
pated in contracting for that ma
terial as substitute rendered
necessary by war conditions"
The Philadelphia Press is afraid
some one will try to scuttle tho
new charter ship. In an editorial,
It says: at has taken years of dis
interested work on the part of pub
lie spirited citizens to get the re-
form and improvements in the or
ganiZation of the city government
embodied in the new charter. Those
changes have always been fought by
! politicians in their own selfish in
terests, needless of the public well
fare. The municipal government is
nothing to them unless it can be
''" their profit They
have had n long sway, but the end
is in sight if citizens are true to
themselves at the election next
week"
! Here is very significant para
graph from the Altoona Tribune
! The Altoona people have been
among the staunch upholders of the
nonpartisan municipal election law
/ and sent delegation here last win
| ter to oppose the repeal. The
| Tribune says: "The real founders
| of the Nonpartisan party and the
! trainers of its ticket were the
| Democratic managers of the city;
their purpose being the election of
the Democratic ticket by dividing
the Republican vote"
Congressman j. Hamilton Moore
writes this data in the Philadelphia
| Ledger about q former Dauphin
countain: George w. Coles, the
| generalissimo of the Town Meeting
| party, is the author of a new style