Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-22
Peehca L.
Per.eqGsa~ia
BY tho Ex-Conmitteeman

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among men who follow politics in
! the Keystone State and the fact that
Senator Miles Poindexter, of the
| State of Washington, is to be the
speaker has added to the interest.
Pinchot is careful to say that the
purpose is to strengthen and not
divide the Republican party" and
that the county needs a Republican
| administration and that I'VE earn
estly desire Republican success
At the same time he has enough OF
warning in the call to make peo-
! pie think.
| Some believe that Pinchot, who
wants to be a delegate to the next
national Republican convention, de-
! sires to assemble the herd and make
such n noise that he will be given
| consideration and some of the old
Bull Moosers be recognized when
| the delegation is elected. Others be-
| lieve that it is a scheme of the old
| Roosevelt element to start som ething
| in the East for Poindexter, who is
among the men mentioned as good
timber by Senator Penrose recently.
Still others think that Pinchot j5
not satisfied with even the way Ma
tional Chairman Will II. Hays is
doing and want to keep the fires
of insurgency and progressiveism
alight so that they can be framed
in case of emergency. Pinchot has
been very active in getting about the
State lately as progressive Granger
and some are unkind enough to re-
mark that he may be trying to round
up the herd on behalf of the Re-
publican organization. The former
forester is a close personal friend
of the Governor, who named him to
the Forestry Commission and time
has dimmed his antpathy to Sena-
tor Penrose and other leaders.
In any event the Democrats do not |
think it. The Philadelphia Record |
refers to Pinchot as representative
of the "copper-fastened" progress |
ives and the Harrisburg Patriot
tries to make it appear as though a
national revolt was being framed up.
People at the Democratic State
windmill have not been disturbed by
the Philadelphia Public Ledger's ex-
pose of their sending of letters to
federal employees suggesting Contri-
buttons and not only admit that they
have sent them, but trust that they
will bring forth fruit. One of the
interesting things about it is that
the Mccormick newspapers which
used to style such things ASSESS
ments" when the Republicans put
them out have nothing to say.
democrats in southern Pennsyl-
vania counties refuse to be recon-
ciled to the abolition of the historic
Ninth International Revenue Dis
trict with headquarters at Lancas-
ter, when the Scranton district still
maintains it's headquarters flag with
reorganization Democrats not nearly
as active in the critical days as Ben
Davis, of Lancaster, in charge.
Friends of Davis are sitting in their
tent doors saying things about the
ingratitude of bosses when they get
secure in power and predict that
the Bonniwell people may get well
comes instead of brickbats when they
come around to start the prelimi-
naries to the 1920 delegate elections.
Governor Sprouts approval of
the repeal of the nonpartisan law
for third class city mayoralty and
councilmanic election does not meet
the approval of the Philadelphia
North American which takes two
columns to say so. The North
American says that the Governor is
a partisan and that he never meant
to veto the bill. The few third.
class city newspapers which opposed
the Governors action have long
ceased to mourn and have been
printing stories of the marked poll
tiCal activity that has followed the
repeal of the act.
The Reading Socialists have
nominated a whole city ticket on a
party platform with ]. Henry Stump,
recently candidate for the Legis-
lature, as nominee for mayor.
-Schuylkill enrolment is said to
show a gain of $500 for Republi-
cans. Pottsville, the county's only
city, will also show a gain. The
North American remarks that this
county was Democratic a decade ago.
John Williams, candidate for
Sheriff in Chester county, has with
drawn and will likely be named
mercantile appraiser. The Chester
county Republican slate is said to
be: For District Attorney Raymond
b. Reed, of Spring City; Register of
Wills, Major John S. Croft, of West
Chester; Prothonotary, Lieutenant
Fred A. Talbot; Clerk of the Courts.
Councilman Fred Heed, of West
Chester; County Commissioners,
Harris Butler and Louis Klay; Re-
corder of Deeds, Warren Carson, of
Coatesville; County Treasurer, Har-
vey Krauser, of Lionville; Sheriff,
John Pechin, oxford.
Returned soldiers are figuring in
the running in many of the Central
Pennsylvania counties. Cumberland.
Franklin, York, Lebanon and Berks
all have service men candidates for
nominations in both parties.
-Governor Sprouts appointment
OF II. Walton Mitchell as Judge of
the Allegheny county orphans court
is generally commended in Pitts
burgh, especially by newspapers.
which carry editorial approval.
Stories of a new political line
up aimed by Senator Max G.. Leslie
in Allegheny county are coming
here. There will be a big fight
over city and county nominations in
Pittsburgh and the county this fall
and the Senator may have a battle
for his slate.
The Philadelphia Record saws
editorially: Governor Sprouts de-
cision not to mix in our Mayoraltv
fight may have been prompted bv
Iine sense of political eXpediencv.
but we are quite prepared to believe
that there was a higher quality in
his thought. Our fight is, indeed
not the affair of any resident of
Chester or of any other city. town
or hamplet in Pennsylvania, 1t is
not the affair of the State, though
it may be admitted that all decent
Pennsylvanians will be glad if every
decent Philadelphian decides TO