Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-17
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. IL, 1919
True happiness
PRIMARY RESULTS
- HE returns of the primary
elections in Harrisburg and
Dauphin county Yesterday

Dauphin county yesterday
forecast a great Republican victory
at the general elections in Novem-
Der. More than that, they prove
most conclusively that the rank
and file of the voters in both city
and county very distinctly favor the
present Republican party manage
ment in this district and endorse the
organizations choice of men to rep
resent the party in public office. Be-
yond that, even, is the fact that
there can be no mudslinging in the
coming campaign, and, without eX-
ception, the Republicans nominated
are above reproach and worthy of
support
From the very outstart the at
tempt to create a factional split in
the party was ill-advised and GER
tain of defeat. The organization as
at present constituted has not in
single instance sponsored u candi-
date who has not made good in Of
fee. The weakness of the Demo-
cratic party in this county is very
largely attributed to the fact that
the courthouse has been we'll man
aged and that the leaders of the
opposition have not been able to
find anything to criticise adversely
in the conduct of county affairs in
recent years.
Honesty and efficiency in office are
all the average voter wants. That
is what party organization is for,
and so long as an organization de-
clines to give its support to any but
capable men of good reputation the
majority of that party's adherents
may be expected to stand by it. This
is what happened in the city and
county this time. Republicans,
greatly in the majority, have OBJ
served that the organization candi-
dates in past years have handled
their Offices well and honestly and
they have rallied to the support of
those men who this time have had
organization endorsement, believing,
and very properly so, that this con-
sdtuted the mark of a good man.
So many candidates come forward
in the open primaries that a trust
worthy political leadership performs
q distinct public service when it does
what W. Harry Baker, as chairman
Of the candidates committee, and
IAeutenant-Governor E. E. Beidle-
man did previous to the primaries.
In affect they said: I'VE are among
the leaders Of the Republican party
I'm Harrisburg and Dauphin county.
We have been entrusted with the
welfare OF the party management
here We are responsible to a very
considerable degree for the favor or
dizfavor with which the Republi-
cans Of city and county hold the
party. For the sake of the party
and our own leadership, if for no
other reason, we must see to it that
good men are nominated, IL possible
Therefore, we have chosen from the
aszd those we believe to be best suit
Cd for the places to which they
aspire and we endorse them. They
are as follows" and then they gave
TO the public a list of those candi-
dates who appear as winners in yes
terday's primaries.
It was all in the open. There was
no concealment anywhere. Their
Leadership had been challenged and
they came back with a request for
vtndication at the hands of the
sSoesea- That they were vindicated
= glance at the primary returns will
show.
And what an outpouring of Re-
pubiicans it wasl How discouraging
the figures must be to the Demo
cratic bosses! How pitiful the hand
full of votes their candidates receiv-
ed as compared with the tremen-
dous totals which the Republicans
rolled up. 1t is a noticeable fact
that the defeated Republicans. al.
uost to a man polled more votes
than the victorious Democrats. The
Lsesuits aSA highly. satisfactory tc