Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-09
PeeHc4 Il
Psnns.itsa'tia
By the Ex.CommitteeznAs

For the first time in years the law
has TO be disregarded and State law
ofncers who were consulted about il
say that there is nothing else to do
as the figures. have not been re-
! ceived
Telephone and telegraphic mes
sages have been sent to county seats
urging that the returns be rushed.
Dauphin county is one of the coun-
! ties which was late. the Others being
located in distant parts of the State.
Much interest is being shown here
in reports of various independent
movements In the State. Some at
tempts TO pre-empt names for local
use have been made at the Capitol
but as the elections this year ar'
purelN county or municipal the
papers were returned.
Howard w. Douglas. city So
licitor OF Mckeesport. was recon-
mended for Republican county
chairman of Allegheny to succeed
( Judge Charles ii. Kline OF common
pleas court. who resigned when he
was appointed TO the bench. ut "A
meeting of ward and city cha 'rmcn
in the office of Mayor F. V. Bah
cock. Attorney George We'll. Of
Braddock. vice cha rman OF the
'ouHNg 'OInllllilee, VINO ucIe0 TOl-
lowing the appointment OF Chair
man Kline to the bench, was asked
to call meeting OF the county com
mittee for Tuesday waen the chair
man will be chosen. The Pittsburgh
| Dispatch says: Several names
were suggested but agreement was
! reached that CITY Solicitor Doug
las selection would reunite all ele-
: ments of the party in the county"
Joseph f. Guffey. tho western
! PENNSYLVANIA end OF the Palmer or
eanization of the keystone state
Democracy. is getting busy at Wash
( ington again. Following his visit
! there il was announced that Attor-
ney General A. Mitchell Palmer had
made these appointments:
Edword +. Duffy. of Pittsburgh.
ms special assistant district attorney
vice r. II. McGinniss. of Pittsburgh
recently appointed special assistant
attorney general
Major Augustus P. Burswin. of
Pittsburgh. as sp"cial assistant dis
irict attorney, vice c. II. King. re-
signed
The Pittsburgh Post SAYS:
Both appointm were made on
recommendation of Mr.. Guffey as
divisional chairman of the Demo-
cratic State committee for Western
pennsylvania. IL is understood the
appointees will take office as soon
as they can he sworn in. MIR. Duffy
one OF the new appointees, is now
United States commissioner at
PittsbuI gh and has been active in
Democratic politics in Pennsylvania
for many years, serving as a dele
gate to state and national conven-
tions."
The Philadelphia Public Ledger
says there is need for the Committee
OF One Hundred to show in the
| Held. IL remarks: 1T is impossible
| to look for frank and loyal co-opera-
| ton from council the majority of
the members OF which owe their
allegiance to the leaders of n de-
feated and discredited faction. For
these and many other reasons that
/ could be given the fight at the No
vember election will center around
the candidates for the council.
Hence the necessity for untiring
vigilance on the part of every good
citizen against n return to power of
, the politicians whom they repudi-
ated at the primary"
The independent movement has
blown up in Montgomery county
but seems TO be under way in Read
, ing, Lancaster and Altoona. The
Altoona Tribune says: The non
partisan league executive committee
Will announce the labor ticket to be
placed in the field in the course of
the next day or two. Numerous rtl-
mors have been flying around as to
whom the candidates for. the various
city and county offices would he, but
, TINS VIII not be determined until the
ticket has been announced"
! There are l5l candidates for
| county surveyor of Lehigh county.
according 10 the official tabulation
| OF the vote, and the county comm's-
siorers are in quandary as to the
/ printing OF the ballots. The situa-
/ tlon came about primarily through
the fact that there We're neither Re-
] publican nor Democratic candidates
! for this office at the primary cleo
! ton last month, and secondarily he
cause the office, although on the
| official roster ever since the county
: was created 107 years ago. has al
/ ways been dead letter so names
were written in. ts'. ....
, james NJ. Breslin. Democratic
candidate for district attorney in
! Carbon county. has withdrawn be-
I
out his consent Former Burgess
/ Thomas Gallagher, of Lansford. at
! the solicitation of his friends, has
! consented to become a candidate for
! chairman of the Democratic COM
! mittee Of the county to succeed At
! torney Frank p. Sharkey. of Mauch
| Chunk. and for this position he has
no opnosition' as yet.
! -Elwood City voters will vote on
Il bond issue for 100000 for the
erection of new school. at the No
vemher election.
| The official count of the Read
! ing primary vote shows that ]. w
! II. Glass, comparatively a newcom-
I er in. the city and local politics
came near getting nomination on
! the Republican ticket for city coun-
! Gil. There were four nominations
to he made and Glass ran fifth. He
came in ahead of the veteran, =
! Frank Ruth, now serving his third
! consecutive term in council. nv
nearly 400 votes. Ruth losing for the
/ first time in long political career.
! Glass is a brother OF Leopold Glass
of philadelphia, . Ware leader in
the T.egislature. He went to live in
| Reading about two years ago.
I The Philadelphia Record oh
serves: The primary ma iority for
Mr.. Moore is apparently lass then
2.000. More than 25.000 Philadel-
phia Democrats registered as Re-
pnblicans and voted for him al the
recent nrimaries. They so regis