Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-30
Pseit;ca t.
Psss'sa4agsa~ia
BY the Ex.C Committeeman

attacks on Senator E. H. Ware max
ing him notable.
! Frank J.-German, former Demo-
cratic county commissioner, will be
his campaign manager and his ticket
will be made of Democrats and
Ware men. What ne hopes to ac-
complish is trouble. His papers
have been made ready and will be
filed soon. He will make a lively
campaign and some look for the
Wares to throw him support.
The Ware city committee, by the
way, has started to food city hall
in Philadelphia with requests for
campaign contributions.
! Councilman Charles Seger, of
Philadelphia who died yesterday at
the age of II, was we'll known to
many here. He was a figure at the
old State conventions and was a
Penrose stalwart. He had much to
do with starting the Senator in
politics.
The late George Pearson, pro-
| thonotary Of the Supreme Court,
whose body was found on railroad
tracks near Pittsburgh, was one of
the best known men in the State
years ago. He was secretary of the
Republican State Committee in the
early eighties and one of the leaders
in the Mercer section where he was
born. His father was a cousin of
the late Judge John ]. Pearson, of
| this city. George Pearson came
here first as message clerk in the
Senate many years ago and rose to
be chief clerk in the House. He is
said to have been the first man to
memorize the list of the House
members and to call it without look
ing at blank, an unusual feat even
in this day. When Governor James
A. Beaver came in Mr.. Pearson be-
came his private secretary. He was
a lawyer and man of wide reading.
| He was named as Western District
prothonotary of the Supreme Court
in 1892 and of the Superior Court
when organized.
The Philadelphia Press has this
to say editorially on an interesting
Democratic slant: Warren Worth
Bailey, our esteemed contemporary
OIL lu6 JOIluSIOWn b6IAOCIdI dnQ oil
ex-member of Congress, who has
| been heretofore an unconpromising
supporter of the administration, has
now turned his batteries against it
and a good deal of its works. Be-
fore Mr.. Bailey became a Wilson
man he was a most enthusiastic
Bryan man, and as the Presidential
campaign is coming on. with Bryan
understood to be watching for a
chance to run for the fourth time,
there are some people liable to think
that Mr.. Bailey has merely gone
back to his earlier allegiance. This
is a world of change"
The Somerset county official
count is the latest to overturn a
sure-thing nomination. The county
ticket was changed by the result.
| Lewis Helm, saloonkeeper of
Cresson, probably will be the pro-
hibition nominee for county COM
missioner in Schuylkill. He received
tie vote with w. r. Adamson, the
Republican nominee for the office,
and Adamson does not care to con-
test for the nomination. Helm was
candidate for the Democratic
nomination for commissioner, but
was ruled off the ballot because of
irregularities in his petition.
| Thomas F. Healy, we'll known
legislative correspondent, in a sign
ed article in the Public Ledger, says
that the Ware organization was over
thrown by it's own arrogance and
overconfidence. He gives the result
| of a years close study of the organi-
zation, which he says was regarded
as "the strongest political machine
in America" and remarks: Now
while the count proceeds and the
Ware leadership is grasping at
straws the men who traded and the
men who ducked are seeking a
leader. The ward politicians and the
officeholders and prospective Office
holders who bowed to Ware are seek
ing cover and the direction of some
one who can feed them in the pas
lures of the land of patronage"
George Roth, Allentown news
paper man, has this to say about
the interesting Lehigh county situa-
ton: 1.-THE fight for the additional
iudgeship of Lehigh county tops the
interest in the campaign in which
State Senator Horace W. Schantz
will be pitted against the veteran
Democratic warhorse, former Sen
ator Milton c. Henninger. Both had
hoped to win at the primaries, and
they and their cohorts are busy an
alyzing the vote and public sentiment
to discover why each one of them
did not get 81 per cent of the vote
and win right off the reel. The fight
admittedly will be close, and much
will depend on how the 1000 voters
who at the primary cast their ballots
for Congressman Dewalt viii swing
The only election board in Tioga
county that made a perfect return
according to law, was that of the
Second ward, of Wellsboro. In
South Delmar, Jackson and Putnam
townships, the whole Republican
ticket was thrown out, and in Jack
son, Lawrenceville, Sullivan, West
field borough and Tioga TOWNSHIP
the entire Democratic ticket was
thrown out by the return board. In
these cases the return sheets were
either not completely filled out OIL
not filled out properly; ballots is.
sued were not accounted for. Un.
less these local election boards car
account for missing ballots before
election there will be no local tick.
cts in the districts named.
r.. A. Zimm herman, one of the
best-known members of the Lack.
awanna county bar, has been elected
chairman of the Republican com.
mittee for the coming campaign ir
Lackawanna county. He was unanf.
mously agreed upon at a meeting ot
the candidates. Mr.. Zimmerman ha.
long been identified with the Re
publican party and for years ha: