Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-28
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By the Ex-Committeeman

Although the Philadelphia char
ter revision bills may be claiming
the attention of the Legislature,
Pittsburgh be busy debating gigan-
tic bond issues and the remnants of
the Democracy in Pennsylvania get
ting ready to fight over who shall
boss the next Presidential delega-
ton from this State to the national
convention, there is a good bit go
ing on beneath the surface in State
politics and numerous county fights
are commencing to be heard of.
Indications are that Pennsylvania
will have the usually strenuous year
that precedes a Presidential CAM
paign.
incidentally, there is no question
but what Governor William c.
Sproul struck a popular chord when
he declared that the Philadelphia
legislation controversy should not be
permitted to ''muss up" the State
program. The Ware legislators de-
claration against the charter revision
measures right after they were ad-
vocated by Senator Penrose and
when the Governor had asserted be-
lief in four cardinal points, has
from the interior counties that the
earlier the Philadelphia legislation
is cleared out of the way the better.
Just as an indication that there
will be plenty doing in Western pol
itics, it may be said that Judge d.
j. Snyder, Ex-Governor Brumbaugh's
half past the eleventh hour appoin-
tee for the bench of Westmo oreland
county, will be opposed at the Sep
tember primary by Judge Charles d.
Copeland, of the orphans court, and
possibly by Charles L. Written, pro-
minent Greensburg lawyer, both OF
whom were urged for appointment.
The latter will be a strong candi-
date, it is said.
In BerkS county, eX-Judge Rob-
ert Gray Bushong, former legisla-
tor, will be a candidate for judge.
He is u Republican, lives in Reading
and is highly thought of. Judges
Endlich and Wagner are candidates
for reelection.
-Lehigh will elect it's first addi-
tional judge under the new act. Ex-
Senators Arthur G. Dewalt and Mil
ton G.. Henninger, Democrats, and
Senator Horace w. Schantz, Repub-
n strenuous fight. Senator Schantz,
who swept Lehigh twice for Senator
in the face of its big Democratic
majority, will be big factor if he
enters. .
The banquet of the Americus
Club, at Pittsburgh, ran true to form
in regard to Republican speeches,
Senator Sherman, of Illinois, and
Congressman Mondell, of Wyoming,
strong declarations. In his
speech Saturday, Senator Sherman
said: THE Democratic party to- day
is political monarchy. 1t has prac-
tically ceased to possess even remote
vestiges of popular organization, and
its functions are exercised by the
President and a group of satellites
who long ago severed their connec-
ton with free government. They
now seek to convert the Government
into a socialistic state or into a
vassal of European powers. The
evidence of one is its draft toward
Government ownership of all great
enterprises of our country"
The executive committee of the
organization favoring a new consti-
tuition. is getting busy in the State.
At Pittsburgh the other day this
decided to increase it's
membership by adding members
from all the Western Pennsylvania
counties and to cooperate with the
Philadelphia committee in a State
at Harrisburg May %.
correspondence was read which in
dicated considerable interest is be-
ing developed in a number of west
ern counties.
Probably the most expensive
public improvements through bond
issues are planned for the Pittsburgh
district. The city will vote on a
bond issue of over $20,O00,000 and
the county. if it gets certain legis-
lation, will go in heavy for bridges
and highways.
Joseph f. Guffy, former Demo-
cratic State chairman, is the presi-
ident of new $20,000,000 oil COM
pany formed in New York.
Montgomery countys primary
campaign is on already. There are
several candidates for county COM
missioner. Thomas A. Joyce, of
Pittsburgh. has been appointed dep
uty marshal for the Western district
of Pennsylvania by United States
Marshal John F. Short. Mr.. Joyce
served in France with the Sixty
Seventh Coast Artillery Corps and
was recently discharged at Camp
Dix. He was formerly secretary of
the Democratic committee of the
Twenty-Second ward in Pittsburgh.
The Philadelphia Inquirer says
the present day Democrats have for
gotten Thomas Jefferson. The In
quirer declares the recent dinner,
held by Philadelphia Democrats to
celebrate Jefferson's birthday, was
joke. The Inquirer says: "His
name was scarcely mentioned in the
entire proceedings, and when this
happened, it must have been painful
to the putative ghost. 1t was a
Wilson dinner. There is no use in
blinking this fact. 1t is even asserted
privately that it's sole purpose was
to boom Attorney General Palmer
for the Presidential nomination. II
this is the case, the appearance OF
Secretary Tumulty, 1.-The cataleptic,"
was to get the lay of the land. This
phase may be ignored for n moment
while attention is drawn TO the fact