Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-05
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BY tho Ex- Committeeman

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plications. but although the time for
circulating such petitions began on
Monday last few requests have been
| filed.
Such petitions must be filed on or
before Friday, August 8, at the De-
partment of the Secretary of the
| Comm
| Petitions for county and munich
pal nominations, which are to be
| filed with the county commissioners,
| come under a separate provision.
| The time for circulating such petit
| tions has not yet arrived.
Only four parties have the right
to nominate at the primary this year,
| being the Republican, Democratic,
Socialist and Prohibition.
There are an unusual number of
/ judges to elect this year, all of them
being on the nonpartisan basis. In
the number are nearly a dozen in
stances where judges are filling off,
| ces by appointment. In only one,
Somerset county, will the incumbent
, not be candidate for election to the
full term. Lehigh county will elect an
additional law judge for the first
| time, no appointment having been
made where the place was created,
a provision in the bill being that
the voters should elect.
Nominating petitions in behalf
of Superior Court Judge William III.
Keller, of Lancaster, have made
their appearance in this city and
have also been placed in the hands
of friends of the justice in the Cum
berland and Juniata valleys. The
time for filing judicial petitions with
the Secretary of the Commonwealth
will expire on August 8. Judge
Keller has many personal friends
here because of his service for over
three years as first deputy Attorney
General and his papers will be
freely signed on personal as well as
political grounds. Some of them
have been in circulation on Capitol
Hill.
Governor William C. Sproul,
who is expected to be back at his
desk in the Capitol on Monday after
his visit to White Sulphur will find
things already for him to take up
in the matter of the appropriation
bills, of which several hundred await
his action. Chairman William ].
McCaig, of the House appropriations
committee, has been here all week
going over the bills as passed and
assembling comparative data rel
ative to other sessions so that COM
plete information will be ready for
the Governor. Meanwhile Attorney
General William I. Schaffer and his
full staff of deputies has been work
ing night and day on the general
bills. The staff of the law depart
mont has a1pnnc oh ho
thing else and the men have been
working in short sleeves until late
at night on studies of the various
measures. There were over $50
bills to be acted upon at the be-
ginning of the week. some of them
having been sent with notations to
the Governor.
Allegheny county will elect Ave
common pleas judges, two orphans
court judges and one county court
judge. Philadelphia has four to
elect, including Judge Joseph p. Nc
Cullen, just appointed. In Lacka-
wanna district Attorney George w.
Maxey will run for the Neill place
on the bench. Berks county will
elect two judges, both Judges End
Itch and Wagner being candidates.
The Wilkes-Barre Record OBJ
serves: ut seems strange that Con-
gressmen who are so anxious to en-
force prohibition are so Indifferent
and slow about other laudable meas
ures of reform. Probably because
there is no powerful organization
back of the other movements.
The Philadelphia Evening
Ledger has criticised the appoint
ment of James S. Bent, Philadelphia
newspaperman, to the Public Serv-
ice Commission and the Philadel-
phia Record has approved it, say
ing that newspapermen are taught
to work and that one newspaperman
may give an example of industry to
lawyer members The Record, how
ever, is not exactly correct when it
says that none of the lawyer mem
bers of the commission has given up
his law business Two of the men,
bers, one the chairman and the
other a Democratic commissioner,
have severed all connection with
their offices and staying in Harris
burg and devoting all of their time
to the work of the commission
| Other lawyer members are under
stood to be doing likewise.
Men just home from the Army
are commencing to take an active
part in county politics in many a
county. There are half a dozen
such men candidates for nomination
in Cumberland and others are aspi-
rants in Berks, Chester, Lehigh, Leb-
anon and Schuylkill counties. Ches-
| ter county has four soldier candi-
dates for Republican nominations,
among them Colonel John C. Croft
] for register of wills. In Lebanon
! Captain H. H. Barnhart is being
prominently mentioned for register
| of wills.
| -Pittsburgh's bond election,
which goes to the polls next week,
| is proving one of the most interest
ing contests of the kind ever known
in the State. Mayor Babcock and
his friends are boosting the election,
but some of the councilmen and
the Pittsburgh Dispatch are oppos-
] ing a $6,000.000 loan for q subway
which is a part of the $22, 900, 900
issue.
Congressman Henry w. Temple
in an address to the Board of Trade
at Washington, predicted that the
Senate would ratify the peace treaty,
with the League of Nations cove
nant. The Congressman is a Re-
publican who was formerly an active
progressive.
III. w. winnemyer has been
elected Pittsburgh's official city pay
A Pottsville dispatch says:
Miners and other affiliated unions of
this county are about to form party