Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-08
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Pe~~a4esa~ia
BY the Ex-Committeeman

Men who have been observing the
trend of National politics at Wash
lngton and who have been noting
opinions expressed in New England,
New York and the Middle West late
~, nave been remarking that the
Two men now most talked about as
presidential timber are Pennsyl-
van1ans, Governor William c. Sproul
on the Republican side and Attorney
General A. Mitchell Palmer, Demo-
crat. Some are of the belief that
thelr names will be much heard of
IN the next few months and have
remarked upon the singularity that
Two lifelong intimate friends should
De SO much and so peculiarly placed
IN the political talk of the day.
The Governors speeches in Massa-
chusetts have drawn to him in New
England the attention which he at
tracted while at the conference of
the governors in the West. In New
YORK he is much mentioned and at
Washington he is much watched.
Ine Attorney General is said by
many prominent Democrats to have
strong support all over the country
and while he may not be the man
Wnom many think will receive the
wilson mantle he is nevertheless a
Dig hgure in Democratic talk.
This prominence of the Attor-
| ney General is one of the reasons
why his friends among the Demo-
Gratis in this State are working so
nard to line up candidates for ma
tional delegate in his behalf. There
mas been much work done along
that line in the last month, and as
Palmer now stands as the undis-
puted leader of the reorganization
faction and the chief object of the
dislike of the other faction he is on
fair way to be the center of a
conflict in which the odds are that
he will get most of the delegates.
The Democratic ringmasters
| Will be getting together in the next
| few weeks to arrange the states for
delegates and as soon as the off,
clal counts are ended they will be
| stirring.
For the last few days men in
politics have been studying the re-
suits. There have not been many
upsets. The Republicans seem to
have been more generally successful
than many people thought would be
possible at the time of the primaries.
-Governor Sprouf has been re-
ceivlng plimentary a kilograms
Il
Linn, of Philadelphia, to the supe-
rior court bench. Mr.. Linn's quail
| fications have been praised by many
/ eminent men and some of the mes
sages from men high up in the law
are notable.
| S. s. Riddle, named yesterday as
chief of the new Bureau of Rehabili-
tation, has won that place on his
merits. He has been making a study
of the way men injured in industry
| and war have been fitted for earn
ing livings in avocations suitable to
| their physical condition and is one
of the best posted men in the State
on the subject. Commissioner Con-
nelly says he was glad to secure him
| for the organization of the new
| bureau which has such an important
field.
People here who know Senator
Edwin II. Ware will read with inter-
est the remarks that he made at
the Reber dinner to Mayor-elect ].
Hampton Moore in Washington on
| Thursday night. The dinner was re-
garded by Philadelphia newspapers
as a love feast and as the time for
forgetting animosities. 1t seems to
| have been more than a mere con-
gratulatory event and to have had
much political significance. Here
I are some of the Ware remarks, which
have the characteristic Ware slant:
I'VE made our fight on Mr.. Moore
| at the primaries. We lost, and he,
beating us, automatically won our
support"
mo condition can arise which
! will make us two brothers become
/ snakes in the grass. We'll be with
| m NTnnra ,xy
other way for sane and sensible ad-
ministration."
| We have been beaten before and
came back and expect it to happen
again"
twenty-five per cent. of the men
with whom officeholders come in
contact are cheats. Moore knows
them and how to deal with them"
Il have no faith in reformers, be-
cause no man can succeed in office
unless he knows politics"
"Stuart's administration as mayor
was the only successful one in thirty
! five years"
The progress of the counts in
York and Columbia counties is at
| tracing Statewide attention. The
Columbia county Republicans de-
clare that they will not allow Germ
maria to be counted out and threaten
a court contest. In York it is a see
saw.
Charles r. Michael, the we'll
posted Washington correspondent OF
the Philadelphia Press. says in a dis
patch to that newspaper that Penn-
sylvania politics is taking on deter
mined aspect. He goes on to say fur
ther: Representative George S.
Graham, as the member from the
State on the National Congressional
lCcmmittee and chairman of the FL
nancial Committee. has started a
monthly conference of the delegation
with the idea of bringing about a
friendly and cooperative spirit in
the delegation and of electing thirty
four Republican members to the next
Congress. He comedies the Demo
Gratis two places, the Berks-Lehigh
district and the Car.
bon Monroe district. When the
campaign actually opens next year
the Congressional Committee will
have headquarters in Harrisburg
and from there in conjunction will
the State Committee will be con.
Quoted the hardest battle to defeat
Democrats holding places in norma
Republican districts ever staged ir
Pennsylvania. Mr.. Graham will have
the assistance of Representative.
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