Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-02
'Psetica &.
Ps.saseso~ia
By the Ex-Committecman

claSS cltleS OF the state ana InurS-
day the first registration takes place
in Pittsburgh and Scranton, the two
second-class cities. For the time
being the registration holds the
center of the stage in the primary
contests and strenuous efforts are be-
ing made in Philadelphia to get
100000 more men to register. In
the third-class cities, where the reg
lstration generally was large there
will be renewed activity on the part
4 of the city committees and every in
dication is that there will be a large
enrolment all along the line. Very
| few third-class cities are without
healthy political contests. In Pitts
burgh there will be a tremendous eff
fort made to get men enrolled, espe-
cially by the Republicans because of
the contest in the Republican or
ganization, while at Scranton things
have assumed an interesting aspect
owing to the rulings on returned SOL
| dierS
Some idea of what the registra-
ton means can be gained from the
statement in the Public Ledger that
! $4,000 assessed voters in that city
have not registered although $4,000
, names are on the rolls. The Press
and Inquirer emphasize the fact that
there are many men who have not
registered and that the most import
ant mayoralty primary contest in
the history of the city and the first
to come under the new charter will
be decided ut the polls.
The primary will take place just
two weeks from to-day in Pennsyl-
vania and national attention has
been attracted to the battle in
Philadelphia, which will have far
reaching consequences.
The. campaign in Allegheny
county is warming up much as it
is in Philadelphia, where Congress-
man j. Hampton Moore is making
daily attacks on the Ware organiza-
ton and Director Mclaughlin. of
the bureau of supplies. has been say
ing things about Senator Edwin RI.
+ Ware and contracts that have
brought sharp dcnials from the SEN
ator. The latest developments are
series of attacks upon the Ware men
VINO made up draft boards, the scan
dal about Appeal Board No. 2, which
was so much in the limelight, having
been brought up again.
In Pittsburgh the newspapers
of the city are practically all against
the BabcoCk-Leslie combination, Just
| as in Philadelphia all the big dailies
are against the Wares. An organiza-
ton of anti-Leslie men in the bor-
oughs has been formed with Senator
c. NJ Barr at the head, while Col.
J. p. Kerr, candidate for county
commissioner, is assailing Senator
Max G. Leslie with Virulence sim
liar TO that employed in Philadel-
phia. Speaking of the meetings the
Pittsburgh GaZettc-Times says:
That the apathy which character
ICES many elections and permits the
machine politicians to obtain control
of elections through voting their
paid and office-holding henchmen is
being dispelled was indicated by the
large size of the audience at the
meeting"
One of the interesting things
about the Allegheny contest is that
William Finn is taking a hand in
the battle and is aligned with former
political enemies.
The Lackawanna situation will
likely be Strengthened out in a day
or so as meetings are being ar
ranged for Scranton and Carbondale
which will be attended by the county
commissioners. The Scranton Times
says that the estimates made in that
city show the city to have a popu-
lation of 16S,00O.
In Reading some estimates on
population are being made which in
dicate over 10000 and maybe
10000. Reading is engaged in the
hottest municipal primary contests
known in years and the odd part
about it is that the men elected
this year under the third-class city
code will next year automatically go
under the second-class city law as
the Federal census will show the city
to be over 100000 beyond all doubt.
The editor of thes Scranton
Times, E. ]. Lynett, says in his
Roderick Random column: IAN ef-
fort is being made to induce Presi-
dent Wilson to include Scranton in
the itinerary of the big swing around
the circle which he has planned. 1t
will be a great honor to the city to
| have him come, and it would be
rather discreditable not to make a
sincere effort to have the city thus
| honored. OF course we should not
make it a partisan affair"
! Democratic bosses, ringmasters,
placeholders and scouts will gather
| in this city tonight for the opening
| tomorrow of the two-day conven-
ton of the postmasters convention
which will have it's quadrennial i'm
portance. The postmasters will be
addressed by Democrats of national
grade and also be informed inform
ally of what they are to do in the
coming Presidential contest. For
weeks the scouts of the Democratic
machine have been out sounding the
Democrats to see whether the Bonni-
we'll organization has damaged the
Palmer control and to play up the
value of the Attorney General as
Pennsylvania entrant for the DEM
ocratic Presidential honor, provided,
always, that the President does not
decide to run again.
! An interesting incident in Dem
ocratic affairs is that B. F. Davis,
Jr., close relative of the B. f. Davis
who lost the revenue collectorship
of the Lancaster district after hav-
ing fought and bled in behalf of the
Palmer Mccormick machine for
years, has been elected chairman of
| the Lancaster Democratic commit
| tee, succeeding w. j. Coulter who
| landed the census supervisorship
for Lancaster district.
| Congressman j. Hampton Moore
says in his Evening Ledger letter:
Gossip has is that Thomas Robins,
! who married the daughter of the