Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-02
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| The time for filing nominating
petitions for judicial primaries will
expire at the Office of the Secretary
! of the Commonwealth next Thurs
day, but there are very few papers
entered at the department, notwith-
! standing the fact that Pennsylvania
will this fall elect eighteen common
pleas and five orphans court judges
in addition to municipal court judges
in Philadelphia and a county court
judge in Allegheny.
The office of associate judge ap-
pears to have many attractions, as
| there are over three dozen petitions
on file for the fourteen judgeships to
| be filled. In some districts there are
six and eight candidates where one
man is to be elected.
| The State Department is receiving
numerous petitions from aspirants
for county and municipal nomina-
tions, although such papers have to
be filed with county commissioners.
The time on this class of nominating
petitions expires on August 19.
Ten of the desks in the hall of
the House of Representatives are in
the hands of repairmen who are re-
placing parts which were broken or
damaged during the session and
/ every desk in the big chamber will
be gone over by the furniture force
of the Capitol. Half a dozen chairs
| have had to be repaired.
Committee rooms in use by the
Legislature have been converted
/ into offices for Capitol departments
again, pending completion of office
buildings in this city.
| Efforts on the part of the Pin
chot committee on organization of
the State for election of Republican
National delegates attuned the
Ideas of the former Federal forester
to form a unit in the Eighteenth
Congressional district have not been
very successful and men who tried
TO organize in the Seventeenth dis
trict for the same purpose met with
rather cold reception. Representa-
ton from the counties in the two
districts at the conference on Tues
day was mighty slim and some of
the men announced as intending to
participate did not show up.
The general impression among
people at the Capitol and others
"A'N ohtShdSu the TUESDAY meeIlnR
was that it lacked the ginger that
formerly characterized the old-time
Bull Moose gatherings and that Pin
chot was not likely to secure much
of a gathering. At the Capitol the
conference was looked upon as more
or less OF a failure and the contro-
Versy which ragged at the conclusion
over the men invited and those left
out was regarded as pretty nearly
winding up the movement as far as
Statewide effect is concerned. ONLY
some unforeseen situation will make
1t of any account.
Mercer county people say that
uhder terms of a recent decision of
the Attorney General the vacancy
caused by the death of Senator lanes
NJ. Campbell, of Mercer, in the
Fifteenth Senatorial District. cam
not be f1lled this fall. The coming
electlon Is not general election.
put Tor county and local Offices and
state Senator cannot be elected at
any other than a general election.
Should special session of the J,epis-
lature be called then the vacancy
would be filed by a special election
otherwise it will carry over until
the election next year. There are
only Two candidates announced for
the office, John L. Morrison, of
Greevllle' and Fred A. Service. of
Sharon. -
Commissions for all of the
men named as members of state
Boards and as trustees and man
ayers OF various institutions in tha
closing hours of the Legislative ses-
SION nave been issued by the State
department and they are now filinp
their bonds.
Judges G. A. Endlich and
George w. Wagner, of the Berks
county common pleas court, filed
papers to be candidates for re-
nomination at the State department
They have been endorsed by MANY
members of the Berks bar.
From all indications there will
be more real fights over nomina-
tons for associate Judge in Penn
sylvania counties this year than
known in long time. In Hunting
don county, the only one to elect
two judges this year there are a
dozen candidates already.
County Controller E. S. Nor
row, of Allegheny, will not be op-
| posed for denomination.
Entrance of Dan /, PARSONS ,
Johnstown attorney, long active in
Republican affairs, into the Cam
bria county orphans court contest
means strenuous battle in the CEN
trail county.
Center county Republicans
have gained nearly 500 in enroll
ment and confident that the Demo
Gratis will get to fighting among
themselves long before the general
| election.
Relative to the PhiladeInbia
mayorality fight the PhiladeInbis
Press to-day says:
The Republican Alliance is still
continuing its efforts to get A. Lin
coin Acker into the field but to date
there has been no evidence that he
has agreed to make the fight To he
come mayor. The petitions urging
him to run are still being circu-
lated and it is reported that there
are many signatures.
Senator Penrose is expected in
Philadelphia to-day. The Senator
will probably arrive here from,
Washington early in the day. He
will spend the day in conference
with the anti-Vare leaders and is
expected to depart for Atlantic Citv
late in the afternoon to spend the
weekend on his yacht.
"Penrose's arrival may bring the
Acker situation to a head. The
Senator Is said to have given the
Republican Alliance this week to
get Acker around, and il it is re-
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