Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-04
Ysestsca &.
Ps'ssa4gsasIa
BY the Ex- Committeeman

granted that the affairs of the titular
wing of the Democratic party in
pennsylvania, which enjoys the sun
shine from the White House, will be
conducted on purely business basis
Tor the next year and that every ef-
| Tort will be bent to corral national
delegates favorable to Attorney GEN
eral A. Mitchell Palmer for Presi-
dent Recent developments have
caused the cobwebs to be wiped
from the windows of the Democratic
state windmill in this city and the
millers to get exceedingly busy in
organizing the Federal ofilceholders.
postmasters and other remnants, of
the old army into Palmer propa-
/ gandists.
1t may also be said fiat this activ-
ity has also aroused the Bonniwell
faction, which, although somewhat
bent in the recent primary elections,
Is still in a position to do things.
| This crowd does not propose to al
low Palmer and his pals to have an
easy thing in the struggle for the
control of the works.
In short time Palmer. James /.
Blakslee, Joseph F. Guffey and
various other practical men among
the Democratic ringmasters will
meet to plan the campaign. 1t is
understood that Palmer has made
many influential friends in recent
years and that he will not have 10
worry about finances for any CAM
| naisn or be dependent upon in
diviouals who would want to run
everything in return for contribu-
lions 10 the warchest any longer.
appointment of the commission
to study the revision OF the consti-
tuition and to prepare suggested
amendments for submission to the
1t gislature OF 1921, is expected TO
be announced By Governor William
{. Sproul within the next ten Gays
or Sc. The Governor has been Civ.
ing close personal attention to the
selection of men for the commission
so that every phase of life in Penn
sylvania will be represented. The
Indications are that the com mission
will be called to meet in Harrisburg
early in the fall and that most nf
the meetings will be held here. al
/ though subcommittee may sit in
other places.
Another commission to be
named will be that of health insur-
ance upon which the Governor has
bGeH WOEhlnB LOT SOIle IltIle anu
which will likely be named about the
same time as the constitutional re-
vision commission. This commission
Will be required to present report
to the next Legislature when the pld
Age Pension Commission is also to
report.
The Governor IS keeping in close
touch with the movements being
made in the State Forest Commits
sion for the establishment of new
n ethod of handing contracts and in
s,cction of State forests and also OF
timber cutting operations. There
will be other developments in this
line between now and the first of No
vcmbcr.
State department officials are
sending word to counties where ti;e
election count has been tagging to
here until the official returns are In
the certifications can be made on
time. Results are known, but the
official notices can not be sent from
here until the official returns are in
hand. Much interest is being shown
here in the progress of the official
count in Philadelphia county.
The high cost of being a candi-
date is disturbing some of the men
in politics in the State, many of
whom say that it will keep business
men from running for office and al
low rich men with grouches to make
disturbances. In Luzerne county it
Is estimated that the primary cost
over 100000 that people knew of,
while Scranton papers say that $37,-
600 was spent in the Lackawanna
! judgeship campaign which has to go
to the November election to be set
tied anyway. District Attorney
George w. Maxey spent over s1S,-
900. I'M Philadelphia the cost of
the mayoralty campaign was tre-
mendous. while no one seems to
have counted up what was spent in
! the Allegheny county battle. Schuyl-
! kill county, where politics is stren-
uous, comes out with n statement of
about $1,000 spent, which is a low
record for several years.
| -Reappointment OF Chief of
Mines Seward E. Button is due to be
made before the frost gets very much
| of hold on the ground.
The Philadelphia Inquirer is of
the opinion that "a stampede among
! the Republican ward leaders to get
on the ]. Hampton Moore band
wagon is about due, according to
usually well informed political OBJ
servers" The attitude assumed by
City Solicitor John P. Connolly, who
1
| fight is over that Moore will be the
duly accredited Republican nomi-
nee for mayor and that all Repub-
licans should promptly declare In
favor of his election, it is predicted
will be the stand which other ward
! leaders who worked with the Wares
will take without delay. Other
newspapers say that the impression
| prevails that the incoming admin
istration will treat with the council
men and the wal / leaders indi"id-
TALLY.
Huntington county is very much
to the front with soldier candidates.
Tic Republicans nominated soldiers
for prothonotary, county treasurer,
and the Democrats thought so much
of them that they endorsed all.
Thomas w. Cunningham, the
Penrose leader in Philadelphia, is
inclined to be humorous about the
Charter Party, whom he says will
anything else. In an interview he
said: Joseph S. mclaughlin al
ways has been a kiss and tell kind
of a politician and ] do not think
his new Charter Party will cause
even a ripple. There can be nc
object in the MacLaughlin party SC
far as Mclaughlin is concerned that
I can see," continued Cunningham
beyond the desire of the head OF
the party to keep his name before
the public. The party will not be
of the slightest effect. I do not be.
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