Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-28
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'Ps~maaesania
BY the Ex-Committceman

lions or the State Board of Public
| Charities closer than any Governor
has ever done and dozens of bills
| were approved in the sums that
| the board had listed after its in
quiry last winter into the free
hospital service" that institutions
were giving. In the cases where the
| Governor departed from the recon-
mendations to make reductions he
| did so after considering some spe-
| cial reports.
Before leaving the city the Gov
ernor remarked upon this following
| of the recommendations "As far
as possible I took the recommenda-
tions of the board which had gone
into the question of free service
and where 1 made cuts I discussed
them with Judge Isaac Johnson, the
chairman of the board" said he.
Throughout the consideration of
the bills for tile charities Judge
johnson was here and also had
the assistance of Chairman w. ].
McCaig, of the House Appropria-
| tions Committee. The reductions
are not numerous because I kept in
| pretty close touch with the legisla-
| tion."
AS a result of the Governors ex-
tensive use of the State Board of
, Charities data it is believed about
: the Capitol that the board will
begin a number of inquiries into the
| free service for use a year and a
half from now, this being a subject
to which the Governor has directed
special attention.
Governor Sproul in his discussion
of appropriations with heads of de-
partments has let it be known that
! he does not want the appropriations
used up because authorized. I'm
some cases." said he, "the money
will be available If needed for GER
tain propositions. That does not
,, mean that it is to be spent. 1 think
this is wise because If for any rea-
son there should be slump in rev.
enue from any source we would
have money uneXpended." The
Governors plan of having money
available" is new one for Capitol
i Hill.
"A new brand of trouble has
turned up for the Democratic ma
chine already burdened with the
Bonniwell insurgency, the fuss over
the abolition of the Lancaster rev.
enue office and the refusal of Fed
eral officeholders to help pay run
ming expenses. The new row is over
census supervisorships, with a view
to strengthening the lines for next
year. In the Chester-Delaware dis
trict Lewis B. King. accused of fail
ing to be regular in certain fights,
has been slated and some Democrats
are cunning for him.
The impression is gaining rap
idly that the conference of the Bull
Moose leaders here tomorrow is
designed with the idea of getting
the Pinchot boom started for United
States Senator. The former fores-
ter is said to be quite modest about
1t and to be leaving it in the hands
of his friends. What the friends
will do depends upon what kind of
| a showing is made.
With State legislation all cleared
up through the Governors disposal of
the last of the bills left on his desk
by the General Assembly there is
marked tendency among the news
papers to give attention to their own
affairs and columns are devoted to
Philadelphia's history making cam
palgn under the new charter, which
the Philadelphia Press expects to be
a matter of national interest; to the
coming clash of the factions in Allie
| gheny over county nominations and
in the third-class cities to absorbing
battles for local nominations now
that the deadening effect of nom
partisanism in municipal affairs has
been overdone by the Wilson bill.
| -Lehigh Republicans are getting
busy already. With Senator Horace
! W.. Schantz, county chairman, pre-
siding, the Republican couny COM
mittee held one of the most enthu-
siastic sessions of recent years at
Allentown on Saturday, fixing Dor
ney Park as the place and Saturday,
August 80, as the date for the an
nual county meeting. The county
committee session was attended by
more than seventy of the committee
men out of a total membership of
eighty-five. Senator Schantz is a
candidate for the additional judge
ship of Lehigh county.
The Philadelphia Inquirer says
that things are going to boom soon
in the mayoralty campaign and the
Evening Bulletin looks for the may
orally candidates to be slated this
week. The Evening Ledger thinks
the Ware people will turn to Judge
John M. Patterson. The Philadel-
phia Record says that Governor
Sproul went away to avoid getting
tangled in the fight and that he re-
fused to enforce harmony" It also
comments upon the meeting be-
tween Senator Penrose and the Gov
ernor and the Senator's great cheer
fulness over the situation in his
native city
John McCluskie, a returned SOL
dier, is the only Republican in the
field for the Luzerne nomination for
sheriff.
Harry Bechtel, we'll known here,
has been chosen Pottstown Republi-
can chairman.
Chester county politics are in
the usual boiling stage and it is said
that Register of Wills l.. H. Miller is
going to have trouble getting re-
noinated.
William Boyd Smith, one of the
Workmen's Compensation Bureau
adjusters, has been brought out as
a candidate for council in Philadel-
phia. So has Andrew j. Roggen-
berger, who took a prominent part
in Senator George Woodward's cam
paign last year.
The Philadelphia Public Ledger,
which has been canvassing various
eastern counties for a lineup on their
county nominations, has this to say
in review: Republican victories
in Delaware, Chester, Montgomery
Lebanon, Franklin Berks and Ian