RIMARY FIGHTS 5 VERY NUMEROUS ate Has Unusual Election 1 Contests to Settle at the Polls on Wednesday Pennsylvania will hold its flrst pri ary election under the act of 1917 j Ling the third Wednesday of Sep- i niber as the date for the primary j j ection in odd numbered years two j . ivs hence and while there are no J ate nominations to be made numer- ! : is contests for honors in counties id municipalities have contributed 1 create a popular interest exceed g that in some primaries in guber- | ( itorial years. There are thousands ' nominations to be made as not lly councilmanic and county official ; miinations are to be made, but elec on officers and party committeemen ill be chosen. The second class cities of Pitts- j trsh and Scranton nominate candi ites for mayor and Harrisburg, ; 'illiamsport and a few other cities \ the third class where there arc icancies in chief magistracies by eath, resignation or otherwise, will | 1 >minate aspirants on nonpartisan ckets. They will also select mem- i . jrs of city councils on the same an. Philadelphia will nominate! >uncilmanic and other candidates) , l the partisan plan as will bor-; lghs. The first class city does not ; uninate a mayor this year. Judicial Contests All judicial nominations will be on le nonpartisan basis. There arol ty-two judicial otttces to be tilled in ovembcr and over 160 candidates) ed petitions. There will be chosen j venty-sl* Common Pleas judges, | iree Orphans' Court judges and i , venty-two associate judges. The! wenty-Eighth Congressional district! [imposed of Mercer, Venango, War- i >n, Forest and Elk counties, will \ ect a congressman to succeed C. j . Bleakely. Five judges appointed by the Gov- j nor are candidates for full terms, j our sitting judges are not opposed; >r nomination. Several well-known' I'lges are face to face with big con-j ■sts. Philadelphia and Allegheny j iriges are all opposed and lawyers' onpartisan committees are working] ;>rd for them. Liquor enters into, lany up-state judicial tights as sua). >lt'C'arfcll to Ho Honored Dauphin county is one of the dis-, •icts where a sitting judge is to be I mplimented by re-election. Judge i J. M. McCarrell will be extended le compliment paid to various] nines of the past. Schuylkill county I the only other one in this section ; hich will elect judges. Judge H. j . Bechtel Is a candidate for renomi ation and Judge C. E. Berger, the ovrnor's appointee, for a full term. While Lancaster. Lebanon, North-1 mberland, Cumberland, Franklin! id York counties do not elect judges ' lis year there are so many local; inte'sts that they have plenty to i old interest. York has battles on < ir district attorney and for most i the county offices, while Lancaster ; as very little to tight about. Cum- > i rrland and Lebanon are in ths , idst of primary campaigns which | ; d fair to last until to-morrow ight. i ! Hig; "Little Judge" Fights \ , On the other hand four of HarrU urg's neighbor counties have inter- ■ iting contests for associate judge t ominations. The liquor issue looms 1 ' pin everyone of them. Two of thei' aunties —Juniata and Mifflin, Iry" now. i '■ Perry county will elect a successor! > S. W. Bernheisel. who is not aj 1 indidate acaln. There are three mdidates, I. E. Stephens, Buffalo. ! nd George E. Boyer, Duncannon. Ividing the "dry" forces with the : her element united behind James i . Noel, a farmer of Toboyne town lip. ! I In the next door county, Juniata, < hich is in the same judicial district j lere are twelve candidates with two | idses to be nominated. The "wets" I nve been consolidating, while ihei iher element is divided. Judge enas W. Gilson, of Spruce Hill, j ■ ishes to succeed himself, but Judge r E. Harley would not run. Mifflin county is also indulging in | < multiplicity of candidates. There is i le judge to be nominated and there;' •e seven aspirants including Bur-;: ?ss G. A. Leopold, of Lewistown. ; iffiin is also a "dry" county. Judge Gottleib Rowe and A. K. | ieffenderfer, of Union, are candi- j ates for* nomination with eight vals, Fulton county has seven can- - idates for its one judgeship. wo Are Arrested For Giving Booze to Soldiers Two arrests were inaile Saturday i nl Sunday in connection with the ! lie of liquor by Harrisburg residents I > t'nited States soldiers in uniform, i William Fasnacht was arrested at I arket street subway Saturday night, j -urged with furnishing liquor to ; Mir members of Company I. Fifty nth Infantry. Adams, whose home is in i owderi street, was arrested Sunday I orning. Police claim that the negro I ■cured liquor for several soldiers ho came here from Gettysburg. Hoth <n, together with the four soldiers, ill appear before United States rmmissioner Wolfe. HURT IX HIFNAWAY Mount Joy, Pa., Sept. 17. A badly uised hip and painful bruises and i its about the face and body were ! istained by Amos German, of near phrata, in a runaway accident. He as driving a team belonging to John I ephen, when the horses took fright id rnn off, colliding with an auto- I obile. PARADE FOR DAUPHIN MEN Dauphin. Pa.. Sept. 17.'—In honor' f the men drafted into the United j tates Army, who will leave this dis-j •ict on Wednesday, a large parade j ill be held to-morrow evening at 8 I clock. Everybody is invited to par- j eipate. POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT I REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR ' School Director Erastus B. Hoffman YOUR VOTE AND HELP PLEASE MONDAY EVENING. HAmusBURG TELEGRAPH SEPTEMBER 17, 1917. STATE OFFICERS ARE LAID AT REST Impressive Services Held at Norristown and Wellsboro on Saturday Two of Pennsylvania's best-known state officials were buried almost at the same hour on Saturday, many noted men attending their obsequies. At Norristown in the presence of the Governor and many prominent men Adjutant General Thomas J. Stew art was buried not far from his boy hood home and while the people of Montgomery county seat were pay ing the last tribute at Wellsboro, on the northern tier, there was buried Robert K. Young, one of that county's long line of distinguished men, former state treasurer, former auditor general and public service commissioner. On its arrival at Norristown from j Harrisburg the body of General. Stewart lay in state in the Masonic Temple, and Charity Lodge, No. 190. F. and A. M.. of which he was a member, held a lodge of sorrow. The Seventh Regiment, U. S. A., which I accompanied the body as a guard of I honor on the special train from Har risburg, acted in the same capacity at the temple, and also as the cort ege moved to Riverside Cemetery. There Masonic burial rites were con ducted outside and a tiring squad tired a salute. A bugler sounded j taps, after which relatives passed in- j to the mausoleum with the body, t which was laid in a crypt. There j was a profusion of floral tributes. | But, perhaps, the tinest tribute was the bent forms of members of the; General's old regiment, the One Hun- j ilred and Thirty-Eighth, into which | he went as a boy. They were on hand, as were members of Zook Post.! G. A. R., of which he was a past 1 commander. In attendance were six British Army officers who came from Philadelphia with Colonel John S. Muckle, one of the honorary pall bearers. The obsequies were conducted by the Rev. Thomas R. Beeber, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. In the lodge of sorrow in the Masonic Temple eulogies were spoken by Judge George B. Orlady, past grand master; Grand Master Louis A. Watres, Past Grand Master Luther M. Gorgas, General C. B. Dougherty and General William J. Latta, who preceded Stewart as adjutant gen eral. The funeral of Robert K. Young, was held, from his Wellsboro home and many men prominent in official life of the state paid tribute to his memory. The active bearers were T. A. Crichton, C. K. Bennett, C. W. Williams, George M. Spalding, Evan F. Rees. W. D Van Horn. H. 1,. Blat chley, of Wellsboro. and S. E. Hill ger. of Auburn, N. Y. The services, marked by simplicity, were conducted by the Rev. Thomas A. Barr, D. D„ of the Lawrenceville Presbyterian Church. The Rev. a. C. Shsiw. D. D.. pastor-emeritus of the Wellsboro Presbyterian Church, reatl Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar." Mrs. Mary Robins Mead, of Watkins, N. V., recited Tagore's "In One Saluta tion to Tliee. My God. and I Have Got My Leave; Rid Me Farewell." She also delivered a brief eulogy. The honorary bearers were E. A. Van Valkenburg.' ex-Governor Wil liam A. Stone. Attorney General F. S. Brown, Public Service Commis sioner W. D. B. Ainey, ex-Audit or General A. E. Sisson. Senator T. L. Eyre. Lewis E. Beitler, Judge S. F. Channell, ex-Congressman Packer, ex-Representative A. B. Hitchcock, D. W. C. DeWitt, L. L. Bailey, Frank M. Eastman, L. Harrison and W. L. Shearer. WHEN A BALL PLAYER FALLS IX IX)YE Hugh S. Fullerton has a story in the October American Magazine in which he tells about a ball player who was lonesome for his girl. Ger tie. The scout who discovered him says to the manager of the team: " 'Here, send this fellow Walter home for a couple of days.' " 'What for?' says Slough. 'I need him.' "'lf you don't you're going to lose a young ball player," I said. 'He's got a bad attack of the Gerties, com bined with a longing for home cook ing. and if he don't get home he'll quit hitting.' " 'All right, Mike.' says Slough. 'Send him and we'll pay the ex penses. I ain't forgot how I felt." "When I told Walter to run home he almost cried, and he was so ex | cited he only made five base hits that afternoon and got caught three times standing off the bag thinking of home. He came back to the team the day the season opened and start ed in to make Cobb jealous. Maybe i you remember the way he went ! through the league that flrst month? He had every paper in the country | carrying his picture and saying he was the best since Bill Lange—and it didn't spoil him either. He clipped , out everything he saw and sent it i back to Lohrville, and he wrote two i letters home every day, and one of them was all marked up with ' crosses." [ POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT FOR MAYOR Geo. A. Hoverter YOUR VOTE AND IN FLUENCE KINDLY SO LI CITED. ALL INDUSTRY TO AID NATION DURING THE WAR Businessmen From All Paris of Country Assemble at Atlantic City Atlantic City, N. J., Sept. 17. Plans for the co-operation of vir tually the entire industrial and com mercial interests of the county in the conduct of the war were to be discussed by high government of ficials and prominent business men from all sections of the country at ' a special war convention fit the ! Chamber of Commerce of the United | States, preliminary sessions of which I opened here to-day. The convention ' formally will open to-morrow and will continue until Friday. John H. Fahey, of Boston, former president i of the organization, was the principal speaker at. to-day's meeting. Secretary of War Baker is to de , liver the address at the first | rogular session to-morrow, lie will speak as president of the Council of National Defense and will tell the 1 business men what aid the govern ment expects of them in connection with the war. In the afternoon Franklin K. kane, Secretary of the Interior, will outline what American business men may t>o to aid in win ning the war. Boris Bakhmeteff. Russian ambassador; Frank A. Scott, j chairman of the War Industries I Board, and Dr. Newell Dwight Hil lis, of Brooklyn, were other speakers | on to-morrow's program. I Herbert C. Hoover, Lord North |clilTe, chairman of the permanent I British mission, and Judge Robert S. ! Kovett. of the War Emergency Board, will also address the convention.. Several group meetings to con sider the functions of the different ! business organizations in the con j duct of the war will be held during the meeting and at the cincluding session the report of the committee on resolutions will be acted upon. I'IH.I'I'ICAI. ADVERTISEMENT For School Director R;I'I BI,ICA\ PARTY BENJAMIN H, REICHERT A Former Teacher— Now a Businessman If elected I will serve,in the j best interest of pupil, teacher and ! taxpayer. Will favor awarding j contracts to she lowest responsible bidder. Will encourage publicity. Will guard against robbing the school children by a misuse of the big loan. FOR CITY COUNCILMAN ' ■■■■ . ;• . :: V AUGUSTUS WILDMAN! If elected I pledge myself to give the office all of my time ! and attention. Vote the last name on the non- I partisan ballot and I will thank you. POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT i —— ' • DeWitt A. Fry Candidate For CITY COUNCIL Present City Controller Councilman From 1901 to 1905 Member of Finance Committee 3 Years. A native-born resident of Har risburg who pledges his executive ability gained by years of ex perience and his entire time to the efTicient conduct of his office and for the city's best interests. YOUR SUPPORT AND INFLUENCE SOLICITED POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT THOMAS P. MOHAN HAS WAR RECORD Local Boy Has Served His Country in Several Wars; Native of Harrisburg • | —Photo bv Sagaml, Honolulu. TOM ON HIS WAY TO THE PHILIPPINES. 1809 Thomas P. Moran, a soldier of In dian campaigns, Spanish - American "JOE" MOHAN on Hoard the Vlekxhurg During Spanish-American AVnr. I . ' V JAMES T. MORAN Company E, ."Ist lonu and Company ■I, autli l , S. Vol. Inf. In the Philippines 1 11 m P* 'Ms iflHH^I r **. • Mo^^m mSbW i T&X > ,/^C . '■' *\' J fm 3TBI- Jam I ' Thomas P. Moran | Candidate For City Council POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT war and Philippine insurrection, seeks the nomination for City Coun cil. "Tom" was born in Harrisburg. Pa., March 6, 1869, being the youngest son of Thomas Day Moran, a veteran of ' the War of the Rebellion. At the age of 11 years "Tom" was admitted to the McAlisterviUe Sotdters' Orphan School, graduating therefrom March fi. 1885. Returning to Harrisburg he entered the employ of the Baltimore One-Price Clothing House. THOMAS P. MOHAN Spanish-American Wnr Veteran Being trained for the military, he entered the regular army at the age of 17 and was assigned to Company B. Twentieth United States lnfantr', , stationeu at Fort Asslnniboine, Mon tana, After being discharged from the army in 1892, after serving five years, he accepted a position with Reinach. Tollman & Company, cloth ing merchants of Chicago, and repre sented them in the Black Hills coun try, South Dakota, resigning later he took charge of the government canteen. Fort Custer, Montana. After Fort Custer was abandoned "Tom" returned to Harrisburg and accepted a position as military In structor at Scotland Soldiers' Or phan School. "Tom" later resigned from Scotland Soldiers' Orphans' School to accept a position with the Department of Pub lic Safety, Philadelphia, as military instructor, and to make a general survey of the personnel of the police department. Hence, so far as the garbage and police questions in Har risburg are concerned, "Tom" is well fitted to handle them, as well as the many other civic matters that come under the direction of the City Council. Returns to Army At the outbreak of the Spanish- American War "Tom" gave up his position and enlisted in Company A, Second Pennsylvania Volunteer In fantry. When mustered out he returned to the Department of Public Safety and was loaned by the Department of Public Safety to instruct the boys at Chester Springs Soldiers' Orphan School. From there he went to the Philippine Islands in 1899 with light battery F, Fourth United States Ar tillery, and took part in many en gagements in the two and one-half years' service in the Philippines. "Tom" had two brothers in the Spanish-American War, and the three brothers saw foreign service. James T. Moran lost his life in the Philippines and Joseph, who served ten years in Troop A, First U. S. Cav alry, from 1881 to 1801, died in Har risburg after returning from Cuban waters. Thomas P. Moran is a member of the Harrisburg Republican Club, Har risburg Camp. No. 8, Spanish-Ameri can War Veterans, a member of the Sixteeners Association, Harrisburg Reserves, and Veterans of . Foreign Wars. POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT POLITICAL ADVERTI9EKBNT For City Council im ii" 1 1' l l iP' 1 mmmmmmM - Jjj WSHM m JWT mM Howard W. Jones Howard W. Jones was born ! in Oneida, New York, Septem ber 15, 1869. His father, when a young man, enlisted in the army during the War of Re bellion. During the Battle of Gettysburg he received four or five wounds and was left on the field to die. He was carried to the home of a farmer, Daniel IJeintzelman, where Mrs. Hcintzelman and her daugh ters nursed and cared for him until he was able to return to his regiment. After the war was over he returned to New York and several years later return ing to Gettysburg, visited the farmer and his family who had cared for him at the time he was wounded on the battlefield, later marrying one of the daughters, Miss Elizabeth Hcintzelman, returning to Oneida, New York, where Howard W Jones, about five years later was born. A few years later when Howard was about five years old the family removed to Adams county, to Cashtown, above Gettysburg, where Mr. Jones was raised and resided until he came to Harrisburg, January, 1890, in which city he has made his home ever since, living at present at the corner of Eorster and Green streets. During his first eight or nine years in Harrisburg he was con nected with the Prudential In surance Company and has been with several different companies since, at the present time having his offices at No. 9 North Mar ket Square. His father and the late Dr. Ezra S. Meals were very inti mate friends in their younger days in Adams county, at that time Mr. Meals was practicing medicine in McKnightstown. He is a candidate for o<incil and one who believes in doing things and doing them at once. He is convinced that citi zens who aspire to office should have as their motive a desire to see needed and well-conceived reforms brought about. Not the man so much as what he stands for is the keynote of Mr. Jones' campaign. He would have a free bridge across the Susquehanna river either by purchase of one of the old ones or the building of a new one. "It is time," he says, "to bring this matter, so long talked of, to a material conclusion." Mr. Jones fails to see the wis dom of compelling the people in the rural districts to pay their way across the river so that they may patronize the Harrisburg merchant.' Likewise is it folly to the people who live in the city to give tribute to cross the river for a breath of fresh air or a ramble in the country. This councilmanic candidate, with emphasis and candor, concludes that if it is advisable to rid the highways of the state of toll gates it is, as a city need, more urgent that Harrisburg rid itself of toll bridges. 'The city should immediately construct a bridge connecting Allison Hill with the business section of Harrisburg," says Mr. Jones. "This bridge should be built at either Walnut or State streets preferably State street, and be of sufficient width to take care of all traffic, both street cars and vehicles. Its architectural fashioning should make it pleasing to the eye and a credit to the people. Re gardless of any arguments to the contrary, this bridge should be built at once, in accordance with the wishes of the people who decisively voted a bond issue for the improvement and who signified by their votes that they were in earnest about the matter." He states that there is 'no reason in law, equity or hu manity why mothers and chil dren, old women and old men should be compelled to crawl up and down dirty, unsightly State- Street Hill, over the bridge crossing the railroad tracks, a way that is unsightly by day and dangerous by nigh't, after the people themselves doing all they could do to better the sit uation by voting a loan for the bridge. He believes the bridge should harmonize with the Cap itol Park t improvements, but instead of waiting for the bridge to dovetail into the park im provements, build the bridge and later let the park improve ments dovetail into the bridge. There are other innovations Mr. J6nes could work for if chosen to Council. For instance, a material reduction in the cost of gas, direct interchange of tel ephone service so that a man having a Bell telephone, for ex ample, could talk to the man with the Dial; he opposes any contemplated increase in street car fare; is in favor of-a recre ation pier in the Susquehanna river that could be used for band concerts and permissible forms of recreation and amuse ment. Mr. Jones would have the tax payers get in closer touch with legislation that comes before the Commissioners. He would have no star-chamber sessions, but would see all hands above the table. In short, he is in favor of the most democratic methods. To his mind, there should be an open expression and frank dis cussion of all matters pertaining to the interests of the city. In this, his platform, differs from that of his opponents. While a number of them are relying largely on their records this candidate depends on what he would do, with the aid of the people in framing laws and put ting forward innovations to bring about greater and more substantial progress. In advocating an amusement pier in the river he strikes a popular chord in the hearts of the people. lie reasons that Harrisburg is entitled, because of its importance as the capital of a great state, to all the bene fits possible. The amusement pier certainly would afford op portunity for thousands of work ingmen and their families, after the day's toil, to enjoy whatever form of recreation and*pleasure offered itself in connection with the innovation In case he is chosen to Coun cil, Mr. Jones pledges himself honestly t and faithfully to serve the people well and render a good account of his stewardship. Certainly, he is outspoken in what he regards as things that would benefit the city, and his choice at the polls would place at least one free lance in Coun cil who is looking ahead for the future generations as well as for his fellow citizens of to-day. 5
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