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."
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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