New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-09
PHILADELPHIA AFFAIRS.
THE REPUBLICAN CLEAN SWEEP DEM
OCRATS DISHEARTENED BY PATTI
SONS VOTE SENATORSHIP AND
MAYORALTY CANDIDATES.

Philadelphia Nov. s tSpeciaD-The sweep by
the Republican party u Philadelphia At this week
election was cleaner than ever known before
in fact it could not have been cleaner. There was
not Democrat Fusionist the ticket whose
election at any time in sight II did not re-
Quire the ballot box stufinS following padded reg
iStraton-and that such illegal measures were re-
sorted to is beyond doubt-to do the trick either.
That there were Illegal ballots counted is shown
by comparison of the given Judge Penny
packer for Governor and the vote for Tresi-
dent Mckinley. Notwithstanding the Hveniug up
of the campaign toward the last. there
by any means full poll OF the Republican vote
Tuesday. Vet in all hut twenty-four out of the
forty-two wards there were returned votes for
tn" candidate for Governor than were east for
President Mckinley.
The striking instances Of the fraud thus
shown in the Fifth Tenth and ThirteCuth
wards. All these wards furnish uneNampled op-
portunitics for fraudulent swelling Of the vote.
They are honey combed with boarding houses. and
lodging houses Of the lower type The Fifth is
Delaware River front ward. while tho Tenth aud
Thirteenth constitute by TAR the larger part of thar
district which is known In all cities the
TenderIoin"
In the Fifth Ward there were old; votes returned
for Judge Pennypacker against .9C7 for President
Mckinley. In the Tenth the figures are; Penny
packer. $500: Mckinley. 5000 In the Thirteenth.
Pennypacker. t73S; Mckinley; e92t
candida1e than for. Mckinney was the sixth thu
only ward in the city which returned Democratic
should have given the ward a member of the lower
house in the State legislature but to prevent any
such thing the Sixth has been tackled 10 the
Tenth district to return two members
However that may he. the large fraudulent vote
in the Tenth did not affect the result The Senu-
inc Republican majority in the Tenth is greater
than the Democratic in the Sixth.
Summed up. the result is that six Republican
congressman. four State Senators with four other
Republican State Senators holding Overl forty Re
publican members of the House-the entire deega-
tion-and all the Republican county officers have
been elected President Judge Michael Arnold was
originally Democrat hut under the .unwrttteu
law of a nOn-partisan judiciary his candidacy has
received the Republican Endorsement every time.
[ nfer the minority representation law the Demo-
Gratis get of the three County Commissioners.
The most disheaTtenins feature of the campaign
from a Democratic point OF view has been tn fail
,ire of Ex-Governor Pattison to to PhilaGel-
pha with a majority. This had been the Demo-
cratic hOpe-if not the expectaton-th through the
whole of the III the city the effect Of eN
Governor PattisOns popularity with his fellow
members of the Methodist; church and his supper,
by the ''recalctrant'' Republicans is shown nv IN.
return of less than $3.50 majority for his opponent,
while a straight out hight between Republicans and
coroner brought out ~ Republican
majority Of more than t15ONl The effect Of state
issues alone in the city is shown in an EXCESS Of
more than 1000 in the majority tor the Republican
Secretary of Internal Affairs over that for Gov