Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-30
WARES ARE MICE,
NOT MEN, MAYOR
/ TELLS DOWNTOWN
Should Rise Up and Say eve
Think More of Honor Than
Contracts" Blankenburg
Tells Big Audience
PORTER SEES VICTORY

uavor Blankenburg and George d.
Porter, Independent candidate for Mayor,
,ast night invaded the Ware stronghold
~ South Philadelphia, and received
ovations that rivaled those given Blank
enburg in 1911.
Roth the Mayor and Mr.. Porter fired
more broadsidcs into the organization
comp The Mayor asserted that "if the
wares were men and not mice they would
r,se nm and say we think more of our
honor than contracts, and ask you to
vo,c the straight Franklin party ticket"
Afr Porter asserted that the Republican
organization had sent out word 20 every
ward leader that there was no hope for
,bc "yellow dog tickets and that they
shouId throw every vote that could be
controlled or gained direct to the Organ-
zation candidates. He said the Organiza-
zion was making last desperate effort
10 pull its ticket through.
The Mayor made his first appearance of
tbc evening at Turner Hall, Dickinson
street and Point Breeze avenue, where
moro than 1900 voters had packed the
auditorium Previous to the rally 1900
qcr,nbers of the George u. Porter Club OF
tre 36th Ward paraded the streets In
The Ware bailiwick He then proceeded to
ErntPTull
was lilled to overiiowing. Mr.. Porter,
upon his arrival at that place, addressed
more than 2GG men who were unable to
eain admittance to the hall.
Mr.. Porter before invading the so-called
Ware wards addressed several hundred
members of the =. o. S. of A. in the EN-
manuel Reformed Episcopal Church. York
and Sepviva streets He then spoke 10
more than 500 men in Garrick Hall, j07
or 10 To Ern-
terna Hall. He concluded his speech
making for the evening before the dig
assemblage at Turner Hall.
when the polls close on November g.
said Mr.. Porter "I will have majority
of 23,OOO / do not intend to be dictator
czar or boss. / want to be the servant
OF the people.
"If any further assurance were needed
by the independents of Philadelphia that
they are going to win next Tuesday by
an overwhelming majority. that assurance
was contained in the action taken late
this afternoon by the Organization lead
ers 1t requires n little recital of recent
political history.
at the opening of this contest, when
the Organization believed it had u walk
over its leaders entered into an agree
ment with certain bipartisan lieutenants,
whereby 10000 votes were to he thrown
into columns other than the Republican,
In an effort to elect not only the Organ
izaton's slate, but the minority offices,
such as magistrates and county commits
sioner as well.
That was the fond dream of the con-
tractor bosses two weeks ago. But 10!
witness this change of front: this sudden
realization of their dire peril-which is
more than peril, and is a certainty.
This afternoon the Organization lead
ers ordered that every vote that could
be controlled or gained by thrown direct
10 the Organization candidates. Every
deal by which 1t had hoped to elect gang
owned men to minority officers was called
off.
"The word was sent out to every ward
leader that from today every ounce of
energy, every argument, every persua-
sion was to be used I'm n desperate effort
to pull the Organization ticket through.
1T means that the Democratic adjunct
Of the contractors machine has already
been abandoned to its own obscure and
well-justitied fate.
ut means not only that th5 Franklin
party ticket is already elected, but that
the Franklin party will also elect the
two County Commissioners-Georg L.
Holmes and Andrew +. Pfaff.
1T means that the voters of this city
the freemen of Philadelphia-will elect
their own magistrates, and that the min
ority party representatives in the minor
judiciary will be men nominated and
elected by the people, and not the puppets
of the contractors Organization.
1T means. too. that the price of D.
Clarence Gibboney's recent pitiable con-
tributions to the Gang cause, which price
was the reelection of Frank ]. German
as minority County Commissioner, has
been withdrawn, and that German. along
with the others. goes into the discard in
this last desperate effort of the machine
to elect its own ticket"