Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-11-11
WARES MAY FIND
BALM in VANISHED
HUGHES VICTORY
Brothers "Bill" and "Edr
Paraded Tuesday Night
With Secret Sorrow
SAW POWER ECLIPsED

Varetown cannot figure IL out. On Tues
day night and well into wednesday morn.
ing Brothers bill" and "Ed" paraded
Broad street at the head OF a host that
was noisiiy acclaimIng the election Of
Charles Evans Hughes.
But that blare and uproar were as galI
and wormwood TO the South Philadelphia
leaders.
Control of n Governor Of a States po-
litical machinery, of a Mayor, of City Coun-
ellis might be gratifying or valuable In as
suaging the clamors of office-hungry hench.
men. And in these several factors Of po-
litical power the name Of Ware might be
omnipotent
Yet with national victory fought for ana
apparently won, Tuesday nights celebra.
tion furnished no emollient to the Ware
brothers. Their followers. In their blind
enthusiasm, might shout and cheer, but
the chiefs to whom they acknowledge ale.
glance were sore"
But today n new paradox presents itself
to the mystification of South philadelphia
Wilson has won. Four years more OF
Democratic government lodges in Washing.
ton. And the commonalty of Varetown be-
holds its leaders compacently viewing the
revlvihed disciples OF the Princetonian sage
jubilate over the triumph Of ''watchful walt
ing" as applied to election returns.
And those Ware brothers. TO their cohorta
appear almost joyful that the first reports
that Hughes had swept the country have
been contradicted. Have they turned Demo-
Gratis? Are they glad that the postmaster
ship. port collectorship, internal revenue COLI
lectorship. mint superintendency, subtreas-
urership and the other Federal posts are
TO remain in Democratic hands?
These berths are not only lucrative to
the big fish who fall into them, but they
often carry snug places for slowing away
tho smaller fry.
And who doesn't know that there is q
Ware man ready for any unwary job, Fed
eral state or municipal, that dares to ven-
ture out without an incumbent?
Several thousand Varetown voters may
bc enlightened by the knowledge that II
was political hari-kari for the Ware broth.
ers to participate in that procession of Tues.
| day night.
Republican victory to them meant the en-
| thronement beyond question OF United
| states Senator Boies Penrose as dispenser
Of Federal patronage in this Commonwealth
| and municipality.
Their party triumphant, yet they its
| local and State leaders, were disspirited.
| At the White House for four years to
| come their factional arch enemy would be
| persona grata after March 8, 1871 Had
| he not been called upon during the cam
| paign by Chairman Wilcox and the inner
| cabal at national headquarters to sit in
| their councils and offer his advice and ex-
| perience? That counsel had been taken, the
| fight was won, and now he, the senior
| Senator from Pennsylvania, would dictate
for the keystone State those faithful to
| whom the plums should fall when Presi-
dent Hughes should set afoot that jack
| sonian principle of turning the rascals
| out"
| In such heavy mood the Wares led their
hosts up Broad street on Tuesday night
| Prospectlvely, they visioned Penrose-
| McNichol adherents occupying those COM
| Portable Federal berths.' For what had they
| rolled up that splendid majority in their
| southern bailiwick? Their supporters. less
| far sighted, might rejoice. Little did they
| reckon how that majority spelled the suici.
| dai sacrifice Of personal feeling on the altar
| OF party loyalty
Their party's victory meant only the de-
| feat of their hopes for national Leadership
| and the further Strengthening of their an
| tagonists' forces within the State and city
| through the Federal dispensation.
The mutations OF time have demonstrated
the uncertainty OF early election returns
and while Ware followers today pay on
their bets and sadly prepare TO confront
| four years more of Wilson, their leaders re-
| joice that credit for port development
| League Island enlargement.a new Postoffics
| and Custom House and whatever other
| Government improvements might have been
projected for Philadelphia not to mention
those Federal jobs during the next admin.
istration, will not rebound TO the fame OF
Boies Penrose, James p. McNichol or IN
any other way be stolen from Ware brothers