Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-08-22
CALL ASKS INJUNCTION
TO BAR COPS FROM CLUB
Continued from Pnre On.

and forth, venting his rage against his
enemies, The Judge kept the telephone
wires hot" Issuing militant instructions
to his henchmen In the Twentieth Ward.
Before midnight II became common prop
erty all over the ward that the Judge"
was raging like a 'dyspeptic bull" down
by the sea and was getting ready TO fight
everything in sight.
GET EN- AND GET EN- RIGHT"
The Judges" instructions TO his lieu
tenants were ended with the snarllng com.
mand, GO after them now, get em and
get 'em right Understand, this is no
Sunday school moonlight. IT'S a rough
house."
It is said that the corpulent Judge" per-
spired "bucketsful" as ne beloved forth
his orders. His sleeves were rolled up
| above his soft, fat biceps, his suspenders
dangled below his hips like broken harness
on a refractory horse and his chest and
abdomen heaved like the body OF a beach.
stranded whale. The Judge" was at It
until after midnight. and when he finished
the telephone receiver fairly dripped with
his perspiration.
Call was completely exhausted after ne
had finished "gingering up" the entire Twen-
tieth Ward with his hoarse battlecry.
1t was admitted by Calls henchmen that
the quarantining Of the Twentieth Ward
Republican Club was the most demoraliz-
Ing blow ever received by the Judge"
Ward heelers who gathered within it's
portals and participated in card games and
other parties In the past have been led to
believe that they we're In little exclusive
principalty of their own which was immune
from police interference. Tx quarantining
OF the club has convinced these henchmen
that Call Is not so strong" after all and
they are thinking about getting out from
under"
spstola expressed righteous" indignation
today at the quarantinng OF the club.
This is chartered club" he said "and
the members have a perfect right to engage
| IN any recreation they see fit OF course
the members play cards and dominos, but
what Is tho harm In that? Don't they do
the samo thing in other clubs? The prin-
ciple OF the club Is to furnish amusement
for men who work hard during the week"
EDITORS NOT ARRESTED
Captain of Police Nicholas j. Kenny, who
was suspended by Director Wilson, to-
| Bether with Special Policeman BlgRar of
the Third street and Farmount avenue
| station, in connection with charges of
| graft, and who caused warrants to issue
| for the arrest of Dougherty and Knight
| editors OF the Sunday Transcript on the
charge of criminal libel, say II Is none of
the publc's business what happens to the
| warrants.
Dougherty and Knight are seen on the
rtato almost every day, their friends say,
| but they pass along just as IL there were
| no warrants hanging over them.
Captain Kenny became indignant when
he was asked this morning why the war
rants had not been served.
That's none of the public's business.
| am suing those fellows for criminal libel
and I Will get them at the proper time"
| said Kenny.
when will be the proper time? Some
| one has said the warrants would never be
| served?" queried the EVENING LEDGER re-
| porter.
'T can't mako the detectives serve the
warrants" said Kenny, but Biggar gets
| back from his vacation on Sunday and
| then I will go after these fellows myself
See"
In the meantime the warrants repose In
the pigeon holes Of Captain Tate's desk.
CALL DRAWS LANES ENMITY.
A political war-a contest for the Repub.
| lican Organization leadership In Dave"
| Lanes Twentieth Ward-led to the ''perse.
| cution" of Magistrate "Joe" Call that re.
| suited In hiSNindctment by the Grand Jury
| yesterday ana the closing of the Twentieth
Ward Republican Club. of which he was
| the head.
Judge" Call aspred TO the leadership In
| the ward where Republican City Chairman
David II. Lane has ruled for decades In
| the eyes OF the administration and the fac
| tlonal leaders behind the administration. he
snned politically therein. So counter
campaign against him was launched.
Magistrate Call broke Off his political re-
| latlons with Lane at the first OF the year
and since then has made little secret OF the
fact that he has been aspiring to be ward
leader in a bailwck that has been con.
trolled almost absolutely by the sage or
the Organization" for many years.
Until the Smith administration went Into
office. Judge" Call has been working with
Lane politically. although his leRnings have
been toward State Senator James P NC
Nlchol ever since he became Magistrate
McNlchol and Lane, however. had never
been openly at odds until last spring.
During the primary campaign, after Nc
Nichol had been eliminated from the trium'
virate that had ruled the destnies OF the Or
ganlEation since the death of Israel w. Dur
ham, Lane cast his lot openly with Mayor
Smith and with the Wares, who stood spon-
sors for the new city administration.
Judge" Call who had previously worked
for Lane as head Of the Twentieth Ward
Republican Club, whom he had known intl-
mately In political and In pinochle way
for years. worked against Lane,
According to lieutenants OF both Lane
and Call the Judge" and Lane had a
heart -to-heart talk early In the primary
campaign. During that talk the city chair
man, according to the lieutenants, warned
Call to line up with the Wares and Mayor
Smith.
Calls answer was TO accompany Senator
McNchol west when McNlchol attended the
Grand Circuit races early in the last cam
paign. That act OF Calls caused an open
break, according to politicians.
FOUGHT FOR BROWN,
Call followed up his trip with McNichol
by working in the ward in the interest OF
President Judge Charles l. Brown, OF the
Municipal Court who was opposing Lane
as delegate from the Second District TO the
Republican National Convention.
The Judge" worked day and night for
Judge Brown and MeNichol, and McNichol
and Brown were elected Lane, according
10 politicians in the ward, has never Tor
given Call for that.
Late in the primary campaign Calfs
principal lieutenant, Jimmy McTague,
former fire marshal, came out as the Nc
NichoI candidate for the ward leadership,
He was defeated, but made big inroads on
Lanes machine In the Twentieth Ward.
Call, according to political leaders put
up McTague as blind" behind whom ne
could night 10 be in a position to succeed
Lane ward leader.
Lanes years as Sage OF the organiza'
ton are numbered In the opinion or the
other Organization leaders, and II was the
prize OF being Lanes successor In the
Twentieth Ward that resulted In the city