Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-10-28
OLD-TTME WINDUP
OF REPUBLICAN,
CAMPAIGN in CITY
Torchlight Parades, Red
Fire and Oratory Mark
Next Week
ROOSEVELT MAY BE HERE

Arrangements for giving Phliaa.,oAs.
next week the appearance q had dur,r.
Republican campaigns ten and twenty y,,r.
ago are progressing rapidly.
Parades such az they had In the Me,,.,..
campaign in 1899. with red fire ana ,o..s
lights and brass bands will be held n,sh,,a
starting Wednesday next while ster,,--
the same night and ending SATURDAY. n.
publican orators will appeal 10 voters \.
support Hughes and Fairbanks and ina ~
publican State and city candidates IN
series OF sectional rallies that will be Ma .
in each congressional district
ROOSEVELT MAY SPEAK
The plans for an old.tlme Repuh,,,.-
campaign will culminate in a monster mae .
meeting. TO he held At the Academv -
Music on Friday night next when Al.
gates and representatives from esst.,.
Pennsylvania. southern New Jeraev n.,.'
ware and Maryland win join with Ph,lass,.
phia Republicans. Efforts are being ,n,a.
TO secure Theodore Roosevelt as the nr,.-
cipal speaker on that night.
Arrangements were made TODAY 70 ,,,s,.
late 80 900 tickets for each 81 the seet,o.s,
meetings. The tickets for the big raIlv 4.
the Academy OF Music. however viii be ~
distributed that those bearing proper "a.
dentlals can obtain admittance.
As the first step toward actually A..
ganlzlng the meetings the ward workers A..
being brought together in various parts u
the city every night Senators Ware and A..
Nichol. Congressman Ware and C;r.hsr-
and the various ward leaders are dlscuseis~
with the workers the plans for the ral,ss
and are urging them to help make them IN
dicative of Philadelphia Repubiicanism
THREE WARD RALLIES
The workers of three wards were "A.
dressed last night,
Two meetings were held in the Fortv
| sixth Ward. Congressman George p Dar-
row, Harry A. Mackey. Thomas +. M.
| Nichol and James a. Walker and Iarnss
| Franklin the latter two candidates for IN.
Legislature from the Forty-sixth ana For
| tieth Wards, were the speakers at a nest
ing held at Arcade Hail. Eo39 Baitlmors
avenue.
These speakers then went 10 oDonnelIs
Hail, Fifty-sixth and Spruce streets ana
| addressed another meeting.
Another meeting was held for the work
ers of the Forty-fourth Ward at 42s North
| Fifty-third street. This was followed b.
| one in the Thirty-second Ward Republican
| club 2121 North Broad street Harry
1 Felix. Archibald Webster, William J. wae.
genknight, william w. Lucas. Thomas y
McNichol and James II. Bennett addressed
these meetings.
| The meetings held last night concluded
| similar gatherings that have been held In
about half the wards Of the city during
| the last week
Starting next Monday other meetings wiz
be held in the wards that have not yet
been visited
PENNSYLVANIA DAY" ON MONDAY
Between 1000 and 1000 PennsylvanIans
are expected TO go over to New York Mon
day to observe Pennsylvania Day" at .
MONDAY meeting that will be held under
| the direction of Senator Penrose.
The meeting will be held under the
| auspices of the Commercial Travellers Sound
Money League of the United States. This
organization was formed during the Me-
Kinley- Bryan campaign in 1895. The
league claims affiliations with the National
Clothiers' Associations jewelers. Assocla-
tion. Wholesale Dry Goods Association, Ma
tional women's Republican Association and
other bodies.
The meeting will be held at $50 Broad
way, where the league has been conducting
daily MONDAY meetings in the interest Of
Hughes and Fairbanks