Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-11-28
WAR ON PENROSE
MAN FOR SPEAKER
Ware, Smith and Brumbaugh
Confer on Fight Against
Baldwin
SEEK 5000" CANDIDATE
Administration Plans to Effect
Working Coalition in
Legislature
SEEK "5o-5o" CANDIDATE

Governor Brumbaush. with the assist.
anoe OF the Wares and the Smith admins
tration, will bitterly oppose the election OF
Richard J. Baldwin, Of Delaware County
Psnrose candidate for Speaker OF the
House
plans for opposing the Baldwin candi.
dacy and for making compromise proposals
IN order to effect united support for the
Mayors program OF tax and other legis.
lation and to reduce 20 minimum the
faetional fight in the Legislature, were dis.
cussed at the hurried conference held last
night in Harrisburg.
The Mayor, Congressman William q
ware and Governor BrumbauEh attended
the confab. which lasted more than two
hours The Mayor and Ware left for Phlla.
delphia hurrledly at 4:30 o'clock. and re-
turned to the city at s;aS last night. The
conference was followed by dinner at the
executive mansion.
RESULT OF CoNFAB
Neither the Mayor nor Congressman Ware
would comment today on what occurred ~
the executive mansion. 1t became known.
however, that the result OF the conference
was as follows
The combined power OF the State and
city administrations may be used to
fight the election OF Baldwin. to whom
the Governor is unalterably opposed.
A compromise speaker will be sug-
Essted by the administration but the
"hfty.hfty" candidate has not been Sc
leoted as yet.
No agreement has been reached on
any legislation that will come before the
Legislature, but the Governor Mayor
and their political friends are hopeful
that there will be no opposition to the
Mayors bills to obtain relief in the
taxation problem.
II will not make any comment on my visit
20 HArrisburg," said the Mayor.
Congressman Ware would do nothing
more than admit that the conference had
been held. "1t is true that the Mayor and
myself went TO Harrisburg. We had dinner
with the Governor, but won't discuss It. :"
It was reported that Attorney General
Brown attended the conference, but Con-
gressnhan Ware denied this. ~ did not see
him at all in Harrisburg" he said.
Governor Brumbaugh in Harrisburg. ad-
mitted that the Speakership had been dis
cussed Asked II any conclusion had been
reached on the Speakership, he said:
we only discussed Il indirectly. We
are awaiting developments"
Have you decided upon any oneg"
NO; we are simply waiting develop
ments, Really, their whole purpose in COM
ing here was to talk over legislation per
tanning 10 the development OF Philader-
pha
philadelphia is about to raise its tax
rate. 1t must DO so to pay its debts and to
DO other things. 1 am not ready to 60 into
details at present, but the fact is the city
must get some relief in carrying its bur-
dens, and It will likely be necessary to
widen it's taxation resources
TO HELP PHILADELPHIA
MY visitors are very much interested in
the development of Philadelphia, and so are
all of u.s. / am, too, 1 am a Philadelphian.
/ want to see the city grow and that In why
we had the talk. They came here to dis.
euss matters referred to in my statement OF
last week I'm regard to the city's legislation.
II Is a big problem, and we talked over varl-
Gus phases"
The administration and the Wares are
opposed to the election of Baldwin because
the Delaware county man is considered one
of the leading "wets" in the house, and
because he announced that he had the Pen
rose support
II was pointed out today in political
circles that Baldwin waged the same kind
of a campaign for the Speakershlp two
years ago, and after he had declared he
would stick to tho finish, it developed on tho
eve Of the convenlng of the Legislature
that both factions had agreed upon Charles
A. Amber for Speaker,
Baldwin was indorsed last night by the
Representatlves-elec of Bucks and Mont
gomery Counties. Those who signed the
Endorsement were Henry y. Pickering and
Daniel @. Fret1, of Bucks, both leutenants
Of Joseph r. Grundy, and James S. Boyd
and /. Il. Haldeman, of Montgomery, Boyd
and Haldeman are lieutenants OF Charles
Johnson Penrose leader in the county.
Fletcher w. Sites, the third member from
Montgomery County, did not sign II. He Is
q follower of Charles A. Amber.