Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-11-27
VOTERS REVOLT
in ALLEGHENY
Uprising Against Penrose
Machine Elected Two Dem
ocratic Congressman
RESENT BROKEN PLEDGES
Defeat of Coleman and Barch-
field Notice That Bosses
Must Go

PITTSBURGH. Nov s1.--Maehine poll
tics OF tho Penrose organization In Alle-
nheny county has SO disgusted Republican
voters who hold the balance Of power that
a sweeping rebellion against the bosses"
ie promised for the Mayoratly election next
year unless reforms in the party leadership
are instituted Immediately.
The grumbling OF the G., o. p. voter was
heard on last election day. when, for the
FIRST time in quarter OF a century, two
Democrats we're elected from the strong
protectionist Thrtleth and Thirty-second
Congressional Districts Smaller leaders,
as well as the men who have no other in
terest IN the party than its ideals and
schievemets are dissatisfied with the
swapping aud yelping of the Penrosc leaders
over the bones to be awarded in the shape
of Jobs
The factional fight between the Arm
strong and oliver camps was patched up
between election days, although both wings
were attempting to lay foundations for
their own success at the city elections next
year when. in addition to Mayor, five
county Judges. five Councllmen. a Coroner,
Sheriff and District Attorney will be
chosen.
"AvERAGE VOTER" OVERLOOKED
with the temporary settlement Of their
differences, both factions were sure Of an
overwhelming success for all the organlza-
tion candidates in Allegheny County. They
thought that everything would be exceed
ingly we'll But they had not reckoned with
the average voter OF the party, nor with
his memory, which went back few years
since to the first in which Mayor Armstrong
succeeded 'BIll" Magee. and which remem-
bered promises Armstrong made that were
never kept
II. v. Babcock, millionaire lumberman.
was being boosted for the next Mayor by
the Armstrong faction during the ante
election turmoil, while the divers were
playing up DIR. James Kerr, chairman of
City Councils. Babcock is said to have
gubernatorial aspirations that are heavily
backed by Armstrong, and It is this pri-
MARTY that has caused the differences be-
tween the two factions that brought the
Republican voters to the realization that
the sooner the selfish interests dominating
the party are eradlcated. the better It will
be for the party Itself.
Thep lace for a rotten ruin, they say,
"a in a history book, and that Is where
they intend to place the ''booses" even II
It takes as big political uprising as that
in which George w. Guthrie was elected
independent Mayor
MEANING OF DEFEAT
The defeat OF Barchfield and Coleman
the two protectionlst Congressman from dis
tricts captured by the Democrats, was taken
ms subject OF an editorial today by the |
Dispatch, in which the interests dominating |
the party were castigated.
These leaders," said the Dispatch, blind |
to every interest but their own and the |
special interests that financed the campaign |
that brought them into party power, were |
responsible for the votes OF the Congress-
men upon the Adamson and other measures
that were plainly in opposition to the de-
slres OF a majority of the people of their
districts. their constituents.
''Barchheld and Coleman are destroyed
political manikins. because they believed
the voice Of the political dictator was
greater than the voice of the people"
The effect of the attitude OF 80 many of
the Republican voters was taken today as |
an Indication that the war would be to the |
end on the Penrose-ol Diver BRbcock- Leslie |
machines Mayor Armstrong and his fac
tion win not be tolerated either. IL they |
persist in using the Republican party as
q means OF selfish advancement.