Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-06
WARE FACTION SPENT
S1B,162 In ELECTION
Unpaid Debts and Obligations
of Organization Amount
to $4,000
SENATOR GAVE S15,7OO
Town Party's Expenses St14,4G3
Leaving Balance-Committee
Fund Listed

The Ware faction of tho Rcublican
Organization spent S1i31G5.7S. IN addl-
tion to unpaid debts and obligations APP
proNimating S25.o0o, ln the recent elcc.
tOn
The Republican city Committees ac-
count was filed this afternoon with
Thomas w cunningham clerk Of the
Court Of Quarter Sessions Today was
the last day for filing accounts Of the
expenses for the election held ON so.
Nembcr &.
The Town Meeting party flied It's &C.
count at noon, Theodore j. Lewis trcas-
Uror Of tho independent partys cam
r9,Eu committee, took il to Clty Hall
Tho Town Meeting party account showed
receipts Of Sll9,l62 20 and expenditure
uf SllilG3Gi, leaving balance Of
Si69N.5?.
\ feature Of tho Town Meeting rartr
report is the list Of men and women
contributors whose names are rarely if
ever seen among the names Of th0ao
giving funds for political campaign pur-
poses. The largest contributors were
l.. \, Van Nalkenburg. J lines EiversOn
and Cyrus H. *. Curtis who gave SEQ
coo each William L. Mclean gave $1o.-
900; Powell Evans. $4,000: George II.
NcFad1en, $3.50, aud Hugh NcCaffrcy.
AIR. and Mrs. Burnham, Jr. Arthur IT,.
Lea, Frederick H. StrawhridEc. ". O.
Warden and S. :. Fels, $1,000 each.
There were moro than twenty C)ntrbu-
tons of $500 each
The Republican City Committees re-
ccpts were $l4i,Gs51o, most of which
was contributed by ofhceholders. Ken
driclS, Shochan and Shoycr, the Organi-
2ation's candidates for county offices,
gave $1,000 each. The largest coutribu-
tor was state Senator Edwin II. Ware,
who gave S15,700 to the machines 'war
fund"
Most of the assessments levied against
the directors of the city departments and
their assistants averaged $500. John
r. Naurer, Assistant District Attorney,
who, with Mercantile Appraiser James
A. Carey, was hlackiacHcd in the
Bloody Fifth" Ward on primary olcc-
tlon day contributed $22j.
Thomas W. Cunningham, who recently
was elected chairman Of the Penrose
Republican alliance campaign commit
toe, and who has succeeded tho late
Senator James l.. McNichpl as leader in
the Tenth ward. contributed $3.50.
The largest item for expenditure listed
by the Republican, city committee was
$l5,72o.9o for advertising. Salaries and
wages totalcd $l3,i33 and printing
S1O17G.30.
For the first time in the history Of
the Organization the amounts of the
money paid to the variCIs organization
ward committees on the night before
election We're announced. Thcy follow:
First Ward. $1,000; Second Ward,
$1,000 Fourth Ward, $500; Sixth
Ward, $3.50; Seventh Ward, $1,000 !;
Twelfth Ward, $500; Thirteenth ward,
$500: Fourteenth Ward. $1,000; Eff
tccnth Ward, $250O; Sixteenth Ward,
$1,000; Seventeenth Ward, $500; Elgh-
tocnth Ward, $500; Nineteenth Ward,
$220O: Twentieth Ward, $500; Twenty
first Ward, $500; Twentv-scCond Ward,
$4,000 Twenty-third Ward, $500 .
Twonty-fourth Ward, S20g0; Twenty
sixth Ward, $1,000; Twenty-seventh
Ward, s1200; Twenty-eighth Ward
S210O; Twcnty-ninth Ward, $25OO; Thir-
tieth Ward. $1,000: Thirtv-first Ward
$2SO0; Thirty-seCond Ward. $1,000 /,
Thlrty-third Ward, S25O0; Thirty
fourth Ward, S2j0o Thirty-ffth Ward
$1,000; Thirty-siXth Ward, $1,000 ThIr-
tv-scvcnth Ward, S1S2O; Thirty-cighth
Ward, $21OO; Thrty-ninth Ward, $1,000 !;
Fortioth ward S25Oo; Forty-nrst Ward
$1,000; Forty-SccQnd Ward, $500; For
ty-thrd ward S25O0; FOrtv-fourth
Ward $2420: Forty-hfth Ward, $1,000 ::
Forty-sixth Ward, $35Oo; Forty-seyenth
Ward, $4,000; F'orty-cighth Ward, $1,000.