Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-11
MAY KNOW REFORM
SLATE" TONIGHT
Town Meeting Tickets Can
didates Likely to Be An
nounced Before Dark
SERIES OF CONFERENCES
Magisterial and Councilmanic
Places May All Go to
Democrats

The SLATE" OF the Town Meeting party
VIII be given out late this afternoon or this
evening II the predictions of members of the
party materiallze. It's completion has been
delayed by representatives of the Demo-
cratic party who have been in conference
with the Town Meeting committee.
The Democratic SLATE" had already been
arranged. IL has been found difficult TO get
some OF the candidates to withdraw. II Is
conidently predicted that no Democrats
will be slated for the row" positions that
nll OF the magisterial candidates will be
Democrats, and that most of the council
manic candidates will be Democrats.
William r.. Nicholson. president of the
Land Title and Trust Company and chair
man of the overlook draft board, and
Thomas +. Mcmahon, lawyer and active
member of the Democratic club, have come
TO the front as candidates for row
Offices to be supported by the Town Meeting
party.
Following a day. of conferences held yes
terday by the executive committee of the
new Independent part at headquarters, 1927
Chestnut street, these two men displaced
Dinner Beeber and Walter George Smith
as Suggestions" for the offices of City
Treasurer and Register of Wills, re-
Charles p Donnelly and Edgar w. Lank,
chairman Of the Democratic City Commit
tee. took a conspicuous part.
The executive committee was In session
up to late last night and when II ad-
3ourned the best information was that the
ticket for city and county offices appeared
70 be about as follows
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
Samuel p. Rotan. Republican nominee
for reelection.
CITY TREASURER
william r. Nicholson
REGISTER OF WILLS
Thomas F. Mcmahon
RECEIVER OF TAXES
Thomas f. Armstrong.
Nothing, however, had been settled finally.
Eurthermore, it was agreed by members Of
the committee that no statement would be
made as to the doings of the day
Perhaps the most Interesting feature Of
the day was the visit of Mr.. Donnely and
Chairman Lank to the new partys head
quarters. They were promptly admitted to
the conference room and remained about
an hour. When he came out, Mr.. Donnelly
said that in view of the tentative state
Of affairs" he could say nothing. A lead
ing member of the executive committee said
last night that Mr. Donnelly had demanded
nothing and had expressed willingness to
yield to the wishes of the committee, 1t is
UNDERSTOOD however, that Mr. Donnelly
would be satisfied to see a nonfactional
Democrat as q candidate for one of the
ROW" offices and that the city committee
would like TO be fully recognized in the
Magistrates.
A hitch developed in this connection,
however, when Frank Feeney, labor leader,
called on Chairman Armstrong in the in
terests of Magistrate William j. Tracy as
candidate for reelection. Tracy was
not put on the Organization" slate and the
Central Labor Union now wants to get him
on the Town Meeting ticket.
To do this it was Indicated the Demo-
Gratis would be obliged to sacrifice one of
the four magisterial places. Labor leaders
asserted that recognition of the Central
Labor Union would be worth 10000 to
$4,000 votes. and this statement was di-
rectly conveyed to Chairman Armstrong.
The sessions of the executive commit
tee were quite lively. One of the big ques-
tions was whether or not District Attorney
Rotan would accept the TowR Meeting
nomination. The point was that Mr.. Rotan,
along with the other Republican candi-
dates, had agreed before the Fifth Ward
situation developed not to run on any
ticket but the Republican. Ware leaders
asserted that Mr.. R1tan would not lend
his name 10 the new party. Town Meeting
leaders took another view.