Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-04
VARE-M'NTCHOL PEACE
BURSTS LIKE A BUBBLE
Cogs of Republican Machine
Crate When Two City Hall
Men Are Suspended

Cogs Of the Republican machine grated
In discord, the dove of peace uttered a
piercing shrek and the armed truce" be-
tween the Ware and McNichol factions burst
like bubble today when two Thirteenth |
Ward McNichol followers, working in Nare-
controlled city offices, were suspended.
The deed was done for the good of the |
service according to official announce |
ments
But, according to City Hall gossip, the |
suspensions were warning to the men not |
to vote McNiChol-ward tonight when they |
gather with the other committeeman Of the
Thirteenth Ward to choose the members
of the Republican City Committee. They
are said to have been served with notice
that they will be dismissed unless their
votes favor the Ware candidate.
The suspended men are Theodore Clay, an
S11OO-a-year clerk in the office of Receiver
of Taxes Kendrick, a Ware chief, and
Thomas Hewitt, a S16OO-a-year chief of
transcribers in the office of Recorder Of
Deeds Hazlett, ALSO Ware chief. Both
are members of the Thirteenth Ward COM
mittee, where a lively fight for the control
of the ward is in progress Both Clay and
Hewitt have announced that they will sup
port Select Councilman John f. Flaherty,
MCNichol leader of the ward in his Candi-
dacy as representative Of his ward on the
city committee.
The Ware candidate, William II. Jones,
is leading the fight which the Wares are
making for the control Of the ward, con
filct in which aid from the Fourteenth Ward,
in the shape Of Congressman John r. h.
Scott, has been invoked. Congressman
Scott has been seen frequently at city
Hall I'm the last few days, having hurried
up from Washington.
officials of both the offices of the Re-
| ceiver of Taxes and the Recorder of Deeds
hot ha Ci good
| of the service.
HOW TRUCE WAS ARRANGED
The getting together" movement for next
| falls election was started some time ago,
| and the army of Organization workers who
| substantially benefit from a factional tight
| received their first intimation of the har-
mony program at the last meeting of the
| Republican City Committee. At that meet
| ing the Ware ward leaders indorsed the
| entire list of eight judges who will come
| up for reelection. The list is evenly di-
vded between the Ware and the Penrose-
| McNcho factions.
There is little possibility Of any serious
| opposition to the reelection of District
| Attorney Samuel Z. Rotan Receiver of
| Taxes Kendrick and Register of Wills
| Sheehan also will run again, according
to their friends Both are personal friends
| of Mayor Smith and he has indorsed them
|
under the law, and a successor to William
McCoach will have to be selected. The
Wares will name the candidate, however
according to the harmony plans.
The arrangements for peace. however, dc
not go so far as to include the filling OF
the five vacancies that will occur among
| the magistrates. The two factions viii
hotly contest these places and a swarm Of
individual candidates are expected to entei
the race. especially since the pay of magis
trates has just been increased by the Legis
lature from $4,000 to $4,000 year.
The gubernatorial booms for Senator vii
liam G. Sproul and Congressman John II
! X. Scott are being quietly pushed by the
friends throughout the State in preparation
for the battle that will start soon after tn
votes are counted next fall. This is i'm spit
of indications of harmony that resultet
from the dinner given in Harrisburg b,
Senator Ware in honor Of Senator Sprou
last week
DEMOCRATIC PLANS
The Democrats also are quietly layini
| their plans. Vance G. Mccormick who wa
defeated by Governor Brumbaugh in 1914
is the most prominently mentioned of tn
available timber of the Democrats. Demo
| cratic leaders believe that he could rail-.
the independent vote of the State behint
him.
state Senator Charles w. Sones of Ly
coming, has been brought forward as
possibility, and formal announcement O
his candidacy for the Democratic nomina
tion is looked for within a few weeks
, Senator Sones 1t as the head of the col
Guard" machine in his section of the state
but in 1914 supported Mccormick. He
, a wealthy lumber merchant.
. WARD FIGHTS
Others who have been mentioned a
, | Democratic possibilities include Natona
! Committeeman A. Mitchell Palmer an
E. Lowrey Humes, Assistant Unite
states District Attorney at Pittsburgh
n who prosecuted the brewers in the "slus
/ ! fund" probe in Pittsburgh.
. Three determined fights for Republica
t CITY commtte. seats, in addition to tha
= in the Thirtrsth Ward, which cost Cla
and Hewitt thor jobs. have developed, an
D | at least one now promises to go to III
i | committee Itself for a decision. The thre
wards in which the contests are being wage
are the Third, the Twenty-fourth and tn
| Thirty-fourth.
: The indications are that Harry Traine
Il | NcNichol man in the Third Ward, WI
= elect his man, though the Ware faction
n putting up a stiff fight. The contest in III
: the Twenty-fourth is so close that it wi
nrobably 20 to the City Committee. Blake
iv McCaughn, the McNichol candidate, no
a member of the committee. is trying
!, carry sufficient votes to keep the electio
away from the committee. Today 1t is n
u rorted that Mayor Smith has thrown his il
d p,,onca against McCaughn and in favor
H. The Ware candidate. There is also SON
l. question as to whether Ernest l.. Tust
l. roenber from the Thirty fourth, will be r.
y elected. He is a McNichol man.