Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-06
Senator Ware, in Voting,
Predicts Sweeping Victory
for Organization
NICHOLSON CoNFIDENT t
Town Meeting Aspirant for
Treasurer Expects Majority
of at Least $4,000

.run,ner street and snyder avenue. the FIJI
teen division Of the Thlrty-ninth "aru'
1o,ts o'clock. He predicted sweeping
,,c,orv for the entire Republican ticket
"a nromised a statement later In the day
He cast the eightieth ballot In the o'N's'on
Ten of the eighty, the election ofncers on .,I ,o''
-. ,,.ro AGAINST the ~ffty-hfty' ticket.
Ifts brother Congressman Wtiham .
xyaro voted AT 9:SO at Wolf ana CarIslt
street in the Twenty-ninth DIVISION Oh '"'
Twenty-sixth Ward. - ,.,ioa n,
ssrhe people have not been looIeu Wy
.ho so-csIIed reform movement" he told
his followers at the polling place Every
one admits that we cannot have goVerH,neIl ,'I
bv murder, but an obvious truth mas mas Nv" @
distorted for political purposes. Inc peo,
ME are interested in this election Wua' va,
they are interested In Is the WAT ""N WV
high cost of living.
GET MANY VOTES
The Wares made a tour of their district 10
see how the voting was progressing.
In the twenty-fourth division OF the sec
ord ward ffty of the first hfty-two ballots
cast were for the "fifty-bfty' TICKET III
the home division of City Treasurer NC
Coach, the eighteenth of the Thirtieth ware
none Of the first sixty votes was ior '"e
Town Meeting ticket
ptveotor of Public Safety Wilson voted
NJ s.3o this morning in the fourteenth di-
vision of the Forty-eighth Ward. only
two Of the FIRST eighty-hve ballots III that
division we're credited to the Town meeting
party. ..as,,, ss,,," car-
w Freeland Kendrick, "hfty-htty can
didIate for Receiver of Taxes, cast , ual.o,
17a IN the third division Of the Forty-secohu
ward al 5if4 York road. He voted snort
IN after 1 1o'clock.
at feel 100 per cent conhdenI nc s''u'
'I have been encouraged on every stue a
n "a victory for
the entire ticket. do not expect any .Iou-
rIe al the poIls We want nothing but q
fair and square election and ] VIII taks
my hat OH to the winner.
ua nredicted a majority Of 10000 for the
ORGANIZATION ticket, and said the Organi-
zation would carry the Forty-second "aru
by ib0e a.,
The Town Meeting party workers in the
Forty-second Ward, however, at noon claim
ed the ward by 10OO
United States Senator Boies Penrose de-
cliued TO make any comment on the elec'
tion when he went TO the polling place a,
sz4 south Twelfth street 10 cast his ballot
for the Town Meeting party ticket. He
voted at II 40 O'Clock. and then went ia
his offices In the Commercial Trust Build
ing
District Attorney Samuel p. Rotan walked
from his home, 3s23 Walnut street. to the
polling place In his division, at 1914 Market
street. and entered the Young pOOlI at II -
this morning 1t took him a minute and a
half TO mark his ballot. When he emerged
he was asked what party would win. II
his opinion. but said he had no prediction
to make He was asked IL, in his opinion
the successful party would win by an over
whelming majority, and replied that 1t wa'
dfhcult TO say as the situation was ex
tremely complicated. Asked II he knew
what Senator McNichofs opinion was as Il
who would win. he said that he did not
hrs for Ia at M
six weeks that he had not seen Senator
McNichol in that time.
RoTAN is PREPARED
IT think the election will be a quiet one, :
said Mr.. Rotan, but my office is prepared
to meet any disorder of the slightest nature
which may artse"
william r. Nicholson, candidate 70
Treasurer on the Town Meeting party
ticket predicted majority of $4,000 70
the Town Meeting party when he cast hi
. vote today at the Wyneefield Countr,
Club, Bryn Mawr and Wynneheld ave
nues. the polling place of the nineteenth
division of the Thirty-fourth Ward.
Mr. Nicholson came to the club in hi
machine, accompanied by his wife. He wa
greeted by s. w. wollford and S. B. whet
stone. Town Meeting party workers MI
Nicholson said he would remain at his hom
during the day. but would come into tow
tonight to hear the election returns.
There are 1s1 registered voters in tn
Nipeteenth Division of the Thirty-fourt
Ward and up to noon 107 votes had bee
cast
Frederick J. shoyer, "hfty-hfty" cand
date for City Treasurer. claimed a ma
jority Of 10000 for the Republican Organi
xatiep ticket when he voted at Morris an
Stafford streets. in the thirty-hrst divisio
Of the Twenty-second Ward, at s;l5 ocloe
this morning. He cast the ffteth ballo
There are los registered voters in the div
sion.
IL feel confident that tine entire ticket wi
win by 10000 majority he said. This
a conservative estimate, i base my predic
tIon on the Twenty-seeond Ward, which
the leading reform ward in the city. Th
Republican ticket has a good chance
carry II. and II II loses the ward It will onl
be by a small majority. He said that h
expects to carry his own division by to
votes. The ward gave Blankenburg a ma
jority Of a5e0 IN 1911.
WILL HOLD DOWN MAJORITY
The Town Meeting party sentiment
the Twenty-slHth Ward. the home ward
Congressman William 8. Ware, will ho
the majority for the ''hfty-hfty" ticket
that ward down to 1000. according to Ricl
ard T. MesOrley, Democratic candidate (,
District Attorney.
Mcsorley lives in the thirty-hrst div
sion Of the ward, the home division of A
HlstRnt Director Joseph Baldwin, Of Il
Department Of Public Works When N
SoFiey voted at o'clock he said that on
third Of the votes In the division had be,
polled and that during those two hou
more votes had been cast against the o
ganization that ~ any election for years
Mayor Smith gave very illuminatiI
opinion OF the way the election is Eoln
when he voted shortly before 10 o'clock n
morning at the polling place OF the Sixteen
division Of the Twenty-eghth Ward.
nraefed several friends and acaua Inta nc
there.
Il have confidence In the intelligence a.
Judgment OF the people Of Philadelphia"
said. III they contrast conditions in In,
own wards with the talk that has be
given out In the newspapers, then. OF couri
the Republican party win win. II the ps
pie are, on the other hand. Influenced
the newspapers and spurious criticism, tn
the Town Meeting party viii win"
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