Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-06
THE SCOTT-O'NEIL
ALLIANCE UNHOLY
So Says Penrose in Attack on
the Philadelphia Con-
gresham

Philadelphia, May 6. - United
States Senator Boies Penrose has
characterized the joining of forces
by State Highway Commissioner j.
Denny O'Neil and Congressman-at-
Large John r. K. Scott for a cam
paigning tour of the state as an un-
holy alliance that is sure to lose
votes for both of them.
Senator Penrose further declared
that Scott, fresh from the Vice-rid-
den Fourteenth ward, and O'Neil,
still breathing the odor of sanctity
after his discourses in the churches,
will have difficulty in persuading
the intelligent voters of Pennsyl-
vania as to what common ground
or real issue they stand upon, except
a brazen attempt to fool the people
in order to get office.
After reviewing Scott's association
with the protectors of vice in the
Fourteenth ward, whose brazen dis
regard for decency and law COM
PEELED the Federal authorities to as
sumo virtual control of the police
force, Senator Penrose said Scott
was not only unfit to fill the office
of lieutenant governor. but that he
had proved himself a Stacker" in
Congress in the greatest crisis in the
worlds history, when the national
Legislature was in need of the serv-
ices of every member, both in COM
mittee and on the floor of the
Scott Congress Stacker
Senator Penrose asserted that
during the period of his member
ship I'M the House of Representatives
Congressman Scott has been absent
from its sessions 641 days out of a
total of 7O4, up until May 2, and that
he had voted on but III rollcalls
out of a total of 426...
This record, Senator Penrose as
serted, stamped Congressman Scott
as the most notable absentee in the
whole Congress.
Scott is the admitted leader in
the t'ourteenth ward in Philadel-
phia, and has assumed a guardian-
ship over the Thirteenth ward. The
report of the Federal investigators.
and also of other investigators, de-
ciares that in city teeming with
vice OF every description, to a de-
gree that has compelled the Fed
eral authorities to assume virtual
control of the police force, the two
wards are, the head of the vicious
and criminal aggregation.
Here the house of ill-fame. the
gambling room and other vicious
resorts and joints have been permit
ted to ply their trade openly in
broad daylight as well as at night,
with the connivance of the police.
Haunt of German Spies
HERON peddlers and vendors of
other narcotic drugs, prostitutes,
pimps, panderers and wretched de-
generates of every type and descrip-
ton frequent these dens of infamy
and until recently no effort has been
made to suppress their activitie.
Soldiers, sailors and marines have
been tempted and debauched here
and throughout Philadelphia and
considerable information has been
eXtorted from them by German
spies.
when the facilities afforded by
the above described denizens of the
underworld had been exhausted,
the patrons of these establishments
have been blackmailed, knocked
down and robbed, or even murdered.
Mr.. Scott, present member of the
Legislature is a saloonkeeper n the
Fourteenth ward, and his candidate
for the Legislature at the approach
Ing election is also a saloonkeeper.
Scott, fresh from the environ
ment of the Fourteenth ward, and
O'Neil still breathing the odor of
sanctity from his discourses in the
churches, will have difficulty in per-
suading the intelligent people of
Pennsylvania as to what common
ground, or real issue, they stand
upon, except brazen attempt to
camouflage the people in order to
get office.
THE unholy alliance is likely to
lose votes for both of them"