Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-18
SEE BLOW TOSCOTT
IN REGISTRY FIGURES
Town Meeting Chairman Says
Enrolment in Independent
Wards Is Anti-Vare
BIG TOTALS FORECAST
Estimate of 10000 Held to Indicate
Opposition to Organization
Candidate

Eytigatiug Yesterdays registration
figures At Go.OOO. George ". Coles.
chairman Of the Town Meeting party.
declared today that the unusually large
enrolment or voters in the Independent
wards In West Philadelphia and Ger
mantown forecast a majority of 3oOOO
votes I'm the city against Congressman
John r. N Scott. the Ware candidate
for the nomination for Lieutenant
Governor Voters in the independent
wards. Coles asserted. registered for the
express purpose Of voting against Scott
and the other Ware candidates at the
May primary.
The claim Of Senator Ware that tho
prohibition issue was largely respon-
sihle for the heavy registration IN the
iudcpcudent wards. and that most Of the
newly enrolled voters would support tho
candidates put forward by the llepub'
Iican CITY committee. was ridiculcd by
the independent leader. ware is like
n caterpillar" was Coles's comment.
when you pinch HIM in the middle
hc rises up on both ends.
While PeuubliCan leaders admit that
the rcgistra lion was heavy, the estimate
of cmplrNos In the Reg 'Stratton bureau
was placed at $4,000. Employees said
that even with this figure. due allow
ancp must he made fo rChanges due TO
removals The exact figures will not he
available Cor several days. Reg strars
In the 1896 divisions I'm the city are
forwarding the rcrorts from their divi.
sions to the Registration Bureau where
they will he compiled as quickly as
possible
The highest registration the city ever
had was for the 1916 presidential cam
paign, when 3O5,5si voters placed their
names on the registration lists. For the
election last November 275.l5o voters
were registered. If the figures Of Chair
man Coles Of the Town Meeting party
are correct. Approximately $4,000 voters
viii he entitled to take part in the pri-
mary on May !.
Mr.. Coles said that il was not neces-
sary to tell the people what yesterdays
estimated heavy registration meant lie
declared that everybody in the city knew
that the independents had enrolled to
register their disapproval Of the candi-
dacy or Congressman Scott, which. he
said. was SYNONYMOUS with the vicious
political machine Of the Wares"
While the greater part Of tthC voters
who registered yesterday enrolled as
Republicans. substantial increases are
anticipated in the Democratic enroll
mont figures The advent of Municipal
Judge Eugene G. Bonniwell as can
didatc FOR the Democratic guberna-
tOrial nomination. on n wet" platform
makes prohibition live issue for the
Democratic primary. Joseph f. Guffey.
Of Pittsburgh. who will oppose Judge
Bonuiw7ll. is pledged to prohibition.
Ware forces made no estimate Of the
registration total, but hours before the
booths closed Senator Ware issued a
statement which declared in effect that
the church workers had allied them
selves with the workers Of the Republic
can city Committee. uniting on the com
mon ground Of prohibition.
Principal among the figures of actual
registration made public were the fol-
lowing.
I'D Ward, $500; 3Sth ward. 5000 ;
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