Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-20
lI|IAI J BATTLE
ENDS TOMORROW
k0rty-one Candidates to Be
Nominated for House
of Representatives
FIVE FOR STATE SENATE
Congressmen Darrow and Cos
tello Only Two Opposed
for denomination
FIVE FOR STATE SENATE

Forty-one candidates for the state
House of Representatives.. FIVE for the
s state Senate and six for Congress are
= 70 be nominated by the voters of Phila-
delphia at the primary tomorrow.
Two of the most interesting fights
are over the senatorial nominations in
the Fourth and Sixth Districts In the
Fourth District. which comprises the
Z Twenty-seventh Thirty
Fourth. Fortieth. Forty-fourth and For
fy-sixth Wards, in West Philadelphia.
Senator Edward w Patton is opposed
FOR denomination by John r. Taylor
termer superintendent of police.
Senator Patton has the backing Of
the Ware committees in the six wards
and Taylor is backed by the combined
Penrose-Town Meeting forces. In the
Sixth District. which comprises the
I Twenty-first, Twenty second. Thirty
eighth and Forty-second Wards. Senator
Owen b. Jenkins is opposed for rcnomi-
nation by Or. George Woodward. SEN
ator Jenkins is backed by the Ware COM
( mittees in the four wards, which are
independent to a large degree, and Doc
tor Woodward is supported by tho fol-
lowers of Senator Penrose and the Town
Meeting party.
The removal by the Dauphin County
fs&puTl OF NIeOTEe Woodward, tnduUeuT,
who is charged with having been
planted" on the ticket by the Ware
forces. aided the Woodward forces If
the chauffeur had remained on the ticket
& Il Is likely that hundreds of votes in
tended for Doctor Woodward would have
been lost.
Darrow and Costello Opposed
Serious opposition is offered to only
Congressman George p Darrow, who
has the Ware support, is opposed for re-
nomination in the Germantown-West
Philadelphia district by John Fisler. a
manufacturer. In the Fifth District.
which takes in the Northeast. Congress
mar Peter F. Costello is opposed by
Select Councilman William r. Horn. of
the Twenty-third Ward. who was elected
to courr'Ia en- the Town Meeting ticket
III Town Meeting candidates
for e re First district, Harvey
EcC'7 md district. Congressman
Georr nham: Third. Congressman
,. fIamO - Moore: Fourth. Congress
man George W. Edmonds Fifth, w. r
Hofn Sixth. John Fisler.
or the State Senate: Second. Walter
J.. Weiss Third. William ]. McNtchol;
Fourth John b Taylor; Sixth. George
Woodward Eighth, Vivian Frank Gable.
For Assembly: First Joseph A.
Canuso and James p. Penrose: Third,
David s. Malls ana Ralph Ponzullo;
FOURTH James V. L. Lafferty; Fifth,
William f. Ulery. Harry c. Brown and
William Adams: Sixth Daniel J. Neary;
Seventh g. Edward Dickerson Eighth
William n. Rogers and Thomas $.
Hewitt: Ninth. Henry Gransbach. Sr.;
Tenth. william J. Brady and Charles
M Sheldrake Eleventh. Frank II.
Stackhouse Twelfth Abraham II. Weir
and Harry Derbyshire; Thirteenth,
Leon Marks; Fourteenth Willis b.
Heidinger Fifteenth. Robert A. BuCher
and Sidney NJ. Earle: sixteenth George
Z j. Campbell Seventeenth. Theodore
Z Campbell, James j. Heffernan and will
liam 7. Wallace; Eighteenth, Samuel
4 r. Perry and John F. Snowden; Nine
feenth, Walter F. Cassel and Francis s.
CLARK; Twentieth. Joseph Mcintosh and
William ]. Wahl; Twenty-first, Regnault
johnson and Charles G. Darnell: Twen-
ty-second, Franklin H. Klotz; Twenty
third. Sigmund Cans Twenty-fourth, AL
Ian L. Kirby; Twenty-flfth. Frank J.
Schneider; Twenty sixth, William A.
Knauer.
The candidates supported by the Wares
for Congress are: First. Congressman
William s. Ware; Second. Congressman
George S. Graham Third. Congressman
J. Hampton Moore Fourth Congress-
s man George W. Edmonds: Fifth, Con-
sressman Peter E. Costello; Sixth, Con-
gressman George P. Darrow
Ware senate Candidates
For the Senate, Second, Senator Sam
< uG W. Salus; Third, William j. Nc
Nichol; Fourth, Senator Edward w. Pat
ton Sixth, Senator owen p. jenkins ;
Eighth, George Gray.
Glass and John Mehring; Second, c. c.
A. BaIdi. Jr. Third. julius ]. Lewis and
Nicholas hi Lemmo: Fifth. Byron 4.
4 Miner, Edward A. Wells and Edwin r.
Cox: Sixth, Daniel J. Neary; Seventh.
Thomas F. McNichol Eighth. william
r. Rorke and W. T. COnnor; Ninth,
Henry Gransbach, Sr. Tenth, Alexander
\ Colville and James F. Donahue Elev-
4 enth, Richard Curry; Twelfth, James A.
Bennett and Matthew Patterson Thir-
teenth Max Aaron and Clinton A. Sow
ers, Fourteenth, William j. Hamilton {;
r Fifteenth, Edwin Scott and John V. Cum
MINIS; Sixteenth, James A Dunn; Sev-
IS erteenth, Frank Gray, David Serber and
Joseph Kelly; Eighteenth. William H.
Hackett and Joseph A. snyder; Nine
& feenth r b. Fox and Samuel ].
Ephraim Twentieth, Patrick Conner
and John II. Drinkhouse Twenty-first,
4 James A. Walker and James Franklin /;
Twenty-second. Benjamin Colder Twen-
ty-third, Charles S. Wood; Twenty
fourth, Thad s. Krause; Twenty fifth,
HARRY A. Fricke; Twenty-sixth, Philip
Sterling,
The Wares have offered no opposition
to the denomination of Representative
James " Lafferty in the Fourth district.
which takes in the sixth. Eighth and
Ninth Wards. In addition; candidates
& are 10 be elected to the ward committees
and to the State committee.