Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-12
ASSESSMENT LISTS
CAUSE CONTENTION
Wares Seek to Add Names and
Independents to Remove
illegal Ones
FELL MAY BE CHAIRMAN

political tug Of war has developed
over the voters assessment lists in this
city, in which the new registration com
missioners appointed by Governor
Sproul will act as arbiters.
Ware organization workers. on tho
one hand. are striving to add as many
names as possible to the lists of quail
ned voters, while independents, through
a corps of detectives, seek to purge the
lists of men who have removed or died.
Following out the orders given at the
meeting of the Republican city commit
tee several days ago the Ware workers
are searching out all returned service
mon who are not on the ass"sSor> lists.
place on the lists is important be
cause without it no would be voters
"an be legally registered and without
registration voting at the primaries or
general election is legally impossible.
/ The Committee Of Seventy has had a
force of detectives cOmbing the assess
ncnt lists throughout the city for sew
eral weeks. The detectives are now
working in the second and third sena
torial districts.
Sproul Favors Fell
The registration commissioners ap-
pointed by Governor Sproul will be
sworn in early next week. e. Law
renee Fell is said to be the Governor 8
personal choice for chairman of the
board.
With the two commissioners who were
dropped, Albert H. Ladner. Tr., and
,hor Of bp
boards employees who will be auto
matically removed from the payroll.
These employees lose their jobs through
a provision of the bills which reads as
follows:
"As soon as the commissioners SC
appointed for any city shall qualify
the terms of office for all existing reg
Stration commissioners in such city
and all their appointees shall be end
ed "
The job Losers
The employees who lose their places
are:
Recorder. George W. Jackson. Thir
ty- eighth Ward. $500: clerk. Freder
lex II. Hess. Seventeenth Ward. $500
custodian. Harry Grissett. Thirty -sixtt
, Ward, $500; stenOgrapher, James
IOughran. Twentieth Ward, $1,000; at
torney, Charles A. Waters, Twenty
, second Ward. $4,000. Per diem en-
, Forty third Ward: Michael +. McCul'
i len. Forty seventh Ward; William J
Dougherty Dcmocratl. Twenty sec
f ond Ward: John |. Madden. Forty
= seventh Ward Harry Cunningham
Twentieth Ward: Thomas H. Downc!
{ Dcmocrat). Twenty fourth Ward
{ John B. Linton, janitor. Thirty sixtl
e Ward; John Spence. Thirty first Ward
2 John r. Huhn. Twenty sixth Ward
Theodore Konzelmann. Twenty frs
-. Ward; Richard Faunce. Eighteenth
! Ward. Extra help Robert {: Kelly
2 Fortieth Ward; John 7. Deeds, Thirty
tecnth Ward: Walter G. List, Forty
D. eighth Ward William II. Dolan. -Four
o tecnth Ward; Thomas A. Morgan
q Twenty eighth Ward. -, ,,
The Wares undoubtedly will "tak
q care" of many of these men IN the ne\
= iobs created by Councils at the tinn
[ session Thursday. At that meeting II
e new permanent places were provide
for in appropriation bills.
g Coles Doomed for Sheriff
e At an independent Republican meet
q ing in the Twenty second ward las
night George W. Coles, chairman
y the Town Meeting party, was boone
. for sheriff.
To bring about unity of action in tn
choice of candidates for City Counc
and other officials from the German
town district. nominating committe
was selected. with these members:
l. John McArthur Harris, George l