Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-04
CONGRESSMAN MooRE'S
LETTER
New Mayor" to Set Good Example to
Country by Enforcing the Law
Against the Political Assess
rnent Of offceholders

PEprBLlcANs have been putting in

Democratic committees The habit Of
assessing oflcholdcrs is not confined to
any one party organization, of course; but
the federal law prohibits solicitation of
federal employees, and some committeeman
nave been hauled up before the federal dis
trict attorneys for this offcnsc in times gone
by That postmnstcrs are now being solic-
tied is the charge made by Republicans,
and Kansas case is cited where 500. or
w per cent of the salary, was demanded
Tor organization purposes. The cost ot
living is pretty high all over the country,
and II the new Mayor of Philadelphia sue
ceeds in enforcing the law against political
assessments he will help the onicehoders
and set a good example for the Republican
party in the nation.
DRINTED copies of discourse by
Charles Wndsworth. Jr., entitled NE
buchadnczaars Image" have made their ap
| pcaranCe in Washington and is being quoted
| particularly by members of the Massachu-
setts delegation as one of the smnrtcst
trcatiscS on the league of nations that has
been received here. Without naming the
President. tho address touches him up in
every line, Doctor Wadsworth will he re
mrmbrrrd as an eloquent Presbyterian. long
serving in Philadelphia. where his c!oVurnrc
| attracted attention. lie married the sister
| of Colonel John +. Wood long and favor
ably known in the wool trade
| E'RNEST l.. TI'STIN. formerly recorder
- of deeds in Philadelphia. is ono OF
! those busy fellows in public aud private life
| who would sink into 'innOcuous dcsuctudc'
f they had nothing to do. He is n practicng
lawyer. head of the IIoskins concern aud,
after leaving the recorder of deeds office,
! became president of the board of rccrca
| tiou. from which he retired of his own
| voltion. 'morc or less In addition, he is
n member of the executive committee Of the
| Philadelphia Board of Trade, sitting with
William NJ. Coates. Edward II Wood,
| William X. Tucker and other members,
| helping to establish it's policies with regard
| to national, state and municipal affairs.
| DUNING up homes in the South is be
| - coming popular with .Icrscymcn. vii
| liam J., Hurley has large place in Georgia
| to which Camdcnites are wont to 20 occa-
sionaIly when deer and quail are in season.
| Il. C. Kusor, of the Trenton House, chum
of Mayor Donnelly. has an island near Port
| Royal, which he approaches through Archer
crcck-Archer being good old Jersey
| name. kuser's place is on the l:ne of the
| inland waterways to Florida. and is well
| protected from intrusion. Something in be-
| ing monarch of all you survey
(liARlIES +. WOOD. long resident OF
~ Philadelphia. is chief engineer of the
Warrior river development committee. with
headquarters in birmingham. Ala. This
important southern river has been the re-
cpcnt of many government appropriations.
now mounting up to about $4,000 900. 1t
has been improved by locks and dams until
an eight foot depth throughout the entire
year has been secured from Cordova. near
birmingham, all the way down to Mobile.
Southern waterways. like the Black War
rior. subject to freshets and low stages
of tide problem which seems to have been
met by government appropriations On the
Black Warrior. Mr.. Wood and his
ferees, however. have found that improve
ments without freight conditions 90 Ordi-
mating with railroads make it difficult to
get the waterways in use. An effort is now
being made to secure joint rail and water
rates which will permit the Black War
riOr to work successfully.
DRANK CROWTHER. the New York
congressman who beat the Democrat
Prohibition Socialist member. cx Mayor
Lunn. of Schenectady. has fine opinion of
southern New Jersey. He recently accom-
panied his son, Samuel F. Crowther. to
DR.. Charles H. Lorcnces Wenonah Mill
tary Academy. looking over the Stanger
apple and peach orchards on the way 1t
looked TO him, from the appearance of the
fine crops, that the apple and peach business
was something to tie up to- Congressman
Crowther learned how to campaign in New
Jersey. having once been member of the
state Legislature and at one time on the
Middlesex county board of taxation by ap-
pointment OF Governor Il. G. Stokes
TNHE time is rapidly approaching when
l. the great political parties will be seek
ing funds for the presidential campaign.
This is no new experience in Philadelphia,
where men prominent in public life on both
sides of the political fence know what is
expected of them. When Matthew Stanley
Quay was a national figure. the hat was
passed around among the public fellows to
the evident satisfaction of the party at
large. Men like John Wanamaker and
Mark Hanna We're conspicuous, helping out
in the Harrison and Mckinley campaigns.
respectively. The Mckinley campaign came
on while Ashbridge was Mayor, and vol
unteer committee which undertook TO raise
100000 for Mark Hanna found itself
short The Mayor was obliged to take up
the work to save the city's pledge and al
together about S129 900 was raised. Much
of this went into the construction of a con-
vention hall Horace G. II. Tarr now
prominent in Philadelphia's business affairs.
was one of those who came to the rescue
when it looked as if the city was not going
to make good. That 1900 convention in
Philadelphia was one Of the most important
in the history of the Republican party.
ANIcKinley being nominated for President
and Theodore Roosevelt. fresh from his
Spanish American War experience bccom-
ing the nominee for Vice President. partly
because Platt and Quay could not help it.
DRESIDENT JUDGE BARRATT-Nor-
l. ris s. Barratt of the Court of Common
Pleas No 2-likes change of scene each
vacation time 1t is the sloping hills of
Chester county one year, a farmhouse in
Maryland next year or touch of New Eng
land the next. Last summer the Judge
spent much of his time at Cape May. taking
keen interest in the naval base and going