Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-20
CONGRESSMAN MooRE'S
LETTER
Philadelphia Congressman In the May.
orally Flsht-Gossip About Frank
Gladdlng, John Flsler, Murdoch
kendrlck and Others
WASHINGTON. Sent. 20.

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Washington. Sept. 20.
yIIASHINGTON will take note of the re-
w turn of the Philadelphia belligerents in
3, the mayoralty contest. Their reuppearanco
will be observed in the Senate as well as in
the House for the Philadelphia fight has
becn interesting the members on both sides.
congressman Darrow and Edmonds. who
have been holding out fairly well against
cntangng alliances. have been on the job in
Washington. but most Of the other Philadel-
phia members have been mixed up in the
primary Senator Penrosc and Congressman
| Moore will have good deal Of taritt work to
catch mn with, the House having passed
several bills which now hang in allegiance in
the Senate II is not certain. however, that
these bills will go through the Senate since
the disposition there is to do very little untll
the deadlock over the league OF nations IS
broken Congressman Ware has been devot-
ing much Of his time to the Philadelphia
fight assisting his brother. the senator;
| Congressman Graham has not figured con
| spicuously since the Philadelphia hght be-
gan: Congressman Moore. of course, being
the mayoralty candidate opposed to the
Wares has been on the hustings. and Con-
gressman Costello has been looking after
| his fences in the Tacony Bridcsburg Tor
resdale district
| While the Phadelphians have been
| missed. their activities were matter OF
general comment. Now that they are com
ing back it is to be hoped-and they are
among those that do the hoping-that Con.
| gress will soon get through its work and
| give the country a rest.
Drank GLADING, Of the G. A. r., calls
| L to mind the Dewey celebration in Phila-
delphia. May 81, 1898. There was a big
| parade and meeting in the Second Regi-
| ment Armory. with John Franklin Fort
who nominated Vice President Hobart;
| Alexander X. Mcclure, Henry +. Walton
Judge G. Harry Davis. City Solicitor John
| i. Knscy and Congressman James Rankin
| Young among the speakers, the committee
| in charge consisting of J. Hampton Moore,
| chairman: Frank Glading, Joseph T. Tay-
| lor. Joseph SiedeIl and Bert Maroney.
| Frank says the demonstration by school
| children on that occasion was. long to be
| remembered. 1t was great night on North
| Broad street.
/ TOHN FISHER. of Yewdell & Jones. has
| - become live wire in West Philadelphia
| politics. John is one of the founders of the
new Manufacturers Club. and for many
| years has been chairman of the house COM
mittee He is bunch of nerves, and tire
| less in his undertakings. There are two
| ways of getting a rise out of this ener-
| getic manufacturer. one to suggest the pro-
priety of free trade system in the United
| States and the other to propose the elec-
| ton of Harry A. Mackey as grand Repub
| lican potentate of the district across the
| Schuylkill When one or the other of these
subjects is proposed John can jump like
| a brook trout and display many brilliant
| colors.
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| in the campaign. The Wares were bank
| ing heavily on Frceand Kendrick. the
ceiver of taxes. who had been spoken of as
! a candidate for Mayor. Freeland Kendrick
| is a good talker and popular over the town.
| Without intending to mix the Hendricks
| up. Congressman Moore asked his old
| friend and attorney. Murdoch Kendrick, a
| cousin of Freeand. to become his manager.
| Murdoch Kendrick is a University of Penn
| sylvania man, who had served with Mr..
| Moore in the city trcasurer's office. after
| ward becoming assistant district attorney
under John c. Bell. His willingness to act
| as campaign manager proved a boon to the
| Moore forces There were times when the
| headlines might have mixed the Hendricks
up. but there no time during the cam
paign when the Moore manager was not on
| the job. driving hard at the opposition or
| successfully parrying their best blows 1t
was a fight which the lawyer thoroughly
| enjoyed from start to finish.
TOHN HELMUS, secretary to Congress
- man Edmonds. could not keep out of the
mayoralty fight in Philadelphia. He went
over from Washington and made half
dozen speeches, giving his audiences some
insight on the work of Congressman Moore
| John is one of those hard working fellows
who generally lands on his feet He started
| out with Congressman George d. McCreary
years ago, and while with Mr.. McCreary
| studied law He is now qualified to prac-
| tice in the courts Of the District of Column
| bia and in the Supreme Court of the United
| States. Recently he has taken over the
| work of the committee on claims of the
| House and his legal training stands him
| in good stead in analyzing some of the in
| tricate cases that come before that COM
| mittee. ArnOn NJ. Gulck, secretary to
Congressman Darrow, also yentured into
the field of 6ratory at several of the Phila-
| delphia meetings
| DH1LADELPHIA shipping men talk hope
| l. fully about port improvements. So much
has been done along the Delaware during
| the war that every effort will be made to
| hold the big business that has come along
| with the deeper channel The other day
| Assistant Director Joseph Hasskarl had u
| group of boosters in conference on this
subject. They included d. J. Murphy,
Robert j. Galley. Ernest Wanamaker,
manager of the United States Grain Cor
poration; A. j. Ball, traffic controlling
manager, Broad Street Station, and George
+. Sproule. secretary of the commissioners
of navigation. There is big work to be
done in Philadelphia to keep up with the
transportation procession. The figures re-
Gently published indicating that New Or
leans had taken second rank as a port have
been denied by Director George S. Webster,
of the Department of Wharves, Docks and
Ferries, but the fact that New Orleans is
putting in its claims in advance of PhiIa-