Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-13
rs Out for Councils;
FeIU in First Glass


hVe HlSCcllaneOuSlE Included IN the
above tabulation. There are almost as
many Independent select and common
councilmcn in this enumeration as there
arc of the Ware organization.
The announcement of the regular Re.
publican or Ware organization scleC-
tons for the new Council will breed
more dissension in their ranks than will
the choice of the independents. The
regulars have been in power for n long
time. There are so many of its camp
followers who demand recognition and
slice off tho juicy side Of tie earth
that there is bound to be lot of in
ternal trouble. To allay this irritation
as is always the case. liberal promises
of other jobs that will pay just as
we'll will be forthcoming.
1t is the consensus of opinion that
| disappointed independents, those set
aside for more available and useful
material, will be more easily placatcd
than the Ware political discards who
will be relegated to the scrap pile. The
stimulus of prospective victory will
buoy the former up. They argue that
once victory is gained there will be bet
ter days to come for the Independents
with greater opportunity Tor Office.
Advantage to Ware Ticket
One element Of weakness among the
committee Of one hundreds selections
| is that where two or three council
manic candidates decline to vacate the
| independent vote will be rroportionately
split up. This will be to the adyan-
| 60 Df hN Noro tinl ~ s,, ko N.,,
! Rut there will be very few cases of this
| kind.
Perhaps the most difficult situation
confronting the Ware people is the Sc
| lection of three councilmen from the
First senatorial, Senator Wares district.
| There are at least six prospective can e
didatcs.
Not all Of them have positively an
nOunccd themselves. Some are modest
| ly, but mono the less anxiously. await
ing the high sign of approval and the
nod of recognition.
Among the favored ones appear to
be the organization municipal financial
expert. Joseph =. Gaffney. and Dirpc
tor of Public Safety William H. Will
son, who has been so signally success e
ful in keeping the Ware organization in
the red spot light of police publicity
! OF course, if this be the selection
aS to two Of the three, and new deals
are arranged now oyer night. a curious
constituency will likely inquire about
Robert Smith. chairman of the high
way committee of Common Council
After twelve years service Robert
Smith is possibly the best posted mnr
on the subject of highways in Councils
Then there is James +. Lennon, presi
dent of Select Council and an editor
who has been sitting rcceptively at the
feet of machine Gamaicls for, 10, these
many years.
Inasmuch as Select Councilman
Charles Scger, of the Seventh ward
has failed up to date to declare for
either organization the situation in the
Second senatorial district is rather
foggy
Conferences have been held this week
between Senator Penrosc and Council
man Seger and between Senator Ware
and Chief Clerk of Select Council
Charles r. Hall, political side partner
of Segcr. Thus far no decision has
been reached by the Seventh ward
leaders.
McCoach and Seger
If Scgcr casts his political fortune
In with the Wares the Councils ticket
will be William MCCoach and Charles
Scger. If he goes with the Independents
then President Gleason, of Common
Council. or Councilman Harry Trainer
will be put mp by the committee Of one
hundred against McCoach if the latter
| is in the final run.
Isaac d. Hetzell will get the Ware
nomination in the Third senatorial dis
trict. His opposite will probably be
Robert Grier. Elias Abrams. one of
( the faithful Penrose scrvitors for years
will be doubtless given something just
as good
Conditions in the Fourth district are
tri1e warped. Harry \. Mackey.
chairman of the State Workman S Com
pensation Board, will exercise his judg-
ment in the selection Of ono and per
haps two of the quartet of Ware Candi-
, dates to be named in this district. John
| +. Dugan, real estate assessor and
select councilman from the Twenty
seventh ward, with the remainder of
the ticket, may be selected at the
eleventh hour.
Dugan is from the Twenty seventh
ward. There is more or less of a mess
in connection with the situation Sen
| ator Patton insists on being named as
| the Ware candidate for sheriff. For
| forty years he has been tho organiza
| tion leader in the Twenty seventh ward.
| His insistcnt claim for recognition is
the cause of considerable perturbation
to the Ware leaders. To scrap" Sem
ator Eddie Patton at this point and at
| his age would certainly raise some COM
motion in the University ward, the
! Twenty seventh.
Burch Slated for Post
Francis F. Burch, councilman. law
yer and president of the Independent
| Councilmen's S Association. has been
tagged for one of the four councilmanic
places in the district. James 4. Devcliu,
another lawyer, and Samuel w. Iiarri
son. common councilman from the
! Twenty fourth ward, names now to the
| list, are very much in the white light
with the committee of one hundred.
The Fifth district, in which Eduard
| Buchholz, select councilman and real
| estate assessor, and Simon Walter are
Ware candidates. will elect those whom
| Senator David Martin dictates. And
| his dictation will 20 to these men.