Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-05
BIG THINGS OUR A|M,.
MOORE ANNOUNCES
Mayor-Elect Tells Friends and
Workers Factionalism in
City Must End
PROMISES MERIT SYSTEM

4 sudden hush fell over prominent
members of the Town Meeting party,
the Republican Alliance and the com
mittee of one hundred assembled at
the Moore headquarters early this
morning.
Mayor elect Moore, standing on a
table in the crowded room and raising
his hand FOR silence, said he and his
colleagues were going TO keep the af-
fairs of the new administration free
from factionalism.
Everybody cheered.
I'VE are going TO work for the big
things here in Philadelphia, Mr.
Moore said, 'and we are not going to
bother with the littleness of factions,
I'VE are going t. make change in
affairs at City Hall and on the police
force as well. We are going to put
in a merit system SO that man en-
ployed by the city government who is
doing the right sort of work and look
ing forward TO better things will have
a chance for advancement.
81 want to have the members Of the
police force feel as proud of their uni
forms as if they we're soldiers, and they
are going to have a chance to realize
their aspirations for better positions
without having 10 do dirty work to get
there.
"We hope to have the united sup
port Of Council also and to he per
mitted to rely Oon public sentiment.
We have no fear Of publicity, but we
intend to encourage it. We have no de-
sire for secrecy. This is to be n peo-
ple's administration. and we are in a
- 1oJr -
'In asking for public support we
shall know no faction. We shall be
Cor q union Of the people and want
harmonious action. In expecting the
support of Council I shall expect also
TO give the same support to it. We are
going to do big things and don t care
a rap for the little things or petty
factions.
The Mayor elect was emphatic in
declaring his intention Of keeping the
police out of politics. He repeatedly
announced the police department would
be administered along nonpartisan lines,
and that he would work for an increase
in pay for the patrolmen. There were
several policemen in the room and after
his speech he took them inside. To
group of four patrolmen he said:
"I want to help you fellows. ! know
YOU all mean to do the right thing, and
] mean to help you,
Republican leaders had collected at
the headquarters long before the Mayor
elect arrived at halfpast IL. The at
Inosphere Of the evening was one of as
sured victory, and of the realization of
good work we'll done. Groups of men
prominent in the politics Of the city
smoked and chatted with an air of in
herested but calm expectancy.
Gathered about a desk in one OF the
small glass nclosed offices were Thomas
w. Cunningham, head OF the Repub-
lican Alliance; George W. Coles, of the
Town Meeting party and treasurer Of
the Moore campaign conpittee; Howard
Il. Sheppard and V. Frank Gable, of the
committee of one hundred, and 1sadore
Stern. They were discussing the pleas
ant progress of the results of their
union.
Others in Party
Other well known men VINO welcomed
the Mayor elect on his arrival were
John Walton. chairman of the commit
tee of one hundred; Horace NJ. Riley,
chairman of the Town Meeting party !;
II. j. Dooner. John Voorhees,, for
iner Director of Public Safety David ].
Smyth. Durel Shuster, secretary to
Mr.. Moore; Colonel W. W. Morgan,
James Heron, of the Thirty eighth
ward; f. A. Devlin, leader of the
q eighth ward Judge Charles Brown,
Y Ugh Montgomery Claudv l.. Roth,
Marry Wittig and Clarence II. Gold
smith.
A number of women-wlYes and rela
tiveSsof the candida ates-sat at the back
of the Office and followed the events Of
the evening with much interest.
When the Mayor elect came in he
smilingly responded to an outburst of
applause and cheers RS he walked TO
rounded by friends who shook his hand
with warm congratulations. .-
Looks on Friendly Crowd, ...
AS he stood on the table top 10 make
looked through the smoke hazed air on
on crowd of friendly, happy faces, with
here and there in the front ranks the
bright eyes of women, and the ruddy
faces of blue capped members of the
force glowing forth like beacons of 4
brighter city administration.
With n twinkle in his eye Mr. Moore
remarked that. like the darky with the
watermelon that none thought he could
get away with. he. too, had gone an
done it,"
He went cp conversatioually, geuially.
and at times impressively, to tell of the
things that he hoped 10 see in Phila-
delphia under the new administration.
After concluding his speech and shak
ing hands with more of his workers who
had come in from wards all over the
city, the Mayor elect left for home
shortly before I q clock