Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-05
Mccain Sees Moore
as Mayor Candidate

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the organization leaders would be com =
PEELED to oppose him.
Stuart as Possibility
The only new prospective candidate
outside W. Freeland kendrick and
Judge John NJ. Patterson. who appears
available and who would be power
full opponent not only to Congressman
Moore. but to any candidate whom the
Independents might name, is ex-Gover
nor Edwin s. Stuart AS l noted yes
terday, while the Ex-Governor has been
under consideration by the Wares for
weeks. there is absolutely, under pres
ent conditions. little hope that he would
permit his distinguished name TO be
dragged into the mire of a factional bat =
tie.
Up until today neither Judge Pat.
tcrson nor Mr.. Kendrick has def
nitely declared himself. Whether the
decision of Congressman Moore to
enter the arena will dull the ambition
of either gentlemen to shine in the
transient blaze of publicity as mayor p
atty candidate is a question. 1t Ger
taiuly would weaken the zest of com
bat at the primary for either one.
OF course, the decision of Mr. Moore
to make the race automatically elimi
mates A. Lincoln Acker. Mr.. Acker is
primarily. after Mr.. Moore, the choice
of Senator PenroSe and his friends
/ Clerk of Courts Cunningham has sc
declared. In this light Mr.. Acker has
been nevertheless n quasi factional can
ddate in the Independent ranks. There
are elements among the radical Inde
pendents who oppose him. Besides.
understand that, already publicly hon e
ored by his party as sheriff and now G
representative merchant of the city, Mr.
! Ackcr has had no desire to face the ma
chine gun nests of the Ware organiza
tiOn.
When | wrote last week that ther,
| would be dcfections from the ranks
| of the committee of one hundred of tht
Independents, and that there was al
anti Penrose feeling among the womer
of that organization, based largely upor
the senator's anti suffrage attitude,
did not anticipate that the letter OF
Mrs. Anna W. Harmon. declining mem
| bership On the committee, would com,
as quickly as il has.
Mrs. Harmon 5 letter is but pre-
| ludc to a more serious detection from
| the committee which, | am told. will
| come today or later in the week. .JOhI
Phillips, who was placed upon the com
mittee Of one hundred as the represen
! tative of the labor interests, has pre-
pared letter with saw tooth edges
which will carry his resignation from
| the committee and a refusal to act
| with it in any way.
Mr.. Phillips SHES at the composition
| of the committee. He will declare tha
| it is not representative of the people
and the appearance upon it of larg
! number of gentlemen who he claim
| are opposed to labor and its interests
as manufacturers and employers, ren
ders it impossible for him to remain 1
co ?worker with them.
An interesting side light on the cam
| paign is the information that the Var
organization will extend what one o
| its luminaries describes as the ''shoy
EN- up policy of the organization t
| those other than candidates. The com
mittee of one hundred will be gon
through with fine toothed comb. ant
, if necessary Pike county fowlin
piece, to reach certain of its members
No one, | am told. will be spared in tn
| campaign literature, which will be dis
tributed when Armageddon breaks loos
between now and the 18th of mex
month,