Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-20
Farewell Vares!
Day as Bosses OUer

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: - pretty good starting point for his
municipal house cleaning.
think every man at all convcrsaut
! with political conditions, present and
past, and no matter what his partisan
affiliations may be. looks for y graduaI
disintegration of the Ware machine.
Self preservation is an instinct as
potential in political life as it is in
4 the purely physical life. .
: The Ware organization as a result OF
r Tuesdays battle. has been shaken from
! center to circumference. It's supre
acy is at an end. The winning oil
three congressional seats from them. the
persopai loss sustained by Congressman
w. s. Ware. and the additional loss OF
their last stronghold, the city commit
tee. and their majority in the legislative
delegation were successive knockouts.
As though piling Pclion on OsSa two
Of the gains made by the Repuoll'an
Alliance and Moore people for repre-
sentatives at Harrisburg we're made in
: Congressman Wares own district. In
every one Of the congressional districts
except In their own restricted baiilwlck'
the Ware candidates for delegates To the
national Republican convention were
defeated by the Pcnrose Moore men.
Saved Only Two Important Candidates
Out Of the widespread wreck of their
hopes the Wares managed to save only
two candidates Of any Importance. Max
Aron for senator and William :. Ware
for Congress.
The case of Congressman Ware is
particularly conspicuous. He not only
!, suffers the loss Of prominence III his
own ward by his defeat at the hands
OF Doctor Kcegan in that ward. hut he
suffered additionally in his failure to
retain his scat in the city committee.
His opponents. the Trainers. seem TO
belong to that unique brand of poll
ticians who, in this instance at least,
would rather fight than fix,
A feature worth noting that d"rel-
cped in the battle in South Philadelphia
. is the changing attitude of the Italian
voter toward the Ware organization. He
has broken away from its control. Just
as ultimately the negro vote will be cS-
tranged from it. Indeed it also has
started to drift rapidly.
Charles Delany's victory over former
Eberiff Ranslcy for Congress in
the Third district is Of strategic.
rather than Of actual value. u is we'll
worth while for the moral effect IT will
have unon those who had conceived the
idea that the Ware machine in the
Third district was invinCibIc.
While Max Aron defeated John X.
Mclean for the state Senate in the
Fifth district it was the most dearly
bought victory in the city.
In their triumph both Senator David
Martin and David II. Laue we're com .
PEELED to drink "the bitter waters Of
Marah.
Though they won. they suffered n
blow 10 their prestige from which they
will scarcely recover. It's the top OF
the toboggan for them,
Fortune Of Politics
But It is the fortune of politics. Their
real friends. however. regret the trend
Of that individual judgment which led
them to fight an administration in which
they might have worn their well earned
laurels undisturbed.
The majority in the city committee,
either way in the final analysis. is going
10 be sufficiently close TO make it n
brilliant focus of political interest and