Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-07
ALLIANCE ISAFTER
| COUNCIL VACANCY
threaten Court Action to Force
Primary to Select Successor
to W. E. Finley .
WARES GROOMING MORROW

r,.o and Republican Alliance leaders
..sov are iockeying for position in
',,,;,ol race that has the late vii
p.m r. Finley's seat in Council as thu
There are indications that the anti
W., forces will run their candidate or
new ticket in November, although
threats of court action to force popular
urinary are freely made.
o,e of the counter moves seen to-
from the Ware organization was
uss snooestion that Arthur II. III. Nor
tne Municipal Court clerk, would
NV, available candidate for council
.,,n from the First district.
"p Marrow. who was clerk Of the finance
,nn,;ttee In the old Councils, is the
tv i..sst entry in a field which includes
cheries 7 Pommer, court tipstave. and
Marry C, Davis, former assistant direc =
tor Of public safety.
Take Advantage Of Breach
The strategy in the advancement Of
uorrow's name results from the strained
s.,otiops between President Judge
Rrown, Of the Municipal Court, and
Hsrry J. Trainer, who. with his broth
A. Joseph G. Trainer. is said to be
.,nnorting John +. Scanlon. Thirty
s;Itb ward, for the Finley vacancy.
Ware Endorsement Of Morrow. with
the consequent support Of Judge Brown,
Il Ia said, would tend to widen the
4 hvsach between Trainer and the Munich
pa Tss So1Fs Ware eeap; orsanization plans to nom
, mate a successor to Mr.. Finley at a
saucus of committeeman in the First
coupcilmanic district. The Wares con-
t,ol four Of the five wards in the dis
frict.
Threats Of court action In an effort
N forestal this prospective nomination
Nv caucus were made by Joseph G.
Trainer. His statement later was be-
Nttled by Senator Ware, who contends
that under the party rules the ward
committeeman have legal right to
name the councilmanic nominee. :.
In the event that the nomination is
handed BY the committeeman to-a Ware
follower. Alliance leaders hint that the
Spedient Of new party may be brought
INTO play.
Robert Grier, Alliance leader Of the
Eighteenth ward, while not directly
concerned in the fight. recalled the
formation of the Mckinley Citizens
party here in 1895 after Alexander
Crow had been defeated for the Repub-
lean nomination for sheriff by Samuel
II. Ashbridge.
Defeated Regular Nominee
Grow was placed on the Mckinley
Citizens party ticket. which carried the
names of the Mckinley presidential
electors. Crow defeated Ashbridge at
The election that year. p
Grier pointed out that. the anti Ware
candidate for Council could run on
new ticket, which could carry the names
Of the Harding Coolidge electors. In
that way Alliance supporters could vote
for the anti-Vare candidate without
wasting their presidential vote.
Mr.. Trainer. in a statement today,
contended that popular primary Is
the only legal way to choose a sue
cessor to Finley.
If the Wares are afraid to face the |
people of the district" he said. "they |
could adopt no better means to con-
vince the voters of the truth of the fact
than by seeking to force a hand picked |
candidate on the Republican party"
Senator Vare's reply to this state
ment was an assertion that the nomina-
ton for the vacancy would be made by
the ward committeeman.
There is no question about it," the
senator said. II don't want to bother
about statements made by Mr.. Trainer.
can only refer to the law, which is that
nominations for vacancies occurring
Rfter the primary must be made by the
party committees. 1t was that way
when Charles B. Hall was nominated
% MI the vacancy on the ticket when
Chares Seger, candidate for the new
Iity Council, died shortly before the
Election"
, Thomas Raeburn White. one of the
ramers Of the new city charter, was
asked today for an off hand opinion on
The legal question involved.