Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-17
Fight on Mayor
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ponpsrtisan ballot the. center OF attrac'
tion at the fall election.
Two Local Flights Of Interest
In Philadelphia the real center OF
local interest In the Delany- RAMSEY
fieht for Congress In the Third ais
trict, and John r. McIyean's battle 10
tho Fifth Senatorial district against
Max Aron for the state Senate.
Mr.. Mclean has put up the finest
sample Of hand. hand and knee TO-
knee political scrapping that has neen
seen In this city since the 'Biily
Berklebach campaign Of twenty odo
wears ago. It's been a regular knock
down kill and drag out since he hrst
got his foot and his fist inside the door,
Absolutely fearless, Mclean has gone
III, Lane and David Martin with the
brass knuckles of cold fact.
Not since the old gas ring battles
has there been heard the raucously de,
fant cry Where did he get itF, And
the family dying echoes continue TO re-
peat where"
Mr.. Mclean has certainly mussed up
the equanimity and savoir faire OF your
"Uncle Dave Lane.
From the sounds emanating there
from, II would appear that he has also
Rummed the works pretty efectuelly In
Dave" Martins Nineteenth ward.
Harry G. Ransley started of last
winter with the situation In the Third
Congressional district In his inside
pocket. 1t isn't there now. There Is
a frantic search being conducted for
AZ n. L., he teltatH NJ the
Liberty Bell district.
Charles Delany has been making in
roads on Ransley steadily and salts
factorily. The heads Of the Republican
Alliance are predicting Delany's tri-
umph by a satisfactory majority.
Should Have Widened Scope
The Alliance and other friends OF
GOOD government should have widencd
tho scope Of their recent seancc for the
discovery Of phantom, voters. As 1t Is,
what they have already accomplished Is
praiseworthy and helpful.
I had the opportunity of scanning a
voters list in one of the precincts in
the Tenth ward within the last three
days, and the exhibit would have Tailed
favorably with a Coney, Island voting
list In the palmiest. days Of John Y.
McKain, when he carried elections on
the names Of dogs, tombstopes and Jeze-
bells Of the curb.
A new scheme has been spawned In
the brain Of some one OF Samuel NJ.
Vauclain's sporting managers down in
Delaware county. Mr.. Vauclain's head
manager, the redoubtable ''Jimmy
Dougherty. has abandoned his expressed
purpose Of publishing a pamphlet on
Governor Sproul.
As a dendlier blow Jimmy" and
"Dick" Baldwin contemplate, un-
derstand, the preparation Of half. sheet
cards and posters to he attached to tel
egraph poles on prominent streets in
Chicago during the national Republi-
can convention requesting delegates not
TO vote for Pennsylvania Governor for
President.
Meantime Mr.. Vauclain's spectacular
and chrpmatic boom for the presidency
of the United States Is slowly butting
It's strenuous way--through Delaware
county. 1t is under, of course, the
fostering care Of Jimmy" and "Dick"
and other gentlemenly sports promoters
who know easy" money for ''cam.
paign expenses" when they see it.
am constrained to the opinion that
the yauclain boom for the presidency
of these United States will come to the
same inglorious finale as that OF another
distinguished Philadelphian. A score of
years ago Mayor Edwin H. Filter, with
better claim but equal presumption, had
his photograph distributed like the leaves
Of yallombrosa through Chicago. His
name in large letters appeared beneath
his picture, with the caption above
"NOte for etc., etc."
Outside the great convention Coliseum,
where all delegates might see, under
one Of these large engravings some pro
fame but inquisitive delegate wrote tn,
words:
"Who in hell is Fitler?'