Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-17
HAVE WE THE NERVE
TO FINISH THE JOB?
The Voters VIII Indicate at To-
morroW's Primaries Whether
They Are Cutters or
Fighters

morroWS primaries Wnctner
They Are Cutters or
Fighters
Tn DISCUSSING the fitness of men
L for better things, a high authority
once remarked that no man having put
his hand to the plow and looking back
is worthy of better things.
Whether the voters of this city who
put their hand to the plow in the may
orally primaries last year are to follow
the furrow through to the end will be
decided at the primary elections to-
morrow.
They. then won victory over the
Contractor Organization which had been
exploiting them for its profit But the
margin was narrow.
If all the voters who supported J.
year. supported by the other voters who
wish to be with the winner, go to the
polls tomorrow and vote against the
candidates of the Contractor Organiza
tion they will win bigger victory.
1t is once more up to the people of
Philadelphia to Grcidr what kind of
government thcy wish to have.
The Endorsement of Mayor Moore
through the nomination of candidates
in sympathy with him aud through the
election of party officers who will work
in harmony with him will strengthen
his hands and enable him to conduct a
successful fight against the abhorrcnt
forces which have begun to lift their
heads from the slime.
But il the Contractor Organization
wins. the task of the Mayor will be
made so difficult that only by super
human eXertions can he nerform it.
Tho eyes of alb lovers of good gov
crnment will be upon the Fifth Scna-
torial district aud the Third Congress
sional district.
Mr.. Moore represented the Third dis
trict in Washington for many years. \
candidate is to be nominated for his
unrxpired term aud for the full term
beginning in March of next year.
Charles Delany. a business man Of
wide experience. has been put forward
for the nomination by tn business in
trrests of the district. IIc is admirably
equipped for the Office He is familiar
with the large and varied industries for
which he would be called upon to lrgis-
late. The voters in the district who
earn their livelihood in those industries
are as deeply interested in the e.cction
of the right kind of a representative ms
are their employers. They know that
they need in Washington man in
hearty sympathy with the industries of
the city. and they ought to know that
they also need to give their support to
man in sympathy with the new order
of things which began with the defeat
of the Contractor Organization last
year.
The nomination of Mr.. Delany will
give to the district worthy successor
to Mr.. Moore. and it will Indicate to
the Mayor that he still has the LOYAL
support of the voters whom he served in
Congress for fourteen years.
The city needs in the state Senate n
man like John r. Mclean. who is seek.
ing the nomination in the Fifth district
His canvass has revealed his tcmppr
He has shown both courage and re-
nus not deem
afraid to tell the trdth about tho old
leaders in the district whose powar he
is seeking to overthrow. He has rat
tied more dry bones and exhibited moro
skeletons than have been brought TO thc
public attention in long time. IF the
voters Of the Fifth district like the sort
Of thing which Mr.. Mclean has been
COndemning they will not nominate
him, but will decide to send to Harris
burg a senator who il content with
things as they have been. But the en-
thusiastic applause which has followed
Mr.. McLcan's attack upon the auto
cratic mandarinS of the district suggests
that the voters are about ready for n
change.
The primaries tomorrow are party
elections as well as nominating devices.
In each division of each ward two
members of the ward executive com.
mittcc are to be- chosen. The new
executive committees will elect the rem
resentatre of the ward in the Rcpub-
lican city committee, which is the off
Cial Republican organization.
That committee as at present con-
stitutcd is not representative of the Re
publican voters. 1t has deliberately
deprived certain wards of repres; ntation
because the man elected by the voters
in the wards has been opposed to the
majority in control. Such an undemo.
cratic course ought to have stirred the
blood Of all fair minded men long ago
and provoked them to an uprising
against the machine If the uprising
which brought about the nomination of
Mr.. Moore last year has not lost its
impetus, something is likely to happcn
tomorrow.
1t was known then that the fight
would have to be continued in the mi
mariCs this spring. Mr.. Moore said II
frequently, not only before the pri.
maries but afterward; and he and bis
friends have been busy during the in
tcrvening months organizing their sun.
porters and preparing for the contest
The election Of ward executive com
mittees in sympathy with the Mayor
will put the party machinery in the
hands of men committed 70 continu-