Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-08
CITY COMMITTEE
FIGHT DEADLOCK
Exciting Ward Elections Give
Wares and Moore Men Fl
Members Each
FOUR CONTESTS 70 DECIDE

All indications today are that the fight
between the administration aud Ware
forces for control Of the Republican
city committee has resulted in a dead
lock.
The returns indicate that the voting
strength will be twenty .one for the
wares and twenty one for the admins
tration, with six votes in the balance.
-Four of these six votes are involved In
contests. one is an absolute tie and
the other is held up by a legal tecbni.
cality.
Therefore the fight for victory In the
reorganization of the new city commit
tee tomorrow will go right on. with
each side hoping to win one or two
OF the committeeman elected and now
credited to the opposition column. Each
side whispers Of having something un-
! der cover" which will not ne revealed
until the meeting tomorrow. when a
/ successor to Harry e. Ransley as chair
man is to be chosen.
| Congressman Ware claimed today the
organization will be in control when
the city committee meets tomorrow. He
raised the point that where contests
exist the old members sit until the diff
| ferences are settled.
Election Last Night
The city committeeman we're elected
by each of the forty eight ward com
mittees last night. The elections in
number of wards were marked by near
| fnr hn oll L
nappings. trump" meetings. "bolting"
and all the other lively features of hotly
| contested elections. Not for years has
there been such interest in the elections
Of city committeeman. Each Of the
ZIP ward committeeman was in his
glory. He was more important to the
city leaders than Il national delegate.
Tho Ware men won twenty two city
committeeman whose election was not
challenged by the administration lead
trs. The Moore men won twenty one
| In the same manner. But among the
Ware twenty two is David II. Lane,
sage Of the organization, who was re-
elected from the Twentieth ward Mr..
Lane. it is regarded as certain. will not
be able to attend the organization meet :
ing tomorrow and administration lead =
ers assert that no one can use Mr..
Lanes proxy. They say that is the
party rule. Proxies, they contend, are
good only after the organization. This
position, of course, is vigorously as
sailed by the Ware men. This point
against a proxy for Mr.. Lane cvens up
the voting strength Of the rival elements
and makes for the deadlock.
Four contests are scheduled for pres.
entation to the central body. They will
come from the Fourth. Thirty sixth
, Forty fourth and Forty sixth wards
Oprion inclined to the belief that two
of these contests would be decided in
, favor of the Wares and two in favor OF
the Moore men. The absolute tie be-
, tween the Ware and Moore ward com
mittcemen is in the Seventeenth ward.
See Harmony Proposal
, It is possible, unless the deadlock
can be broken today or tomorrow, thai
!. n harmony proposal may be Forthcoming
Thomas w. Cunningham, president o.
the Republican Alliance, is the Moor,
choice for the new chairman. Will,
Thomas +. Watson. Ware leader of til,
Twenty second ward, is the Ware can
Republican Alliance. without disclosing
his hand" declared that Cunningham
would be elected by twenty six votes
Twenty-Five votes are required. Senator
; Ware said Watson was sure to b,
/ elected by at least twenty six votes.
E The outstanding election of the nigh
was the choosing of Joseph c. Traine
as city committeeman from the Twenty
: sixth ward to succeed Congressman vii
! liam s. Ware. Trainer received forty
Q. two votes to thirty three for the con
I gresham. Congressman Ware himsel
j came to the headquarters of the Re
< publican city committee and announce,
d the result. Mr.. Ware has been cit
: committeeman from the ward for man
q years. The congressman was eve
barred for time last night. until helpe
by Mr.. Trainer, from entering the club
house where the election was held. Fol
lowing the election the Trainer me
paraded down Broad street.
Moore Men Elected
Il The unchallengcd elections made
n the Moore men were as follows:
@ Third, Harry ]. Trainer; Fifth
Is James A. Carey; Sixth, Charles Love
Eighth. Edward !. Cooke; Ninth
$ James NJ. Nicely; Tenth, Thomaa "
n Cunningham; Fifteenth, Robert Birch
I all Eighteenth Robert Grier; Twenty
first, Frank l.. Kenworthy; Twenty
% third. David T. Hart; Twenty fourti
n Blakcly D. McCaughn; Twenty fiftt
y. James J, Connolly Twenty sixth. Jo
> seph G. Trainer; Twenty ninth, Rich
:, ard Weglein; Thirty second, Georl
y Hodges; Thirty fourth. Frank I
. Caven: Thirty seventh, Oscar Il. Noll
D n Thirty eighth, Sigmund Cans; Fol
Il teth. George Connell; Forty first. \
= r. Linden; Forty second, Andre
Frosch. Total. 81. =,
= The unchallenged elections made
y the Ware men were as follows:
u First, Charles J. Pommer. Secont
Harry c. Ransley. Seventh, Charles I
J. Hall Eleventh, William +. Nicke
, Jr. Twelfth. James b. Sheehan. Thir
u teenth, Max Mayer. Fourteenth, job
- Larish Sixteenth, J. Edward Pub
~ Nineteenth, Matthew Il. Patterson
- Twentieth, David II. Lane. Twenty
second, Thomas +. Watson. Twenty
seventh, Edward w. Patton. Twenty
eighth. Milton II. Reedmoyer. Thil
tieth, T. Crawford Cooke. Thirty frs
1t Alfred NJ. Waldron. Thirty thir
Id John J.. Mckinley, Jr. Thirty fft
It Clarence X. Crossan. Thirty mint
NJ Edwin II. Ware, Forty third. ID: Frar
"a Black. Forty fifth. William Il. Knigh
l. Jr. Forty seventh. Peter L. Smit
Id Forty eighth, c. Walter Giasgow. II
Ii, tal-22.