Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-26
RESIDENCES LEGAL,
SAY VkRE LEADERS
Answer Registrars Statement
; That Voters Must Register
From Bona-Fide Homes
RESULT OF OLD FIGHT

Nsre leaders who maintain homes
outside this city Drofcsscd 10 be urdis-
turhed today BY thc declaration of tho
registration commissioners that here
after they will insist that cv"ry clcCtor
who desires 10 vote most register from
lbs bona lidc home"
This decision on the part of tho board
strikes directly at rolitiCnl leaders who
vote from organization wards and Wh0
really live Out in tho Main Line nr in
some other fashionable suburb.
II results from tho petition filed last
wear AGAINST senator Ware. which QuCS
toned his right tu vote from what was
termed "hcatlc>s. lght'css" dwelling
~ the Thirty ninth ward
It was alleged that tho senator real
home was in pink palace at
Vmbler. Senator Ware successfully con
tested the potition and voted at the
primary and tho municipal election.
Other political leaders whose legal
residence may be investigated BY the
commissioners, in accordance with their
report To the Governor. are John X. Il.
Scott. Ware leader Of the Fourteenth
ward. whose homo is at Cynwyd; Sen
ator Samuel w. SsluS, Of the Fourth
ward. whose home Is in GermantoWu
Senator David Martin. leader o' the
Nineteenth ward. whose homo is in
Holmesburg. and Harry G RanSley,
former sheriff. and Ware leader Of the
Second ward. who spends much Of his
time in Ardmore Mr. Ransley is the
Ware candidate for congressman from
The Third district to succeed Mr..
Moore.
RansIey Holds Right to Vote
1T is all nonsense to claim my bona
fde home Is not in tho Scropd ward,
asserted former Sheriff Ranslcv.
II was born in the ward and never
lived anywhere else" Ransley cou
tinued. II have an absolute right TO
maintain suburban home. a seashore
home aud mountain home IL | desire.
~ am PERFECTLY satisfied with my
right to vote in the Second ward and
] am willing to fight the matter in court
iE necessary.
The former sheriff turned the discus
sion to criticize John +. Connelly's re-
cent assertion that he would give a ma.
jority of 1000 votes in tho Eleventh
Congress from the Third district.
MIR. Connolly never could give
thousand majority" Mr.. Ransley de-
clared Il will carry the Eleventh
ward and am satisfied | will carry
the district"
Scott Defends His Position
State Representative Scott said it
was ridiculous for any one 70 ASSET
his bona -tide residence was not in the
Fourteenth ward.
That was all settled twelve years
ago he said, when was lighting
for the leadership of tho ward. 7 had
a suburban home at that time. | 1--we .
in the Fourteenth ward and | probably !
will be living there when l am au Old
man"
Senator Salus votes from GA South .
Eleventh street. Independents claim .
his bona fde home is at 6G01 Lincoln
drive, Germantown.
The courts have decided where nv
bona tide residence is, Salus asserted.
Il don't need any guardian to tell un
where my home Is. - 49,. r.. ~ ~
John p. Connolly, former city Soici-
tor. who abandoned the Ware organizi. ,
tton several days ago. is leader of th"
Eleventh ward. He votes from 23>
Paramount avenue. and maintains
residence on I.atches lane, Merton. /
II won't discuss the matter Mr.. /
Connolly said. when Informed of the
registration commissioners declaration. /
Boards Position /
The board realizes that in many in /
stances an plertor may have two or
three different residences which he &C.
cupies az different times in the year" !
the report reads and so long as these |.
are bona fide homes, maintained for that
purpose and occupied as homes for rea
Sonablc periods during the year. that the
owner may elect from which residence
he will register. but the board cannot
bring itself 10 the conclusion that tIo
mere occasional stopping at a house. or
the Nayiug Of taxes thereon. constitutes
. residence within the meaning of the
law
NATURALLY those electors who have
means are the ones who are able 10
maintain more than one residences. AMI !
the effect on the average Plertor. who .
has but one home. is to make him feel .
that he also has rhe right 70 select hr,
particular voting place without very
much regard for his known home or res.
idence. It is the boards intention 10
insist that every elcrtor who desires 10
vote must register from his bona fde
home and as the new act gives this
power to nitrate the filing Of
petitions itself il is probable that prior
tO tIp rCpistrntion q