Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-05-20
moore 1892 AHEAD !
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Philadelphia Unofficial Complete
Vote Gives Mayor Safe
Lead for Delegate
QUESTION DELANY FIGURES


Mayor Moore decisively outstripped
w Freeland Kendrick for delegate at
large in the Philadelphia vote, accord
Ing to final returns unotficially compiled
today from complete police figures.
Mr., Moores majority over the Ware
latest figures. They give the Mayor n
total of 11T,5j votes. against a vote
OF 116.250 polled by Mr.. Kcndrirk.
The result remained doubtful until
this final tabulation was made this
afternoon.
The administration leaders felt Ger
tain that the Mayor had won. Thomas
w. Cunningham. chairman of the Re
publican Alliance. expressed the opin-
Ion just before the result was made
known that the Mayor would have a
majority Of about 1000
The figures from which the vote show
ing that Mayor Moore had more than
safe lead over his rival are complete
save in one detail. The ballots in the
Sixteenth division Of the Fourth ward
were torn up in a fight on election day.
Committee Control Pending
The right for control of the Rcpub
Hcan city committee will not be settled
definitely. according to leaders on both
sides, until the county commissioners
complete the official count. Mr.. Cum
ningham said that the administration
forces are sure of twenty three wards.
and expect to get two more doubtful
wards when the official tally is made.
At Headquarters of the Republican
city committee is was said that they
have complete returns for only thirty
one wards. They hinted at an overturn
OF some Of the announced results. es
pecially in the congressional contest in
the Third district, when the full vote
comes in.
The Ware leaders are piuning hopes
Tor n possible overthrow Of the figures
for Charles Delauy, for Congress. on
the confusion which they believe arose
because il was necessary to vote in two
places on the ticket for representative
from the Third district One of these
was TO name successor to Mayor
Moore, to fill his uuexpired term: the
other to elect a congressman whose
term would begin March / The Wares
say they may contest Delany's victory
over Ransley.
Senator Sam Salus. Ware leader in
the Fourth ward. which was the scene
OF most of the disorder on primary day
limited this afternoon that he would
have some surprises to spring soon.
Movies As Evidence
II have positive evidence that the
police took full possession of some of
the polling places in the Fourth ward. -
said Salus. 81 had motion pictures made
at the polls showing how the police
crowded up contrary to law. | intend
to swear out warrants for the arrest of
several patrolmen.
Though the Ware leader was positive
in his statement that he intended to
have patrolmen arrested for alleged in
terference with the elections he was
not 10 sure when this would take place.
The Ware adherents made desperate
last-minute efforts today to strengthen
their position. Al the Republican city
committee headquarters. division. lead.
ers arrived most of the morning and
early afternoon bringing alleged new
fgures.'
IL Is believed their protests against
an Incorrect count and police irrpgu-
larIties are TO be used as an argument
In favor of a recount
The fight in Philadelphia is occupying
most of the attention of politicians
OF both camps. Few figures have come
IN from the counties to show the vote
for delegate at large
Harry Baker. secretary Of the state
Republican committee said this after
noon that he had received returns from
onlytwo counties. Pike and Clcarfed.
They showed slight majOrites for the
Mayor over Hendricks
The official count of the vote begins
tomorrow at noon in the finance COM
rnittee chamber Room 496. City Hall,
with the certainty that the Wares will
night every inch of the ground to save
themselves from political oblivion
The capture by the administration
6 ~,
forty one nominations to the State
House of Representatives strikes a blow
AZ the ware claims to recognition from
the state organization.
AT the last session the Wares con-
trolled thirty one Of the forty one rep
resentatives from this city. The move
ment that led to tho adoption of n now
charter for this city was accomplished
only with the aid Of the country mem
bers of the Legislature. as the Wares
opposed the change from the start.
The city administration will have a
number of progressive measures to urge
before the Legislature next session
With majority of the local delegation
In sympathy with the administration
aims the desired legislation will be
easier to accomplish.
Won't Concede Committee
The organization still refuses to con
cede that it has lost the city committee.
The showdown will come June 9 when
the committee meets for organization at
Eleventh and Chestnut streets.
A survey of the local situation As
unofficial returns swept in revealed the
magnitude of the Ware defeat The
organization lost control of the PhiIa
delphia delegation TO the General AS
sembly. 1t lost control of the PhiIa
delphia congressional delegation. II
elected only two of the twelve district
delegates to the Republican national
convention.
The most interesting congressional
battle was in the Third district. for
merly represented by Mayor Moore.
Unofficial returns, with two divisions
missing, gave Delhny majority Of
474 over Ransley. The incomplete vote
was Delany, 15,477 Ranslpy, 1JOO3
More significant still were the re-
turns from the Fifth Senatorial dis
trict, where the fight between Max Aron
and John Il. Mclean was especially
bitter. Mr.. Mclean lost his fight
against Aron. Uncle Dave" Lanes
protege. by a hair, the vote for him
being II ,0ST and the vote for Mr.. Nc.
Lean totaling II ,00S. Mr.. Mclean
succeeded in turning over several wards
from the Ware to the Moore column.
in the Seventeenth, for instance he
received a majority of 40. Judge Pat
terson carried that ward in the may
orally with a majority of 272. The
Moore majority in the Thirty seventh