Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-15
ANTI-VARE CHIEFS
Join FOR DRIVE
Leaders League and Allied
Campaign Committee Call
Joint Meeting
G.0.P.WOMEN IN MOVEMENT

Calls were sent out today for a joint
meeting Of the Allied Campaign Com
mittee and the new Leaders League,
which will be held tomorrow at the
headquarters Of the Voters League, 22i
South Broad street.
All the forces opposed to contractor
bossism are preparing for supreme
effort and are marshaling workers in
all the forty eight wards so that the
victory Of 1919 may be completed AT
the polls on Tuesday.
The Joint meeting will begin at 2
o'clock tomorrow afternoon. The Re
publican women of the city will be rep
resented by Mrs. Barclay II. Warbur-
ton, Mrs. Dobson Altemus and Mrs
John Wanamaker, Sd.
Penrose May Send Letter
Councilman CouneI. president of the
Leaders League. which is made up OF
ward leaders friendly TO Senator Pen
rose hinted that an important message |
from Senator penrOse will be deliv |
cred at the meeting.
Oscar f Noll. treasurer Of the new
league, took issue today with Thomas
w. Cunningham. once recognized ms the
PenrOse leader in Philadelphia. who de-
clared that the Senator. in iudorsing the
Voters League ticket. had been be-
trayed by friends.
'If there has been any betrayal at
all Tom Cunningham knows more
about It than anybody else, said Mr..
Noll. There has been no question
where PPnroSc stood He has been
against the fifty fifty ticket since the
beginning. As for any question of be-
trayal. all those loyal to PenroSe will
stand by him
Candidates TO Speak
The candidates iudorsed by the Vot.
ers League will speak tonight AT Sec
tional meetings. They will hammer
home the dangers Of contractor bossism
and will emphasize these slogans:
"A vote against the Nares is a vote
TO cut the tax rate"
Your tax bill is our best argument" "
One of the meetings will be ut Sixth
street and Allegheny avenue. where
Sheriff Lambcrton and United States
District Attorney Coles will speak be-
fore the arrival of the candidates. Colo
mel George f. Kemp. Vivian Frank
Gable, Arthus G. Graham and Edwin
Wolf
At Seventeenth and Tioga streets.
Franklin Spencer Edmonds. acting
chairman of the Voters League will
address the voters. The candidates will
speak there also.
A meeting for women voters will be
IT, |
Miss Katherine Foster. who has the |
Voters League ind9rsement for Mag
fstrate, will tell why the antiNare
candidates should be nominated and
elected. Colonel Kemp will speak at
that meeting, also.
Other meetings at which the Voters
League candidates will speak will be ,
held tonight in Orange Hall. Sixteenth
and kater streets; the Italian -Ameri-
can Club, Nineteenth and Dudley
streets. and the New Casino Hall. 10
Dickinson street Jewish citizens of
South Philadelphia have arranged the
New Casino Hall meeting
Continue Corner Rallies
Administration workers in the
Twenty eighth Ward will continue
Their street corner rallies tonight. The I
-epeakers, who will tour the ward in
motorcars. are Charles Salkind. Alber. :
=. Harmer. Roy Pressman. Morris Jo-
seph and David G. Pennick. n Candi- S
date for Magistrate who has been in e
dorsed by the Voters League.
A huge banner was hung across +
Broad street today north Of Locust
street by the oVters' League 1t was
inscribed
Finish the job started in 1919. Put
tne contractor combine ont of busi-
Mr.. Noll's comment regarding the
loyalty of the friends of Penrose was l
agreed to by other leaders who are fol- 5
lowers of the senior Senator.
Cunningham's statement
The replies to Cunningham came
when the latter issued statement ex-
piainlng MS refusal to participate yes
terday in the formation of the new
Leaders League. In that statement
Cunningham announced boldly that he
was for the fifty fifty ticket.
MIR. Cunningham's statement recites
his work for the Republican Party in
many years and adds:
In my humble way l have for sew
efal years been working with many of
my friends to reconstruct the Repub-
hcan Party in Philadelphia. In No I
yember, 1919, believed the great bat
tie for a new order of things in our
great city had been won. !
Since that time / have been work. |
Ing tor, harmonious condition in the ,,
Republican Party in Philadelphia and l
t was with this thought in mind that .
l charted my political course. am t.
strongly of the opinion that the I
interests of our party in the Nation |
and state can be served best by pre- =
seantlng united front in Philade- [
Wants United Party f
Il am a member of the Republican l..
central Campaign Committee, ms are /
also many Of the friends with whom I d
nave been associated politically for :
many years. 1t is the consensus among u
the great majority of this committee
that certain candidates who will 20 be-
tore the electors next Tuesday should
De nominated on the Republican ballot
. IN the greatest Republican CITY OF
the United States, / believe the marty
should stand together and this can be {
done only through organization. With
IN the last few weeks there has sprung :
into existence a so-called political as
sociation which now attempts TO tell !
the Republican electors what they !
mould do on September 90 ;
Certain men are pushed forward for q
once ana vigorous campaign is waged :
oy these self appointed leaders to defeat
the candidates who have and will have Z
the support Of the regularly elected Re.
publican City Committee Of this city, {
Challenges Comparison !
II challenge comparison OF candi.
dates A study of the ballot will :
prove beyond all doubt that the men !
supported by the majority of the Re-
publican Central Campaign Committee \
have been tried in public Office and >
found to be honest, efficient and we'll
meaning men. s
For more than forty years 1 have {
been friend of Boies Penrose. IL has I
been my pleasure tn gunnort him Ia tbo \