Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-21
ware SLATE wins
FOR MAGISTRATES
Alliance With Cunningham
~Puts Over" II Candidates
for C. o. p. Nominations
MISS FOSTER RAN WELL


candidates for magistrate was over
whelmingly nominated in yesterday s
primary, crashing through all opposition
with the ruthless weight OF tank
grinding steadily ahead.
Ware and Penrose leaders united, in
most instances, to put the Ware slate
through. The machine workers stood
almost solidly behind the slate in ward
after ward, whereas the independent
backing was scattered.
The Wares won as much because of
the large number of candidates on the
Republican ballot az for any other
reason. The trained workers were able
to concentrate on eleven men. lnde-
pendents. searching through the maze
Of candidates, picked out "favorites'
here and there and virtually lost their
vote.
Six Are RenomInated
The Republican nominees are Mag
istrates John +. Dugan, William Bea
ton. John J. Harrigan, Joseph Coward
ard William ]. Glenn, and Joseph VI.
PERI. Edward F. Roberts, Frank Y.
O'Connor, Edward J. Holland, Dennis
It. Fitzgerald and Amos Scott. Among
the losers was Miss Katharine Foster.
The Democrats also nominated eleven
men. In the November election the ma =
jority party will elect eleven and the
minority six magistrates.
The candidates on the Ware Cunning
ham slate are credited politically as
follows: Magistrate Dugan to Senator
Patton. n Ware leader Magistrate Bea =
ton to the Ware organization in the
Fifteenth Ward. where Harry Keely.
chief deputy of Receiver Of Taxes Ken
drick, Is the leader; Magistrate Coward
10 Congressman RanslPy. Ware leader
of the Second Ward; Magistrate Glenn
to the Ware organization in the Nine =
teenth Ward; PERI to Congressman
Ware: Roberts to Richard Weglein ;
O'Connor to Councilman Hall: Hol-
land TO A. NJ. Waldron. Ware leader of
the Thirty first Ward; Fitzgerald to
Tom Cunningham and Scott to the
Wares. This tally gives the Wares
eight, allowing only three to the Cum
ningham following
Amos Scott. the Ware leader of the
Negroes. was cut all over the city. even
in so called Organization wards. In
the Second Ward. for example. where
Congressman Ransley is the Ware
leader, Scott received only 1865 votes,
while others on the Ware slate received
considerably more than 1000 votes.
Harry J. Trainer. Administration
leader Of the Third Ward. turned in big
votes for his political lieutenants,
Thomas A. ConnOr, Thomas J. Weldon
and George j. McElwee. Jr. Trainer
also gave a vote of 1917 to Magistrate
Dugan, who was on the Ware slate.
Even Amos Scott got a good vote in
the Third Ward. receiving III.
Magistrate Carson. who had the in
dorsement of the Voters League and
the city Administration, did not fare as
well as was expected in Trainers ward
He received only nineteen votes, while
Miss Foster got ten. Magistrate Imber
received 515 votes in Trainers baili-
wick. Trainers men also worked for
F1tzgerald, who got 1910 votes.
1 Imber Did Well in Fourth
As was anticipated, Magistrate I'm
Der, who was dropped from the Ware
slate, ran well II the Fourth Ward.
where he got Pill votes. running ahead
OF the Ware slate. Senator Salus re-
fused to abide by the decision Of the
Vare- cunningham cabinet to drop In
bcr.
Buck Devlin. leader of Senator
Penrose's home ward, evolved a rain
bow -colorcd slate in his district. 1t in
cluded these: Magistrate Oswald, an
appointee of Governor Sproul who fail
ed to make" the Ware slate; MaCis.
trate Dugan, Of the VaIe slate: Magis-
rate Harrigan. Of the Ware ticket :;
Charles Smith. a lieutenant of Pres-
dent Judge Brown in the Fifteenth
Ward; Frank Y. O'Connor, former
city detective, Of the Ware slate, who
somewhat of an intimate friend of
Devlln. Others who were recognized"
by Devlin and his clan were Amos
scott, Magistrate Imber. f. T.. d.
Roach. secretary &c .he Committee of
Seventy; Magistrate Price. Director
Caven's ahy, and Fitzgerald, Tom Cum
ningham's personal candidate. The
vari-colored slate in Penrose's ward
was strikingly indicative of the way
Penrose men voted all over the city.
They seemed to have a foot in every
camp.
Edward F. Roberts. n plu,nbcr md
president of the Twenty ninth Ward
Republican Executive Committee. ran
ahead of the Ware ticket in his home
ward, where Richard WegIein. president
OF Council, is the leader. Ills vote
was 1884.
Acker Aided Miss Foster
The Thirty eighth Ward, where A.
lincoln Acker is the Administration
nnd Penrosc leader. gave big vote Of
2140 TO Miss Foster Shr ,o..tvod
2140 to I'LL for Magistrate Carson.
The Acker ward also favored ..lr.rs
Smith. Judge Browns candidate, with
1923 votes.
Lieutrnants of Blakely D. McCaughn.
internal Revenue Collector and Penrnse
leader of he Twenty fourth while
turning in" the ward for the fifty fifty
ticket, cut the Ware magisteral ticker
IN favor of Magistrate Price. Director
Caven's candidate.
Miss Foster and the other independent
candidates ran well in the Thirty sec =.
ond Ward, running neck and neck with
the Ware selections
Here Miss Foster received 1907 votes ;
Magistrate Carson, 1904: RPnshaw,
1902; Price. 1857, and BerardinO. 1901