Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-03
MAGISTRATE SLATE
THREATENS BIG ROW
,oo Candidates for II Jobs In
sistent in Demands for
/. Recognition
WARES ARE IN ouANDARY

Combine lehuers wv
me question Of making S'a'e Vi ""s
| istrates. ,, L. ,.oJ,1
Thev realize the situation Is loaded
9TH dynamite and they are putting OH
~. evil day trying to fit twenty or more
". ward and division leaders who
~ olomorins for recognition on slate
%sicb can carry the names OF only
eleven candidates
Upward of 200 candidates Tor mas'S-
-. wi,l have their names on tine huge
hollot and at least twenty demand 70 De
.,otsd under the threat OF making
trouble for the combine.
This condition is causing all the more
,,nccrn to organization leaders because
A.. Voters League fight against the
oh,no ol III and because they feel they lost
eS"y .Sa ymavoralty through blunder over
the magisterial slate.
City Hall and the political riaito arc
.,,,e With candidates for magistrate who
snond their time .<tbuzzing' from one
s.mn TO another and uttcring dire
.Srests Of revenge If they are not taken
care OF.
"wbere do get of? ?" is the general
As n matter of fact 1t Is snid in or
..n;,otion circles that the slate could
% made nm two or three times over
merely BY taking care of those who
must be provided for. ~
Every One Wants Slice
Asa consequence the leaders are try
t,o N add TO their stock of plunder By
fsnrinp ways and means of grabbing the
siy minority places on the magisterial
tIcket Seventeen are to be elected al
torether. Therefore the air Is filled with
minors of deals and dickers, last
minnie stating and treachery. In d
| close fght over the head of the ticket,
over the candidates for row Offices.
| The souabble o;er the magistrates may
| he as fatal as it was in 1910 in the
| Patterson Moore primary.
Ware ward leaders, men who can ac-
tually deliver votes, blocks of votes, in
sist on being slated. Among these are
| John Z. Publ leader of the Sixteenth
Ward; Ferd c. Zweig, leader of the
Seventeenth, and Milton II. Reed
moyer, leader of the Twenty eighth
| Ward. These ape the kind of organi-
| cation leaders who have to be satisfied
| In some way.
Then there is Magistrate John F.
Dugan, who resigned as real estate
assessor to go on the bench" He
wants his judicial cmoluments to be as
secure, now that he is up for renomi-
nation, as was his income as an as
SCISSOR. Magistrate Oswald. who was
appointed by Governor Spro,d with n
Ware o. X. has to be fixed up on the
theory that to do otherwise would be a
slap at the Governor.
case similar to that of Dugan Is
that Of Frank II. O'Connor. O'Connor
resigned from the Detective Bureau to
be candidate for magistrate. Now
his friends fear he is to be edged over
the rim in the general jam.
BeatOn Is Insistent
A curious situation exists In the Fif-
teenth Ward. the home ward of Presi-
dent Judge Brown. Here Magistrate
Beaton is n candidate for denomination.
1t is believed that at first the plan was
to sidetrack Beaton. Now develops the
primary fight over "row" Offices, with
Judge Brown expected to buck the COM
bine OF which he was a shining light.
when all was harmoy Beaton could
pe cropped without n ripple. But now
tne magistrate occupies strategic DO
sluon which he is not losing sight of.
lie Is working with the Ware leaders
10 Try to hold the ward against Judge
Drown : friends and, of course, he will
have to be considered.
II Judge" Beaton should pet tbe
idea that he is only being considered"
ne would be likely to make the situa-
uon even more dangerous than IL is.
Inc Forty fourth Ward, out in West
rhiiadelphia, also contains the poten :
tlailtles of trouble. Peace has reigned
IN that ward, with Joseph Kelly look
ing after the Ware interests and John
Duhn seeing to 1t that the interests of
himself and Tom Cunningham we're wcII
provided for. Now Dunn, who has n
ieputation rs a hard political battlcr,
.ahuiuate Tor magistrate. Dunn is
n0' one to be lightly pushed aside.
~, Ware Leaders In Quandry
Nhat with the Ware magistrates who
are candidates for re election and tbr
,'a,e men who want to be elected. the
Naaers are between his satanic ma jesty
una the deepest sea. The combine wants
" ,urop Magistrate 1mber. but it is
,mnispered that Senator Salus, Vare
mauer IN the Fourth Ward, insists on
nte s'atlhg' Congressman Ransley like
WISE II Is explained, urges, Yea, de-
n"n, anus, mat Magistrate Coward be re-
yhaisley Is Ware leader of the Second
Mara' And, of course, Amos Scott
N.Y. e 'are leader of the Negroes In Soutb
iniadeiphia, is supposed to be abso .
.uteiy slated. Scott was knocked over
ane ropes rs n candidate for magistrate
a. Tue Patterson Moore fight. To this
Mctlcal error is charged up the Iosa of
"e mayoralty by the Ware leaders
10 add to the difficulties foccJ bv tho
combine is the fact that como ~ tho
alsn lJSe h cauers and Moore leaders are
Tbo SVnrhinS candidates of their own.
10 .IV Administration, for example,
Mivs'eu Msris,nateu IN the denomination Of
RS",rn'eS Rn.'eS Carson and Mecleary.
,ona 'c'or Clven is believed to he anx-
rs o " see Magistrate George w, Price
l'ueleu, lectnr Blakely ID. McCaughn, Col
N "a oi Internal Revenue, would like
A 81 ISe ms chief lieutenant, BENJAMIN
lardoIns iInsids: of the Twenty fourth Ward,
""'e'S IN the minor judiciary.
Kramer for McEIwee and Weldon
NIFTY MnEy, D. Trainer is pushing George
oni iMTTLfIwe"' Tf Of the Forty eighth Ward
nin.L hu in0!i'nS j. Weldon, of the Thirty.
ioaTa i,n ward Elias Abrams, Penrose
ssis er oil the Sixteenth Ward, IL him
orc u candidate. Administration lend
tbo' n Is Understood. are favorable to
retor "s rahaidary of L. l.. ID. Roach, SEQ
Sno Oh the Committee of Seventy,
among the Democratic candidates 1,
VS cssd ~. Ioughill. who .aspires TO sue
Tonu,,, m,n'nSelt ~ in the minor judiciary.
crNts "''l II one of the old line demo. =.
Dem"oiie ne has been n member of rho
Fhst @ Executive Committee Of the