Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-20

as trick. He directed the sending OF
kilograms to all the Combine ward lead
ers instructing them to follow the mag
isterial slate given out at the City
Committee headquarters yesterday.
Ware leaders alleged that the Voters
League forces had spent virtually no
money for watchers at the 1430 divi-
They say they themselves are spending
$50 in each division for watchers In
the Fifteenth Ward. where Judge
Brown is leader, an average of $50 a
division is being spent, they asserted.
Campbell Leads Own Fight
In the northeast. Magistrate Camp.
bell personally directed his lieutenants.
He predicted a Combine majority of
C0,O00 to $4,000 throughout the city
with n majority of $500 in the Twenty
fifth Ward.
In the Eighth. Senator Penrose's s
home ward, which is led by "Buck"
Devlin, the workers were cutting Gable
in favor of Campbell for Register of
Wills.
A statement that the Voters League
ticket in the Thirty fourth Ward was
double crossed" by supporters Of
Magistrate George w. Price was made
by j. Z. Macusker, 733 North Sixty
fourth street.
Macusker, Penrose supporter. said
that followers Of Price were CiCulating
sample ballots suggesting votes for
kendrick for Receiver of Taxes, Gable
for Register Of Wills, William jam
ieson for City Treasurer, Lewis for Dis
trict Attorney and Robert s. Shaw for
Municipal Court Judge.
Althnuub IN D.;on
of the five magisterial candidates in
Gorsed by the Voters League, Macusker
said, the sample ballots suggested votes
for none of the Voters League candi-
dates but Price himself, Gable and
Magistrate Rcnshaw. Price is city
committeeman from the Thirty fourth
Ward.
AS nn example of the slashing and
intermiSture on the magisterial slate.
the sample ballots Of the Eighth ward
shove that the Penrosc workers there
are helping Ware, Penrose and Voters
League candidates.
lhe magtsterial slate in that ward
included Oswald. Dugan. Tranchitella,
uarrigan, Smith, of the Fifteenth
ward; O'ConnOr. Price, Amos Scott
lmber, Roach and Fitzgerald. of the
Tenth Ward.
McCaughn Men for Wares
One OF the surprises. according 10
early reports, was that the Twenty
fourth Ward, the home bailiwick of
Ifak"Iy ID, McCaughn, Collector Of
Internal Revenue. was swinging in line
inr IN" Ware ticket. McCaughn got his
Federal job by grace of Senator Pen
"." IN" 1n"'tion that real indepcnd-
ents are asking is:
II Pcnrosr is helping the Voters
League, how does it happen that Nc
Caughn's lieutenants are working for
the Varcs?"
McCaughn' ward workers frankly
expressed the belief that the ward would
show a majority for the Ware ticket.
This Is regarded as all the more pe.
culiar inasmuch as other Penrosc lead
trs, such as Devlin, Judge Brown and
Oscar F.. Noll, of the Thirty seventh.
expect their wards to return mnj0rites
in favor of the Voters League ticket.
Early Voting Light
Considerable delay was being caused in
many polling places, often resulting in
congestion, over the difficulty of voting
for eleven candidates for magistrate on
tne hepuDllCuH DhUO', u is Dig Job
TO pick out eleven out of field Of 2lS
This situation, OF course. favors the
Ware slate, which. however, is having
tough riding because there is wide
spread dissa tisfaction among the Ware
followers. Those who failed to land a
place are not putting their whole heart
into the effort to nominate the whole
Ware slate
Voters OF the city, in addition to
voting for candidates for row Offices
magistrates, judges, school visitors and
other minor officials on the Republican
and Democratic ballots, are electing, in
special election, a Congressman at
Large. The Republican choice is Colo
mel Thomas S. Crago, while the Demo-
cratic nominee is John +. Bracken.
Those who are enrolled under n party
name or as non partisan are qualified
TO vote for Congressman at Large
These are also qualified to vote on the
question Of the Constitutional Conven-
tion.
Party voters in the seven congress
sional districts also are nominating del
egates to the convention. II the people
Of the State fail TO authorize the hold
ing OF the convention, then the NOM
nations for delegate will be void. If
the convention be approved then the
delegates will be elected in November.
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