Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-11-07

pire, and these constitute twenty fye
of the total membership Of fifty. How.
ever, vacancies accouA for the extra
three. and one Of these was caused by
the death Of Senator Ware.
The political complexion Of the last
State Legislature was overwhelmingly
Republican. and this lead is expected to
be maintained in today's elections.
Forty .seven Of the State Senators last
session we're Republicans; only three
were Democrats. Republicans had 192
votes in the State House and the Demo
Gratis only seventeen; there was one
vacancy. The present delegation to the
House at Washington contains thirty
five Republicans and one Democrat.
The Democrats m. may gain one or more
So far as the election Of United
States Senator'S Of Governor. other
State officials and Judge Of the Supe.
r!or Court is concerned, Philadelphia's
vote will merge with the vote in other
sections. Directly, Philadelphia will
elect. seven Congressman. forty zone
members Of the State House and five
State Senators.
Republican leaders in Philadelphia
expect. without serious question BY the
Democrats, to elect today the full dele.
CATION Of forty .one members Of the
slHtV AAVuses luc HNe StUlc
and the seven Congressman. Three of
the members Of the House being chosen
today are women-Afrs. Martha G.
Speiser. in the First. or downtown.
District; Mrs. Rosa 8. de Young. In
the Seventeenth. or Overlook, Dis
trict. and Mrs. Lille II. Pitts, in the
West Philadelphia. or Twenty first
District.
c,.H> So,.<o- S.1,,. p.x<~. ..l
Woodward are being reelected. while
Krause is being chosen to succeed Sen.
ator Gray. William 8. Ware will be
elected to succeed his brother, the late
Senator Ware. Mr.. Ware will also grab
of the succession to himself in Con.
gress. He has said that he would re.
sign from. Congress about January I.
The present Philadelphia Congress.
men. Graham. Ranslcy. Edmonds. Con.
molly and Darrow. are being re. elected.
George A. Welsh is the Republican
candidate in the extra district. West
Philadelphia. allotted 10 this city by
the re .apportionment. His Democratic
opponent Is Robert J. Sterrett. Re.
publican leaders say Welsh will run
ahead by about $4,000 votes.
Approximately $4,000 Philadelphia
men and women are qualified BY regis.
tration TO take part In today's election.
OF these about 324 900 are enrolled as
Republicans. while only one-tenth of
that total are enrolled as Democrats.
Republican leaders predict that Mr..
Pinchot and the Republican ticket will
poll $50, 900 votes and carry the city
by from 10000 to 175.000 majority.
This would give the Democrats about
~ To-, .,I n,
or POSSIBLY few thousand more.
The total registration for the whole
State is close TO 3 10000 The total vote
cast should be twice as great as the
vote cast four years ago. when William
c. Sproul was elected. This increase
of course. Is largely due to the en-
franchisement Of women. Governor
Sprouts plurality over Judge Bonni.
well was 247 .222. and Mr.. T!nchot's
over John 4. McSpurran is expected
to he greater.
Major David A. Reed appears on the
ballot twice. first as a candidate for
the unexpired knox-Crow term. which
ends on March / of next year. and
second as a candidate for the full term.
Senator Reed Is virtually unopposed for
tho short tern, but for the full term
has the opposition Of Judge John F.:
Shull. Democratic nominee. and Of
william J. Burke. Of the Progressive
ticket, Senator Pepper is opposed ior
the unexpired. Penrose term. which
ends on March 4. 1927. by Colonel
Fred r. Kerr. Democratic nominee, and
Earl W. Thompson, Progressive nom.
tnee.
Colonel David J. Davis Is the Repub-
ucnn nominee for Lieutenant Governor
his Democratic opponent is Robert F..
Iattison. Jr. James r. Woodward.
Secretary OF Internal Affairs. IS the
Republican choice for reelection and
is opposed by the Democrats with A,
Marshall Thompson.
Robert s. Gawthrop. Republican,
and Henry C. Niles. Democrat. are
rivals for the election as Judge OF the
Superior Court.