Evening star., 1938-10-12

to 48,O35 for former Representative
Glare G. Fenerty, Republican.
Representative J. BurrWood Daily,
Democrat, has made the fourth
strong Democratic district, which he
carried last time by vote of 77,4O6
in a field of six candidates to 1,545
for Boies Penrose. jr.. Republican.
He is opposed by Magistrate Roberts,
drafted by the Republicans after Col
Frank A. Warner, previously nomi-
mated, got mixed up in the scandal
at the State Capital 1t looked like
an easy win for Mr.. DAILY until Magis-
trate Roberts entered the field-now
Mr.. DAILY has stiff fight and knows
it, Magistrate Roberts is an old poll
tician with big following and is a
strong campaigner. He was a magis-
trate for many years and has done
many favors which the voters are
eager to repay. He is a much more
acceptable candidate than Col. War
ner-and has an honest chance to
win. Mr.. Daily holds the distinction
of being the first Democrat ever elect
ed from this district winning in
1884 by Scant 375 votes out of 81 ,427
cast. He was assistant city solicitor
OF Philadelphia for IL years and a
member OF the faculty of La Sale
College.
Dorsey Facing Hard Fight.
Representative Frank j. G. Dorsey
Democrat, is in tough spot-and the
situation has been developing against
him during the past two weeks. He
has fairly balanced district. is popu-
lar and has been good Represent
ative. The Republican opponent, Fred
erick c. Gartner, is not rated as a
particularly strong candidate. Mr..
Dorsey carried the district two years
ago with vote of 72,201 to 46,038 for
his Republican opponent.
Representative Michael j. Stack. who
caused big stir in the House when he
announced on the floor that he wished
the President could run against him
in his district-and who was defeated
in the primary-is still running under
the Royal Oak banner. Francis j.
Myers. special deputy attorney gen.
eral, is the Democratic candidate and
one ward admittedly very bad. The
Republicans have put in the field an
old college football star, j. Howard
Berry. jr., who is making whirlwind
campaign. The deciding point in this
district will be how much (or how
little) a vote Mr.. Stack gets. If he
can hold the National Union Father
Coughlin) and the Old Age Pension
folks, he might get votes enough to
defeat Mr. Myers, because whatever
votes he gets will come from the Myers
ticket. Mr.. Stack won two years ago
in a field of six with a vote of 84,487-
the largest vote piled up by any of the
seven Congressman from Philadelphia
to 81 1872 for George F. Holmes, Re-
publican-when, by the way, the
Roosevelt New Deal" candidate got
only 1925 votes.
The seventh district is and always
has been strongly Republican. DR..
Ira w. Drew won two years ago by a
vote of 77.949 to 71,749 for George P.
Darrow, who had served for % years in
Congress. While Mr.. Drew has made
a good record in Congress he was never
q politician, and only consented to be
candidate when importuned in the
hey-day of the Royal Oak ascendency.
This is the most rock-ribbed, aristo-
cratic district, the old Germantown
section.
Nucleus for Liberals.
But it also contains some wards
where there Is good nucleus for
strong liberal sentiment. Mr.. Drew
Is q younger man, more active than
the veteran Darrow, and is making a
strong campaign. If he loses he will
be better off financially and profess
sionally. He has the colored vote, the
labor vote and certain foreign elements
but they are all of minor conse-
quence because this is really silk
stocking, aristocratic district.
Mr. Darrow was elected % years
ago by an Independent Republican
group, and then turned over to the
Ware organization, thereby antagoniz-
ing many Independent Republicans
who had supported him. There has
never been a chance to nominate any
one else on the Republican ticket in
the seventh district-now the Repub-
lican support is somewhat split, which
is slightly in Mr.. Drew's favor, but
not enough to let him win. Mr.. Dar-
row has been accused of K. K. K.
sympathies, which has swung some
Jew, Catholic and colored votes away
from him, but the Jewish vote will be
for Mr.. Darrow. Mr.. Drew Is the only
Protestant among the seven from Phil
adelphia in Congress-and he was
nominated by a group 80 per cent
Catholic. The Royal Oak ticket which
made his election possible is the old
Father Coughlin ticket-but it has
frizzled out. John King, the Royal
Oak candidate on the ticket this year,
received only one vote in the primary.
Truck Smashes Cross.
Ashforby, England, is mourning the
loss of its thousand-year-o Saxon