Evening public ledger. (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, October 31, 1916, Night Extra, Page 5, Image 5

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G. 0. P. FIGHTS
FOR FIVE MORE
1 SEATS IN HOUSE
State Leaders Hope to Take
All but One Congres
sional District
EVENIN& LBDOER-PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31. 1016
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES FOR CONGRESS IN ELECTION NEXT WEEK
DEMOCRATS SEEk MORE
i.
, The R'publlcan party In Pennsylvania,
, with It overwhelmlnr and record -breaking
enrollment. Is conducting a vigorous cum
palrn to Increase the number of Ilepub-
Mean Congressmen from thla State.
Consresslonal. contests are being- craned
(n fourteen of tha thirty-two districts In
Hha State. Five of them were launched
br tha ltepubllcans with tha hope of cap
taring Ave of the present alx Democratic
districts. In the other nine dlatrlcts the
Pemocratlo candidates are waging cam
paigns to capture present Republican dis
trict, with some slight chances of success.
The only congressional district In the
'State now represented by a Democrat, In
Which the Republicans do not expect to
elect a Republican member of Congress, Is
the Twenty-sixth, or northeastern district
This district Is known as A. Mitchell Tal
tn.t's, and Is represented by Henry J.
Steele. It embraces Carbon, Monroe, North
ampton arid Pike Counties.
SMALU CHANCE FOR LEWIS
The Republicans have nominated Wlnfred
D. Lewis, of Lansford, but the district Is
considered strongly Democratic and there
appears to be little chance of Lewis's election.
In the plevenlh. Thirteenth, Sixteenth,
Nineteenth and Twenty-fifth Districts, how
ever, the Republican leaders appear conn-
dent of electing their candidates In the
places of present Democratic Congressmen.
In the Kleventh District, which Includes
-( all of Luterne County, the Republicans
save nominaicu u w Acmpieion, wno is
considered as strong personally as John
J, Casey, Democratic candidate for re
election. The district la normally slightly
Republican. A third candidate, Jonathan
R. Davis, Is In the field, having won the
Washington and Prohibition nominations,
but be Is not expected to take much
strength away from either Templeton or
Caaey.
In the Thirteenth District, which Includes
Berks and Lehigh counties, Congressman
Arthur O. Dowalt Is having a hard cam
paign for re-election.
The district Is Democratic by a large
major ty, but Horace W. Chantx, the
Republican nominee, carried It for two
terms as State Senator and apparently Is
vnow cutting In on Dewalt's Democratic
strength. He has the Washington, Bull
Moose and Roosevelt Progressive nomina
tions besides the Republican to help him
John V. Lesher, present Democratic
Congressman from the Sixteenth District,
Is having a close contest for re-election.
The Republicans have nomtnted I. Clinton
Kline. He also won the Washington and
Prohibition nominations. The district In
cludes Columbia. Montour, Northumberland
and Sullivan Counties, and Is normally
Republican. With a Hughes sweep In
Pennsylvania the Republican leaders ex-
ct the defeat of Lesher.
The Republicans apparently should have
easy time defeating Warren Wortn
y In the Nineteenth District, which
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INNEWY0RK1HURSDAY
Buffalo and Greater City to Hr
Speeches Last Utterance
at Homo Saturday
rheso aro the Grand Old Party's candidates In districts In which the Democrats are making an unusually hard light for their ticteat and In which the
latter BSSert thev hnv a rhanni n win In nrJ l.ff vtnnf imi Smniinl Tf XtoPntl nt Vnrlr Tu-ontlntti ,ll.trlrt Allnm nnrl York Counties! IlcnrV
"W. Watson, of LanEhorne, Eighth district. Ducks and Montgomery; Robert D. Hcaton, of Ashland, Twelfth district, Schuylkill; Henry A. Clark, of Erie,
Twenty-fifth district, Crawford and Erie; Horace V. Schantz, of Macunglc, Thirteenth district, Ucrks and Lehigh Counties
Inee, Victor Durochel, apparently has a
chance of winning by being carried Into
omce on the strength of the Wilson vote,
which la expected to be heavy there. The
county Is almost even on the presidential
candidates. Congressman John R. Farr la
the Republican nominee.
Secretary of Labor William U. Wilson Is
leading the fight against the re-election
of Congressman Kdgar R. Kelss In the
Fifteenth District The district Includes
Clinton, Potter, Lycoming and Tioga Coun
ties. Chester II. Ashton, of KnoxllI, la
the Democratic nominee.
The Democrats also are fighting the re
election of Congressman Benjamin K.
Focht In the "shoe-strlng" district, which
embraces Franklin, Fulton, Huntingdon,
Juniata, Mimtn, Perry, Snyder and Union
Counties.
NEXT LEGISLATURE
LIKELY TO DUPLICATE
ITS PREDECESSOR
Prc-Elcction Indications Point
to Little Change in Repub
lican Factional Line-up,
According to Leaders
RED FIRE, TORCHLIGHTS,
PLENTY OF 'HOORAY' AND
'ZIP' IN G. 0. P. WIND-UP
Progressives Back in Fold With
the Faithful, All Present
United Front and Ex
pect Victory
PLENTY OF ORATORY
SEE REPUBLICAN GAIN
i
At, the very outset of the campaign the
Ude set In In faVor of the Republican
nominee, John M. Rose.
When Dalley was first elected to Con
gress four years ago In a three-cornered
fight, he had only thirty-two per cent of
the vote cast for all candidates, and when
be wan re-elected two years ago he had
nly thlrty-stx: per cent.
His plurality over tho next high candi
date In 1912 was 91S, and his plurality over
the next hlghcandldato two years ago was
4S3.
Dalley must split the votes that ht did
not get In the last three-cornered fight to
win; and his chances are not In the least
bettered by the registration of voters In
Cambria County, which, shows more than
1S.000 Republicans, on the lists and about
one-third as many Democrats.
In the Erie-Crawford district, the1 Twenty-fifth,
State Senator Henry A. Clark, the
Republican nominee, has the support of the
reunited Republicans, but has to fight a
third candidate who may take votes away
from hlnii Charles N. Crosby, of Lines-
Tflle, Is the Democratic nominee, while Wil
liam W. Klncald, who opposed Clark for
the Republican nomination. Is on the Wash
ington and Prohlb tton tickets.
Klncald has refused to withdraw, al
though the friends of Senator Clark do not
feel that he has any considerable strength.
Crosby defeated Congressman Michael
Llebel, Jr., for the Democratic nomination,
and there la talk of desertions from (he
Crosby standard among the Llebel Demo
crats. The Reorganlaxtlon wing of the Democ
racy In the district Is led by United States
District Attorney IS. Lowrey Humes. Llebel
did, not secure much recognition In the
Way of Federal patronage, and, aa a result,
the reorganliers are 'not all satisfied with
Croaby, who Is a follower of Llebel,
The district la normally RepuMlcan, and
th enrollment for thla election shows 4000
more Republicans on the lists than Demo
crats. Klncald's strergth, and the possibility of
bis cutting Into the strength of Clark, lies
In the Prohibition vote. There are nearly
1000 Prohlbltlontsta enrolled In the dis
trict, and they are not all united behind
Klrcald. If the element opposed to Kln
cald ahould throw their strength to Crosby,
Clark will have a cloae fight
CONTESTS IN CITT
The Democrats have launched fights to
wlrr,,dlstrlcts that are now represented by
Jiepuoucans in the Finn ana Bixtn Dis
tricts, (n Philadelphia: In the Tenth, Fif
teenth, Seventeenth, Twentieth, Twenty
third, and In the Thirtieth and Thirty-sec-nd
Districts In Pittsburgh.
In the two contested Philadelphia dll
trlcts the Republican candidates are confi
dent of winning. Former Congressman
Michael Donphoe Is the Democratic candi
date opposing Peter' E- Costello for re
election in the Kenslniton-Frankford dla
Wot, Donohoe Is a protective tariff Democrat
and has a large personal following In the
mill district His chance for election,
however, depend Upon one faction of (he
Republican party knifing Coetello, and both
factions today declare that they are united
fceklnd Costello.
Former Congressman J, Washington
Logue Is the Democratic nominee In the
Oermantown-Weet Philadelphia district, and
Is making a vigorous campaign, Congress,
anan aeorge P, Darrow, however, haa the
united Republican support In the district;
wMeh Is .strongly Republican.
In the Tenth ' D.'strlet, whleti IneJudee
X-aefcawenna County, the Democratic nom-
The Legislature which will convene In
Harrlsburg next January will be almost a
duplicate of the 1915 General Assembly,
according to pre-election Indications.
The prospects of another bitter factional
fight between Penrose and McNIchol on
the one hand and the Vares and Governor
Ilrumbauch on the other, have led Repub
lican Organisation leaders In all parts of
the State to pay particular attention to
the campaigns of the legislative candidates,
so that the prospects of an Increase In
the Democratic representation are ery
slight Only an overwhelming sweep for
Wilson In the State could Increase the
rumber of Democrats In either branch, ac
cording to observers.
INDEPENDENTS ELIMINATED
The Independents will be almost wholly
without representation. The passing of the
Washington party organisation Into the
control of the Republican Organisation
leaders throughout the State eliminated In
the primary the legislative candidates who
might hae been classed as Independents,
and threw the Washington party nomina
tions, except In remote cases, to the Re
An entirely new House or iiepreseninuvcn.
consisting of 207 members. Is to be elected.
Twenty-five Senators, or Just one-half of
the total number of members In the upper
branch, also are to be elected.
Even the division on local option, which
will come up again next year, will be about
the same as last, according to present Indi
cations. In 1915 local option had 78 votes
In the house. The local optlonlsts, however,
are suggesting some surprises when this
Issue comes up.
In the Senate McNIchol and Crow, who
led the fight for the Penrose-McNIchoI wing
of the party last session, and through whose
influence the Ilrumbaugh workmen's com
pensation, child labor and similar measures
Were able to pass, will again be members.
McNIchol Is un for re-election. Senator
Edwin H, Vare, who led the fight for Brum
baugh In the Legslature, also Is up for re
election. MARTIN MAT REPLACE FARLEY
The Vare-Drumbaugh forces apparently
will win one member at least In the new
Senate, David Martin, who threw his po
litical strength to the Vares In the mayor
alty election here last year, won the .Re
publican nomination in tne ruin, or Ken
sington district. He has the support of both
the Vares and McNIchol. McNIchol hereto
fore has supported and elected Richard V,
Farley, Democrat who Is keeking re-election
thla year.
New State Senators are being elected In
all of the odd-numbered districts In the
State. They.are: ,
1 rhllsitf IpMa. First. Twenty.slith. Thirty
slith and Thirty-ninth Wards.
a Vhllad.lphla. rifth. Sixth. Tenth, Eleventh.
Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Sixteenth ana
6 -Philadelphia,' Seventeenth, Nineteenth.
Twentieth, Thirty-first and Thlrtr-Mrenth
Wf!?fciUad.lphla. .Fifteenth. Twentr-elshth,
Twenty-ninth and Thirty-aecond Wards.
ixiawarc.
Republican red fire. Republican torch
lights and Republican oratory are destined
to sweep forward to another Republican
Ictory.
Meetings scheduled ns prosaic committee
meetings are transformed Into enthusiastic
gatherings, with plenty of the ancient "tip"
and "hooray." The Progressive, back In the
fold from which he wandered four years
ago, applauds as loudly as the ever-faithful
one; and the two, presenting a reunited
front, look forward to their vision of vic
tory. One of the night signs which augurs
a whirlwind wind-up of the Republican
campaign was given to the O. O. P. In the
Forty-sixth Ward, There was not to be
any campaign oratory, according to Harry
A. Mackey. It was Just a committee meet
ing, not a mass-meeting, he explained, at
the Forty-sixth Ward Republican head
quarters. He made this obseratlon be
cause the full seats, with rows upon rows
of men, belled the schedule.
And when the meeting got under wsy It
had every semblance of an old-time rally.
Orators with high flights of rhetoric ns-
salted the Democratic administration. Tho
eagle fairly screamed with rnga at tho
blunders of the "verbal acrobat, who turns
somersaults upon Webster's dictionary."
WARNING OF TRADE WAR
One of the most concise speakers was
Archibald Webster, who took tho audience
by storm w th his rattling succession of
figures and his stern warning of the trade
war that Is to come In the wake of the
European conflict
This Is the wealthiest of nations," he
said. "We are prospering as never before.
But the Democratic party has no moro to
do with It than had the Shall of Perala,
"I shall proo this fact In three ways
First that the $1,000,000,000 excess exports
over Imports consists of a few articles; sec
ond, that the excewt goes to countries at
war, and third, that If the war had not
come, under the Underwood tariff. Instead
of prosperity we should now have adver
sity." Thereupon Mr. Webster, who la a manu
facturing chemist, amazed his hearers by
snapping out a string of figures which
showed that of the tZ.000,000,000 excess
$ 1.260,000,000 Is represented by steel, ex
plosUcs, brass, leather, aeroplanes and au
tomobiles and horses and mules war busi
ness. The remainder Is foodstuffs. Uch as
wheat meats and sugar, he said. The ex
ports to countries not at war, Including
China, Australia and .Argentina, hao de
creased since tha war began, which proves
his second proposition, he declared. His
third proposition was borne out by the
fact that after the Underwood measure be
came a law, until the war began, exports
decreased at the rate of JU.000,000 a month
and Imports Increased 126,000,000 a month,
he polpted out.
"Unless we have a protective tariff the
end of this war will bring the gaunt wolf
of starvation howling long and loud at your
threshold," he concluded. "The Democratic
threat like the sword of Damocles, hangs
over your heads, suspended only by the
war-thread of Europe."
torchlights to Fifty-second and Sanaom
streets. Where two meetings will be held.
A hall large enough to accommodate the
throng of Voters expected to attend the
West Philadelphia rally could not be ob
talned. so today plans for holding two meet
ings simultaneously In nearby halls were
announced. One of the meetings will be
held In the Fifty-second Street Theater.
Mayor Smith will preside at the rally In
tho Seventh Senatorial District. It will
be held In Moose Hall, 1112 North Broad
street
This meeting, like the one In West Phil
ndelphln, will be of the old-time Republican
variety. The marching clubs of the Fif
teenth, Twenty-eighth. Twenty-ninth. Thirty-second
and Forty-seenth Wards will
parade to Moose Hall prior to the rally.
Six bands have been engaged, and red Are
and torchlights will Illuminate tho lines of
march.
WOMEN WORK FOU WILSON
Street Meetings Held by Members of
Pennsylvania League
The first street meeting of the Pennsyl
vania Women's Woodrow Wilson League
was held Inst night at Kensington and Alle
gheny avenUrs, when Miss Ladson Hall
and Senator James T. Nulty spoke, and
was followed by a meeting at Oermantown
and Lehigh avenues.
Tonight the meeting will be held nt Oer
mantown avenue and Diamond street and
Front and Diamond streets at 8 o'clock. J,
1. Casey and Miss Lndson Hall will speak.
SHADOW LAWN, Long Branch. N, 3.,
Oct 21 President Wilson today prepare
for the firing of his last campaign gitns.
to take place- In Buffalo tomorrow and In
New York cily Thursday. A final "salTo"
will be dispatched In a speech here next
Saturday afternoon, which will be his last
publlo appearance of the campaign.
Democratic managers expressed firm
confidence that the President's Buffalo
and New York city speeches will dispel
the last doubts as to New Tork State being
"safe for Wilson." On the way to Buffald
nnd New York the President proposes to
stop only for brief periods of hand-shaking.
The President will leave here at 10.S5
tonight and arrive at BufTalo nt I o'clock
tomorrow afternoon. He will leave Buffalo
tomorrow night after his speech In the
njidttorlum and arrive In New York at 9
o'clock Thursday morning.
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campaign In Iltrnefa tile Miurtie ymmmn
apeelal Is eat telay Mjg
wlH.Wve ft HeKlnwe eerly teiuuifW.
The women, are Mitt fcUkhwc of the few,
cetHlen, they reeW4 at Danvtlte, lit, ttw
home f "Uncle Joe" Camwm, yeeaeieM,
"Uncw Joe" hears them speak an :
them highly afterwartt.
"You women talk no quietly," the
tied political warrior mm. "Ton
swear and you don't shake your
you don't orate, but yew make the
ou are after.
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RELIANCE FIXTURES
Quality,
Craftsmanship, .
Service
and Prices
20 to 35
below retail
CmltX4 PerfaM
Dtk, lYitl and
Call at ear handsome showrooms.
1318'Arch Street
A. etc tfoef Oelew Brood street
Reliance Gas Ic Electric
Fixture Ce.
JERSEY WIPES OUT STATE
DEFICIT UNDEIl 0. 0. T. CONTROL
Balanco of $1,700,000 to Bo
When Books Closo
Shown
TnnNTON. Oct 31. ltepubllcnn State
Chairman Bugbee today Issued a statement
declaring that the taxpayers of New Jersey
are to be congratulated that the llepubllcan
party has been In control of the State's
finances for the Inst two years, ns when the
books of the State are closed today, tho
ending of the fiscal year, he Is reliably In
formed that there will be a free balance of
11,700,000 In the State Treasury with all
bills paid.
He asserts that two years ago, when the
Republicans took control, there was a deficit
In the State Treasury nnd a State tax
seemed Imminent By care nnd prudence,
the chairman points out, the Stntc'a deficit
was oercomo without a State tax.
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5 llradferdr Huaquehanna and Wyoming.
5n McKean, Potter and Tlora.
57 Northumberland, Bnjdtr and Union.
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1 Cumberland, Juniata, WlfOln and Ferry,
as Adame and Franklin.
Cambria.
S7 Indiana, and Jefferson,
so Westmoreland
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JiPliubursh. Third. Fourth. Klfth Seventh.
KiImT Tenth and fifteenth Ward..
2n Southern section of Allegheny.
4T IWaver and Lawrence,
JO Krla
The Senators who are up for re-election,'
In addition to vare ana wcaicnoi, are:
Dalx. Seventh pistrlct: Bproul. NJnth:
Homsher.Th rteenthj Beldleman, Fifteenth;
Catlln. Twenty-flrst; Jones, Twenty-third ;
McConnell. Twenty-seventh : Snyder, Twen-ty-nlnth:
Martin, Thirty-first i Tompkins,
Thirty-fifth" Senaench, Thirty-ninth; araff,
Forty-first, and Magee, Forty-third There
will be new Senators from the Fifth, L'lev
enth. Seventeenth. Nineteenth, Twenty-fifth,
Thirty-third, Thlrtyseventh, Fqrty-flfth,
Forty-sevenih and Forty-ninth Districts.
MACKEY PBAISES Q O. P.
Tho Republican party has done more for
labor than the Democrat o party ever
dreamed otteld Mr. Mackey, who made a
plea for a perfect union among Republicans.
Ho called attention to tha long line of legis
lation enacted In Republican Congresses,
such as the eight-hour laws and safety
measures, and In Pennsylvania, the work
men's compensation act
"The compensation law has life and
soul," he sa'd. "It lives and breathes. The
so-called Adamson eight-hour law la a
mythical promise, designed to catch votes,
"It haa yet to stand tho acid test of con
stitutionality "
BIO WARD RALLIES
Starting with sectional rallies In West
Philadelphia and In the Seventh Senatorial
district tha wind-up of the Republican cam
paign will be launched tomorrow night
The Republican clubs of the West Phila
delphia wards will march with red fire and
There'll be favors at
the St. James on Hal
lowe'en Tonight.
Some will be noisy
some, .useful some
merely pretty. Favors
come from the Gods,
you know, and are of
many kinds. Take
what you get and be
thankful.
A Special
Engagement
for
Hallowe'en
Night
is that of the cele
brated dancer, Mile.
Mellonio, in Italian
ballet, and M. Ro
manov, in Russian
dances. Their first ap
pearance here.
Have you reserved
your table?
Wl)t fet. James
Walnut at 13th Street
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