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PARTY TRAINS
GUNS ONVARES
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Final Offensive uegms as
List 01 bpeaKeis ia
Announced
ISSUES CLEARLY DEFINED
I Th. hwvy artillery of tlio Town Meet-
f J Pirty-a "' ot ""two "Per
Bjni ,, nr the beclnnlnc of
if . Bnl offensive aiwlnst "government by
'l.. as bolters from the ranks ot the
Kb""" Organisation Helped swell the
.... - the 'allies."
A list ' ,he TiCn,Jcrs' cnoscn b!f tne
., ...ndents, Hepubllcnns. Democrats and
missives was published today. They
111 counter-attach the oratorical offensive
t- iI.a .i.o..nlt1. Ilpnithlifiin
'' . .i i... tfht wlmn llnif-Aaptttn.
Km TVUHam S Vnro declared that the
laming municipal election Is of national
I (mjwrUnce.
''j ' ISSUKS TO BR DISCUSSI3P
K According to tho Town Meeting commit
t. .... i.euo.1 to be discussed by the ensak-
ie, i"c "
.""To eliminate the police and other office.
Vtom i from pernicious political activity.
JSf".v.nt a two-thrds maiorltv of
ftioncll! T falling Into the hands ot nn un-
tvnoulous comuinaiion wnicn is in poimcs
EVENING LEDaER-PHIEADELPillA, "tfHUBSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1017.
K idrtlon of
Impossible In the future tho
Wratlon of the authority or puiilltf otllco
to tM private benefit of a group of profes-
,llSS'?felctlCtonpub1le office public servants
iwBonilve to the public will
"Jo prevent a. sectional boss for In
uAM from South Philadelphia becoming
Sepoiltlcat dictator to Ovcrbrook and Ucr-
To restore to the people their own polltl-
"!? forestall an Increase of tax rate by
rewriting the further wnstcs and cxtrava
rinees of contractor rule.
To make Philadelphia safe for democ
ttfi and to insure to It real self-govern-
f minnlant bullets nnd blackjacks with
' A honest ballot.
'To enshrine personal UDeny wnere po
etical liberty was) born."
the tpeakerH will be Thomas V. Ann
itronr. Walter lieorge Smith. William H.
CMion. William Elsenbrown, Kdwln 11
' ivirle Joseph S Boyle, John J. (Jrella,
Robert S Bright. Kngeno C. Bonnl
.ti iinhort fMrnon. Iluch Creelman. fJeorge
J.w coltn. rreaericK c? iniiic, j.uim-il l...ih
I Wrton, Samuel M"Rynolu. Albert H. Mlt
f to George E Mfipa.s. William V. ltcaa.
It fcmuel B. Scott, tho Bev. John W. tilock
' 11 A. Merrltt Tnylor. Charles von Tngcn.
f Cfofse C I'lrlch. Frank Kammernd. Mark
3- ...,nin neoreo D. Porter. Dr. .1. W.
J Vest, George W 'arr. William J Tracy.
A F. Dalx. Jr . Charles V . Kelly, Kdwaril
. ...it... ir.lt.-nr.l W 1 finlr Hnvlrl T.nvlQ.
HrryK MeCmighey, Clinton Bogers Wood
ruS, Frank Imlth. William J. SchaelTer,
Hrry D Westcott.
35TH WAHD OKOANIZKH
It was announced today that a complete
trpinlzatlon had been affected by the Town
Meeting party in the Thirty-fifth Ward with
two active committeemen from each divi
sion. At a meeting last night Joseph O.
t tlmcox was ciecieci as representative oi iiio
f central body I
P.- The meeting indorsed tho candidacies of
'i Edward Casey for Select Council and Wll-
i Earn Blessing for Common Council. These
officers were elected: I'reMUcnt, Jouis
Vctel; vlco president, Jobeph I. Knight;
secretary, B. W. Evans; treasurer, Earl
T. Tygert.
' Congressman William S. Vnre, In his first
ipeech In the campaign for the election of
th "fifty-fifty" slate, last night declared
that In the fight between tho Bepubllcan
J Orranliatlon and the Town Meeting party
itake. Then he said the election Is a na
tional affair In these words:
"If the Republican party Is weakened In
VhllailAlnl.ln It ..-III ln .I'anl.nQil In Tlann.
irlvanla, If it Is weakened In Pennsylva
nia it win ue weauencu tnrougnoui tne na
tion." The Congressman was speaking In his
homeward, the Twenty-sixth, at 1333 South
Broad street. The candldutes also spoke, as
they did In a scries of meetings held In
various sections ot the city. While the
Town Meeting workers were perfecting their
nomination papers the Vate organization
was busy. And because the Independents
were tied up by the court proceedings they
ere unable to hold meetings.
In a speech delivered before the Thlrty
aecond Ward Varo Bepubllcan League, at
H2J North Twenty-third street, Senator
Vare characterized Senator Penrose as
"tiat big loafer Penrose," and declared that
Mr, Penroso "got Maloney to Import gun
Ben into the city for hla own political
purposes, without anticipating that murder
would result"
A. S. Murphy, former Assistant Director
f Public Safety, led a "bolt" of thirty
members of the Vare-controlled Bepubllcan
committee of the Thirty-fourth Ward and
Ml open Independent headquarters for the
ard at Sixtieth street and Haverford ave
aue. Joseph S. Boyle, former Magistrate and
illy of Postmaster Thornton, has Is
ued a statement calling on Democrats to
ork with Independent Bepubllcans to bring
bout the election of the Town Meeting
tarty candidates.
ALLEGED ELOPERS CAUGIJT
Young Woman Held Pending Arrival
of Parents From Baltimore
Dorfithv Ttn1ln nf T?lvrvlAu, TlnHlmnre.
b being held in this city pending the arrival
ef her parents, following a hearing In the
Central station, nt which It who tstlfld
that ahe had eloped to this city with Charles
rouviB, a. married man, of Ualtiinore.
Pollvis ua. haltl fni pvtrniltHnn nnnprft
ty Maglsetrate Watson.
nihil is known in Baltimore as Slark.
1j alleged that he left a wife and child,
liter borrowine $150 from the former, and
wrylng the Hallen girl at a ceremony per
formed by the Bev. Dr. Fletcher, pastor of
church on Gaugh street. Bolivia Is said
h tO ba twentv.thren vchth nlrl nnrt blsi nprnnri
1 lfe eighteen.
He was caught when he applied at the
CCneral dMIVAi-v ulnilnu, rt thn nnelnftlrvi
J thli city for a letter from his first wife,
n whom he had asked a loan of more
""ney, while the girl was arrested at 260
Nrth Fifth street,
Town Meeting Party
Sues Conunissioners
Continued from Pnae One "
TVfZrTy twcn,y-B,,t f ,h
the,0cou0rt. br0UBhl ",,S ' ,l,e np"'"n of
"It In not the senso of the net t a.
wmbly that nn arnant must know evorC
person whose name appears on X n
Inatlon sheet," said Judge Davh. !? .V.
clearly that the nomination shall b SiS
Iftne five nlllnnts collect vely know alfhi
H3T5&S nmlnall0n Bh"' "o behalf.
de7c1neSerUlln'r Wa" hal:e'' wl,h 'nM bV '
James0Un1ln..r.lBU "oss-amlnatlon ot
comisel M1' J1loma Haeburn White,
counsel for tho Town Meeting party en-
f,l",eJ.m:L 1.)1.nnt'd ""laU In the Hide
irei III I.. . i,t . ,n a" attempt to dls
the ihllf c?,ndl,lnt"- "andall was one of
the chief witnesses In Common Picas Court
?'ii . re ,l10 Vnres have brought pro
to ihf t0 ,ntt?,ck ,h0 vall1y of elsnatires
candidates"1 l'lns of Independent
tlcsVfnr"Jl!l?.',aI1' Who lms nSrcd In poll
C"' .'""" ya"- was called to the stand.
..' ?"e ''Is occupation as n private In
n Mm r --n0 ndmll that ho prepared
Minl f'.T, ,he ''om'natlon of Town
.Meeting cand ilnino n.i .... .... ..
had been given to him by the independents
to take before u notary when the petition
had the names of only two affiants.
In reply to questions of William Connor,
counsel for the prosecution, the wltnesn
said he was told to take the petition to
a friendly notrry but refused. He then
gave a detailed description of the Town
Meeting headquarters, which bordered on
ridicule. The generl attitude of the wit
ness caused nmazement.
Mr. White Jumped to his feet.
"Isn't It a fact," he asked, "that vou re
mained nround the Town Meeting head
quarters picking up Information nnd selling
It to the other side?" Bandall denied
rather uneasily that he ever gave or sold
Information.
Pointing to Vare n'dvlsors In tho court
room. Mr. White nsken, "Didn't you pick
up information nnd sell It to those people?"
Bandall said that he did not and shuffled
from tho stand.
The Court will sit until 7 o'clock tonight
and hold n night session tomorrow If neces
sary, so that the caso may be concluded by
Saturday, he told a newspaper man as he
left the courtroom for lunch today.
This decision came as a result of a state
ment made In the courtroom by William P.
Connor, attorney for the Varc-Smith ma
chine, to tho effect that every one of the
B80 nfflants In the case had been subpoenaed
ond would be called to take the witness
stand.
HANDWIUTINC, EXPIOItT
William K. Dennis, of Brooklyn. N. Y..
tho handwriting expert, testified that the
names on nomination paper No. 76 from No
U to 22, Inclusive, had all been written
by one person, nnd from tho specimens of
Mr. Dunn's hnndwrltlng nnd his own sig
nature on the back of tho piper It was
his opinion that Mr. Dunn had written all
tho names. The same opinion was ex
pressed by Aaron Blttenhouso Lewis, an
other handwriting expert, of New York.
Thomns Baehurn White again expressed
his willingness to have all the signatures
alleged to havo been forged by Dunn strick
en from the nomination paper, hut Attorney
Connor would not agree to this and Insisted
that the whole paper should be thrown out
as Invalid. Mr. White took tho stand that
tho legitimate signatures on the paper could
not bo Invalidated because some of the other
names wcro alleged to have been forged.
The matter was reserved for future argu
ment. (leorgo Sterr. Jr.. of the Twenty-eighth
Ward, who had given Instructions for the
obtaining of tho signatures of voters to the
nomination papers In that ward, was tho
next witness called by Attorney Connor,
but from Mr. Stcrr's testimony and those
who followed him thero appeared to be little
on which to base any criticism of this nom
ination paper. Mr. Sterr knew most of tho
names signed to tho paper and he nnd
Howard Klotz, David Pennock, J. Dogolo
nnd Augustus I.eo were tho affiants.
Mr. Sterr testified that the names to the
petition wcro nil legitimate and he and
tho other affiants hud been properly sworn
before a notary public on Tuesday evening.
t)ctober 16. J. Dogol, one of tho affiants,
however, who was examined after Mr.
Sterr, could not remember nny oath having
been administered to him, but he explained
that this was due to tho hurry and excite
ment of having tho papers prepared In time
fcvbridge&Ciotliier
for filing that night. This witness waa a
candidate for Constable, which seemed to
explain the high state of excitement under
which he was laboring.
Marshaling testimony to show that names
had been forged on some of tho nomina
tion papers, the Vare-Sm,ltll wing also
received many setbacks when witnesses
summoned by the prosecution affirmed that
they had signed nomination petitions' nnd
affidavits and Identified other signatures as
bona fide.
An effort by William Connor, counsel for
the prosecution, to have a Vare-Smlth police
surgeon appointed to examine a subpoenaed
but absent witness was refused by the
Court, who appointed another physician.
The Court also expresses Its sole pur
pose to prove the authenticity of the pres
ent affidavits without taking into consid
eration previous lax methods of preparing
petitions supported by nffldavlts.
I lie Iiejrine nnfnAll with n il.rarm n,1 nt.
tack by Connor on the validity of nomina
tion papers in Senator McNIchol's Tenth
Ward.
"Wo have In our possession a Town
Meeting party nomination sheet bearing 110
names." ho said. "We havo evldenco that
ono man wrote the five names on the affi
davit. That man Is Thomas davit."
Connor then nuked that a police surgeon
be appointed to go to Gavlt'B home. 1620
Cherry street, to see whether or not he
was able to appear as witness. Gavlt, a
former Municipal Court clerk, was sub
poenaed, he sild, but sent word that he was
too 111 to nppcar.
CHOOSES HIS OWN DOCTOB
Judge Davis, deciding that n police
surgeon was not essential, appointed Dr.
J. Chalmers da Costa, who was the phy
sician attending James A. Carey, "black
Jacked" McNichol leader of tho "Bloody
Fifth" Ward. Doctor da Costa declining to
serve, the court appointed Dr. Hobart Ilnre.
who was one of the physicians appointed
by Judge Brown to examine Senator Mc
Nichol during the hearing of the "Bloody
Fifth" Ward murder conspiracy chnrges
against Mayor Smith.
"We havo no objections to n physician be
ing nppolnted to examine this witness," said
Thomas Baeburn White, counsel for the
Town Meeting party. "If the names were
forged, then, of course, tho nomination
paper Is defective."
Doctor., Hare examined (Jnvlt nnd later
told tho court that although Gavlt waa evi
dently nervous, there was no reason why he
could not come to court. Judge Davis Is
sued a bench warrant and Kent two court
officers nfter Gnvlt.
Tho prosecution next attacked petitions
In the Forty-fourth Ward, where Dr. Wil
liam D. Bacon Is the McNichol leader.
Morris Berger, S243 Market street, denied
that ho had signed a nomination blank or
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that he had authdrlxed John Dunn, a for
mer constable and McNichol follower, to
sign his name. Under cross-examination
by Mr. White, however, Berger said that
he could not take oath whether or not ho
had authorlied anyone to sign his name.
Thomas H. McCool, a handwriting ex.
pert, testified that a thorough examination
led him to believe that eleven or more
of the signatures on nomination petition
No. 76 of that ward were written "by tho
same person who signed the name 'John
Dunn' to a piece of paper yesterday." Dunn
signed his name yesterday nt the request
of the prosecution.
Mrs. Jennie Ingersoll, 6239 Market street,
the first woman to testify, Identified the
signature of her husband, John W. Inger
soll, on a postcard and then said that It
was not her husband's signature on the
nomination blank.
Wllllnm 1J. Dennis, of Brooklyn, ana
Aaron B. Lewis, of New York, two other
handwriting experts, agreed with McCool's
testimony.
Many witnesses summoned by tho Vare
Smlth prosecution failed to show fraud or
even' lax attention to technicalities In tho
hasty compilation ot the nomination papers.
Judge Davis ruled that tho prior practice
of allowfng another to sign one's nnmo to
nn affidavit will not figure In this case,
which he said, was purely ono of deter
mining the validity of the present papers.
Thl ruling enmc about when Harry J
Smullln. 2330 East Gordon street, testified
that he had given a man named Lnnden
berg permission to sign his name to an
affidavit.
"Why did you allow this man to sign your
name?" asked Mr. AVhltc.
"I has been tho custom for years," said
tho witness. "In many cases only ono of
the affiants goes before the notary."
Mr. Connor objected strenuously to this
prior practlco being brought out, whereupon
Judge Davis said he wished both parties
to understand that the caso was being tried
on Its merits without any rcgnrd for lax
methods In the past.
Olio of the witnesses testifying about a
Twenty-eighth Ward petition wan George
Stern, tho men who several weeks ngo chal
lenged Mayor Smith to u public debate Willi
him nt tho Temple University.
Man's Skull Fractured in a Fall
Otto Keller, sixty-five years old, n re
tired grocer. 2542 Brown street, has n
fractured skull and It Is believed that his
back Is broken as the result of u fall from
a ladder at his home this morning. Keller
is said to have fallen only a distance of six
feet Physicians at the Iinkenau Hospital
say his condition Is serious.
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Mrs. Anna II. Knodl Dead
Mrs. Anna t. Knoell. wife ot Lieutenant
Knoell, of the Front and Master streets po
lice station, died Tuesday night at her
home, 1014 North Fourth street. Mrs.
Knoell was stricken with apoplexy Sunday
and never regained consciousness. She was
a member of the ladles' auxiliary of the
Elks nnd was a leading charity worker In
St. Peter's parish, She was forty-four years
old. A son, William Knoell, and a daughter.
Miss Theresa Knoell, survive
Complete Home Reorganization
The reorganization of tho Home Defense
Reserve In Philadelphia has been completed,
according to an official announcement. A
regiment of 1600 picked members will be
formed In the near future to replace the
National Guard regiments In thjs city. A
committee of ten has been nppolnted to
carry out the organisation work. The total
membership of the organization In this city
is 7000.
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An "eye-for-eye and looth.ror-tdolh" f4.
Icy toward Germany waa rfrred by "J3r,
Henry Van Dyke, of Princeton University,
former United States Minister to tha Nrthi
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last night Clermanjr. who premeditated
the Lusltanla murder, ha said, Is ruled br
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