HJV J- , -4i; : EVENING LEDaER-rHiLADELPHIA, THtRSDAY, NOVEMBER fc, 1917 V ION MAY' DEPEND ON TEST IN FIRST WARD WWCI flteb-i frm Vt On very newspaper In tlio city, bolh of the Democracy, Including the Democrats as well an Iteoraani- Democrats. rrninanfi of real lnde- In addition To all the I'enrose-Mc- outfit, was a complete repudiation in l'hlladelplila anions the ite- 'WU. pre-emption of tlio Town Meetlnir hi tho State Is a confenslon on the mt the Fenrose people that they ex it have a cry little to do with the tlon or the Kepubllcan Governor and State c-ITlces next year." ht to contest Tuesday's election In wrts was begun today when the Town party, accusing the Republican Or- tton of throwlne out thousand of checked up tho returns In many dl- :. ut 20,000 votes cast tor Town Meet- ndldatcs, or more than enough to t MPjt them, were thrown away by Vare- election oinclais because the electors Hy voted the straight Independent and also for District Attorney Hotan. bllcan candidate for re-election, ac- awitlng to Town Meeting leaders. Twenty thousand Is the majority by Mch ,the Independents overwhelmed .-crnment by murder," declared United i Senator Boles renrose, caning for Opening of the ballot boxes. 'The light to clean house In Philadelphia fctte Just .begun," he asserted, the election court, which opened today tT the official count, will be petitioned for complete recount by Town Meeting couu 1 Saturday, iFtirlher charges that the election com Mtmiloners appointed by CJoernor Brum tobgh to take tho ote of rhlladelphl.i Del4lerH nhd sailors In camp worked for 1)m Organization and Juggled tho returns cfc'uned steps to bo taken today to ask the Federal f!o eminent to tako a hand In counting the military ote, Tlio camp vote, estimated at 18,000, will not bo counted iMitll November 23. Meeting of watchers who looked after the Interests of the Town Meeting candl ttes were held last night In many wards Mid. divisions, and by tonight the returns favery division In the city will have been Stocked up. On the basis of this return petitions will be nied before Judgo J. Willis Martin In the election court on Saturday morning for a recount of the ballots In every dlvlxlon wiiere It can bo shown votes were Illegally Hwcarded by the Vare election boards. The procedure, according to Town Med iae party attorneys, will differ slightly from tiMt ordinarily used In ca&es of eledtlon fraud, where appeals are made for tho rc wnlng of ballot-boxes. In such appeals It is necessary to file affidavits by five quail. A4 voters alleging fraud Petitions must be tiled within fort -eight lieurs after tho opening of tho election court, which convenes at noon today, to be gin the ofllclal count of tho ballot. That Ives the Town Meeting party until noon Saturday to make Its appeals. In the present case the appeals, backed by affidavits, will be made on tho ground that the returns t.how palpable fraud or error In that thousands of votes were east out either through a misinterpretation of the law or In deliberate deilancc of tlif statutes and the decision of the Supreme 'Court. TENnOSE DEMANDS FINISH KIGHT Senator Penrose's btatement demanding Jlght to a finish was as follows- Jteports of the methods used In wards throughout the city to defeat the Town Meeting ticket Indicate that If the liullut boxes are opened the ticket will be fuunil to be elected by 20.000 By all means a. searching Investigation should be Insti tuted find legal proceedings taken to ex pose and correct the fraudulent returns No methods were too desperate for the eontractor-bund to employ to defeat the wilt of the people at Tuesday's election Ken who deliberately used gunmen and murder to carry the primary would, of course, not stop at anything to avert dis aster and defeat at the election An especially careful scrutiny hhould bo "-ai-ven the returns of the soldiers' vote trem the camps. These votes were taken fcy commissioners owing allegiance to tho Vares, with apparently wide-open oppor tunity for Juggling. Jt Is significant, not te say suspicious, that these returns have been held back while the result In tho city has been In question. If necessary, every ballot box should he opened In court nnd the light of pub licity turned upon tho election leturns The fight to clean house In Phlladel phta has Just begun, and It could luivo W better start than by a thorough ex posure of the fraudulent methods used by contractor government to resort to the tactics of gunmen to mob tho Town Meet Ine party ticket In the election. Congressman Vare, In a statement made M Washington declared that the Vare- a-lfl, f.f,af t.n.1 tun- .. 1 -.... . . 7T mmmim i.vnvv .. rm m ICtU-CUt MClOry IT Ml that the election marked the "ellmiria- Mepubllcan party." Jn regard to Senator Penrose's sugges tion that the ballot boxes be opened and ' a thorough Investigation made, Senator Vare said today: ' "The Kepubllcan Organization will Join -bands In opening any and all ballot boxes , Jfe Is any question about. I suggest that 'jr open tho seven divisions In the eastern - end of Penrose's own Klglith Ward, Includ ing his own division, where Mr, Kcndrlck received but eighty-two votes and Mr. Armstrong 1088, This has nlnavs been a section which stuffed ballot boxes. The Itepubllcan voters of this city need havo no concern They hud a good Itepubllcan victory, with clean votes, with somo 10,000 to 12.000 majority Penrose's crying over his defeat will urgo tho good active party workers and voters to continued action." A feature about tho soldier vote Is that not even an unofficial report of how the men voted hau been made, whereas In the city at least a police return of the count has been made. This point was emphasized In nil discussions of the soldier voto. Th-rc- fore, no real Idea will be had nf i,u iii men voted In tho encampments until after the ofllclal count has been completed at Uarrlsburg Independents, taking Into consideration the fact that tho couucllmanlc elections may ultimately result In preventing the Vare Smith nllinnce from organizing City Coun cils next January, ilei-lnm! nni th. i.. ... plurality of tho Varc-Smlth combination In the c ty, a plurality which may be wiped out when tho full returns of tho soldier nnd sailor vote are received. rtnfti.ni, i ,m a moral victory for the Town Meeting party and was full of significance for the future ..mi.'. I,e '"'Wdcnts are not standing still with the thoughts of "moral victory" This was Indicated last night when Senator lenroso and Town Meeting nnrtv lenders declared that the election In the city had been 'stolen", that legal ballot., had been thrown out. nnd finally that the election would be contested In the courts. W Kreeland Kcndrlck Smltli-Vnre nomi nee for re-election as Receiver of Taxes V..H1CU uiu cm. uccorning to the police re turns, by a plurality of SG40 therefoie he stands a good chance of surviving a strong Town Meeting vote among tho soldiers But It would not be at all surprising If the offi cial returns and tho soldier voto showed that James H hhcehan und Frederick T h?"i,M K""th-Va cindldates for Register i ..in- mm ! ireasurer repectivelv had been defeated and that Walter Genige Smith and William It Nleholson, Town Meeting party nominees, had been elected Sheehanu plurality in the rltv was only 3CT(I. and a change of 1D0U votes would put him out of the running Miover h Plurality in the elty was even smaller- i , , cl,a"fe of 1100 votes would mean his defeat, nnd such a change could be brought about by u lessening of his voto by one or two In every one of the city" 1336 election divisions, irrespective of xfhat may bo turned up by the soldier vote. The re-election of Samuel P. Hotan as District Attorney Is, of couibi-, unquestioned. Ills plurality In the cltv was H2.G68. and tho soldier vote to be heard from repre sents only front 15,000 to 18,000 votes. 46,034 DIDN'T VOTE An Interesting If not peculiar feature nhmi it,, nniieit.reimrteii cltv vote, a fea ture which Is now under tho most searching Investigation, Is that apparently 46,934 elec tors who were qualified by registration to cast a ballot did not go tt the polls at all. According to tho past history of pontics, only from 10 to 16 per cent of the regis tered voters do not go to the polls on elec tion day. If that percentage held good on Tuesday then approximately 240,000 elec tors would havo been recorded as voting. & .. - .....,... ,. i,a nnltce re- turns show that only 226.83 men voteu, which Is 13.163 fewer than those who. ac cording to the average, should have been recorded as voting, and that number is more than enough to dccldo the election. Magistrate Held as Embezzler Cnnllnuril from l'nre One questions nut to him by Assistant District Attorney James day Cordon. Jr, who con ducted the prosecution Schuman declined to answer on the ground that It wouiu in criminate liltn. and ho "was backed up in his refusal by Representative John It. K. Scott, counsel for Pcrsch Tho accused magistrate, whose court Nn 7 Is nt 017 South street, was allowed his liberty on tho bond entered when ho was first arrested In District Attorney Rotan's probe of the minor jud'clary Magistrate Persili's activities In March, April and May, 1017, were subjected to scrutiny In his records A total of 225 dls (barges and 171 commitments of prisoners weie offered as evidence committed a prisoner In April. 1". that Perech had discharged him and that he had no knowledge of a return of tho fine to him. Magistrate Mecleary cited tho case of six women, whom he had committed In default of fines In March-May. 1917, who later were released by Persch without any return being made to him Magistrate "arris followed suit on the standi The Commonwealth based Its case on comparison of Person's records with those of the other magistrates and of Moya menslng Prison nnd the Controller's office, wnero all returns of fines are made. Major Charles 9. Worman, of tho Con troller's office Identified returns made by Persch for January-September, 1917, nnd Isaac Cox, of Moyamenslng Prison, identi fied Person's record of commitments and discharges for March, April and May. Percy R. Sampson, 13C West Durham street. Mount Airy, a publlo accountant, said that he had found no returns of fines In Persch's docket for those three months More than 200 pages, ho said, contained entries of cases without noting their dispo sition Representatlvo Scott, at tho opening of the hearing, went on record as protesting Judge Brown's sitting as a committing mag- Istrale. REFUSES TO IDENTIFY DOCKET When Schuman, Persch's clerk, was asked by Assistant District Attorney Gordon to Identify Persch's docket, the Witness re piled: "I refuse to unswer." "On what ground?" "That It may Incriminate me." Mr. Gordon protested, saying that Schu man was not on trial. Mr. Scott Interposed. saying that ho had advised the witness n6t to testify He cited cases Contending that sec retaries nnd clerks are not required to tes t fy about their employers' finances He pointed to the "liquor slush fund" Investl gallon nt Pittsburgh as nn cxamp'c. Judge Brown smiled nnd asked for the docket. After looking It over, he said "If it fel ow feels as nearly n crook In Identifying this docket, then we won't press the question." Mr Gordon, however, pursued his quiz zing of the clerk, who had been a militant witness when grilled on thu stand by Mr Gordon's father, former Judge James Giy Gordon, In the "Bloody Fifth" Ward mur der conspiracy hearing To nil qu'stlons Schuman remnlned silent. Announcement at the District Attorney's office that the Invcst'gatlon of the magis trates' records preceded tho Fifth Ward expose, harmonized with some of ihTTTjS mtny given nt the hearing Persrl. ..'?v -aid. went to the Controller' m ." t 27 about three weeks before the -Br1? h in., T.iTirri .- nn., .... ...... ....Uv. ...u i'iri.cniea cuuiuiiiK totaling 9it36.Kr, seventeen months beg'nnlni, aim dining wun ju.y, 1017 Thl covered paces 2fi(Mrr nf hi. .i.i". Ing to tho testimony, t'n m t,, "rd. was testified the cases were ,m "? " chronological order, but In it.. .:rel in for the seventeen months ending i'iv.,ee many bnck enses were entered tt'thH ."' gard. for chronology and In m.fl ., .' re- -nltlO "Blow.. " new mL verln .- "i'TVllTl record form. The toj Intimation wa c,,, ...... .. whose returns before that period av " suddenly. J,,-"" lnvestht,,i'ca'ni is accounts. navln i- "". n money In an attempt to cover in j1i1,'ne '"" ". nearly 3300 a month nware of the comlrg "dorto.ed" his accounts, NO ACCOUNT OF FINES Magistrate Trnrj, subpoenaed with his letords, showed that In Maich-Mav, 1917, he had fined three prisoners, who. accord ing tn check-up evidence, later were re leased by Tersih Tracy testified that ho had not received unv of tho money from Per'cli when they wore released bv tile lat ter magistrate upon pavment of their tines "If I had received the tines the record n-rtalnb would appeal In mv books,' he said Magistrate Coward testified that ho had Cigar and Cigarette. 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Compared with other engines of the same size or thereabouts, it shows: More power More rapid acceleration Greater economy Greater length of life Greater smoothness And an amazing ability to start quickly on a cold day, and to "warm up" without delay. The Chalmers engine is a simple one. That is one reason why it is so good. In many engines of the moment the gas passes on its way from the carburetor to the cvhnder through a tunnel, which runs all the way through the engine block. Before the gas gets to the cylinder it is forced to turn many sharp angles and does not become completely mixed with the air. This results in raw gas running into not only one but all the cylinders, particularly when the car is cold, and especially when running for the first five or ten miles. In the case of the Chalmers engine this type of intake manifold -has been 'com pletely eliminated. A new manifold, termed "The Rams horn,' has been constructed of simple pip ing. It is on the exterior of the engine. It is a manifold of easy curves so that there ( are no sharp corners for the raw gas to lodge against and be pushed into the cylinders. The next development was to. give the gas the proper amount of heat after it came . from the carburetor. What is termed a "hot plate" is built in at the top of the throat of the car-btrretor so that the gas coming straight up from the car buretor hits the "hot plate", the dimensions of which have been worked out very scien tifically, and then passes around the easy curves of the smooth manifold in a perfect state of mixture and at the proper tempera ture to each of the cylinders. The case of this Chalmers engine has been proved. , 1. On August 1 and 2, Joe Dawson drove a Chalmers equipped with this same engine 1,898 miles in 24 hours faster and farther than anyone ever before had traveled on land, sea or air. If there's a flaw in pattern, or part, a solid day of bitter, brutal speed will find it. ' 2. 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