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"EVENING PUBLIC LED&EEr-PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, .1919
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WOMEN TO URGE REGISTRATION
THIS IS FINAL DAY MOORE WOULD HELP
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FORGERIES ARE PLENTIFUL
PUZZLE GRUENBERG
Measure to "Take Police Out of
Politics" Called "Red Herring"
by Research Head
Names of dead men, gnthered from
graveyard tombstones an old political
trick were attached to the council
manic nomination papers of William 0.
Horn, .TWO 11 Street, according to in
vestigators of the committee of one
luiiuticd.
They. also found, they say, that nt
least flilrty-fivo names signed to the
petition had been forged, nnd that
Fomc of the addresses given by sign
ers of the petition turned out to be
vacant houses or open lots. There is
talk of criminal prosecution of the al
, leged forgers.
lloru was put up. it is charged, to
draw votes from 'William It. Horn,
member of Select Council front the
Twenty-third ward, whose candidacy
has been indorsed by the independent
Republicans.
When the carpenter learned of the
"camouflage," he had his petition
withdrawn by the County Commission
ers. Once his withdrawal was accom
plished the investigators begnn to ferret
out the identity of the alleged signers.
They went personally to the first
thirty-five names signed to Vlio papers,
nnd in every instance, they say, learned
that the man supposed to have signed
the papers baid he never even saw the
petition.
With the repudiation of these tig
natures the investigators busied them
selves further. They vcro nided by
volunteers who showed, they say, that
many of the names had been those of
men dead for jears nnd whose bodies
were resting in u cemetery in the North
cast.
HITS FINANCE PROPOSAL
VARE DRIVE STARTS MONDAY
Patterson to Take Atcive Part Fol
lowing "1000" Session
State Representative John It. K.
Scott will have charge of the speakers'
bureau in Judge Patterson's campaign
for the mayoralty nomination, and will
direct the spell-binders for the organ
ization tickpt. Scott has not decided
whether or not he will take the stump
himself or confine his activities to
directing the other speakers.
Patterson buttons, banners nnd lit
erature arc being prepared at the head
quniters of the committee of one thou
sand on the second floor of the Straw
bridge Building, Thirteenth and Chest
nut streets.
I'p to this time supporters of the
Patterson candidacy have devoted their
attention to the detail work of the
campaign.
According to organization lenders, the
mcchinery lins been oiled nnd everything
put in readiness for n campaign which
will be kept moving until the polls close
ou September 10.
One of the first detnils prepared for
was to nrrnnge for n thorough ennvass
of the entire city. With its legion of
workers the organization will canvass
every one of the 13."0 divisions in the
city to get out the vote for Judge Pat
terson and the rest of the ticket.
The attempt of the Vare faction to
introduce into the charter a measure
designed to "take the police out of
politics and another to reform the
city's financing, were well conceived
as n means of confusing the Legisla
ture and pf complicating the problem
of charter revision, says Frederick P.
Gruenbcrg, director of the bureau of
municipal research, in n pamphlet is
sued by the bureau.
The measures themselves he calls
"nothing but perfect red herrings."
The article follows in part:
"In Philadelphia the Penrose group,
being the 'outs,' have allied themselves
with various groups of 'independents'
and 'reformers' in attacking the Vare
faction, the 'ins.' When the recent de
mand for charter revision arose, most
of the Penrose adherents were found
nssociated with their former enemies,
the reformers. The Vare faction
promptly proceeded to brnnd all the
charter proposals ns partisan in char
acter nnd the Vare-coutrolled city
Councils passed n lengthy resolution
lauding Philadelphia's perfect frame of
government and pleading with the Ieg
itlature and the Governor not to dis
turb the beautiful symmetry of the
venerable system.
"In the meantime the self-constituted
citizens charter committee had begun
to crystallize the existing sentiment in
the city in favor of n better chnrter,
nnd nil the newspapers nided the cause.
When this sentiment became discern
ible, the Vare fnction skillfully altered
their tactics and declared that there
was undoubted need for certain changes
in the framework of the city's govern
ment, but hat the charter committee s
hills were unsatisfactory.
"Thereupon they introduced a meas
ure described ns one that would 'take
Hm nnlli-o mit nf tiolitics' and nnothcr
ostensibly for the purpose of reforming
the city's financing. A careful pe
rusal of each of these measures dis
closed nothing but perfect red herrings.
As a means of confusing the Legislature
nnd ns n means of complicating the
problem of charter revision these meas
ures were well conceived, but no im
partial critic could find in them any
contribution to the hircngiurmus m
bettering of the municipal machinery.
"While the proposals of the charter
committee were declared, by their Vare
critics, to be 'taned with the Penrose
stick,' the measures were renlly by no
menus partisan in chaructcr and were
drafted by students and specialists, after
many weeks of study of the needs, nnd
of the constitutional and other technical
aspects."
LOCALSERVICE MEN
ORGANIZE FOR MOORE
NSWfliK cfr
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Politicians Work to Perfect
Tickets and Have Somo
Candidates Withdraw
DEVELIN MAY GET OUT
MRS
WENDEU'.REBER
Prominent clubwomen who will aid in n. campaign to get out as many
prospecthe otcrs as possible on registration daj nevt Tuesday
WOMEN CALL CONFERENCE
TO AID MOORE'S CAMPAIGN
Meeting at City Club to Plan Work fbr Congressman's Nomina
tion and to Urge Every Voter to Register
Representative women of Philadelphia
will rally to support Congressman Moore
for the' mayoralty.
A call for n conference of women in
terested in the betterment of the citj
was sent out this nfternoou by Mrs.
Cornelius Stevenson nnd Mrs. Mary
O'Reilly Rue.
The conference will take place at the
City Club. Monday, August 2."i, nt U
p. m. The purpose of the conference is
to organize a woman's campaign imii
mittee to work for tile nomination of
Mr. Moore.
Addresses will be made by Vranklln
Spencer Kdmonds, Murdoch KenUrick
and others.
In the ncll sent out today nil women
interestd in the improement of the
city nre urged to nttend the conference
and those unable to come nre requested
to reply by mail, so that it may he
learned who will co-operate toward
bringing about the nomination of Mr.
Moore,
Philadelphia club women, banded to
gether to further the interests of good
government, feel their first nnd fore
most work is to help get a .full regis
tration on August 26.
While many of the club officers and
membets are spending the summer at
pleasure resorts, those in the city ate
combining their efforts bed plan to
help in every way possible.
Miss Clara Middleton has been named
chairman and Mrs. J. Wendcl Reher
tce chairman of a committee to keep
in touch with registration. Thy have
lists of tcrs and will obtain the
names of those who register August 20.
McNICHOL'S SPIRIT IN FIGHT
Senator Dalx Says Dead Leader Ani
mates Followers
The spirit of the late Senator James
P. MrNichol, once n powerful Or
ganization leader, is with the Indepen
dents in their tight against the Vares,
according to Senator Augustus F.
DaW, Jr.
Senator Daix used the name of tho
former big leader in an appeal to Re
publican Alliance workers.
"Senator McNlchol our beloved
Sunny Jim is dead, but his spirit is
still with us," Daix told the workers,
most of whom were lieutenants pf the
late Senator.
"He is with us in this fight, and no
friend, of his, who remembers how he
fought nnd what the fight cost him, will
waver in the contest."
The meeting was held to get reports
ffom division workers on the Moore
campaign. Watchers' certificates and
other election paraphernalia were distributed.
WITHDRAW PETITIONS
Two Councllmanlc Candidates Slip
Out of Running
Louis Silvcrstcin, of 403 South Sev
enth street, in the Fifth ward, today
visited the office of the county commis
sioners to withdrnw his petition for the
office of magistrate on the Republican
ticket.
John M. Sparks, of 1517 Rrown
street, in the Fifteenth ward, withdrew
his petition for the nomination for
Council on the Republican ticket.
Today being the last day for with
drawals, it is expected that several other
candidates for office, especially for
Council, will withdraw their petitions.
Campaign to Perfect Bojdy Will
Start at Meeting Tonight
in Thirty-first Ward
N'onregistrnnts will immediately be ap
pealed to by the women. The women's
campaign, which is entirely nonpartisan,
has indorsed Congressman Moore for
Mayor.
"It is the delinquent registrant thnt
we want to ote," said Miss Middle
tou today. Those first to register are
usually the politicians and men who
expect to gain something by voting a
certain wa. It is the otcr who dis
likes 'dirty' politics, bad government
and misrule so much that he hates to
get mixed up in it, that we want to get
to the polls. He is the man who will
vote right. And we shall appeal to such
men in personal letters urging them
lo register und to tnke an nctivc part
in this enmpaign to give the city good
government."
Representative members of the Civic
Club, the New Century Club, Council
of Jewish Women, Philomusinn Club,
and the Women's League for-Good Gov
ernment will meet at 2 o'clock Mon
day afternoon nt the Civic Club to dis
cuss plans for u sstemntic campaign
Each one of these clubs is doing its part
individually, but they have formed n
central committee so as not to duplicate
efforts and that they may make their
woik most effective.
Mrs. II. S. Prentiss Nichols, presi
dent of the New Century Club, mem
ber of the committee of one hundred
,and chairman of the Enstcrn State
Federation of Women's Clubs, is one
of the most active lenders. Through
her chairmanship in the federation she
is renehing members of virtually all
women's clubs in the city, asking them
to jolu in tho campaign.
This is the last day for the with
drawal of nominating petitions before
the county commissioners.
Names of candidates who huvc filed
petitions for offices and who do not
withdraw today will appear on the bal
lot at the primary, September 10.
Both tho Independents and the Or
ganization will make strenuous efforts
today to iron out the difficulties which
have arisen in various senatorial dis
tricts by reason of the number of candi
dates filing for places on the council
uinnic ticket.
Knch side hopes to hate its slate
completed today.
In tho fight among Thirty-fourth
ward independents some sort of har
mony arrangement is expected to be
made today.
James A. Develin is willing to with
draw in favor of Robert A. Rcggs, but
will not jield to Representative Theo
dore Campbell.
Other candidates on the slate in the
Fourth district nre George Connell.
Fortieth ward; F. V, Rurch, Forty
sixth, nnd Samuel Harrison, Twenty
fourth. I)r James J. llefferntin. of the
Forty-fourth ward, also demands a
place on the ticket. He hns filed papers.
In the Sixth district which takes iu
Germantown. Charles II. on Tagen,
Fort -second ward, nnd W. W. Roper,
Twentj -second, have been slated by the
Independents. The third place will go
to either Representative Sigmund J.
Gnus or John K. Smithies, of the Thlr
tj -eighth.
Harry Davis, the baseball playef,
bolted the Independents nnd joined the
Vare forces when he was given a place
on the Vnre slate.
REGISTER
Congressman Urges Business
Men to Give Employes Time
Off With Pay
POINTS TO NEEDS OF CITY
Iluslness men were urged today by
Congressman Moore to do nil in their
power to enable men working for them
to register for the majoralt. election.
Mr. Moore, in "proclamation to
manufacturers and employers of
labor." sas:
"Your attention is called to Tuesdny J
next. August 20. which hns been deslg- I
tinted 'Good Citizens' I)n. a day
upon which the qualified voters of
Philadelphia may enroll and register
for the purpose nf voting nt the ap
proaching priiunrics. It is the big day
in the mtijornltv contest for the con
trol of. the citv of Philadelphia.
"The contrnctor forces me strongly
entrenched behind organizations which
they built up under the Smith-Vnre
administration.
"They lave been permitted to con
trol the" cit's affairs because a large
nmW nf voters have become iudif-
Iferent or content to Met Vnre do it.'
"It is our confident belief that it me
Uoters, now aroused to n high pitch by
Ithe cvtrnvagance ot contrnctor govern
ment, nre given a fair chance, thej
'will overthrow these unsaory condi
tions and restore a free nnd satisfac
tory government.
"One of the difficulties heretofore hns
been the failure of the Republicans to
register. This ear every qualified
oter can enroll nnd register ns a Re
publican. "We are willing to trust our cnuse
to the voters, hut in some enses it
rnnv happen thnt the voter, by reason
of bis employment or the remoteness
of his home from the place of his cm
plojment, mm not be nble to register.
Anything ou may do in such cases
to enable the emploje to reach the
polls on 'Good Citizens' Day' without
loss of time or pa will be appreciated."
The oneniug gun in n enmpnign to
perfect u city organization of service
men to work' for the nominntiou of
Congressman Moore for Major win
bo fired tonight at a meeting nt the
headquarters of the Republican Alli
ance of the Thirty-first ward, at York
street nnd Frankford avenue.
In announcing the proposed organi
zation today. Captnin K. J. Prosper,
in charge of the Service Men's Bu
reau at the Moore campaign head
quarters, said that efforts will be made
by him to enroll the majority of the
02,000 soldiers, sailors and marines of
the city under the Moore banner.
Committees of service men will be
selected in each ward of the city to in
duce their fellow wnr heroes to sup
port Congressman Moore.
The meeting tonight will be addressed
by Dr. J. R. Prespcr, father of Cap
tain Presper, nnd John Finney, inde
pendent lender of the Thirty-first ward.
Another meeting for se'rvice men will
be held tonight nt headquarters of the
Republican Alliance of the Forty-seventh
ward. Here the speakers will in
clude Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Mec
han, independent candidute for recorder
of deeds ; Lieutenant J. Raymond Kelly,
of the lUflth Infantry, and Major Rex
Hogan, of the marines.
Captain Presper, who was wounded
und was held a prisoner in Germany
for nine months, said that the service
men of Philadelphia are being urged to
fight for their right to vote. He said
that the service men will be prepared
to fight just as hard during this po
litical campaign as they did "over
there."
Teach National Anthem by Pictures
Teaching the national anthem by
means of pictures supplementing the
words is he idea of a Philadelphia
man. He has caused to be printed a
pamphlet on four pages of which arc
tho,words of "The Star Spangled Run
ner," one verse to each page. Reside
each line is a picture visualizing the
idea expressed by the words.
CHESTER LAUNCHING TODAY
Terre Haute to Take Water Mrs.
McCralg Sponsor
The new steamship Terre Haute will
bo launched today from the ways of the
Chester Shipbuilding Company, tit
Chester. Until the christening by Mrs.
Alexander MtCraig, of Terre Hnute,
Ind., the vessel will be known as lull
No. 333.
The Terre Haute i3 named after n
prosperous city in Indiana. Many per
sons living here whose former home was
in Indianu p'robably will uttend the
Inunchiflg. Mrs. McCraig will come
from Nantucket, where she has been
spending the bummer.
The new vessel is a cargo currier of
flOOO tons. It is 401 feet long, 54 feet
wide and 32.0 feet deep.
MOORE BACKED IN 24TH
Ward Republican Club Indorses Con
gressman's Mayoralty Candidacy
An enthusiastic meeting of the
Twenty-fourth wnrd Republican ex
ecutive committee was held last night
ot the headquarters. Forty-first street
and Lancaster avenue. The Moore
ticket was unanimously indorsed. Ad
dresses weie delhered by Rlakely D.
McCnughn, candidate for county com
missioner; Robert K. Lamberton, can
didate for sheiiff; Maxw-11 Stevenson,
Jr., candidate for magistrate; Lieuten
ant Harold Wntkins and Major Rlook,
who has just returned from France.
All of the speakers urged the com
mittee members to work earnestly for
full registration of tho independent
vote ou August 20 and to push the in
dependent ticket vigorously for the pur
pose of ending contractor government.
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