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ever, is that the league organized a number of ward organizations and, where these were not possible, nuclei of workers, who could be depended upon to represent the league and fight its battles, and who now constitute a very important and effective element of the present City Party movement, which bids fair at this writing to overthrow the Philadelphia machine and measureably restore to the people of Philadelphia the control of their govern- ment.

Any citizen of Philadelphia, or any person whose business was in the city, was eligible to membership in the league upon signing a statement to the following effect :

Believing that the affairs of our municipal government will be better and more economically administered by the absolute separation of municipal politics from state and national politics, and being in hearty accord with the Declaration of Principles of the Municipal League of Philadelphia, I hereby make application for membership in the same.

Once a member of the league, a person was not only eligible to any office within its gift, but had a direct voice in its affairs,

of nominations made for election officers and councilman is illustrative, figures are for the elections of February 19, 1901, and February 18, 1902.

The

Ward

IQOI

1903

Ward

i8qi

1392

First

84

Twenty-third

69

7 a

66

16

Third

31

Twenty-fifth

Fourth

6

Twenty-sixth

Fifth

50

Seventh Eighth

16 6

'9

45

Twenty-eighth Twenty-ninth

81

89

Ninth

Thirtieth

67

Tenth

31

26

Thirty-second

78

Eleventh

3

Thirty-third

Twelfth

36

Thirty-fourth

78

16

46

fi

Fifteenth

133

117

Thirty-seventh

48

64

54

Thirty-eighth

63

Nineteenth

6

Forty-first

14

1 20

Forty-second

J

60

37

107

Total

1,641

zSoi

1902

Select councilmen

Common councilmen

51

39

Total

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