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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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