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Show QUAKER CITY IK f FURIOUS CONTEST j I Mayor attd Sheriff Attack Each Other in Hysterical Defies. SHERIFF BACKS DOWN IN MATTER OF DEPUTIES Managers of Both Sides Claim Election by Sweeping Majorities. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 6 Th eve of the day toward which Philadelphia has heen looking for nix months to decide Whether the municipal nffnlrn of th city i shnll i tlnue to be conducted an they have been In the i -i t or w hether a nw order "f things shall obtain, finds the lt-uatlOB lt-uatlOB BO lens- that no Philadelphia will be surprised tomorrow if the peace of the city is seriously disturbed. Matters r ichcd a critical etase today when the M lyoi Of the rlty rind the Kherlff Of the county, both ( whom are leaders In their respective partlei issued antago-nlile antago-nlile pi orlamatl ms swearing to uphold th. law and protect tin citizens against th Illegal baubtfl .-f the opposing side. Mayor and Sheriff Clash. The Sheriff In nil proclamation calls upon i inzens to n.nlst lef.iitles appointed by him t.. uphold the Inw. and the Mayor replied In a stronglv-wordtd proclamation proclama-tion In Which he sayi The pence of th. olty the supn macy of the law and the blood-bouRht rlghtH "f honest electors elect-ors must ind ih ill tie preserved " For the mumi m tin nuestlon of majorities major-ities has hecn lost sight of. Backs His Proclamation. Hueklng up his pi'i. l.invition. the Mayor hns wl in SbOUt I1"" Spefilal policemen f..r el-, -ii. .n duly. The Sheriff says he will ii,, i i....i,t .1. p,itle iiml truit th peace of the ltv rests with the Mayor. Tho proclamation of Sheriff James L. Mlhs, who I the Republican leader of the Thirteenth ward and halrman of the Cltj committee, was pu I.I h h-il hroadcast in Phlladelplil i t.. l.i A -nun as Mayor . i st Ii m ne. i .f it he consulted with his ,ndlsers and this afternoon ho ishued n pro. lamatlon whlCb was as unusual as U I rafted bj tht Sheriff The Mayor In his proclamation says Charges Conspiracy. it haK becom puhllc kn..wl"1g that certain cer-tain r,.iifptratorn aRnlnst the public p'aee iinl irelfKTS are iilannlnc unlawful a-ts In OOtl- section with th election uimorrow Of this . rimin.ii combination Jamn L Miles i th in, taJ hejul an.1 has estenslbly In his omen m- Bherlff, by a so-caJled prclamat!on. sji-nounccd sji-nounccd that he ipten,i to appeint so-esllefl deputy fhirlfTs st the lulling ploxes of thli CltX. Consulted With Law-Breakers I am Informed that the Bherlfl of the ooun-iv. ooun-iv. in his raf.arlty as lca.Jer ef the lawless combination referred to. ho been In consuita-nr.n consuita-nr.n v ith lew hres Iters end the cn?mis ..f law and imier for th" purinnc of ilevlslnc some tiurtiii f..r thr ir' .mlng of ari honest and lr"' .vir.-iln of Ihe popular will Dt the cle:tlon to N hehl tomorrow This object they hop to elTtei by having him, at. Sheriff. commission so called deputies to perform ervlees at the polling plares In deftaoce of th-- expressed prohibition ot the law-Urges law-Urges Resistance. The Mayor, continuing, quotes the law against piich action on the part of the Sheriff, and urges all citizens to resist In - .r wuy possible a deputy sheriffs win. ma In any way interfere with their voting. No Deputies Appointed. Subsequent to the Mayor's proclamation proclama-tion Sheriff Miles Issued B statement saying. say-ing. I will not reply to the vlolOUl attacks nn.l pnonal abuse of the Mayor, but I will sa.y r.e .leputle.i have been apKlntel by me f..r th" election; that I will appoint n..ne. and that I have nover seriously considered such appoint-nieuts. appoint-nieuts. Pits All on Mayor. He said he did not consider the act prohibiting pro-hibiting the appointment of deputy sheriffs sher-iffs for election purposes as constitution, and If he thought it proper to do no he WOUld have no hesitation in appointing deputies Ho preferred, he nald, to place the whole responslblltv for the preservation preserva-tion of the peace on the Mayor, where it belongs. When Mayor Weaver was shown the Sheriff's et.itement he said the Sheriffs proclamation certainly Indicated that he contemplated appointing deputies Ho fald he was willing t. accept the responsibility respon-sibility to keep the peace Predictions Disputed United States Senator Penrose and Chairman Wesley R Andrews of the Republican Re-publican State committee say they look for Republican victory In the city and that J. lee Flutnmer. Republican eanrll-clato eanrll-clato for Stale Treasurer, will carry Penn-cylvanla Penn-cylvanla by more than lOO.OOO. Their prediction pre-diction In disputed by Democratic National Nation-al Committeeman James M Guffey and the Lincoln party managers, who claim thut William H Berry will defeat Pluni-luer. Pluni-luer. Berry Is the Democratic nominee and has the Indorsement of the Lincoln party, Independent Democrats and Prohibit Prohi-bit lonlsts |