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Excerpt from The Political Integration of Metropolitan Communities
In 1853 Philadelphia was visited with a series of violent and riotous dis orders for which the volunteer fire com panies were chiefiy responsible, and a group of influential citizens was called together to consider ways and means of checking these disturbances. This group, which incidentally included a munher of the champions of consolida tion, decided that drastic legislation must be secured and that as a means to this end a reform ticket must be put up at the ensuing election. Therefore, on July 30, 1853, a reform convention was held, and Eli K. Price was nominated for the state senate and Mathias W. Baldwin and W'illiam C. Patterson for the house Of representatives. Mr. Price immediately announced that he stood for consolidation of local govern ments in Philadelphia county as one of the prime essentials Of reform, and the other candidates were impliedly pledged to the same measure. After an ardu ous campaign all Of the reform candi dates were elected, and Mr. Price forthwith called a conference consisting of the senators and representatives of the city and the county of Philadelphia and certain leading advocates of con solidation. Under Mr. Price's leader ship this conference undertook to frame a consolidation bill and a new charter for the city of Philadelphia, and while it was engaged in these labors an exten sive campaign of propaganda in favor of unification was carried on in the newspapers of the city and the county. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
