Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-05
rs Co. DAVID
/ GRUNDY
egklin Cilkeson, Bristol, Has
n slngshot Ready in Battle
for Senate
I OPPOSE BUCK MAN

- domain Of Pennsylvania, but par
} ticularly in Bucks County. where |.
4 {Arown over the path of Goliath
4 0ENndy the rising shadow Of David.
The David in this case is forty six
years old, bald and not wholly disin
q Slined toward embonpoint. For all that
he carries by common acknowledg.
j 1e0t OF the whole county, many formid-
able pieces Of rock for his sling, and he
+ has been duly appointed by spch king
making organizations as the volunteer
dre department and the American
Legion. n :, ., ,,., .o, .,.. l., ..,,..,,
. wicked harp and that he has a per-
0nastve baritone to which the women
voters Of Bucks County might easily
all victims, and he is Il bachelor. As
Tor Philistines--wcll. he was a private
IN the artillery at st. Mhiel and in the
Argonne.
S This David of Bucks County Is
I Franklin Gilkeson. for fourteen years
chief of the fire department of Bristol.
He would seem the one of whom an oc-
casional prophet has forctold. who by
the sheer brazenness of his war cry
would rouse the souls Of the people.
Anyway, Mr.. Gilkeson's war cry is
rockless enough.
Grindyism His War Cry
''It is time" he says, for this
county to get rid of Grundyism.''
Mr.. Gilkeson has announced to n
fascinated world his candidacy against
Clarence Buchanan for the State sem
atorship in the Tenth District at the
Republican primaries.
The audacity of that may be meas.
ured by remembering that Grundy has
declared he is satisfied with Senator
Buckman, who has served him there for
half q dozen or more successive terms
p The political astrologers OF Bucks
County are not making horoscopes this
year, but they are up every night to
peek through the telescopes and then
to say these are strange consultations
they have found. Why the shyness of
these prognostcators, formerly so pro-
vidual guessing. But two facts should
- reckoned One of them Is that the
Grundy slate won in the last contest by
a margin slim. indeed. and the other
that the men who are trying to re-elect
Senator Buchanan for Mr.. Grundy will
have no mild expense accounts to sub.
init when the campaign is over.
It must be understood that Mr..
Gilkeson cannot be dismissed as an
incorrigible independent at it again. He
has been almost painfully regulars He
Mas orthodox even in the heterodox year
Of 1912. He has been long suffering,
indeed. Last wear, even he SUPPORTED
the Grundian candidates, though not.
he confesses. without a good deal of
nisgiving.
In Legislature in 1911
Just how forbearing Mr.. Gilkeson
really Is before the last straw caves in
his patience with a great smash, may
be inferred from one Of his statements.
II was in the Legislature in 1911,
Z / could have stayed there indefinitely I
suppose; but couldn't see that I was
anything but a sort of Office boy
Tor Mr.. Grundy. I was offered the
nomination again. but l wouldn't take
it. told Mr.. Grundy I wanted to 20
on practicing law, and to be where I
could always be in close touch with the
Fire Department. He got very angry !;
and was never very nice TO me after
ward. Lately he showeI mis- malice In
any number of ways.
II hope you believe. though, that that
ntsn I.ss an anysn'hS tbi TO 10 Wlth ms nsht.
holding up the development of this
town and of the county and State gen
orally. that the control should be taken
away from him.
"He's a menace because he has had
things sewn up so tightly and for so
long. guess almost any man would be
4 menace in that position. 1t means
that the men who are to fill the city and
county Offices. the men he sends to Con
gress and the Legislature. are just
marionettes that he can Jerk any way
he choses-look ut them Watson.
Buckman and the rest. Rubber stamps.
Well, I'm a regular party man and all
that and believe in organization, but l
know when too much is enough
''Buckmar has never done anything
for this district. And what does that
mean? 1t means that Grundy hasn't
ordered him 10 do anything. They
make wild promises. and in the last
campaigu they rather overdid IT.
"Buckman claims credit for the good
roads ana the decreasing number of toll
bridges hereabouts. but anybody with
any political recollection recognizes In
that the work Of Senator Grimm.
Democrat. Senator Grimm is good to
remember another thing by-that
Grundy can be beaten.
xy.,,.,,s Att,tude
""e" ~
II don think buckman wil1 DO very
much with the women By the orucr OF
the boss he voted against the SnhraGe
bill and against the tnlld LdDOr Dill.