The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1922-05-17
BY j. BART CAMPBELL


HARRISBURG Pa, May Ito what
eextent the soldiers bonus issue may
gaffect the chances of United States
{ Senator George Wharton Pepper, be-
Undetermined elements OF the tangled
fpolit1ca1 situation in PENNSYLVANIA
(which is stirring up almost as much
/ controversy as the fight of Clifford
fPinchot to capture the Republican
Igubernatorial nomination in the State
eprinaEy today
Peppers avowed opposition to the
Eso1dfers' bonus is being used against
Ehim by Congressman William j.
Burke of Pittsburgh who is making
I a frank appeal for the votes OF Penn
Esy1vania's ex-servics men as Re
publican candidate for the United
Estates Senate.
Burke Is also stressins the vote
fPepper cast to help prevent the I'M
Fseating OF Senator NewberTy OF Mich
e1gan and as an ex-railroad worker
kand union man is bidding for the
klabor vote while seeking at the time
Ito turn tt against Pepper by charging
Ehiru with being the representative of
g<big business and of wall street
s Pepper is standing on the support
Ehe has given the policies of the Hard
ling administration since his appoint
cxneut as the successor of the late Sem
kator Boies Penrose, and his friends
tpredict that he will defeat Burke by
Ia substantial majority, although they
kconcede that Burke will probably poll
Ia big vote
Legion Oppoue Him.
American Legion posts throughout
the State are reported however, to be
kworking against Pepper. while r. G..
fwoodside, sheriff of Allegheny county,
who is national commander of the
tVeterans of Foreign Wars. is one OF
..sthe prime movers OF an organ1zat1on
known as the Soldiers Civil League,
(which is Intended to line up votes for
/ Burke on the soldiers bonus issue.
The labor vote is one that Pinchot
! and Attorney General George e. Alter,
) his opponent for the goyernorshIp In
nfhe bitter Republican facttonal fight
Flor the control of the State are seeking
Ito win today's primary.
How much the coal strike, which
Involves approximately thirty OF the
S67 counties of the State, and some
kof its mostly thick1y populated sec
stions. Will affect the situation, is an
uncertain quantity, like the woman
rvote and the soldiers vote. which the
Aold time politicians admit has them
guessing.
Sregfons OF the State Many of them,
like their women, are foreigners. how
ever. and il is figured that not much
emore than one-fourth of them will
vote. Next to Philadelphia and
SAllegheny, the heaviest voting coun-
ties are those like Iackawanna-
Luzerne. Westmoreland anu Schuy1--
kill which are center of the coal in
] to their voting influence is attested by
the fact that Alter wound up his cam
spaign yesterday by invading SchuyIkiI1
county.
Eleventh hour forecasts of victory
which continue to flow from both the
Alter and Pfnchot camps, did not In
the Judgment OF some of the old line
FRepubIican leaders, lessen the doubt
| and uncertainty which they declared
still enve1oped the outcome of the
Republican gubernatorial row.
Pfnchot closed his campaign last
snight with a mass meeting at Milford.
Pike county, his country home. One
sof his last acts was to dispatch the
Following message to his workers
Throughout the State; a paraphrase of
sNapoleon's historic battle cry:
up guards and at themi Let us
suaaze Tuesday the gangs WATERLOO
Big Woman Vote.
Pfnchofs supporters declared that
he was certain to receive an enormous
: woman vote and that the expectation
! Of Alters bakers that twice es many
. men as women would go to the polls
. today would not be realized.
Mrs. Barclay H. Warburton, daugh-
ter of John Wanamaker, and vice
chairman of the Republican State
committee who Is among the pren1i-
nent Pennsylvania women working
for Pfnchot sent out a final appeal