New-York tribune., 1922-05-18
Pincllot Victory
PleasesLeadcrs
! In the Capital
progressive's Nomination
for Governor in Pennsyl-
vania Delights Republi-
cans in Senate and House
Warming ,DemocratsInsist
Machine Fell Down Hardest
in Pittsburgh, and Phila.
delphia Lead Slumpcd
By Carter Field

WASHINGTON. May Republi.
ran leaders generally. and Pcnnsyl.
,,nia members of the House particu.
,,.iy. we're delighted to-day at the
-,minstior OF Clifford Pinchot for Gov
e,nor Of the Keystone State.
IL there were any of them who
wanted Alter nominated ur until YES
,srdsy they were not IN evidence to-
dav. The Pennsylvania members oe
s,s House, outside of Philadelphia
ora rittsburgh, as matter of fact
~ro lntensely Tciieved. Outside those
20 cities it was admitted from the
frs. day Of the campaign that Pinchot
r,s The popular figure, and also that
.b.n sss feeling among the peo-
ME taat n gang OF contractors" we're
,st;lng round in Roise pcnroses shoes.
rying TO put something over.
Several members from normally
Democratic districts. swept in hv the
Harding landslide of 1880 told tho
writer last week that they wee pray
;ng for FinchotS nomination, but very
tsv Of them wished TO come OFT and
tske position which might be OK
t,enely embarrassing if Alter had been
nominated. This was particularly -r,,
in that practically ali the politicians
in Pennsylvania, no matter whst their
personal desmes, believed that Alter
would win the tcl't.
May Save Four Seats
One Pennsylvania leader TODAY said
he thought conservative estimate of
the effect Of Pinchot's victory on the
Congressional election would be TO
save four seats for the Republica
Do,
Berks-Lehgh district, the. 13th. who Is
the first Republican the Rcadlng-Allon
town district ever sent to Washinaton
was confident to-day that he would be
reelected. This is one of the districts
which the Republican Congressional
Committee would naturally be inclined
just to write off the slate as hopeless.
Progressive Republicans were natu-
rally delighted at the Pinchot victory,
hailns it as = blow at the reactionary
clement of the party moro clear-cut
and definite than the victory of Bev-
eridge over Senator New in Indiana.
Beveridee did appeal in his speeches
TO the stalwart element of the party.
ard said after the election that\ many
s,and-patters were among his sup
Porters. Pinchot made tho oldtime
Iooseveltlan type of campaign.
iNe amazing dllO IdlHer JaTrlnH ele-
nsnt of this fight. coming on top of
the Indiana fight, to the old-line poll
tcans here is that both Beveridge
and Pinchot won practically without
e.ganiza ton. The ontire machine in
Indiana was for New. In only about
sne-tenth of the counties Of Pennsyl-
uria were the machines for Pinchot.
It admitted that a good deal of the
steam of the Ware machine may have
been taken out by the open declara-
ton of Mayor J. Hampton Moore, of
Philadelphia, for Pinchot, especially as
the precinct workers whose real ties
formerly lay with the Penrose machine
rather than that of the Wares knew
that Moore was an old Penrose lieuten
ant, and also that another Penrose
man. Grundy, was working hard for
Pinchot.
Where the machine fell down hard
est, apparently, was in Pittsburgh,
which is interesting in view Of the
TACT that State Senator Finn. the old
boss, who broke with Penrose in 1912
to follow Roosevelt in the Progress ssive
movement, was supporting the former
forester
It had been thought that Finn had
lost his grip and that State Senator
Max Leslie, one of the contractor COM
bination behind Attorney General Alter
IN his fight for the gubernatorial nomi-
nation, could do pretty much as he
pleased
In Philadelphia the Ware machine