Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-05-23
Grllndy Booming
Fisher for Chairman

Continued from PAGE One
Committee when Roosevelt carried
Pennsylvania in 1912. Senator u. Ed
ward Long. chairman Of the Pinchot
Primary Committee. is being mentioned
both for chairman and secretary.
Fisher, it is also understood. was
suggested TO Pinchot by the Auditor
General as member Of the Pinchot
Volunteer Commission which is shortly
to begin n study Of State Administra- :
ton and State finances.
Bares state Financial Conditions
In his conference with Pinchot the
Auditor General told the candidate for
Governor all he knows Of the condition
Of state finances and especially the
audit of tho books Of former State
Treasurer Kcphart. Pinchot and Lewis
promised each other they would co I.
operate in all ways. Pinchot told the
Auditor General he could count on his
support both as candidate and as
Governor. This means that pinchot az
Governor would call on his Attorney
General to bring prosecution against
those who have violated the law. GOV :
arning the control of public funds. In
cidentally Lewis gave Pinchot first hand
knowledge of the contents of the fourth
countants who have been investigating
the books of the State Treasury. This
section is 70 be published Thursday v
morning and then there will be three
more sections.
In the fourth section It Is under.
stood that It will be shown how John
A. Bell. the Pittsburgh banker. head of
the Colonial Trust Company. was made
the innocent victim of certain involved
and complicated manipulations Of the
funds of the State Treasury. Bell, il will
be recalled. was prominently mentioned
as candidate for United States SEN
ator until the stories of an alleged
financial deal brought about his with
drawal from the field as candidate to
succeed Senator Crow.
Pinchot is making 1t plain TO every
one and in most emphatic and de-
termined manner that he is not com.
mittcd. politically. TO any leader or set
of leaders in city. State or Nation.
Like Roosevelt. he wants their help just
az he wanted II in the campaign. SO that
the whole people may get the benefit of
the new deal in PENNSYLVANIA politics.
legislation and administration.
For example, 1t is learned that he
repudiates any suggestion that he is
committed to the denomination Of Presi-
dent Harding in the event that he
(Pinchot heads the PENNSYLVANIA dele
CATION 10 the 1924 Republican National
Convention.
1t is also said that Pnchot at no
time ever announced that he hoped to
head a delegation which would work for
the unanimous denomination of Prcsi I.
dent Harding. This. of course. it was
explained does not mean that he is in
any sense antagonistic to.the President.
1t simply means that he cannot afford
and does not want to ignore the pro.
gressive element in the Republican Party
which is working here and elsewhere
throughout the Nation for a rehablita- :
ton Of the Republican Party along more
liberal and progressive political lines.
The conference with the Auditor Gen :
eral brought out some interesting facts
ms to the deficit between State revenues
and the huge appropriations made by
the 1921 Legislature. These facts show
that when the Legislature convenes mex,
January, with Pinchot in the Office OF
| Governor. the deficit will run somewhere
between $50. 900. 900 and $40. ZOO. 900
Appropriations made by the last Il gis