Williams news., 1922-06-02
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 The Pennsylvania primaries confirm what the Indiana primaries clearly indicated. The rank and file of the Republican Party have again struck their tents and are marching back from
 What Clifford Pinchot accomplished in Pam syIvania is little short of a political miracle Without an organization and without strong, popular leadership, he wrecked the Republican machine by the sheer force of a moral issue. All the special interests that have controlled Pennsylvania politics for years were lined up against him-the Republican organization, the railroads the mines, the great corporations and the financial interests that have so long been the government of the State-and he beat them, sense in which that term is ordinarily used in politics Like MT. Beverdge in Indiana he was party but had never been comfortable, but un- like Beveridge he had few of the elements of against the organization the issue honest administration of the States affairs. and described him variously atheist, archist, socialist, Bolshevist, .single-taxer an advocate of conflscatlon, a visionary reformer after the machine.
 To make it plain that MT. Alter represented everything that the Harding Administration rep resents in government all the conservatism, all the safeness and saneness, the Alter managers took their candidate to w ashlngton, ostenta- tiously escorted him the WhIre House and had the Presidential blessing bestowed upon him Mir Pinchot in the mean time kept begging away at the scandals of the Republican State Admin istratlon and at the necessity of giving Penn sylvanla a different kind of government.
 Until the Indiana primaries were held. no body believed that he stood the ghost of chance of winning. Then the Beveridge victory, which put heart in the Pinchot workers. The organization, however, stlIl lied on it's ancient strongholds in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh to give it easy triumph; but both cities failed it. Their maJor1tles were not sufficient to overcome the Pinchot vote in the rest of the State, and he carried sxty-one out of the slxty-seven counties, impressive record of uniform strength outside the districts wholly dominated by the machine.
 There specific national issue in the Pennsylvania primaries aside from Senator Pep pers majority in the face of the campaign made against him by the advocates of the soldiers bonus; but in a larger sense the result in every way IS national. The Old Guard rules in w ash 1ngton but 1t is losing it's grip the party. The pendulum Is swinging rapidly away from the re- act1onary politicians who selzed the Republican organization in 1920 and undertook to re-estab- fish the Hanna system of government The popular discontent that overwhelmed the Demo cratic Party two years ago is overwhelming the Republican leaders who tricl1ed the country ana obta1ned power under false pretenses
 The lesson of Pennsylvania is far more inn presslve than the lesson of Indiana for if there is a State Tn the Union in which the organization could nave safely counted itself supreme that state IS Pennsylvania. Defeated m tennsyi- vanla the Old Guard is now facing two years of factlonal war for the control if the Republican Party Tn 1924, with the odds steadily increasing agalnst It. That is the broad significance of the Plnchot nomination. New York World