Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-05-19
THE PRIMARY IN PENNSYLVANIA

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boss governed state. First it was ruled by the Cameron family father
and son. Then Matt Quay succeeded to the purple of the boss. He
was a Cameron lieutenant. Then Boies Penrose succeeded Matt Quay
and ruled in his place. His word was law in the Keystone state. From
national republican convention. and they obediently led a stampede TOT
Harding that gave him the nomination. But Boies Penrose is also
dead. He left no heir to the throne Of boss in the politics Of the state
and the machine went down to defeat las Iuesoay men oi1ioro
Pinchot defeated the machine candidate for governor at the republican
primary in spite of the fact that Philadelphia and Pittsburg gave the
machine candidate more than a hundred thousand majority. Inc eoun-
try precincts went strongly for Clifford Pinehot.
Both Clifford and Amos pinchot have been prominent in Pennsyl-
vana politics. They re both millionaires. Amos being the elder
brother, and even more radical than Clifford. In fact he is said tt be a
member of the socialist party. Both brothers have a strong leaning
towards politics, and Amos financed a ley third party not long ago
which it was hoped would break the two old political parties and be-
come a progressive party absorbing the former followers OF Roosevelt
the socialists, and other extreme radicals OF the country II met with
failure.
Clifford Pinchot, who has just won the republican nomination for
governor is not quite so radical as his brother Amos. though radical
enough at that. He "a prominent as a supporter of Theodore Roose-
welt when he led a bolt from the republican party that $ wrecked the
republican organization that only two states in the unon' vermont and
Utah, stood by the republican nominee for president and gave him their
electoral votes. He gained a good deal Of notoriety while he was a
member of the Roosevelt kitchen cabinet by his devotion to what he
called conservation" of forests and public lands. He made himself
a we'll hated man in Montana and other public land states by his activity
in insttuhng contests against public land settlers. AS a matter OF fact
he seemed to consider every man who filed on 100 acres of government
land an enemy to the nation and on the face of affairs a thief. He cost
the public land settlers millions of dollars in lawyers fees. defending
their titles against contests instituted by Clifford Pinchot, who accused
them of stealing the public domain, often with very little proof OF
fraud OF none at all. But in the east he acquired no little popularity
by his policies. Plenty of people ~ always keen to believe that other
people ar rascals when some tells them that it is (. Clifford was
a great talker and self advertiser. He posed as the defender of the
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east, while settlers on the public lands cursed him with good cause.
The defeat of the republican machine at the Pennsylvania pi-
maries last Tuesday. adds to the scare which the Indiana republican
primaries threw into the republican administration. Not that they
fear losing a republican senator from Pennsylvania. 1t would take
a revolution to do that. But they regard it as a further indication that
the country is not very we'll satisfied with the present republican
administration in Washington, and tina. the republicans may a lose a few
members of the lower house from Pennsylvania next November. On
the floor of the senate the other day Senator McCumber roasted his
republican colleagues for not attending the senate sessions claiming
they were sick. Senator Underwood suggested humorously that per
haps the new of the Pennsylvania primary had made them sick. a sug
gesuon that gave great offense to the North Dakota senator. As a
matter of fact the republican leaders do not like it very we'll and the
democrats in the senate seem highly pleased over the new from Penn
sylvania. One swallow does not make a summer to be sure, but the
news from Maine, Indiana and Pennsylvania in recent weeks has not
been very cheering to the republican chiefs, and that makes them a little
touchy on jokes about the surprises sprung on them by the people
The drift is away from the republicans, W E should judge. Three years
ago when the republicans won the two houses of congress, they
announced that they would Immediately revise the tariff. They have
not yet put a new tariff bill on the statute book, and they are having
the struggle of their lives to keep enough republicans in the senate
to form a quorum. The news from their home states is disturbing, and
many republican senators have left Washington to look after their
political fences at home. Hence, the difficulty Senator McCumber has
in keeping a quorum present in the senate.