The Washington times., 1922-05-13
LEADERSFEAR
PENNSYLVANIA
WOMEN 'SvOTE
Machine Expects It to Go
Largely for Pinchot in
Rural Districts.
BY J. BART CAMPBELL,
international News Service.

HARRISBURG, Pa. May 13.-The
women OF Pennsylvania are keeping
the old-time politicians guessing to.
day as they have seldom had to guess
before.
For on Tuesday the women Of
Pennsylvania will go to the polls in
i'm which they have had the right
To participate since they were given
the ballot.
They may or may not upset the
conflicting calculations and predic-
tions as to the vote Clifford Pinchot
one-time Roosevelt Progressive, and
Attorney General George Z. Alter,
his opponent for the Republican
gubernatorial nomination. will poll
as a result Of one Of the bitterest
Republican factional fights ever
wased in the political history Of this
State.
But whether they do or do not,
they are an unknown quantity,
which IL keeping the shrewdest and
Oldest political sharps Of the Cam
eron Quay Penrose school on tentcr'
hooks of uncertainty.
The Alter supporters. who include
a strange combination OF former Pen
rose and anti-Penrose leaders, ire
hoping that the women will not turn
out in force. Their spokesmen are
depending upon twice as many men
as women to go to the polls.
IL they can only keep down he
women vote, they frankly admit,
, they expect TO put Alter over by
rolling up majorities for him in
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh suffi'
ciently ample to offset the sweep
! OF the interior counties. which they
already concede TO Pinchot.
Machine Is Creakins.
The old Penrose machine lis now
creaking and cracking from the lack
of real leaders. Some Of those who
were conspicuously identified with
II, notably Joseph r. Grundy, presi'
dent of the Pennsylvania Manufac'
turers' Association when Penrose was
still on the job, have turned in for
Pinchot, not because they 1--we HIM
more but because they love Alter
and Gov. William c. Sproul, me OF
his chief hackers. less.
Those OF the old Penrose machine
who are backing Alter are occupy
ing the strange position of beinS
compelled to depend largely upon
State Senator Edwin II. Ware and
his brother, Congressman William
! c. Ware, the Philadelphia Republi
can leaders who were us atagonistiC
TO Penrose as he was TO them. to
pile up a vote in that city which wall
! insure Alters nomination.
The Wares are predicting thai
Philadelphia will give Alter ma
| jority of at least 10000 with tho
help of their 0ne-time antiPenrost
organization. State Senator Leslie
! Of Pittsburgh, a former Penrose lieu
tenant, claims that Allegheny county
will hand Alter a ma ajority Of from
/ "A, 900 to $4,000 These figures are
disputed by some OF Pinchot's S CHIEF
! supporters who insist that he will
/ reach Philadelphia with majority
! in the rest of the State big enough tC
more than Counter-balance whatever
| vote Alter receives in that city.
Grave Charges Made.
! The bitterness OF the factional
strife raging among the Repubh
cans in every section of the State
has been further accentuated by
the charges OF irregularities and in
competence which Pinchot has
levelled at the State administration
and by the grave allegations that
some S729.00 of State funds were
so juggled for a period Of nine
teen months that the Stats was rob
bed of the interest due on them.
The latter have been emphaticslly
denied by former State Treasurer
! Harmon NJ. kephart, who was close
/ ly identified with the Penrose ma
chine, and who insists that the
! State received every dollar to
which IL was entitled