New-York tribune., 1922-05-01
Old~Li1le Crowd
Fig g hting Hard
To Beat Pinchot
tC0ht,nued from page orN

Pinchot. GrundY did not relish the
coordination on Alter and shortly after
ward threw in wholc~hcartedly fol
/ Pinchot Not long thereafter Fisher
announced that he was out of the race
! though he could not then have his
name kept off the ballot, and a few
| days later he came out fatty for
| Pinchot.
Another famous figure in the old
Pcnrose organization, State Senator
William Finn, of Pittsburgh. whose
break with the old boss was so spec
tacu)ar in 1912, came to the support
of Pinchot, though he no longer has
his old grip on the Allegheny County
organization.
G. +. Wright, ex-State Treasurer of
! Susquehanna County. is another old
! line leader who has come out for
j Pinchot despite the organization. This
/ week at least two Dig leaders are cX-
pected to swing over. This may stnrt
stampede. If so Pinchot will have
good chance of winning. IF The other
leaders remain in line behind the CON
tractors, particularly if there is no
break by the smaller leaders con
trolling wards in Philadelphia, Pitts
" lSu ana nal itNDuiS. lu"I' - realty
very small chance Of putting Pinchot
: over
Present Situation
The situation as it stands on tho
present lineup is about like this:
In Philadelphia the Ware organiza-
ton may be expected to deliver any
where from 125,000 to 100000 for Alter
The lowest figure was given me by an
old Roosevelt lieutenant who is fight
ing Gay and night for Pinchot but who
is not given TO deceiving himself about
what the Philadelphia la machine can do
The larger figure is admitted to be pos
sible.. In Allegheny County the ma
jority for Alter. the Pinchot people
concede will not be less than 10000
and may easily be much higher.
SO Alter viii have majority of
around l75.000 at the minimum in the
two big cities, with an additional ma
| iority picked up in organization strong
| Wilkcs-B Barre, which at the least will
exceed 100000 and may easily run up to
100000.
The question is whether the re-
mainder Of the state, conceded to be
overwhelmingly for Pinchot, can beat
that tremendous handicap.
"Wc always allow 10 per cent off
! popular sentiment 10 discount the ma
! chine vote in the two big cities" said q
man who has been sighting thc con-
tractors organization since 1895.
There is no burying of heads in the
sand by the Piuchot people about this
situation. They know precisely what
they are up against. They realize they
have very imperfect organization
Even the old Progressive organization
worked out chiefly under the leader
ship of T.. A. Van Nalkenburg, editor
of "The Philadelphia North American
and which swept the state for Theo
dore Roosevelt in 1912, distinguished
when this country went into the war.
Spectacular Fighter
Pinchot is q spectacular fighter, ant
his speaking ours up and down Tho
state are the or the campaign, bu
he has not had time to perfect ii rca
organization, and for some reason
none of the old-time organization mer
who have rallied to his standard has
been called in to take charge.
The Pinchot people are strivin,
desperately to man the polls in Phila
delphia. Pinchot himself expects t.
have four watchers at every pollin,
place, two under the law for himsel
aNd two for Fisher, whose name j
still on the ballot, although he ha
withdrawn.
Old timers doubt that ne will b
able to find the people TO do this. cs
pccially as the law requires tha
watchers in a polling place shall b
residents of that ward. Shooting U
Of watchers who become TOO annoying
is one of the quaint customs OF som
ot the adhcrcnts of the Philadelphi
machine.
Penrose was once very caustic i
criticizng the last big shooting affai
at polling place, in which 1t was al
legged that New York gunmen were i'm
ported for the job.
What did you do in the old days
I hccKler shouted.
at least employed homo talent,
said Penrose
i Probably tie best organization 10
which is being done by the Pinchc
people IS with the women voters. S
4 capably has this work been handle
that one is told everywhere that 9TH
women are all for Pinchot."
Women Support Pinchot
This is not 100 per cent true, 0
y; course, for the writer encountered sey
eral women who were for Alter, but
is much more nearly true than tn
, usual campaign statement Of that cha,
! acter In this work Pinchot has hs
wonderful luck in having the supper
of Mrs. Barclay H. Warburton, wife O
= one of Mayor J. Hampton Moores cab
= met and daughter of John Wanamakel
Mrs. Warburton's detection to Pin
, chot is regarded by the Old Guard ele
ment S smacking almost Of treason
for they had given her the high offic
of vice chairman Of the State Repub
lirar Committees
The Pennsylvania Republican recog
milton Of the woman voter has been t
: give the vice-chairmanship Of practi
cslly all their committees to wome,
instead of having separate committee
for the sexes. or Of leaving the dec
sion to circumstances. Thus there is
woman vice chairman of every count
committee in the state, all Of whol
more or less look up to Mrs. WarbuI
ton as their chief, though, Of cours,
there is no such actual line Of author
ity,
When Mrs. Warburton. therefor,
! came out vigorously for Pinchot, dc
spite the efforts of the old-line leader
r to persuade all these women official
that their positions required an impa,
tial attitude in a primary fight, thes
i women all felt free to make their PEI
: sonal choice. and most of them 70