The Lake County times., 1922-05-18
Rv ]. BART CAMPBELL

1 Py D. DAM AM p ELL
! PHILADELPHIA, May 1s-Stun-
ned by the most smashing blow that
! has been dealt machine politics in
| Pennsylvania in years. thel old line
| Penrose leaders of the Keystone
state ruefully surveyed today the
| wreckage of their once powerful ur-
| ganization and the unpleasant pros
| spect-for them-of Clifford Pinchot.
| former personal friend and ally of
| the late Theodore Roosevelt. sitting
as the head of the state government
with all of its perquisites of power
and patronage at his command.
| PINCHoT FOR PRESIDENT
| In capturing the Republican gub-
| ernatorial nomination. Pinchot is
| believed by some of the shrewdest
Iieutenants the late Senator Boise
Penrose had TO have become over
night formidable presidential pos
sibility, and to have become an i'm
portant factor in national politics
! whom the "old guard" Republican
leaders must consider henceforth,
The Republican state committee
/ Will meet in few weeks to name
a successor to Penrose as the Re-
publican national committeeman
from Pennsylvania, and it Is gener-
ally conceded that Pinchot. whom
some of the old Penrose leaders are
already seeking to place. will be In
position to influence greatly the
choice of Pennsy1vania's next rep
resentative in the national councils
of the Republican party.
WOMEN PARTLY RESPONSIBLE
As the women OF Pennsylvania
| are conceded to have had much to
do with the result of Tuesdays pri-
mary election in this state. il is the
opinion of the political sharps that
they will be greatly encouraged by
the Pinchot victory to demand
larger voice in state and national
| politics.
Following so soon after the de-
feat of Senator Harry S. New,
spoke esman tor the Harding admin
istratfon. by Albert j.. Beveridge,
one time Progressive Republican. in
Indiana. the success of Pinchot in
overturning the "old guard" Repub-
lican machine in Pennsylvania. ana
| in wrestling from il control of the
state government. is also believed
70 he certain to cause former Pro
gressive- Republicans to perk up
! throughout the country and 70 give
| considerable impetus to the anti
| cipated revival of the Progressive
! Republican movement in state and
| nation
PENROsE LEADERS EXPLAIN 1T
| Widespread unrest end discomfort.
and pronounced dissatisfaction with
| the national as well as with the
state administration are declared by
| the old Penrose leaders to have con-
tributed to their crushing defeat
and to be certain to continue to ys
| felt to an increasing extent within
and beyond the borders of the state
The coal strike, which affected
| thirty of the sixty seven counties o.
the state. and threw 10000 men out
of work in Pennsylvania alone. is
declared by Governor Sproul and
other "old guard" Republican lead
ers to also have been hut one of the
| chief reasons for the Pinchot sweep.
WILL. HAVE IT'S INFLUENCE
| AS the Beveridge victory in In
diana was regarded as one certain
TO influence the senatorial contests
in other states this year, so the
Pinchot victory is expected to add
/ to the trials and tribulatiions of the
"old guard" Republican senators
who are up for re election elsewhere
| if only because it is likely to give
fresh encouragement to former Pro-
gressives who in number or m
stances are opposing them, and to
the women Of other states to turn
out in large numbers to smash the
| old-line Republican politicians in
them as the former Fenrose leaders
were crushed in pennsylvania
PINCHoT LEAD GROWING.
With 42s districts out of 1894 in
the state still to be heard from.
! Pinchot's lead over Attorney Cen
eral George Alter. spokesman for
the Sproul state administration
VIC he defeated for the republican
| s-nbernatorial nomination, is esti-
l mated at 1888 votes. but the mis-
sing districts are ones which are
now expected to add materially to
the Pinchot vote
The walk-over for United States
Senator George Wharton Pepper,
over William J. Burke, Of Pitts
burg. his opponent, for the old
penrose seat in the Senate, Is one
] from which the "old guard" repub-
! licans are seeking some surcease
from their bitter disappointment at
the result of the gubernatoral fight
Unoficial returns from 5.236 dis
+ricts gave Pepper a majority OF
approximately 211,ooo