The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-07-22
PINCH0T HAS
BIG CAMPAIGN
FIGHT AHEAD
Administration Forces Will
Oppose Governor in Race
for Senate
BY CHARLES p. STEWART
NEA Service Writer


elected to the United States senat
mex, year, it will be over the bodie
Of all Coolidge administration sup
portess in general, Of couse inc!ud
ing the body of Senator Georg
Wharton Pepper, whose seat Pincho
wants to take away from him, an,
over the body Of Secretary Of tn
Treasury Andrew. Mellon in particu
| lar.
Out Of Pennsylvania entire es
timated population July l, 1925, o
y,3l7,647, official census figures, it:
doubtful if there's one, regardless.
of age, sex, race, creed or polite:
whom the national administration
wouldn't support for the senate il
preference to Pinchot.
OF course the administration won
have to make any such choice. Il
will support Pepper. Anybody. how
ever, in a pinch, but Pinchot.
Pinchot's Republicanism, strongly
Favored as it is with insurgency
isn't liked, at best, by "regulars.'
That, however, isn't what counts sc
heavily against him with the admin.
istration--especially Secretary Mel
Ion.
The administration would stand
for Brookhart, Frazier, Shipstead
Wheeler, would have stood for Ii;
Toilette or Laid, rather shan
The administrations, and espe-
cially Melons, feeling against
Pinchot is personal. 1t gnaws and
gripes and keeps the administration
awake nights thinking about it.
When. one cOnsideres how ire
mendously big man Secretary Mel
Ion is in the present inistration,
what weight his word carries
and the things Pinchot has said
about him incidentally land
ing some ringing cracks over his
head, upon the presidential dome
itself and when one considers
that P:nchot is trying to get into the
senate from Melons own state .
and at the expense Of Senator
Pepper, whom the administration
likes pretty we'll.
When one considers all this, one
understands why the idea of Pin
chots senatorial aspirations makes
the administration froth so.
Secretary Mellon didn't want
Pinchot for governor of Pennsyl-
vanla in the first place. The Repub-
lican state organization fought him,
but he won.
This angered the organization to
begin with and Pinchot angered it
worse later.
Then he began making trouble for
the national administration by com
plants of federal prohibition non
enforcement. This was injurious and
Pinchot added insult to it.
President Coolidge explained that
the national administration was do
ing its best and it was up to the
state governors, including PinchOt.
to help some. To the statement that
the national administration was do
Ing its best Pinchot, in effect. an
swered with 4 contemptuous "Bosh"
"a way no president likes to be
talked to.
Pinchot didn't even concede that
the administration "meant we'll"
He said Secretary Mellon didn't want
to enforce the law.
Why not Inquired some. Where
upon Pinchot pointed to the secre-
tary's distillery interests.
AnalyZe the innuendo in this ex-
PLANTATION and it becomes evident
it's the kind Of thing a public man
very high and
mighty one, like MELONS, apt to
put in the absolutely unforgivable
class.
After Pinchot had kept his cam
paign up for while it came the
organizations turn to score one. 1t
denied him place in the Pennsyl-
vania delegation to the last Repub-
lican national convention.
It's doubtful if state governor
ever got such jolt before-his own
party convention-but it went to IL
lustrate the organizations intense
bitterness toward the Pennsylvania
executive.
Now, in a recent speech at Port
land. Ore, Pinchot again charges
that Secretary Mellon, "for the bet
ter part of generation a whisky
distiller and distributor" has ire
fused to carry out the duties of his
office"
But this time he implies a new ac-
cusation. The administration is en-
gagged at present in q tremendous
demonstration of force against pro-
hibition law violation. If Pinchot
doesn't mean to say he doubts this
demonstrations good faith he GER
tainly expressed himself badly, and
he doesn't often do that.
Pinchot is mighty efficient
kno3k-down and-drag out political
fighter and not very safe man to
bet against, but in the coming sena-
torial struggle in Pennsylvania he
assuredly is going to have a chance
to extend himself.