Evening star., 1926-05-08
HUGE SUMS SPENT In KEYSTONE
STATE TRIO'S SENATE SEAT RACE

| against the gang and he links up
| Senator Pepper with the Pittsburgh
machine, which he denounces as
equally bad as the Philadelphia.
The governor, in one of his now
| famous Dear George" letters, which
| he has addressed to Senator Pepper.
! says; You know that the law is
| being violated by Mayor Kline. If a
candidate knows that the law is be-
| ing violated in order TO get votes
| for him, is he justified in keeping
still and accepting in silence the
benefit of the lawbreaking?" Gov.
| Pinchot continues, unkidly, that
| Senator Pepper had known about
| this Kline episode for a week, and
asks what he intends to do about it,
| if anything.
! The three candidates for the Re
| publican senatorial nomination are
! hot-footing it over the State in the
| final drive for votes. which is to cul-
inmate with the primary election
| Tuesday, May 18. They swing east.
west, north and south, into Phila-
| delphia, Pittsburgh, the mining dis
| tricts, the rural and farming dis
| tricts and the oil districts.
Two of the candidates are blue
| bloods, Pepper and Pinchot, and the
| third, Ware, is a product of American
opportunity, a cash boy in John Wana-
| makers store at II years OF age, later
| a partner of his brothers in the CON
| tracing business, and for the last IA
years a member of the House. Mr..
Ware is denounced by his opponents
because III politics he is a development
of the organization. the machine So
| called in Philadelphia.
Started at the Bottom.
lie started first as division worker,
became leader of a division and then
chairman OF his ward. lie was q
lieutenant Of his, brothers, the late
George A Ware and Edwin II. Ware,
while they played prominent parts III
Philadelphia and State politics ana
succeeded the last named as head of
the Phila delphia organizations. So
strongly built is the Philadelphia ma
chine that Ware has ridden along at
it's head largely through the monen-
tum OF the organization itself. If he
loses this fight. irrespective of his
own ability, his leadership may yet be
| challenged. AT present he has the
leaders of the AZ wards of Philadelphia
practically solidly behind him, and
this support is counted on to roll up
| big majority for him, so big that if
he has any kind of a break in Pitts
| burRh and the counties he will be re-
| turned a winner. In his own home
town he is hailed as a friend Of the
common people-"Big' Hearted Bill
! Ware.
Coy Pinchot. tall, bronzed. youth
! ful-looking. despite his gray mus
tache and hair, is a politician of the
Roosevelt school, progressive, hard :
hitting. AS head of the Forest Serv-
ice in Washington he was a member
of the famous Roosevelt tennis
cabinet In his headquarters here
over the platform hangs d picture
OF his old chief, the only picture
! in the hall where he and his fol-
lowers address the meetings. He
rarely fails to make mention of Col.
Roosevelt in his speeches.
Boasts Of His Enemies.
There is something unequiVocal
about the governor that seems TO
be having its effect on the indie
pendent voters. He lasheS out at
the vets and the near vets, and at
the machine politicians. He boasts
Of tho enemies he has made since he
| has been governor and says he eX-
poets TO make more enemies of the
same type if ne goes to Washington
as Senator. He is strong with the
woman voters. He has made him
self solid with the miners because
of his settlement of anthracite strike
three years ago, which gave the