Evening star., 1926-06-12

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700. Many volunteer watchers had
been given certificates as watchers,
he said.
He said that in his own ward he
had seen 6, s or 10 Ware watchers
standing in a row at the polling places.
HAS there been a good deal of po-
litical corruption in Philadelphia"
asked Senator Reed.
"Well, it's not the purest place in
the world" said Mr.. Walnut.
Mr.. Walnut said that the Republi-
can organization in Philadelphia,
which Is the Ware organization, func-
tionS 365 days in the year. The ward
and division leaders, he said, some
times hold jobs in the city government.
1t is considered quite a distinction to
hold job in the organization. These
leaders are in a position to do favors
for people in their wards and divisions.
For example, If man is arrested, a
ward leader can get him out, 'if he
is the right kind of a man" He
said that ward leaders vary with the
character of the ward.
How is it," asked Senator King,
that in Philadelphia, where there are
so many really fine people, there is
such a subsistence Of morals on elec-
ton day?"
Defeated Bosses i'm 1911.
Mr.. Walnut said that in 1911 the in
dependents had organized and beaten
the machine. but that they had never
beaten it since. The independent or
ganiZation is all gone, he said.
THE people are apathetic,' sug-
gested Senator King.
hn 1ayitn bof
they seem to think they are getting
a pretty good deal and were satisfied
with the city administration.
You can't get rise out of them"
he said.
Robert Glendinning, PHILADELPHIA
banker. was the first witness TODAY.
He said that he was chairman of the
Pepper finance committee when ii
was first organized last September.
He told the committee that he had left
Philadelphia December 27, however,
and had not been active thereafter.
Before he left. he said, something less
than $4,000 had been raised by his
committee. Among the subscriptions
mentioned by him was $4,000 from
Edward w. Box.
Independent i'm Politics.
Mr.. Walnut, when he took the
stand, told the committee that he was
an attorney and chairman of the
State Workmen's COMPENSATION
Board at a salary Of 1000 a year, an
office he has held since July, 1928.
under appointment by the governor.
He said that he had been an inde-
pendent in politics in Philadelphia
and opposed the organization headed
by Representative William s. Ware.
He said that the Pinchot committee.
had undertaken to organize in Is to
20 wards which were regarded as the
Independent wards Of the city. Prac-
tically all Of the money that his COM
mittee had received, he said, was
from the Pinchot State committee.
He listed, however contribution Of
$4,000 from Mrs. Pinhcot, wife of the
Governor. This, he said, he thought
had been included in previous state
ments made by the Pinchot campaign
leader to the Senate committee.
Mr.. Beutel told the committee that
the Pinchot committee in Pittsburgh
did not have any paid speakers. al
though one railroad engineer, McDon-
aid by name, was paid as an organ.
izer and also did some speaking.
While Beutel was discussing the
paying off of the watchers after the
election III EeppeT HeduQ udI IeIS HE
was asked by Senator Reed who was
the paymaster. He replied that he
thought it was S. j. Copley, treas
urer of the Pepper-Ffsher organization
in western Pennsylvania. Copley, he
said was in the group around the
table anyway. Mr.. Beutel said that
he had a number of calls from men
who offered their services as workers,
but who disappeared when they found
there wasn't any money to be had
around the Pinchot headquarters. He
said the common practice in Pitts
burgh was that a ward could be car
ried for so much money. The prac-
| tice, he said, was to ''get the ward
leaders"
There are plenty of men, he said,
| in Pittsburgh who seem to have no
other professional means of livelihood
| than politics. The balance of power,
| Mr.. Beutel said, can be bought in
Pittsburgh.
WAS this last election bought?"
Yes, there were enough paid work