The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-05-28
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Ware, Wet, Wins in Pennsyl-
vania-Senate to Probe
Campaign Expenditures.
BY EDWARD w. PIckARD

BY EDWARD w. PICkARD
p REPRESENTATIVE WILLIAM S.
~ VARIES victory in the Pennsyl-
vania Republican senatorial primaries
was the weeks most notable event in
the United States, because, as viewed
by Mr.. Ware himself and great many
other people, it was victory for the
cause Of modification of the Volstead
act rather than for Mr.. Ware person
ally. True, the combined votes of Wares
rivals, Senator Pepper and Governor
Pinchot, exceeded that Of Ware by
about 10000, and both of them are
pronounced drys. But Vare's election,
II he wins in November means one
more wet vote in the senate; and &C
cording to many political observers
the Pennsylvania vote makes it GER
tain that the beer and light wine is
gressional elections this year. Party
lines will not be closely observed in
Pennsylvania, Illinois, Massachusetts,
and some other states, it is predicted.
In the keystone state Vare's Demo-
cratic opponent will be William B.
Wilson, former secretary of labor,
nominated without opposition. He is
a dry. Governor Pinchot may decide
to lead bolt Of dry Republicans and
run independently, and if he does, the
Democrats think they have chance
to win in that overwhelmingly Repub-
ucan state. Anyhow, the drys declare
they will not support Ware, though
Senator Pepper asserts he will stand
by the party's choice.
ID ENNSYLVANIA'S primaries had
something more than an echo in
the senate chamber. Indeed, there was
a veritable explosion there, for Sena-
tor Reed of Missouri took advantage
of the published stories of vast ex-
penditures on behalf Of certain of the
Republican candidates and brought
forward again his resolution for in
vestigation of primary campaign ex-
penditures, first offered during the
April contest in Illinois. He made a
red hot speech in support Of it, and
was answered by Senator Reed Of
Pennsylvania, who tried to defend the
fair name of his state. The affair was
embarrassing especially to those SEN
ators who come up for reelection in
the fall. The vote to take up the
resolution for consideration was As to
"a, the nays being all Republicans
When the vote on adoption was taken
1t revealed some sudden and rather
panicky switching. Fourteen more Re-
publicans joined the Democrats in
voting aye, and seven G. O. P. men
ducked out of the chamber to avoid
being recorded. The IA were:
Butler, Cameron, Cnmmins, Curtis,
Dale, Gooding, Harreld, Jones of
Washington, McMaster, Pine, STAN
field, Weller, Williams and Willis. The
seven who fled were: Capper, Deneen,
Keyes, Reed of Pennsylvania, Watson,
Norbeck and Robinson of Indiana.
The vote was so to 10.
Comment by Reed of Missouri was
characteristic Az
1.-THE fact is that "a Of you voted
against taking up thfs resolution, and
81 of you. and am going to drop into
the vernacular-welched inside of TX
minutes. 1t is a remarkable
exhibition of intellectual activity. >. E.
Yes, in that period of time p sena-
tors changed their minds. If we had
had two or three minutes more the
other IS would have changed also. in
my judgment"
Vice President Dawes appointed
this committee to carry on the inves-
tigation: Senators David A. Reed
(Rep., Pa.), Charles S. Deneen (Rep,
nL), Robert NJ. La Toilette, Jr. (Prog.
Rep, Wis.,, James A. Reed DEM,
MOI, Thomas F. Bayard (Dem., Del.).
Reed of Pennsylvania, Deneen and
Bayard, resigned for good reasons and
were replaced by Fernald (Rep.,
Maine) Golf (Rep., W. Va.) and King
(Dem., UlaL).
The committee is empowered to sit
during the summer recess and to in
vestigate the expenditures of money
not only in primaries that already
have been held but also in those yet