Evening star., 1926-05-21

Guessing at the ultimate conse-
ouences of Vare's victory in Pennsyl-
vania will be Washingtons political
pastime for many a day. The posi-
bilities are literally limitless. What
may happen in 1928 is the thing most
politicians are trying TO tgure out
1t transcends in interest the purely
wet aspect of Wares defeat OF pep
per and Pinchot. AS Senator Dave
Reed pointed out in the Senate, ware.
if elected, will probably have no OPP
portunity to vote for light wines ana
beer during his term in Congress-
he gets one. That means that. IN
Reeds Judgment. Nolsteadism unde'
filed is safe at least until 1888. But
what Ware now in any event can and
will do is to rule Penn State G, o. p.
politics with autocratic power. He
has mounted the throne that Matt
Quay left vacant and picked up the
scepter that Boise PenrOSe laid down.
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Whether he is sent to the Senate in
November or not, Bill Ware has pc
come the Republican boss of PennsyI-
vania. He will control the keystone
delegation at the next Republlcan
national convention. He VIII dlctate
it's choice for the presidential ana
vice presidential nominations. He will
name its representatives on the reSo-
utions committee, which writes the
partv's platform. Every time Penn s
great delegation of 76 is polled 1T Will
echo its masters voice. 1t VIII doubt
less go to the national convention
either instructed for Wares favorlte
for the presidency. or unlnStfucted-
whichever the Philadelphia contrac'
tor boss finds most useful for his pllr-
noses at the time. That IS the ware
wav. He has already declared his IN
tention to demand wet plank.
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Penn is perennially potent i'll lte-
puhljcan affairs 1t is not only the
most rock-ribbed, utterly dependable,
thick -and-thin Republican state IN
the Union, but since time immemo-
rial has been the great war chest
from which campaign slneWs nave
been most generously drawn. IN
1924 it rolled up the prodigious plu-
rality of $4,000 for Coolidge ana
Dawes. What Pennsylvania asks Tor
at a Republican national convention
proverbially commands respect. no
man at Cleveland or Chicago or wher-
held will be in greater strategic posi-
ton than Ware. AT Chicago, In l92o,
Boies Penrose. from his bed OF SICK
ness in Washington, gave the Penn
delegation its orders from ballot TO
ballot. He held his IS votes in line
for Gov. Sproul until the psychologl-
cal moment On the eighth ballot,
when Penn cast it's full strength for
Warren G. Harding, the break for
the Ohioan set in, and he was nomi-
mated on the succeeding roll call:
From now until June, 1928, "Bill'
Ware will remain the cynosure of Re-
publican eyes to the exclusion of any
other single leader in the whole
country.
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The Democrats are going to put
forth a herculean effort to capture
the Pennsylvania senatorial seat.
During the past So years they've only
elected a Democrat to the Senate twice.
Charles r. Buckalew sat in that body
from Penn State from 1863 to 1869.
William A. Wallace, another Demo
crat, was a United States Senator
from Pennsylvania from 1875 to 1891.
So for the past As years no Democrat
has come to the upper house from
the commonwealth of anthracite.
This time, with William B. Wilson,
Secretary Of Labor in the Woodrow
Wilson administration, as their sena-
torial nominee, Penn Democrats be-
lieve that victory may perch on their
banners. They pin their hopes. of
course. on the fratricidal strife which