The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-12
PINCHOT FUND
EQUALS GRAFT
OF NEWDERRY
Liberal" Spent Sum of
SI95,OOO
Especial to The Daily Worker

Clifford Pinchot, the progressive"
liberal friend of labor" "humani
tarian," "pacifst.' plutocrat, who
boosted the support of the officials of
the miners union and other labor or
ganization heads in Pennsylvania, by
confession of his own managers spent
a slush fund to secure the senatorial
nomination that equaled that spent
by the notorious Newberry in the
Michigan election of 1918.
Yet Pinchot remains the darling of
the liberals and labor skates while
Newberry is considered the vilest Of
the vile.
Spent s1s5,ooo.
Testifying before the senate commit
tee investigating the expenditure of
campaign funds, p. s. Stahlnecker,
treasurer OF the Pinchot campaign
fund, declared $4,000 was spent by
his forces. This is the exact amount
that it was proved Newberry spent in
the campaign that caused a national
scandal.
Fake Registration.
More than 1000 persons in Pitts
burgh we're illegally registered for the
recent Pennsylvania republican sena-
torial primary, Charles G. McGovern,
chairman Of the board of registration
at Pittsburgh, and western manager
for Governor Clifford Pinchot, unsuc-
cessful candidate, told the senate cam
paign expenditures committee today.
When Pinchot's followers sought to
strike the illegal names from the poll
books, county commissioners petit
toned the courts for the records, thus
stopping the efforts to purge the
books" said McGovern.
Favored by Plnchot.
McGoyern said that Pinchot had
appointed him controller of Allegheny
county last Saturday. The promotion
increased his salary from $4,000 to
$4,000 year.
He was questioned by Senator Reed
of Missouri, chairman.
McGovern explained that voter
could only register If he had paid a
state or county tax in the two years
preceding the election.
ION our first examination of the
books we found $500 names on the
registration books of persons who had
no such receipts" he added.
Fraudulent Receipts.
How could these people register
and produce receipt for taxes unless
they had tax receipts?"
In this instance they had fraudu-
lent tax receipts
ut has been said here that there
were 1000 illegally registered" said
Reed. What about that?"
That's right" McGovern explained.
How many names did you strike off
the poll books?'
About 300 or $50 out of the $500"
Bride one-Third of Voters.
One out of every three votes cast in
Allegheny county (Pittsburgh), the
Mellon-Pepper stronghold in the Penn
sylvania primary, was cast by paid
watcher employed by one or the other
Of the senatorial candidates, Charles
c. McGovern, western manager for
Governor Pinchot, defeated candi-
date, testified today in the senate's
investigation of huge campaign ex-
penditures.
The vote cast in the Pittsburgh area
was approximately 100000, he said,
and the paid watchers on the pay rolls
totaled nearly $4,000
do you mean that the employment
of these watchers was one way Of
buying their votes?" asked Senator
James A. Reed (dem) of Missouri.
In a large measure, yes, replied
McGovern.
Half a Million In Allegheny.
McGovern charged that Representa-
tive William S. Ware and Pepper had