Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-14
Fires Opening Gun in Fight
to Seat Senator-EIeCt
at Next Congress.
CHARGES MADE BY REED
COMMITTEE ALL DENIED
Contests of Rivals in Pennsyl-
vania Race Attacked by
Campaign Manager.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

The wet issue, not a slush fund,
won the Republican senatorial noml-
nation for William S. Ware, Senator
elect from Pennsylvania, Harry A.
Mackey, campaign manager, declares
in a statement issued today.
The Mackey statement, lengthy
brief, is the opening gun in the hght
which is to be made to have Mr.. ware
seated in the Senate next December
despite the report of the Reed slush
fund committee. Mr.. Mackey denies
categorically the charges made by the
Reed committee against Ware.
Mr.. Mackey was chairman of the So
called Vare-Beidleman coalition ticket.
He places at $649 ,806 the total amount
raised for this ticket He insists this
money was expended, not alone for
Mr. Vare's candidacy, but in the inter
SITS of 5000 candidates, national, state
and county, included in this coalition
ticket.
S71,435 for Letter Writing.
"Mr. Vare's letterwriting cam
paign," says Mr.. Mackey, cost VII
435 so, which is the sum total amount
that can be honestly charged as the
cost of his personal campaign"
In this contention, Mr.. Mackey
takes a view very different from that
of members of the Reed committee.
The statement, which was sent out
on behalf of Mr.. Ware, may be de-
signed to influence not only the mem
bers of the Senate who must pass
upon Mr.. Wares right to be seated,
but also the voters of Pennsylvania.
Should Mr.. Ware be denied seat,
some of his friends confidently predict
he will seek another nomination for
the Senate.
The Pennsylvania primaries take
place April 25 next year. AT that
time Senator David A. Reed also
must make his race for denomination,
If a decision in the Ware matter
should seat the senator-elect, or If the
decision should be postponed until IL
is too late for Mr.. Ware to file for the
April primaries, a different situation
would be presented. Formal notice
OF candidacy under the Pennsylvania
law must be filed 40 days prior to the
date of the primary, or in this case
not later than the middle Of March.
Mr.. Mackey, in his defense of Mr..
Ware, attacks vigorously the cam
paigns waged by Wares two opponents
in the race for the nomination, former
Senator George Wharton Pepper and
former GOV. NrlIlOEu IlicHOL'
Pepper Expenses Cited.
"The best answer to the assertion
that money obtained the nomination
is the fact that Senator Pepper was
defeated, although his campaign cost
three times as much as the campaign
of Mr.. Vare.' says Mr.. Mackey.
Mr.. Mackey charged also that Mr..
Pepper had straddled the prohibition
issue. while Mr. Ware had declared
uneouivocally for modification of the
VOlstead act.
Gov. Pinchot was a dry" says
Mr.. Mackey. "The attitude of Senator
Pepper was not made very clear dur
ing the campaign. He issued state
ment placing himself in the Volstead
group, but in various sections of the
State his supporters put forth the in
formation that advocates of modifica-
ton had nothing to fear from him.
''Mr. Pinchot has a great personal
fortune. His family is extremely
wealthy. The fight of 1922 showed
that Gov Pinchot was willing to
spend large sums of money to graft
fy his ambitions"
Mr.. Mackey also charges that Gov.
Pinchot had built up large political
organization through the use of State
patronage during his tenure of office.
The announcement of the candidacy
of Mr.. Ware, Mr.. Mackey says, was
followed by a conspiracy of silence
against Ware in most of the Pennsyl-
vania newspapers, which were favor
ing Pepper or Pinchot. He insists
that it was necessary to expend large
sums, therefore, to reach the voters
by means of letter writing, newspaper
paid advertising, bill boards and the
radio.
He also refers to the fact that Sec
retary of the Treasury Mellon. Joseph
r. Grundy president of the Pennsyl-
vania Manufacturers Association, and
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