New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-08-02
WILLIAM 5. ware
IS NOW PARALYzED
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time that he did not look at.all IA
tGu"d after his days work"
Recently Mr.. Ware had been i'll for
several weeks during which time Or.
Kirby attended him. But he had re.
covered from This illness.
At the Ware Atlantic CITY home
the family retired early las, night.
Prem what the members of the
senator's family told me" said DR..
Kirby the senator's illness mani
Tested itself an hour or so after he
had r, tired.
III" attempted TO get out of bed
but the loss OF the use Of his left
arm and leg crippled him and he
fell to tn" floor. The sound of the
fall awakened other members of the
family and they ran to his room.
Members OF the family said the
senator appeared to be much dis
tnrbcd about something and they
had difficulty in learning what it
was hat troubled him. Finally they
discovered it was a trivial matter of
office routine. They had some
trouble in Qnieting the senator who
kept referring to this matter which
had assumed great Importance in his
thought"
Among friends Of Mr. Ware today
there was a disposition to blame the
prolonged fight in one senate
against seating him us the cause of
his illness.
MIR. Ware has always felt that he
was honestly elected to the senate
and was honestly nominated over
Senator Pepper and Governor Pin
chot," said one of the senators elects
friends. The warfare that has been
waged against him within his own
party ranks has been a work that
has had to carry for more than q
year and it has sapped his strength"
BY the United Press
William s. Ware was regarded a |
dictator of political destinies in the |
eastern section of Pennsylvania. !
Combined with the Mellon interests |
of Pittsburgh, he was the dominat-
ing factor for many years in the po-
litical life of the Keystone state.
The youngest of four brothers,
Ware was born Dec. "a. 1867 on a
farm in South Philadelphia. Two of
his brothers. George A. and Edwin
manned for their brother to reach
the highest power in Philadelphia.
Augustus Ware, the senator-elect's
father, died when Ware was only Il
years old. His mother and her sons
kept the farm and maintained bare
existence. William s. Vare's first job
was as cash boy in the John Wanna
maker store. Then he entered the
produce business with George A.
Ware. the first member of the fam
lily to enter politics.
July 20. 1896, he married Ida Nor
ris. They had two daughters, Bea-
trice and Mildred.
It was in February. 1898, that !
Ware was elected to his first political
position-the old select council from
the first ward. In December the +.
same year he was appointed mercan-
tile appraiser and elected president
of the board.
In 1912 death caused a vacancy in
his congressional district. Ware was
chosen for the office at Il special
From that time until 1926,
when he resigned to run as repub-
ican candidate for the United States
he was elected to every con-
yress. He was ranking member OF v
he appropriations committee and he v
vas a member of the minority that v
opposed reduction Of the navy per- i
The minority report was s
adopted by congress c
In 1926 Ware won the republican
primary Conte"t from the then Gov
rnor Clifford Pinchot and Senator d
ieorge Wharton Pepper. Large eN =
,endtures in the primary, estimated n
II several millions of dollars,
,rought all the candidates under in
'cstigation. Ware won the general I,
election from William b. Wilson, 4
orlner member Of President Will n
on's cabinet. a protest was filed by h
Wilson. O.
Senatorial Investigations and the :,
enate's refusal to seat Senator elect /,
ARE brought him into national =