Evening star., 1928-11-21
Politics at Large
By C. Could lincoln.

Ware OF Pennsylvania promises to bob
up again soon after the Congress meets
December 3. Mr.. Ware was elected to
the Senate two years ago. In the ordi-
nary course of events Mr.. Ware would
have been sworn in and would have
taken his seat in the Senate year ago
Two attacks, however, were made on
him. The first was contest brought
by William B. Wilson, Democratic can
didate for the Senate, who was de-
feated by Ware. The second was the
charge brought by the Reed slush fund
committee, which maintained that
Vare's nomination for the Senate had
been accomplished through the ex-
penditure OF huge sums of money and
that he was unfit to sit in the Senate.
The Wilson contest has been handled
by the Senate committee on privileges
and elections. The Reed committee
charges were held in abeyance until
this contest could be settled.
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Now the votes cast in Philadelphia,
Pittsburgh and other places in Pennsyl-
vania have been counted under the
supervision of the Waterman subcom-
nlittee of the privileges and elections
been taken. It is expected the sub
committee will soon be ready to make
its report to the full committee and the
full committee to the Senate The i'm
preston prevails that the Wilson con-
test will be dismissed; that Ware re-
ceiVed a sufficient number of votes,
even though many are thrown out as
improper, to give the Philadelphia boss
the election. The Senate itself, how
ever, must pass upon the report of the
committee. If it decides in favor of Mr..
Ware and against Mr.. Wilson, who was
Secretary of Labor in President Will
jumped the first hurdle. The second,
the charges brought by the Reed COM
mittee, may prove much more difficult.
When the Senate met last December
the Reed Slush fund committee had
two cases of alleged corruption and
excessive expenditure to report to the
Senate, those of Mr.. Ware and of Frank
L. Smith, Senator-elect from Illinois.
On the strength OF the reports OF the
committee, both these Senators-elec5
were compelled to stand aside while
the other newly elected Senators were
permitted to take the oath of office.
MIR. Smith went back to Illinois and
resigned to submit his case to the voters
of his State. He was badly beaten
in the senatorial primary last April, and
fore the Senate again for formal action.
But Mr.. Ware has pursued no such
course. He has hung on. For time it
looked as though his i'll health might
step in to dismiss his case, too. He
suffered stroke Of paralysis not long
after the Republican national conven-
ton at Kansas City. His friends feared
he might die. But Mr.. Ware has shown
marked improvement in condition IN
recent weeks. He went back to Phli-
adelphia to register and to vote in the
recent election, although he was forced
to use wheel chair. Even now it is
reported that he is going back to Phil
adelphia to resume the active control
of Republican politics there and to at
tempt to bring to an end the difficulties
which have arisen between Mayor Harry
Mackey and District Attorney Mona
CHAN. Monaghan has turned the city
police force upside down with his in
vestigations of police protection to the
bootleggers and the like. A statement
from Mr.. Ware said:
"I have been asked by a number OF
prominent Republicans to use my good
offices in an attempt to bring about
harmony In the Republican party ana
to straighten out differences between
the mayors department and the office
of the district attorney, the occupants
of the two offices being my frlenos.
Just what Mr.. Ware will be able TO
accomplish along this line remains 10
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whether Mr.. Wares control of party
matters in Philadelphia has slipped"
so far that he cannot again dominate
the situation in the City of Brotherly
Love. There is no doubt that factions
in the party have been girding for the
struggle for supremacy in Philadelphia
when Mr.. Ware should no longer be
the boss" The so-called differences
between the mayor and the district at
torney may have had their basis in this
embryonic struggle for control of the
city politics.
The Senate has been distinctly un-
favorable to the seating Of Mr.. Ware in
the past There is no indication so
far that the sentiment against him has
changed. A strong appeal has been
made by Mr.. Vare's supporters that he
must be seated on the theory that
sovereign State has right to send,
with proper credentials, any man it de-
sires to represent it in the Senate. If
the Senate later determined to throw
him out, that was another thing. 1t
requires a tWo-thirds vote to oust
Senator. 1t is doubtful that a two
thirds vote could be mustered against
Mr.. Ware, once he has been seated.
His opponents, therefore, have taken
the ground that, Senate committee
having investigated his case thoroughly,
the Senate is fully informed and
capable of acting on the Ware case
without his first being sworn in. The
plan has been to deny him seat.
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Efforts, will be made to settle the
Ware case at the coming session. With
its close, Senator Reed of Missouri, the
chairman of the slush fund committee,
which reported against Mr. Ware, goes
out OF office. Furthermore. the oppo-
nents of the seating of Ware are more
strongly intrenched than they might
be in the new Senate which takes Of
nee after March 4. 1t may be diff
cult to force the Ware matter to a
vote In the short session, however, al
though the case is regarded as a priv
ileged matter.
The vets are taking hope from the
result OF referendum in Massachusetts
on a proposition that the eighteenth
amendment be repealed The reports
are TO the effect that with only six
small precincts missing from the contest,
which was conducted in 36 of the 40
State senatorial districts, 697,735 per-
sons voted for repeal and only Ala, ,5l2
VoGeo against repeal This gives the
vets margin of 233,223. Massachu-
setts was one Of the eight States which
cast their electoral votes for Gov. Alfred
E: Smith. who championed the cause
OF dry law amendment and repeal.
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Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey CITY