Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-17
Senator, With Mellon Back
ing, Faces Bitter Fight
for Supremacy.
ELIMINATION OF DAVIS
is HELD POSSIBILITY
Last-Minute Switch to Save Situa.
ton May Find Secretary
Thrown Overheard.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN,
Staff Correspondent OF The Star.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, May Ire
publican leadership in the keystone
State hangs in the balance, with the
primary election for United States SEN
ator, governor and other State offices
scheduled for Tuesday.
"Old Joe" Grundy, the sitting Sen-
ator, former president of the Pennsyl-
vania Manufacturers Association, with
Mellon backing, is locked in desperate
struggle for supremacy with the Ware
organization in Philadelphia ana with
the Allegheny County organization.
If Grundy can get himself nominated
for the Senate on the Republican ticket
and prevent the nomination of the Ware
organizations candidate, francis Skunk
Brown, former attorney general Of the
State, ne will be the outstanding Re
publican leader of the State.
If Grundy can win the senatorial
nomination and has to concede the
gubernatorial nomination to the Phila-
delphia and Allegheny County orga 1iza-
lions, the division of power still con-
tinues, with the Ware organization In a
strategic position in the State. for 1t
will have the vast power Of State
patronage.
Davis Teamed With Brown.
Running on the ticket with Francis
Skunk Brown is Secretary James j.
Davis of the Department of Labor as a
candidate for the senatorial nomina-
ton. Grundy has no official running
mate. He yanked his candidate for
governor, Samuel Lewis, out of the
race some time ago. Former Gov. Gift
ford Pinchot is running for the gubsr-
material nomination as dry and on O
reform ticket.
But that is not all. The wringing
wet Republicans of Pennsylvania have
put forward ticket, with Prof. Francis
H. Bohlen of the faculty of the Univer-
Sity of Pennsylvania as candidate for
the Senate and former Representative
Phillips as candidate for governor.
The lineup has tended to force the
Grundy and Pinchot outfits into an
alliance. 1t is an alliance on which the
Pinchot people are counting to a con-
siderable degree, although Gov. Pinchot
and MIR. Grundy have so far made no
statements of support one for the other.
Grundy is not enamoured of Gov.
Pinchot, but he prefers him to Brown.
Pinchot, out to win, Is perfectly willing
to win with Grundy support If it has to
come that way, although Grundy, a con-
servattve, has opposed many of the
things for which Pinchot has stood in
the past.
Would Dust Pinchot.
There are rumors. however, that
Grundy will not hesitate to throw Gov.
Pinchot overheard if it is necessary to
save himself, and deal with the Ware
organization. That also would mean
the elimination of Secretary Davis for
the Senate and victory for Grundy and
for Brown. 1t also would mean that
the Ware organization had no compunc-
ton about throwing Mr.. Davis into the
discard in order to save the guberna-
torial nomination.
The Grundy management has sought
in every way to show that the Ware or
ganization is going to do just that
thing in order to save its candidate
for governor, Mr.. Brown. Grundy sup
porters say openly thta this Is what is
going to happen on election day. So
openly have they made the charge that
the Philadelphia organization leaders
have made repeated statements that
they are going down the line for the
Brown-Davis ticket and that Mr.. Davis
will get their undivided support. In a
measure they have been put on the
defensive in this matter by the tactics
Of the Grundyites, who clearly have
sought to undermine the morale of the
Brown-Daris cohorts throughout the
State as well as in Philadelphia.
It seems a ridiculous situation when
the Brown-Davis leaders are forced into
public announcements that they intend
to give 100 per cent support to one of
their principal candidates. But that is
what has happened. Yesterday, under
the arrangement of Former Mayor j
Hampton Moore, six Republican organi-
cation ward leaders stood In front of an
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