The daily worker., 1930-10-23
BY MAX SALZMAN.

THE papers are full of attacks of the re-
publican party against the democratic can
didate for governor and attacks of the demo-
Gratis and section of the Ware machine in
Philadelphia and of the utilities group in the
state against the republican candidate Pinchot.
What is the meaning of all this noise? For
the capitalist parties it serves the purpose of
creating great smoke screen under the cover
of which they attempt to deceive the workers
into believing that one or the other candidate
represents the workers interests. Statement
after statement appears in the press.
What is behind this fight? In the primary
elections Pinchot secretly supported by the
Mellon group and the large manufacturing IN
terests defeated Brown, the candidate of the
utilities group, and Ware marching for the
republican nomination for governor
The fight represents the struggle by the
utilities group, the railroad interests and the
manufacturing interests directly connected
with railroads and utilities against the Mellon
group and the large manufacturing trusts for
control of the machinery Of the state govern
ment. They want to use this control to give
the group they represent better advantage
through special privileges and through plum
dering the population of Pennsylvania.
"Dry"
Pinchot is running in the election as "dry"
and is in favor of the antiquated blue laws.
He takes this position to win the support of
the backward farmers and the churches. Ex-
perienced in the art of demagogy, qualified as
a first class promise maker gifted as de-
ceiver of the masses, Pinchot comes forward
with program of catch phrases OF disgust
ingly false promises and with the use Of tricky
language tries to win support for his group
He
the utilities group in order to win the support
of the petty-bourgeoisie and small capitalist
groups in the state.
Open support has not been given by the
Mellon group to Pinchot because 1t is feared
that this open support (Which is, however,
given secretly win drive a large section of
the petty bourgeois elements from the Mellon
camp Pinchot himself large stock holder
in the Mellon institutions, as well as other
large firms connected with the Mellon poll
tical machine will also personally profit by
the success of his campaign.
Court Battle
The winning of the republican nomination
by Pinchot threw CONSERVATION into the camp
of the Ware machine and the utilities group
For long time they conducted court battle
in attempt to win the nomination from Mr..
Pinchot. Failing in this they were driven be-
tween two courses of action. One, to maintain
the unity of the republican party through this
to continue support for the Hoover admins
tration, or two, to split the republican party
in the state and make possible the election of
a democratic governor by throwing their sup
port to him. They chose the latter course.
In the city of Philadelphia where the repub-
lican machine is controlled by the utilities
group AZ of the 48 republican ward chairmen
came out against Pinchot and for the demo-
cratic candidate, Mr.. Hemphill, who was run
ming also on the liberal ticket Mr. Hemphilps
nomination on the liberal ticket was organized
by the anti-Pinchot republican elements in
preparation for the split which they knew
would come.
A Deep Split.
The break in Philadelphia was Immediately
followed by the declaration of Mr. Atterbury
president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, who
resigned as republican national committee man
from Pennsylvania, to support the democratic
candidate. In this break Mr.. Atterbury was
followed by the entire utilities group which