Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-23
|P|NCHOT is REAL
KEYSTONE ISSUE
Ex-Governor Has Caused
Ware Organization to Bolt
Republican Party.
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niwell, candidate for Governor on the
Democratic ticket in 1926, and John
McSparran, Democratic candidate for
Governor in 1922 against Pinchot him
self in that year, both to desert Hemp
hill and board the Pinchot band wagon.
And why?
Represents Anti-S Sentiment.
These strange antics of widely known
Republicans and Democrats are due to
the fact that Pinchot in his own per-
son represents the anti-public utility
sentiment, the anti-machine sentiment
and the prohibition sentiment in this
great keystone State.
To his opponents he is a fanatic dry
and, what is worse in their eyes, a
radical They even picture him in their
broadsides as red
In addition, Mr.. Pinchot's candidacy
represents the enmity of the Republicans
out in the State for the Philadelphia
Republican organization. The out
State Republicans do not intend to have
the Philadelphia organization control
the State, either through a Republican
candidate of its own choosing or through
a Democratic candidate whom 1t is will
ing to back.
The gubernatorial contest in Penn
SylNdAlld IIlLS year QNdI1cQ III
tereSt all the other contests, senatorial,
congressional and for the remainder of
the State ticket. All over the rest of
tho country they are talking about hard
times, prohibition, the tariff, the
drought the Hoover administration.
Here they talk about Pinchot. If the
former Governor is anxious to be in the
spotlight, as his enemies charge, he
certainly has achieved his desire. dur
ing these final days of the campaign.
Davis Election Assured.
There is not the slightest question
that Secretary James j. Davis, who has
headed the Department of Labor in the
cabinets of three Republican Presidents,
will be elected to the United States
Senate on November 4. Pennsyl-
vanians have almost forgotten the name
of his Democratic opponent, Sedgwick
Kistler, although it appears on the bal
lot. Nor is there any question about
what the result of the election will be
for State officers other than Governor.
They will be won by the Republican
nominees. So far as the members OF
the House are concerned, the Democrats
have already picked up one seat, in the
eleventh of Scranton district, for Pat
rick j. BoIand, the Democratic nominee,
has no Republican opponent in that
district. He received the Republican
nomination as well as that of his own
party. There are close fights in the
twelfth, fourteenth, twentieth and thir-
tieth congressional districts, all of which
are now held by Republicans. The
thirtieth district, represented by Coyle
in the present Congress, has been a
fighting district for long time. In this
of year the Democrats are likely to
carry it.
Just how the Republican defections
from the Pinchot candidacy will affect
congressional candidates is impossible
to gauge. However, the great revolt is
costly In the city of Philadelphia, and
the Ware organization is expected to
take care of its Congressman. Out in
the State more Democrats are expected
to vote for Pinchot than Republicans
are expected to vote for Hemphill. Un-
der such circumstances the strange
slignments In the gubernatorial race
may help the Republican congressional
candidates rather than the Democratic.
Has Liberals to Thank.
The amazing Mr.. Pinchot has to
thank the new Liberal party for his
present prominence The Liberal party
made it possible for Mr. Pinchot to be
nominated. It made the Republican
gubernatorial primary last Spring a
three cornered affair. These Liberals
put up Thomas w. Phillips, jr., former
member of the House, as their candi-
date for the Republican nomination for
Governor. Phillips only platform was
the repeal of the eighteenth amendment
and everything that goes with 1t. The
Liberals were not content to stay with
Francis Skunk Brown, the candidate of
the Ware organization and many other
Republicans out in the State. Mr.
Brown, although he did not come out
strongly on the wet-and-dry issue, was
satisfactory to the wet Ware orgariza-
ton, and that should have satisfied any
wet. In race against Brown, without
Phillips messing up the situation, Pin
chot undoubtedly would have lost, and
all the heartburningS of the wet Re-
publicans might have been avoided
But having made the nomination of
the dry Mr.. Pinchot possible, the lib
eral Republicans began to cast about
for some way to defeat him. They in
sisted at first they would put an indie
pendent wet candidate in the field,
but that would have made another
three-cornered race, with Pinchot run
ming against the wet Democrat. Hemp
hill, and the wet liberal party candi-
date, it looked like a sure way of elect
ing Pinchot. Finally, in desperation
the liberals decided to indorse as their
very own the wet Mr.. Hemphill. That
Is what they have done. They have a
place on the ballot for the liberal party
Its only candidate, however, is Hemp
hill. 1t did not undertake to indorSe