The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-03-14
Grundy's Lobbyist
Activities Threaten
Senatorial Career

CONTINUED from paeo 0oel
Ware, but his machine Is united and
well-oiled. He is backing. In the SEN
ate race, the very man Of whom
Grundy said In . politically historic
utterance Of 1921:
Il will not sit down at the same
table with a man who carries . Union
card in his pocket"
That man. who rose from IN IRON
puddler among the tall stacks and
blazing furnaces Of Pittsburgh to q
cabinet officer under three presidents,
Is James ]. Davis, secretary Of labor.
Typical Of Car
Grundy's curt refusal to break
bread with = protagonist Of organised
labor was made in response to . din
ner invitation from the late Gov.
william G. Sproul. The remark was
considered typical Of the industrial
car.
Joseph Ridgway Grundy was born
a Quaker. and even now, ct g.. he
sometimes slips into the use Of thee"
and thou" when aroused. OF med
ium height, he Is inconspicuous In sp-
pearance-white hair and moustache,
gold trimmed spectacles, ,pink-faced.
lively, twinkling eyes.
He and his father before him were
students Of politics. The son inner.
tied the Grundy worsted mills In his
home town OF Bristol. He learned
the business from the bottom up, and
1t has made him very wealthy.
Republication and q high protec-
tive tariff for industry. particularly
Pennsylvania industry, have been his
ruling obsessions. No one doubted
him when, on the witness stand In
Washington, he said: 1.-THE tariff Is
next to my religion"
Commands Wealth
His political manipulations and
alliances r too numerous to men,
ton. He and Ware have been good
friends and bitter enemies half Z
dozen times. Grundy has not always
won in his political dictation, but de-
feat there never seemed to halt the
efficacy of his lobbies. He COM
mands huge sums Of money. In the
1924 campaign alone, he and his COM
mittee raised at least $70O,000," &C.
cording to his own testimony.
In the 1926 campaign. he backed
John 8. Fisher for the g~overnorship
and Pepper. previously an enemy. for
the senate. Fisher won. but Ware de-
feated Pepper. So Grundy immed-
lately switched over and became, for
the time. an ally of Ware. But 0run-
dy lost a lot of friends during this
hectic campaign. and former Cover
nor Clifford Pinchot. now trying to
win back his old job, Is said to be
one Of them.
Thus the fight in Pennsylvania to-
day. Having lost the senate seat
through the ousting Of Ware. the
Philadelphia organization demanded
the right to pick the next governor.
Its choice fell on the broad should
crS OF Francis Skunk Brown.
Had any other man been selected
by the Ware machine. It Il believed
certain that Grundy, in need Of Wares
support to insure his return to the
senate. would have approved.
Defied Grundy's WIN
But Of al persons, Brown Is the
man who. Is encouragement Of the
Keystone state in 1915. defied the win
Of 0rundy and helped force through
the legislature q workmen's compen-
sation act. q child labor law, and laws
regulating the working hours Of WON
en-.
drundy. they say. never forsives
or forgets. He would not accept
Brown as his running mate, and that
was that. All the urgings OF mutual
friends and state committeeman
were in vain.
For his. own running mate, 0rundy
has selected Samuel S. Lewis. .
former state treasurer. Lewis e
credited with being unpopular with
the women Of Pennsylvania-as UNI
popular as Is the senator himself,
whose thrust delivered In Boston Is
now being dug up. to be flung back
into his teeth. For drundy said, In
q speech:
THE electorate Is adulterated by
40 per cent OF women who are not
interested In the tariff o. other i'm.
portant legislation"
The anti-G rundy element will make
the most Of this. FOR the rest. the
issues viii be clean-cut: Industrial
domination against the democracy Of
labor. With prohibition playing . min
or part.
Pennsylvania has learned It's les.
son Of big expenditures from the fate
that befell Ware after the 1916 cam.
and the use Of money doubt
less will be carefully limited on all
sides.