The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-03-07
Cabinet Enters Senate FIGHT


Pennsylvania Republicans are about to stage a sena-
Eorial primary battle which may oversladow anything
in the political ring this year. 1t is to be waged between
Senator Joseph r. Grundy, a party enemy of President
Hoover. and John ]. Davis, secretary of labor in the
presidents cabinet.
The scheduled contest is the old battle of William s.
Ware and Senator George Wharton Pepper analogously
over again. Even Clifford Pinchot who ran third in the
old primary race which Ware won, is to be in this race
again. Vare-thrown out of the senate to which he had
been elected after winning the party nomination against
Pepper, the incumbent, and Pinchot, the dry candidate
has decided his health will not permit him to make the
fight this time. He has thrown the tremendous influ-
ence OF his Republican faction, which includes the Phil
adelphia machine, on the side of the Pittsburgh man,
Secretary Davis.
In the previous contest, Pittsburgh was with Pepper.
He was the candidate of Andrew W.. Mellon, secretary
Of the treasury and controlling power in the Pittsburgh
machine. Although the two men are in the Hoover cab
met, Mellon may be driven by the force of circumstances
to back Grundy and oppose Davis, his fellow cabinet
member and townsman.
Davis is good senatorial timber. He was brought to
America from Wales as a poor immigrant boy. He
struggled up from the depths as a puddler in the iron
mills, became the head of a great fraternal order noted
for its charitable beneficences for orphan children, and
finally landed in the presidential cabinet as a labor rep
resentative. He has shown a fine intelligence and good
Judgment and has a large following the nation over in
xraternal and labor circles. Undoubtedly he would make
q strong senator should Pennsylvania elect him.
Davis is q champion Of wonanhood, while Grundy is
q bachelor and entertains Grabbed notions of women in
politics. He thinks they have adulterated the electorate.
Davis is a man of heart. He favors all social welfare
reforms and he is for the tariff, but as a laboring mans
champion, while Grundy looks at the tariff from the
capitalists point Of view. Tariff means protection for
the benefit Of the worker to Davis. He is a full dinner
pail believer as to duties. Grundy is regarded by many
as seeking more and more tariff so that the manufacture
es Of the east can gouge the consumer with higher
prices. Davis platform will contain the plank. "A tariff
for the pay envelopes Of the workers"
AS in the former primary campaign, the governorship
will probably play an important part in the contest. The
Ware machine favors Francis Skunk Brown, Wares per-
sonal counsel, a noted Philadelphia lawyer, while the
Fisher Mellon Crundy forces have been inclined to Sc
lect for their nomination choice Samuel s. Lewis of
York. Lewis has held many offices in the gift Of Penn
eylvanians and would make a fine governor. because of
his executive training, his legal knowledge and fine per-
Honal qualities. If there resulted a fluke similar to that
which ensued in the previous primary contest and Lewis
and Davis were the split ticket nominated, Pennsylvania
voters would be getting their moneys worth and the
keystone state would, after many years of misrule,
sometimes by mediocrities in the governorship, emerge
from its debasement by machine politics.