Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-22
ELECTION OF DAVIS
IS HOOvER VICTORY
Three important Aspects
Are Seen in Defeat
of Grundy.
BY MARK SULLIVAN.

The victory of Secretary of Labor
James j. Davis over Joseph r. Grundy
for the Republican senatorial nomina-
ton in Pennsylvania has at least three
important aspects. One Is the tariff.
AS to that, Davis victory and Grundy's
defeat means no change whatever.
On the tariff, Davis is as orthodox
q Republican as Grundy. Such differ
ence as there is on this point Is be-
tween the temperaments OF the two
men. Grundy on the tariff has come
to have the strength Of conviction
about the superiority Of his own par
ticular way that can sometimes descend
upon q bachelor in his upper sixties
who has always had undisputed author
ity over his own business.
Fundamentally, Davis is just as strong
a high tariff man as Grundy. Davis Is
a representative of organized labor.
More than any other element In Amer
lea. it has come to be organized labor
that makes the strongest and most gen.
eral demand for high protection. OF
the manufacturing element, FOR part OF
whom Grumdy was spokesman, much
more, than half OF all the large manu-
factrfers in America, such rs the auto
none at all.
Grundy Able Senator.
In all this years senatorial elections,
one important question Is whether the
new man would be an addition to the
intellectual strength and all round quail
ity of the Senate. That the Senate Is
whole has declined during recent
years and that it needs to be strength
ened Is q widespread conviction. On
this point. 1t is no detriment to Secre-
% hat "a
will bring to the Senate are not superior
To those that Grundy contributed.
Grundy was not Senator who needed
to be displaced in order to elevate the
strength of the Senate. Grundy was
a very able Senator, and had he stayed
would have become something like the
equivalent of Aldrich half generation
ago. Because of the particular EPISODES
through which Grundy came to the
attention of the public. and because OF
the Democratic and especially the m
surgent Republican attacks on him,
Grundy was misrepresented ana conse-
quently underestimate by the country.
His convictions were narrow, but ne
held them honestly and strongly. Ac-
cepting his convictions Is what they
were, there is not man In the Senate
who exceeded Grundy in intellectual
integrity. and few who equaled him.
The point about Grundy was that ne
was always free to speak for the group
of convictions that were his. He never
needed to ask himself. as he rose 70
speak or vote, (which side OF this ques-
ton Is most POPULAR" Grumpy knew
what he thought. and knew that on the
subjects In which he was interested ms
state felt the same way.
Davis Victory IL Hoover Victory.
As respects the fortunes Of the adj
both in the Senate and
in the matter of Mr.. Hoovers getting
a reorganization In 1892. Davis victory
is a Hoover victory. Grundy, though
lately he concealed the fact, did not
wholly approve Of Hoover. Grundys
ideal OF . Republican President was Q
man who would stand for the highest
tariff on every COMMONLY
in Pennsylvania. Outside
the tariff, Grundy was not much m
terested in the presidency. since ne
doubted President Hoovers orthodoxy
on the tariff, 1t Is quite possible that
Grundy, had he won and dominated
politics, might have tried
tn lake an anti-Hoover delegation TO the
Iaa2 Republican national convention.
Davis and the forces that Will domi-
nate Pennsylvania republicanism will
be for Mr. Hoover.
Az respects prohibition, the result on
the senatorship must be read In con-
nection with the outcome on the gov
srnorship. and the figures on both will
hear further study. Grumpy was q
strong dry. It would be an error, how
ever To assume that because Of Grun-
AVS defeat. Pennsylvania Republicanism
has rone wet. So far as present figures
show II has not. Davis as q man who
has sweated during hot Summer days
in a budding furnace, Is pretty certain
To look not unsympathetically on the
notion of beer, at least, for the working
man Davis associate in the race Tor
the aoyernorship. Brown, stated, as his
nosition on prohibition that he favored
. referendurn. The Ware organization,
under whose auspices both Davis and
BROWN ran. is more or less ofdcially In
favor of 8 per cent beer.
Pinchot Ran - "Bens-Dry."
IN the matter of wet and dry. an OUT
.tend;ng TACT Is the size Of Clifford
psrchof's vote for governor in pro-
,ortio,, tn the total vote for three can
jidstes pinchot is "bone-dry." Con-
sidering that Pinchot had little or no
orca riystion the percentage Of the to-
ta1 vote that he got indicates that Penn |
svivania Pepublicanism is dry. At the
% me time there is significance in the |
i've NJ tine vote of the two completely |
wet candidates for Senator and gov |
ernor. Bohlen and Phillips. They ran
without benefit of any organization.
They appear to have got upward OF 10
,er rent If the total vote.