Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-17

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amplifier and pledged themselves to go
down the line for the ticket Reports
had been circulated that these ward
leaders had sanctioned desertion from
Secretary Davis as a candidate for Sena-
tor in favor Of Grundy or Bohlen, in the
hope of keeping all the voters in those
wards In line for Brown.
Desertion Reports Circulated.
While the Grundy people were caus-
ing uneasiness to the Brown-Davis lead
ers by their reports Of desertion Of Davis
by followers Of the Ware organization,
the Brown-Dayis management published
o charge that Grundy and Pinchot had
gone into an alliance. The object of this
charge, spread all over the State, was to
keep the vets and the labor vote in line
for Brown and Davis. In effect, they
asked the vets If they wished to put the
dry Pinchot at the head of the State
government. OF labor, which might be
favorable to Pinchot, they asked If the
workers desired to place Grundy In the
Senate, Grundy whom organized labor
has denounced.
The story of the alliance Is given
more color by the fact that Mr.. Pinchot
In 1922 to Grundy.
Grundy and Pinchot have been ham,
nering away at the Ware organization
in Philadelphia, accusing 1t of all kinds
of corruption. They have both taken
to beating q tattoo on the breast of Gen.
w. w. Atterbury, president Of the
Pennsylvania Railroad and Republican
national committeeman, because the
general has been working for the
So there have been many factors
which have seemed to point to an
alliance between Grundy and Pinchot,
strange as that alliance may seem.
Pinchot Pledges Reforms.
Gov. Pinchot has listed score Of re-
forms which he promises to make II he
ID elected governor. One Is TO abolish
the Public Service Commission and to
substitute for it a fair rate board. elect
ed by the people instead Of appointed.
This program the Brown-Davis leaders
have undertaken to ridicule.
The wet ticket, headed by Bohlen
and Phillips, holds perhaps the key to
Pennsylvania'S political riddle today. n
has no real organization, although 1t has
Headquarters here and elsewhere. The
vets have spent lot Of money adver-
Using their candidates and their cause,
however. Last night they held big
rally here, with former Senator James
w. WadsWorth of New York, wet leader
State, as the principal speaker. He made
a good deal of the announcement OF
Ambassador Dwight w. Morrow, can
didate for the senatorial nomination In
New Jersey, in favor OF the repeal OF the
eighteenth amendment and return To
the States of the power to regulate the
LIQUOR traffic. The Morrow statement
has created excitement here and has
given the vets new courage. some OIL
them 20 to the extent of claiming they
will nominate their ticket. But II woulc
take a political revolution to do that
and they know it.
Admittedly the wet tscket is drawinl
strength from the BroWn-DaVis tlcke
rather than from the Grundy ant
Pinchot tickets. No vets would Vot
for Pinchot, violent dry. Grumpy Il
dry enough, too. Brown has come GU
for a State referendum on the llquo
question I'd GbNs has declared tina
he b. for President Hoover's program
with regard to prohibition. II the we
ticket takes enough votes from BroWi
and Davis 1t is likely to put Grund.
end Pinchot across in the election Tues
Gay.
Ware leaders here are trying to keel
@aeir wet followers from straying to tn
Sohlen-P Phillips ticket. 1t has been
lob. In the wards where Ware Away
has been potent, however, the argumen
that a vote for Phillips and Bohlen
really q vote for Ptnchot and Grund
The air is full Of riImors Of deals
with division leaders as well as war
leaders involved. The Grundy an
Pinchot forces are far more confiden
today than they were two or hree week
ago.