The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-19
TRAP GRUNDY
BETWEEN TWO
FIRES IN RACE
Split With Ware Machine,
Pinchot Puts Senator in
Peculiar Spot.
DAVIS GETS SUPPORT
Wet Candidates May Draw
Heavily Tuesday From
PhiIadeIphianS.
DAVIS GETS SUPPORT
BY ROBERT LITTLE
United Press staff Correspondent

United Press Stan Correspondent
WASHINGTON, May 19.-Penn-
sylvania'S great political contest, to
be settled at che polls Tuesday, is
to be conclusive of men and po-
litical machines, but not of the ma
tional issues of prohibition and the
tariff on which paradoxically the
campaign has been fought.
Two members of President Hoo
ver's cabinet are at odds, Labor
Secretary James j. Davis, who is
seeking the Republican nomination
for senator, and Treasury Secretary
Mellon, whose political machine is
supporting Senator Joseph Grundy
for the place.
Both of the candidates, as well as
nearly every one in the state, are
for the tariff.
Both candidates are quiet on pro-
hibition, but a third avowedly wet
factor has entered the campaign
dynanically, and may be the decid-
ing factor through robbing the Will
liam S. Ware machine in Philadel-
phia Of thousands of votes which
Davis and his running mate, Fran
els Skunk Brown, who seeks the
governorship, otherwise would tally.
Situation Is Complicated
The situation is so complicated
with profusion of split tickets and
various country political leaders Sc
Letting their own candidates for
each of the two important posts.
that all political prophets are in a
quandary. The issue is, who is to
control Pennsylvania?
Davis and Grundy have cam
paigned the state extensively, with
all the aids science has given to
politicians. Radio has been used.
heavily and hundreds of speeches
have been made by the candidates
in fast automobile trips.
The complication in the prohibit
ton issue is that Davis and Grundy
both have stood by President Hoo
ver'S strong enforcement position.
Brown, Davis running mate, has
come out for state referendum on
liquor, however.
Clifford Pinchot, the former Gov
ernor, Roosevelt progressive, bone
dry, and with much strength in the
rural districts, is seeking the guber-
material nomination Independently.
Good Backing From VETS
Former Representative Thomas
w. Phillips Jr., and Professor Fran
els H. Bohlen of the University of
Pennsylvania, with a good backing
from anti-prohibitionists, are con-
Quoting an extensive campaign of
their own for the governorship and
senatorShip, respectively.
There are reports they are max
ing a strong appeal to the wet and
foreign voters of Philadelphia, and
thai the Ware machine will have
trouble holding this element in line
for Davis and Brown.
If this wet ticket gathers few
hundred thousand votes, and Pin
chot and Grundy come rolling up
from the west with majorities of
100000, the Ware ticket conceivably
might be defeated.
If this should occur, the dry Loeb
invarS of western, Pennsylvania
would be in Office because of that
wet vote for Phillips and Bohlen.
Grundy Between Two Fires
Davis, however, has a strong
popular appeal among the labor and
city elements over the state, and he
may not need the great Philadel-
phia majority which previous Ware
men have needed.
Grundy, who once pushed
Pinchot to election as Governor, and
then broke with him, is between two
fires. He has the support of man
ufacturers, and in his campaign he
has made Jealous attempt to APP
peal to the people.
Even if he is elected, and this
seems only possibility, he will have
an antagonistic Governor handling
the power of S . tie patronage.
The split between the Ware ma
chine and Grundy is wide, SO Brown
would not help. Pinchot has hereto
fore demonstrated his independence
of Grundy.
From a distance, Davis and
Pinchot appear to be the strongest
men in Tuesdays primary.