Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-18
ALL SIDES CHARGE
! CORRUPT METHODS
Davis, Grundy and Pinchot
Each Claims Victory in
Pennsylvania.
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NOnLlnueQ from fUSL EaSe.J
are IS counties. exclusive of Philadel-
phia and Allegheny. His organization
has hooked up in some counties with
the Pinchot organization. In others 1t
is playing ball with the Brown sup
porters, and in still others with the
wet organization. Grundy Ia getting
Votes wherever he can.
Women Prefer Davis.
In addition to the support Of the
Philadelphia and Allegheny County or
nations, Davis has the support OF
all the great labor organizations OF the
State. 1t Is believed that the women
generally speaking, prefer the Secre-
tary Of Labor to the hard-boiied, anti
woman suffrage Grundy.
Gov. Pinchot has been out OF ONCE Tor
four years. What organization he has
as governor faded away in the interim.
However, he has been able to build up
again, to some extent, his old political
fences. And more particularly Is he
being helped by the Anti-Saloon League,
the Women's Christian Temperance
Union and the churches. He Is the
one dyed-in-the- wool dry In the race
for governor. Brown has declared for
State referendum on the liquor issue
as q concession to the vets. Phillips
Is o wringing wet The Brown sup
porters insthe wet centers, however, are
passing the word that any man sup
ported by Bill Ware should be salts
factory to any wet, after all. .Pnchot
has an advantage over Brown in the
four big coal mining counties, where the
coal miners are friendly to him because
he helped them get higher wages when
he was governor.
1fa ND Iva
counting on the wet ticket cutting into
the Brown and Davis strength in Phila-
delphia, Pittsburgh and other centers.
However, the vets will draw from some
Of the strength which under other CIR
cumstances would be Grundy's. Law
yers, physicians, business men-all be-
longing to the middle and upper crust
In Philadelphias social Organization
in many cases will voice their resent
inert against the dry laws by supporting
the 1.et ticket.
Dark Horses Loom Strong.
Three weeks ago 1t looked all one
way, with Brown and Davis far out In
the lead and running strong. But the
reSourceful Mr.. Grundy and the cru
sading Mr.. Pinchot have come strongly
to the fore recently and there are plenty
of political wiseacres here who insist
they have q good chance of winning.
If there is little money for betting
purposes. there seems to be plenty of it
for campaigning. Secretary Davis said
today before leaving for Pittsburgh and
his home, where he will wind up his
campaign:
1.-The Brown-Davis ticket will win
this primary unless it is bought out from
under u.s. I believe we will win by
10000 to 100000 votes, anyway. But
the opposition has been pouring money
into thu campaign and Is continuing to
do. The expenditures in this campaign,
If all brought into the open, would make
the 1926 primary campaign look like a
modest affair"
In that primary campaign, which re-
suited in the nomination of Ware, some
thing like $2500,000 was expended in
support of the Pepper-Fisher, Ware
Beidleman and the Pinchot tickets, then
in the field. Grundy was backing
Fisher for governor and the Pepper
Fisher ticket had expended for it about
81 800 900, as compared to $500 900 for
the Vare-Beidleman ticket and some
thing less than $500, 600 for Pinchot. II
Mr.. Davis is right. there seems to be not
the slightest doubt that the Senate
slush fund committee. headed by Sem
ator Nye of North Dakota, Is coming
into the State to make an investigation
of the campaign after the voting Is all
done.
As q matter of fact, the Nye COM
mittee is already on the job here. On
election day Senator Nye and other
members of his committee will be in
the State themselves to take a look
at what Is happening at the polls.
This will be the first primary election
on record to be actually supervised by
a Senate committee. Already Senator
Eye has issued warning that there
must be no holding back of the count
to see how many votes are needed"
Charges Workers Inundated.
Mr. Davis not only charged that his
opponent, Mr.. Grundy. and Grundy'S
manufacturing supporters, are spending
hundreds of thousands of dollars, put
he asserted that these manufacturers
are cracking the whip over the Shout
ders of their mill workers. The owners
and operators CT big plants here, he
said, have threatened their employees
with loss of jobs II they do not go down
the line for Grundy The word has
been slipped to them in their pay en-
yelopeS in some cases. In other cases,
the mills have been shut down for two
hours at a time while 1rundy workers
have talked to the employees, and such
UlCCtAASo 0AC SNAANaAACo ~ VAC pan
for Monday, TOO.
While Mr.. Davis is charging intimi-
dalton of workers in the factories, Sem
ator Grundy is charging the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad president. Zen. w. W.
Atterbury, with having issued orders to
all employees OF the road to vote the
Brown-DaviS ticket. He insists, too,
that the employees of all traction and
public utility corporations are being
coerced to vote for Davis and Brown.
We'll win II we can get the vote
counted in Philadelphia and Pitts
burgh," said Senator Grundy. Then he
added that, he would win, anyway. He
said that precautions were being taken
to safeguard the vote. that county de-
tectiyes would be on the job under the
orders of the county attorney. He does
not take much stock in the ordinary
watchers at the polls, however, and
intimated that having Democratic
watchers at the polls in Philadelphia
was very much like having Republican
watchers at the voting booths in the
Tammany districts of New York.
This primary battle involves huge
interests on both sides. It involves
the chief political figures of the State