Evening star., 1932-04-23
Governors Wife Declared to
Have Good Chance of
Carrying Primary.
EXECUTIVE is SEEKING
CONTROL OF STATE COP.
Opposes Hoover's Policies While
Working for Nomination
of Butler.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
PHILADELPHIA, April % The
Pinchot political ambitions are diversi-
fed this year. Not only is Gov. Pinchot
seeking to nominate his candidate for
the Senate, Maj. Gen. Smedley D. But
Ter, and to gain absolute control of the
Republican State organization, but Mrs
Cornelia Bryce Pinchot, the Governor S
wife, is seeking the Republican nomi-
nation for Representative in the flf-
teenth congressional district. And
Mrs. Pinchot apparently has a good
chance of winning in the primaries on
Tuesday. If she does she is likely to
be the first woman elected to the Ma
tional House from the keystone State
Mrs. Pinchot is seeking to oust Rep
resentative Louis T. McFadden. Mr.
McFadden, who has been IN the House
long time and was chairman of the
Banking and Currency Committee in
the last Congress. obtained a consider
able degree of notoriety a few months
ago by charging that President Hoover
had sold out to Germany" That was
during the fight over the Hoover mora
torium legislation. Mrs. Pinchot, like
her distinguished husband, is support
ing nearly everything in her platform
that President Hoover opposes, includ-
ing the soldiers bonus and huge Gov
ernment bond issues and appropria-
tions for public works. However, she
takes crack at Mr.. McFadden now
and then because of his attack on
President Hoover
Slow to Support McFadden.
The Republican State organization
has no love for Mrs. Pinchot, no more
than it has for the Governor. At the
same time, the organization which is
favorable to President Hoover and his
policies in large part, is not anxious
to come out in the open and support
McFadden. What support he has from
the organization Is not widely adver-
tised by the organization.
McFadden was elected to Congress
nrst IN 1914 and has built up a fol-
lowing in the district, which includes
seven or eight Of the northern counties
OF pennsylvania, just south of New
YORK. Mrs. Pinchot tried to defeat
him for the Republican nomination
once before, but lost by 2,000-to-3 900
votes.
This year Mr.. McFadden has a num-
Der CT things initiating against him.
IN the flrSt place, his attack on the
President is not helping him. Then
there Is third candidate, a wet, in the
nelo, Frederick c. Reichkenbacker. He
Is not expected to win, but he is ex-
pected to draw more votes from Nc
Fadoen than from Mrs. Pinchot, who
is a dry like her husband. McFadden,
too, is known as a dry, but with the
same degree of aridness as the Pinchots.
State Employees for Her.
Gov. Pinchot's own State organization
has done as much for Mrs. Pinchct as
1t could. 1t has given large number
OF JOBS and has expended a very con-
siderable amount of money on improv-
ing roads In the fifteenth congressional
district. All the State employees have
lined up for the Governors wife
Mrs. Pinchot has not spared herself
In the campaign. She has covered the
district thoroughly, speaking and visit
ing in every part Of it, travelling in the
most part in a flaming automobile.
reminiscent Of the big red car that the
late Senator Boise Penrose used 10
travel around the State and to Wash
ington. She has made as many as l6
addresses in a single day. Her princi-
pal plea has been for progressive gov
ernment in the interest of the people.
Again and again she has charged that
Mr.. McFadden is a servant OF the in
terests.''
"Ye cannot serve God and Mammon''
Is her slogan and she has plastered the
district with posters bearing that device
along with her signature and a picture
Of herself. Mrs Pinchot asserts in hel
speeches that too many Of the mem
berS of Congress are serving Mammon
including Mr.. McFadden, and not God
or the people.
Mr.. McFadden is retaliating by
charging that the State employees have
been held up and made to contribute tc
the Pinchot campaign funds out Of
their salaries. AS a matter of fact. this
charge has been made generally against
the whole Pinchot-Butler campaign
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