Evening star., 1933-11-12
G. O.P. STALWARTS
BADLY DEFEATED
IN PENNSYLVANIA
Ware and Mellon Machines
Fall Before United
Opposition.
VOTE 0VERWHEL MING
FOR RETURN OF LIQUOR
Influence of Local Elections to Be
Closely Watched for
1886 Effects.
BY WALTER ID. R0OS.
IL rli.rakeb 80 THE C4ar

Special Dispatch 10 The Star.
HARRISBURG, Pa, November IL
The potential effects of Pennsylvania s
election last Tuesday on State and ma
tional politics may be farreaching.
Not its 4-to-1 majority for repeal,
in which the Nation may have had
its chief interest, but the election Of
city and county officers, nationally un-
important in themselves. may give the
Nation cause to remember how Penn
sylvanians voted on November 7, 1888
The truly significant feature was the
crushing defeat of the formerly all
powerful political organizations, which
for years have gripped Philadelphia and
Pittsburgh, and frequently have DOM
mated the State.
In the two largest cities, and many
of the smaller ones, Democratic NOM
inees were chosen to key offices to which
Democrats usually have been strangers.
In the sweep, feverish confidence for
1884 has come to Democrats, long dis
couraged by Republican landslides.
Ware Group Showed Under.
In Philadelphia, the Ware Repubn-
can organization, undefeated in a mu-
nicipal election since 1911, lost its en-
tire ticket by majorities as high as
$4,000.
In Pittsburgh, the Republican organ
ization, dominated by the Mellon fam
lily, was upset. BY $4,000 majority a
Democratic mayor was elected, carrying
his slate of councilmen to victory with
him.
Both Of the big-city machines have
depended upon public job holders as
the nucleus of their vote-producing or
ganization. At a time when each is
stripped of Federal and State patron
age, the loss Of local political appoint
ments through last Tuesdays defeat
Is vital
In both Phiadelphia and Pittsburgh,
the ultimate Importance the eiec-1
tion, 1t seems, viii not be that the
winners were Democrats, as much as
that defeat Of the entrenched organi-
for. the future. Reduced effectiveness
ano, consequently, reduced influence,
may have It's first effect In preventing
either Ware or the Mellon leaders from
debating the choice of the Republican
nominee for Governor next Spring
Unless they can gain control again
In the primary next May, a widespread
reorganization Of the Republican party
In Pennsylvania will be almost in
ev1table through the elections of Re-
publican State Committee members who
"AAA hG Al SOAAtAOl O1 LIlC pdIIH MACHINE
cry when delegates to the 1886 presi-
Dental nominating convention are
elected. In a concerted drive against
the "ins," the voters seem to have
opened the way to end 10 years of
political domination Of Pennsylvania by
succession of all-powerful leaders.
Although the support Roosevelt" cry
figured in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh
campaigns, neither was a Simon-pure
Democratic victory. Each revolt won
through combined efforts of Democrats
and independent Republicans. The
Democratic record at Washington. how
ever, appears to have made voters more
willing than in the past to use that
party as the vehicle of protest.
The Ware organization, accustomed to
maJoritieS which have gone as high
as 25O,000 in other years, lost a con-
troller, treasurer, a coroner and
register OF wills to a coalition in which
independent Republicans formed the
Town Meeting party and gave its NOM
inations to the Democratic candi-
dates. This coalition also elected sitting
judges who had been denied Ware sup
port for reelection.
The principal figures in the victor
1ouS coalition campaign were Will B.
Hadiey, treasurer, and S. Davis Wilson,
controller, both Republicans, recently
turned Democrats. Wilson was CITY cam
paign manager for Gov. Pinchot in
1890, and, while registered as a Repub-
Hcan, for an Independent committee
which supported President Roosevelt
last Fall. The coalition had the aid of
Pinchot Republicans and the faction
headed by former Mayor Harry A.
Mackey, manager of William S. Vares
senatorial campaign in 1926.