Evening star., 1934-05-11
FREED AND P|NCHOT
WAGE B|TTERF|CHT
New Deal Against the Old
Is Issue in Penn
syIvania.

| Sy|vania.
Continued From First Page.)
Senator George Wharton Pepper. Mr..
Pinchot ran third in that race. But
Mr.. Ware, who was declared the win
| ner, never was permitted to take his
seat In the Senate because Of charges
of excessive campaign expenditures
and of corruption.
Pichot VS.. Reed.
This year the race is between Gov.
Pinchot and Senator Reed. It is true
there are two other candidates for
the Republican nomination, John p.
Varish of Dauphin County and Robert
however, will poll entirely negligible
votes. and this year the conditions
seem made for Gov. Pinchot.
First, the Republican organization
in Pennsylvania, particularly in Phila-
delphia and in Pittsburgh, is disor-
ganized. In both these cities the
Democrats gave the Republican organ
izations a drubbing in the city elec-
tions last year. These organizations are
continuing to function, but they are
not hitting on all eight cylinders as
they did in bygone years. In the Sec
ond place, Gov. Pinchot has built up
a very considerable organization OF
his own while he has been occupying
the Governors chair in Harrisburg.
And in the third place. the wave OF
resentment which swept Pennsylvania,
along with the rest Of the country,
against the old deal in 1882 has not
yet been succeede,. by wave OF re-
sentiment against the new deal OF
President Roosevelt.
Appeals to Business Men.
Pennsylvania is a great industrial
and commercial State. 1t has wide
agricultural sections and a mining
area of large proportions. A strong
appeal is being made by Senator Reed
and his supporters to the business
men, big and little. They are told
daily that what the State needs Is
Senator Reed and not Gov. P1nchot.
who Is pictured as a radical New
Dealer, in the Senate, where tax and
tariff laws are passed for the whole
country. The business men are being
organized and appealed to. The old
Pennsylvania Protective Union mas
been revived. 1t is no secret that
former Senator Joseph P. Grumpy.
while he is taking no open part IN
the campaign, is one of the hackers
of this Protective Union AMI that he
Is greatly intereated in the reelection
of Mr.. Reed.
A month ago, one of Senator Reeds
ardent supporters conflded today, 1t
looked as though Mr.. Reed had not a
Chinaman'S chance of denomination.
But that was a month ago. 1t Is IN
sisted now that the Reed campaign
has progressed strongly. There mas
been an active campaign Of education.
which is still going on, through adVer-
tisements and articles in the press.
The burden of this campaign has
been that the new deal is merely
pumping a lot of money out OF Penn
sylvania to be distributed in the
States of the South and West. Mr..
Reed, and not Gov Pinchot, is needed
in Washington to put stop to this.
Would Not Stop Spending.
The intimation is that Gov. Pinchot
would not seek to halt this orgy OF
spending. Here. for example, is how
one Of these advertisements reads:
"A deluge of dollars is being
pumped out of Pennsylvania to be
distributed to the South and West.
Whether you are a job holder, mer-
chant, business man, banker or one
engaged in a profession pursuit you
are paying these dollars. and at an
average rate of $100 going out for
every dollar that is coming back. The
question you have got to decide is
whether you are going to have able.
experienced and courageous repre-
sentation in the Senate or repre-
sentation that has pledged itself to
Yes all proposals. good or bad. in
which you are made the object OF
some new experiment"
The A. A. A. is the subject Of par
ticular attack by the Reed people,
! who insist that through the operation
of the processing taxes, for every dol
lar the Pennsylvania consumers pay
in A. A. A. taxes, the people Of the
State get back in A. A. A. benefits
the munificent sum of ! cent" In
Arkansas. on the other hand, the peo-
pie get in these benefits 1851 cents
for every dollar the consumers of the
State pay through these cash A. A. A.
taxes. The reciprocal tariff bill,
sponsored by the Roosevelt admins
| tration and now waiting action in the
| Senate, is the target of further at
tack by the Reed supporters. who
| widely advertise that if tariffs on
goods produced in Pennsylvania are
lowered through trade agreements
made by the President the industries
F, of the State will suffer and in some
cases may be wiped out. This is an
argument handed out to Pennsylvania
labor as we'll as to the employers.
Campaign Is Vitriolic.
The present campaign, like others
in which the amazing Mr.. Pinchot has
taken part, is vitriolic. Senator Reed
is designated by Gov. Pinchot-and
when the Governor is not speaking. by
the energetic Mrs. Pinchot-as a mere
messenger boy OF the INTERESTS, OF
Andrew w. Mellon and the steel trust
and what not. Read about Reed and
vote for Pinchot" is one of the ALTER
ative and suggestive signs at the Pin
chot headquarters here. Defeat Reed:
he represents billions of dollars, not
millions of Pennsylvanians," is another
slogan of the Pinchots One of the items
in Gov. Pinchot's pledge to the peo-
pie" slogan reads: II will use the
power of my office to support the new
deal in the interests of the plain peo-
pie"
Not content with home talent the
Pinchot Campaign Committee turned