Evening star., 1934-10-28
REPUBLICANS LEAD
IN PENNSYLVANIA.
increase in Registration Is
Buoy to Democrat Spirit,
However.
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Lehigh County, who has come out
only for Attorney General William A.
Schnader, Republican nominee for
Governor. q
The Republican organization in
Philadelphia and throughout the State,
realizing that this year the party has
O real fight on its hands, is exerting
itself to the utmost. There are less
factional differences than for years.
The late Bill Ware, Philadelphia
boss, is out Of the picture. Gov. Gif-
ford Pinchot has cast in his lot with
the Republican ticket, and daily is at
tacking the heads Of the Democratic
ticket, George H. Earle and Joseph
F. Guffey. candidate for Governor and
Senator. The Pennsylvania Manu-
facturers' Association, strongly organ
lied in almost every county of the
State, is working hard for Republican
victory. There seems every prospect
that the Republicans will have a
plentiful supply of money on Election
day, and the State law has not been
changed, which allows the payment
of $40 a day for watchers at the polls.
Pledge Aid to Roosevelt.
The nominations of Earle and Guf-
fey for the key positions on the Dem
ocratic ticket have left lot Of Demo-
Gratis cold, If not actually hostile.
However, the Democratic candidates
are making their races on the issue
of support for President Roosevelt.
And notwithstanding the fact that the
President is not candidate here, it
Is his figure which the Democrats
paint in the picture. In this connec-
ton, it may be remembered that for
mer President Hoover carried Pennsyl-
vania in 1882 against President Roose-
welt with a lead of 162,592. That
defeat for Roosevelt came, the Demo-
Gratis point out, before the Federal
Government had begun flow OF pub
lie funds into Pennsylvania which has
since run into hundreds of millions
of dollars and before SO many thou
sands of voters were being fed and
clothed
Pennsylvania has $4,000 families
on relief That means a whale Of
lot of potential voters. In philadel-
phia there are "a 900 families on relief
and 900 single persons.
The Democrats are counting tre-
mendouSly on the support Of the men
and women on relief. They are count
ing heavily on support of organized
labor, and they feel they did clever
thing when they selected as their can
didate for Lieutenant Governor Thomas
Kennedy, international secretary
treasurer Of the United Mine Workers.
They have the Endorsement Of Amer
lean Federation of Labor leaders and
of the railway brotherhoods, as we'll
as of State labor leaders. They are
looking to the support Of many of the
foreign-born groups, particularly the
Italians. -
Schnader Strength Admitted.
In Schnader, the Republican candi-
date for Governor, the Democrats say
they see stronger opponent than in
the Republican nominee for Senator,
David A. Reed. Schnader has a Penn
sylvania Dutch name. He is 'recog-
niZed as an able lawyer who has
close knowledge of State affairs and
of politics. In most quarters 1t Is ex-
pected that Schnader will run ahead
of Reed. The Democrats have sought
to spread a rumor that Reed will be
sold out by the Schnader leaders in
order to assure the victory of the
gubernatorial candidate. There has,
however, been no proof Of this and the
PorfIh1iroVc oil iv,o hof will
close to Schnader.
Reed, known in Washington as one
OF the outstanding men in the Senate,
has no great personal following in the
State. He has been charged with be-
ing aloof and high hat" He stood
strongly for rearing the bars against
immigration when legislation for that
purpose was before the Senate and the
Democrats are making the most of
that with the foreign born voters
They charge him with being unfriendly
to labor and a minion of the MELONS.
And most strenuously do they point
out that he Is leading opponent of
the New Deal. His reelection. they
tell the voters, would be slap in the
face for Roosevelt.
Reed has been pounding away at
the New Deal for months in Pennsyl-
vania, attacking the N. r. A. and the
A. A. A. particularly He began this
in the senatorial primary, when his
chief opponent was Gov. Pinchot,
looked upon as a supporter of the New
Deal And Reeds vicotry was hailed |
as victory for the anti-New Dealers. |
His lead over Pinchot was narrow |
enough, only about $4,000, and the |
Democrats quote that fact as evidence |
that they have a good chance to de-
feat Reed on November 6.
Philadelphia May Decide.
The crux of the whole election may |
rest in Philadelphia. For while the
are strong in the great |
rural and central portion of the State,
the Democrats are leading in the
Western section, particularly in Allie /
gheny County and several other coun-
ties dubbed by the Republicans "the
bad lands" The coal counties, which |
in the past have been strongly Pinchot,
are claimed by the Democrats and
Eastern counties are more or less di-
vided.
The most sanguine Republicans do |
not predict that Philadelphia will give |
more than 10000 Republican lead |
and more the conservative figure Of |
10000 to 100000. There are more i'm |
partial observers who say that the
lead here will be cut to |
so 900 or $4,000. The Democrats say |
that they should carry Philadelphia
by $4,000. They are figuring in that |
estimate of strength on the $4,000 |
lead which some of the Democratic
for municipal Office had
here last year. But other Democrats
say that last years election, when
uprising against the Ware
machine was under way, is no cri-
terion. These more conservative
Democratic estimaters say that they
would not be surprised if the city went
5000 either Democratic or Repub-
lican. A mere $4,000 Republican lead
In Philadelphia would be clearly in
dicative that there was a great Dem
Dcratic swing in the rest Of the State,
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