Evening star., 1934-05-13
New Deal Fate Also Hangs
in BaIance-Democrats
in Ascendancy.
VICTORY is FORESEEN
FOR GUFFEY AND EARLE
Pinchot-Reed Battle Wakes Hot
as Excessive Expenditures Are
Laid to Senator.
BY G.. GOULD LINCOLN,
Staff Corresnondent of The Star

Stan correspondent OF The Star.
PHILADELPHIA. Pa, May 12.-The
Voters of Pennsylvania will troop to
the polls Tuesday to nominate candi-
dates for State Office and for Congress,
following the completion of q cam
paign that has been marked by
hatreds, confusion and intraparty
strife in both Republican and Demo-
cratic ranks
Hanging in the balance is Repub-
lican control of the State and the new
born Democratic ascendency in many
parts of Pennsylvania. Hanging in
the balance is also the fate of the new
deal as exemplified by the Roosevelt
policies.
On the eve Of the election 1t ap-
pears that Joseph F. Guffey. leader of
the Roosevelt Democrats. will be nomi-
mated for Senator, and his running
mate. George H. Earle, will win nomi-
nation for Governor.
That William A. Schnader, the pres
ent attorney general of the State, will
be nominated by the Republicans for
Governor.
That the Democrats will pool sur
prisingly large number of votes in this
heretofore strongly Republican State
Hatreds Split G. o. P.
When It come to the Republican
necessary to inquire carefully into the
strength and weaknesses of the two
principal candidates, Gov. Clifford Pin
chot and Senator David A. Reed.
Both Pinchot and Reed have their
enemies in the Republican party here
lots of them. 1t almost seems as
though these hatreds will be strongly
determining factor in the results.
Pinchot has fought the reorganization"
in season and out. Reed has the back
ing of the State and city organization.
though the organization has no par
ticular love for him.
Money. according to the views OF
many old-timers here, may be deter
mining factor in favor of Reed. If 1t
Is forthcoming on election day.
Some of them insist that the neces-
sary funds will be forthcoming
though they are leary when 1t comes
to saying just where it will come from.
Gov. Pinchot, in anticipation OF
heavy expenditures for Reed. issued q
blast today, asserting that Reed is
spending SO much money to get him
self nominated that he will never be
seated if he is nominated and elected.
Pinchot's State manager, Judge Paul
s. Lehman originated the "slush fund
charge against Senator Reed.
The Reed forces Indignantly deny
they are engaged in an effort to buy
the election.
See Veterans, Labor Support.
The Pinchot leaders assert the Gov
ernor will have the support of Labor,
organized and unorganized. They say
he will have the support Of war vet
Grams, because Reed has opposed the
national bonus to Soldiers and Pin
chot has supported a State soldiers
bonus which will give to each veteran
up to 5000.
Gov. Pinchot is counting also on
support of the Jewish voters and the
Italian voters, who are numerous in
Philadelphia, because of the record
of Senator Reed in opposition to more
liberal immigration laws. He Is count
ing also on rolling up a large vote IN
the five coal mining counties of the
State, and in the rural sections OF the
State. During his administration in
Harrisburg a big road building pro-
gram has been underway, giving the
farmers the benfit of thousands OF
miles of hard roads where they were
accustomed to fighting their way out
of mud.
Gov. Pinchot is also expected to
have the support OF large portion
of the 10000 or more workers on the
State pay roll, many of them en-
gagged in road building.
The State Federation OF Labor, IN
annual session here. declined to in
dorSe Gov. Pinchot, which was hailed
by the Reed people as a distinct set
back for the Governor. But the next
day the convention denounced the
candidacy of Senator Reed, declaring
him an enemy to labor, and now the
Pinchot forces are chortling.
If Pinchot has the support OF LABOR
as is claimed. Reed generally has the
support of the business men. They
are organized in the revived Pennsyl-
vania Protective Union, IN which
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