Evening star., 1934-10-27
Works for Regular G. 0. P,
but Sympathizes With
Roosevelt Plans.
TERMS CHIEF EXECUTIVE
AS "GREAT PRESIDENT"
Likens Guffey and Earle to Fleas
Attached to Faithful
Watch Dog.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN,
STAFF CORRESPONDENT of The Star.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, october 81
Old Father Penn must rub his eyes
over the political goings-on in this
Keystone State.
Hitherto a Republication nomination
in a Statewide election has been con-
sidered tantamount to election. Re
publican Governors and Senators have
succeeded one another in monotonous
fashion, ever since Civil War days
Today the Democrats are confident
and the Republicans are worried.
In this city of brotherly love there
has been a long succession of iron
handed Republican bosses. Tie last
of the Wares to occupy this dominant
role passed out of the picture when
Bill" Ware died several months ago
No one has risen yet to take his place
Edwin r. Cox is chairman of the
Republican City Committee of Phila-
delphia. He won his way to this posi-
tion last Spring, following a revolt
against the Ware leadership, which had
been slipping for some time and which
took a body blow in the municipal
election year ago. Cox is no new
hand at the political game. He was a
ward leader of the old Ware machine,
but Ware turned thumbs down on his
ambitions to become Republican can
didate for lieutenant governor and
ignored him on other occasions. When
the time was ripe, Mr.. Cox was per-
fectly ready to step in to defeat the
Ware candidate for city chairman, and
some 80 of the ward leaders followed
him. But although Cox has this
position, he does not yet fill the posi-
tion of city boss-comparable to the
dominant position held by the Wares
in the past. There is no one in the
Republican organization today who
like the Wares or the late Senator
Boise Penrose, can bring his fist down
on desk and say that goes" or that
doesn't CO."
G. o. p. Still Functioning.
Nevertheless, the Republican city
organization Is still functioning and
gives promise Of doing so effectively
1t has new front. 1t has sought tc
wipe off the stains which attached tc
the Ware machine. 1t has moved its
headquarters into one of the most
modern Office buildings in the heart
OF the city. The layout has the ap-
pearance and all the appurtenances OF
a big business organization. And it hopes
to attract all the Independents and
highly respectable people who looked
askance at the old Ware machine. At
the same time there has been no dis
integration of the ward organization
The same ward leaders who operated
In the past are operating now. And
they are putting their best foot for
ward to roll up big Republican vote
on November 6, with individual hopes
that they may become more impor-
tant figures in the new set-up.
The strangest sight, perhaps, In
all the political panorama of Penn
Sylvania today is the crusading Gov
Clifford Pinchot, who for years has
been the bad boy of the Republican
party here. Gov. Pinchot is raging
up and down the State in support of
the regular Republican ticket, headed
by Attorney General William A.
Schnader, and in attack upon the
OeHlOCTdllC nominees LOT Governor
and Senator, George H. Earle and
JOSEPH F. Guffey, respectively.
The Governor has interjected the
first bit of drama into a campaign
that seemed dull enough. After the
Democrats had looked upon him as
a tacit if not open supporter of their
cause in this campaign, if he did not
throw himself into the race as an
independent candidate, Gov. Pinchot
three weeks ago unleashed fierce
attack upon Earle and Guffey, de-
claring: Il can't stand for Guffey and
I can't stand for Earle" And that
has become Republican chant from
one end of the State to the other
He has thrown verbal brickbats at the
Earle-G -Guffey combination with COM
plete abandon. No one is quicker on
the trigger than Mr.. Pinchot. Senator
Reed and Mr.. Guffey have gone along
campaigning against and for the
Roosevelt New Deal without an ugly
personal word, and Schnader and
Earle have kept off personalities. But
not so the Governor. He has accused
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