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ell who voted for this sales tax-at
the direction of Jay Cooke, the Pinchot
people say-are now supporting Judge
James for the gubernatorial nomina-
ton.
Some of the Republicans, since the
development Of the Democratic scan
dals and the terrible intra- party row.
have come to the conclusion, it is said,
that the Republicans can win with
almost any candidate-and they have
been told they can win with Judge
james by the Philadelphia Inquirer and
other newspapers. This may be a real
danger to Mr.. Pinchot's chances. How
ever. the Pinchot managers insist that
the majority of the Republicans realize
that, once the primary is over the
Democratic factions will get together;
that the State will be flooded with
relief money from Washington and the
w. P. A. workers will be lined up.
Even now. they say. the Democrats
are holding back about S40,O00.000 of
road funds which will be poured out
in September and October.
/. To meet this huge expenditure, the
Plnchot people insist. it will be neces-
sary to nominate candidate who will
make an appeal to labor, the farmers
and particularly to the miners. The
former Governors friends insist they
have not forgotten that Mr. Pinchot
took them out of the mud" with a
program of highway construction.
The Pinchot leaders fear that the
Pews. Joe" Grundy and others will
. rush big slush fund into the field
on election day. They say it loud and
often. perhaps in the hope that it will
scare their opponents and prevent this
expected expenditure.
Pinchot Enemies in Picture.
The James leaders are counting on
the enemies that Mr.. Pinchot made
during the two terms he was Governor
in the past. Every Governor makes
enemies. particularly among the peo-
pie whom he failed to appoint to office
They insist, too that many of the old
Pinchot followers have jumped to the
Democratic party in recent years, and
that they will have to vote this year
In the Democratic primary.
Mr.. Pinchot is pictured to the Repub-
licans as q halfway New Dealer. The
fact that he took off his coat and
worked hard in 1894 to defeat Sena-
tor Guffey and to elect former Senator
Reed. and that in 1896 he campaigned
for Mr.. Landon. is entirely ignored by
the anti-Pinchot people.
In their effort to stop Mr.. Pinchot
Judge James and his sponsors dub Mr..
Pinchot &C. 1. o. candidate" The
theory they advance is that If Mr..
Lewis is unsuccessful in his effort to
have Mr. Kennedy nominated by the
Democrats he will turn the support of
the c. I. o. to Mr. Pinchot in the fall
election. and that Lewis would be the
power behind the throne If Mr.. Pinchot
were elected.
Davis Looks Lucky.
Senator James ]. Davis. who, until
. few months ago seemed politically
dead, apparently is shot with luck
Not even the strongest supporters of
Judge James for the gubernatorial
nomination believe that G. Mason
Owlett, who is known widely as a cor
poration and public utility lawyer, can
defeat 'Puddler jim" Mr.. Davis has
avoided hooking himself up with either
Mr.. Pinchot or Judge James up to date.
However. some of the Pinchot leaders
are coupling the Davis candidacy with
that Of Mr.. Pinchot in their recent
Aspeeches.
rSHe is put forward as a labor candi-
date" But the Pinchot people ask
how that can be in the light of the
"Romig decision" in which Judge
James concurred. In that decision the
Superior Court, of which Judge James
is a member, ruled that an injured
employe was entitled to compensation
only on basis of the number of days
he happened to be working in the week
he was injured. Mr.. Romig. as it hap
pened, was working just one day a
week when he was hurt. The Romig
decision. If allowed to stand. would
have cut the heart out of the work
mems compensation act of Pennsyl-
vania, labor contended. The case was
appealed to the State Supreme Court
by the United Mine Workers as IL
happens. for Mr.. Romig did not have
the funds to appeal-and the higher