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...Lawrence and the elder Green are deard, and have left no heirs capable of ruling the realm. Mayor Joseph Barr of Pittsburgh and Mayor James Tate of Philadelphia can barely control their own baronies, let alone work effectively on the statewide level...
Where Green was smart enough to combine old-fashioned Irish-ward techniques with modern polling and other, newer devices. Barr, 62, and Tate, 58, have encouraged an anachronistic clubhouse atmosphere that is repugnant to the party's younger members and to most Negroes. During his re-election campaign, Tate actually bragged: "Eight of my ten department heads have beei in city government since the days of Clark and Dilworth...
...Operation. Walsh was an exception. In Philadelphia, Green's son, Congressman William Green III, has been fighting a losing battle against Tate's effort to purge the party of in dependent-minded, younger men. Green was a Kennedy backer before the Senator's assassination. Tate and Barr, along with the leadership of organized labor, supported Humphrey. The stalwarts were strong enough to deliver 103¾ of Pennsylvania's 130 delegate votes to Humphrey- the very votes that nailed down the nomination for the Vice President- even though Eugene McCarthy had won Pennsylvania's primary...
...McCarthy won the April presidential primary with the help of a substantial organization, most liberals are not hopeful that they will triumph over the entrenched machines. In the East, Philadelphia Mayor Tate runs "the forces of evil" as one McCarthy worker described it and in the West, Pittsburg Mayor Barr...
...Center is not quite as flexible as Fein suggests. According to Barr, there are budgetary reasons why the Center prefers to work through well-endowed agencies. "The Joint Center has the kind of framework that adapts well to serving established agencies," he says. "We normally look for a paying client. We can get a lot more mileage on funds that...