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Most appalled were Representatives and Senators who had offered to take delegates from their States to breakfast. Game Senator Guffey bought ham & eggs for 400 Pennsylvanians at the South Interior Department Cafeteria. Senator Walsh entertained 60 Massachusetts ladies at his exclusive Metropolitan Club...
Spring breezes ruffled the sample ballots tacked (illegally) on doorways, fluttered the big tricolor badges of Senator Joe Guffey's busy Democratic heelers (mostly union men on holiday). But for the Republicans it was not a nice April day. Up & down Philadelphia, as all over the State, guttered a stream of G. O. P. grumbles...
Only one job was at stake: the Senate seat now precariously held by Joseph F. Guffey, 64, the most forthright pap-grabber in Pennsylvania politics since the fabulous Boies Penrose. Two other Democrats wanted Mr. Guffey's job: Walter Adelbert Jones, oilman and chairman of the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission; and onetime Pittsburgh Mayor Bill McNair, 59, political jack-in-the-box, author of the campaign's best crack: "Anyone with a clean shirt on can beat Guffey." Ex-Mayor McNair had no chance. Behind Walter Jones was David L. Lawrence, State Democratic chairman. Mr. Lawrence has been withdrawn...
Acquitted again last week, Mr. Lawrence immediately denounced Mr. Guffey -the man who made him what he is today. Only phase of the mudslinging in which Democrats took much interest was: 1) the revelation that the middle initial "A" in Walter Jones's name stood for "Adelbert"; 2) the responding insinuation that the "F" in Joe Guffey's name stood for "Fauntleroy." (Mr. Guffey has long & stoutly maintained that the "F" stands for nothing.) As in many a State last week (see p. 18), the Democrats' mess was the Republicans' pottage. Happy and united were...
Under these auspices Jay Cooke went to the fray last week, represented in propaganda as a pipe-smoking, outdoor man. Impartial observers predicted that November would find Joe Guffey and the Pennsylvania Democrats much farther outdoors than astute Mr. Cooke...