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Welcome Back. Jim Duff was barely settled in the Senate when he realized he had made a bad mistake. Even during the campaign, while Duff thundered against Grundy's "privileged-few" brand of Republicanism, Judge Fine was meeting secretly with Grundy's faithful lieutenant, G. Mason Owlett, in a room in Philadelphia's Ritz-Carlton. A few days after the governor's inauguration, Mason Owlett reappeared in Harrisburg. In other days, Owlett was the man who brought to the governor's office a budget prepared by the Grundy machine. Duff had ordered him out. Governor...
...that gathered over the melon in Room 808 had been summoned by Tom Dewey to select a Vice President. Some were old Dewey partisans-Congressman Leonard Hall of New York; Dewey's John Foster Dulles; National Committeeman Lew Wentz of Oklahoma; Barak Mattingly of Missouri and Mason Owlett of Pennsylvania. Others were days-old allies, men who had thrown their weight behind the Dewey bandwagon when that weight counted most-New Jersey's Governor Alfred Driscoll, Pennsylvania's Senator Ed Martin, Massachusetts' Governor Robert F. Bradford, Senator Leverett Saltonstall, and the Kansas City Star...
...that first defeat only made Grundy, Owlett & Co. more determined than ever to unseat the rebel. Scenting the fight, Deweymen rushed in to exploit the Grundy-Owlett wrath. It was an incongruous alliance. In the very week that Tom Dewey was urging reciprocal trade extension in Boston, Grundy's Doylestown Daily Intelligencer was editorially burning free-trade heretics at the stake. It was not that Joe Grundy distrusted Tom Dewey less; it was a case of distrusting Jim Duff more...
...Stick. By last week the battle lines were drawn. Mason Owlett threw in the full weight of the P.M.A. coffers. No Pennsylvania manufacturer went uncalled, no weight of pressure on wavering delegates went unused. Ed Martin had been independent of Joe Grundy when he was governor. But now, through him, Grundy and Owlett cocked the big stick of federal patronage. A Republican President would have 101,000 federal jobs to distribute in the state (though many of them were under civil service). U.S. Senator Ed Martin would be the man to parcel them...
Snorted Duff: "Dewey turns up in this state with the vigorous support of the people who have opposed every progressive step the Republican Party has taken. I assume that since Dewey says publicly he is ... for these programs, he or his agents must be telling Mason Owlett something else. I am driven to the conclusion that Dewey will promise anybody anything if it will make him President of the U.S. Dewey looks like a man without principle...