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...grown rich in public utilities (oil and coal), he is large, rotund, married, father of five. His hair is grey, his face florid, his manner genial and approachable. He is running as an out-&-out Wet for the repeal of his State's enforcement act. Opposing him are Gifford Pinchot, a crusading Dry, and Francis Shunk Brown supported by both the Mellon and Vare factions of the G. O. P. Mr. Brown has declared for a Prohibition referendum, is classed as a political weasler on this issue...
...political prophets concede Mr. Phillips a chance of nomination. Yet he is a prime primary factor because he may draw from Mr. Brown, the regular candidate, enough votes to give Mr. Pinchot the nomination. The great Pennsylvania question: will Wet voters put party above Prohibition? In the House Pennsylvania's scholarly and aristocratic Congressman, James Montgomery Beck, is a most eloquent Wet. In politics he is a part of Boss Vare's Philadelphia machine. Lately he appealed to voters to support Mr. Brown, who had weasled on Prohibition, rather than Mr. Phillips who stood with him on this issue...
Senator Grundy had blundered badly in selecting Mr. Lewis to run with him. Mr. Lewis fought Governor Fisher last year in the Legislature on a gasoline tax, incurred the Governor's enmity. Mr. Lewis has few friends among the rank and file of the party. When Gifford Pinchot announced his candidacy for Governor, it seemed likely that Mr. Lewis would be stripped of what small rural following...
Political observers last week seemed generally agreed upon these Pennsylvania points: 1) The Mellon influence will from now on dimmish in Pennsylvania politics; 2) Senator Grundy, with no ticket-mate, will be badly beaten by Secretary Davis; unless 3) with Mr. Pinchot contending formidably for the nomination for Governor against Mr. Brown, a Vare-Mellon deal has to be made, with Secretary Davis dropped as the price of electing Brown; 4) William Scott Vare remains more of a political power in Pennsylvania today than he ever was before the Senate rejected him, by simply waiting until the other element...
...turning one section into a forest reservation, another into a village, to 11,500 acres. To house the 2,000 people employed on the estate, Paternalist Vanderbilt built a model village in the English Cheshire style, now a suburb of Asheville. Biltmore's first Chief Forester was Gifford Pinchot, later (1923-27) Governor of Pennsylvania. Here until his death in 1914 lived George Washington Vanderbilt, studying the dialects of the American Indian in his ornate library, helping his North Carolina tenants with their farming, issuing mildly autocratic decrees. He willed Biltmore to his only child, Cornelia, who was destined...