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Tossing aside legal technicalities the Pennsylvania Supreme Court last week cleared Gifford Pinchot's claim to the Republican gubernatorial nomination and thereby paved the way to a fierce political battle in the November election. In the G. O. Primary three months ago Mr. Pinchot won the nomination over Francis Shunk Brown, candidate of Boss Vare of Philadelphia, by a plurality of 20,099 votes (TIME, June 2). Mr. Brown, a poor loser, contended he had been "robbed" of the nomination, sought a technical lever to pry Mr. Pinchot off the top of the political pile. He found it in Luzerne...
Aware of the threat to his nomination, Mr. Pinchot pre-empted first place on two hastily-formed independent tickets?the Fair Play Party and the Square Deal Party?to make sure he would be in the November race...
...Nominee Pinchot had other and larger troubles lying ahead of him last week. A militant Dry, he will oppose Democratic .Nominee John M. Hemphill, militant Wet, in the November election. Normally a Democrat's chances in Penn's Woods are negligible. This year, however, Boss Vare's Philadelphia G. O. P., smarting under its primary defeat and nursing old grudges, is reported ready to ditch Nominee Pinchot and support Nominee Hemphill sufficiently to bring him within striking distance of Harrisburg...
Boss Vare has four reasons for politically execrating Nominee Pinchot: 1) as Governor in 1926, Mr. Pinchot gave him a "certificate of doubt" instead of a certificate of election to the U. S. Senate; 2) Nominee Pinchot is Dry and Philadelphia is Wet; 3) Nominee Pinchot wars on public utilities and railroads supported by the Vare organization; 4) Nominee Pinchot is a type of person very different from Boss Vare...
...blood between the two Republican factions was brought into sharp focus fortnight ago when the party formally opened its campaign at Fogelsville. Mr. Pinchot flayed the "Philadelphia gang." Declared he: "The vast majority of voters are sick and tired of election corruption in Philadelphia. . . . Certain disgruntled political leaders ... are refusing to abide by the rules of the game and accept the decision of the voters in the Republican primary. . . . They propose to bring about the election of a Wet Democrat instead of the Republican nominee. . . . The defection of these masqueraders is neither respectable nor important." Mr. Brown at the rally...