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Vare. Grimiest of the three is the case of Senator-elect William S. Vare of Pennsylvania. The James A. Reed investigations showed that he used a slush fund of some $700,000 to win the primaries last spring. Recent researches purport to reveal frauds in the November elections. In many wards in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Mr. Vare's Democratic opponent, William Bauchop Wilson, did not poll a single vote; in 119 city districts in Pittsburgh, Mr. Wilson received less than ten votes in each. Mr. Vare received the votes of one dead man, of one 5-year-old girl...
Others. Then there remains the charge that Senator Lawrence D. Tyson of Tennessee, Democrat, used $1,800,000 in his primary campaign in 1924. Such a sum would be equivalent to $20 for every man and woman who voted for him. Other slush and corruption investigations which have dwindled, were those against Senators Watson and Robinson of Indiana, Senator Hawes of Missouri...
...dramatic event that occurred during its existence, was the greatest prize fight ever held in our history and that contemporaneous with the celebration of the Declaration occurred an election for United States Senator in the state of its birth which was characterized by the existence of the greatest slush fund in our history...
Four days later, Ralph O. Brewster, big-mouthed Republican Governor of Maine, broke from his party strings and charged Mr. Gould with excessive use of slush in his primary campaign.* Said the Governor...
...last week announced that he, a Democrat, would vote to seat slush-tainted Senator-elect William S. Vare, a Repubican...