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...judges claimed that they have inherent powers, as an independent branch of the government, to fix the size and compensation of their staff. Both the tate's laws and its constitution, said he judges, assure the operation of the courts against indifference by the county legislature. Only if it could be proved that their hiring practice was "arbitrary or capricious," they said, could the county deny them funds...
Some of the party's best young men are bucking it-or deserting it. When Arlen Specter, now 38, found his career being stymied, he switched to the G.O.P. in 1965 and won the Philadelphia district attorney's office. Last year he nearly defeated Tate for the mayoralty. Another enterprising Democrat, James Walsh, 37, thought he was being held back by his elders. He successfully challenged the organization candidate in a mayoral primary, went on to win Scranton's city hall...
Cleansing Operation. Walsh was an exception. In Philadelphia, Green's son, Congressman William Green III, has been fighting a losing battle against Tate's effort to purge the party of in dependent-minded, younger men. Green was a Kennedy backer before the Senator's assassination. Tate and Barr, along with the leadership of organized labor, supported Humphrey. The stalwarts were strong enough to deliver 103¾ of Pennsylvania's 130 delegate votes to Humphrey- the very votes that nailed down the nomination for the Vice President- even though Eugene McCarthy had won Pennsylvania's primary...
Bitterness over this year's preconvention fight has intensified the dissatisfaction that has been building within the state party for years. Meyer Berger, national treasurer of the Americans for Democratic Action and a Pennsylvanian, calls Tate an ignoramus...
While organizations like Barr's and Tate's maintain a tenuous hold on power, the party's real strength has been slipping away. In the past six years, the Democrats have lost two gubernatorial elections and one U.S. Senate contest. While the Republicans have been fielding attractive candidates like William Scranton. Hugh Scott and Raymond Shafer, and backing them with unite campaigns, the Democrats have been wasting their energies in destructive primary contests...