Word: vare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pennsylvania senatorial primary expenditures were last week scrutinized by a Senatorial Committee appointed to examine charges that the candidates, especially Vare and Pepper, had spent extravagant sums during their campaigns...
...money went: Vare spent $30,000 for campaign letters, $12,000 for postage, $21,000 for printing, the remainder, for incidentals; Pinchot, $6,000 to his private secretary, who had leave of absence to manage his campaign, the rest mainly for letters and postage; Pepper, $2,500 contributed to his campaign committee...
...three weeks ago roused the Senate to begin an investigation of alleged excessive campaign expenditures (TIME, May 31, THE CONGRESS). Last week the candidates filed their individual expenses (the campaign committees had two weeks longer in which to file their schedules). In the race for the Senate, William S. Vare (Wet), the successful candidate in the primary, spent $71,435.80 out of his own pocket, Governor Pinchot who ran third spent $43,767.31 of his money, and Senator Pepper who ran second depleted his pocket only...
...Significance. Representative Vare is the boss of Philadelphia politics. Without his great majority in his own city he could not have won. As it was, he did not have a majority of the 1,400,000 votes cast. If Mr. Pinchot, the ardent Dry, had not decided to enter the field as a third, it is most unlikely that Vare would have won. So, fundamentally, it was the act of a Dry which nominated...
...Drys claim that it was because the Dry vote was split that Mr. Vare won. But their argument is not convincing. Undoubtedly many votes in the Pittsburgh region which the Mellon organization swung to Pepper, would on a pure Wet and Dry issue have been Wet. And it is even likely that Mr. Pinchot got some normally Wet votes among the miners. The factors which tend to emphasize the Wetness of Vare's victory are that in Philadelphia 14 of the 15 silk-stocking wards, which ordinarily the local machine is sure to find opposing it, turned round and voted...