Word: vare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ladies respectively made Paris an offering of power, of martial glory and of the fairest woman on earth, so the three gentlemen each made an offer. Mr. Pepper came offering the glory of supporting the Administration. Mr. Pinchot offered the fierce pleasure of fighting for bone-dry prohibition. Mr. Vare offered the most inspiring of beverages?beer and wine...
Pennsylvania walked before them?Senator, Governor and Representative?examining tentatively their gifts, and holding in her hands behind her back the award of the Republican nomination to the Senate. Then, laughingly, she tossed the golden apple to Mr. Vare. All in vain was it that Secretary Mellon had gone back to Pittsburgh, crying: "Pennsylvania never had a more faithful public official nor one who has more clearly earned renomination"?Mr. Pepper polled only 485,000 votes...
...vain was it that Mr. Pinchot rallied' the church forces to his side and called to his coal miner friends?they cast but 320,000 votes for him. Mr. Vare, secure in his control of the Philadelphia machine and failing to gain a majority in most of the rest of the state, yet gathered with the single cry of "Beer" about 90,000 votes more than Mr. Pepper, almost 255,000 votes more than Mr. Pinchot...
...major significance except to Pennsylvania, of Representative Vare's surprising triumph is the degree to which it serves as a national political barometer. A growing sense of opposition to Administration policies and a marked swing of feeling against Prohibition have both been read into the result. It is true that the winner is a minority victor and that consequently too great importance may be attached to his triumph. On the other hand, the result is sufficiently surprising to provide copy for political dopesters for some time to come...
...Prohibition issue, however, is by no means so easily disposed of. By no means every Pennsylvanian is a Smedley Butler in his attitude toward the Volstead Act. Indeed it is Philadelphia which gave Representative Vare most of his support. The race was heralded beforehand as the first direct expression of popular opinion since the recent airing of views in Washington, and, three-cornered as it was, it seems inevitable that some of Mr. Vare's political prestige is recruited from the wet faction...