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...President Wilson's authority to send troops to France. During his eleven months in the Senate, he has taken only an inconspicuous part in its affairs. A thoroughgoing Republican regular, he startled his Conservatives only when he broke with them to vote for the rejection of William Scott Vare of Pennsylvania...
Gifford Pinchot, Republican nominee for Governor of Pennsylvania, last week lost a large chunk of political support but none of his oldtime Rooseveltian capacity for denunciation. Charles B. Hall and Samuel Salus, potent members of the Philadelphia G. O. P. machine under Boss William Scott Vare, repudiated him to support John M. Hemphill, the Democratic Nominee. Mr. Pinchot exploded: "They're gangsters first and Republicans as a matter of convenience afterwards. . . . Hall . . . stands for everything decent voters despise and hate. His support is always a liability...
Three sound explanations existed for this Republican breach which seriously unsettled the certainty that Pennsylvania, as it has done for the last 39 years, would elect a Republican governor in November. They were: 1) longstanding hostility be tween Nominee Pinchot and Boss Vare, whose candidate for governor Mr. Pincho' defeated in the primary; 2) the Wet appeal of Nominee Hemphill in Republican urban districts; 3) the apprehension of Big Business at Nominee Pinchot's "radical" program of industrial and utility regulation...
...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...