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...months ago Senator George William Norris of Nebraska introduced a resolution for a senatorial investigation of 1930 campaign expenditures. Such an investigation four years ago resulted in excluding from the Senate Frank Leslie Smith of Illinois? and William Scott Vare of Pennsylvania. Illinois and Pennsylvania were again having bitter senatorial contests which Senator Norris wanted to keep under sharp observation. The Norris resolution went to the Committee on Privileges & Elections, chairmanned by California's Senator Samuel Morgan ("Solemn Sam") Shortridge. There the resolution languished...
...ardently supported the seating of Pennsylvania's William Scott Vare, Senator-reject, threw his arms about Vare in dramatic consolation as the latter left the Senate floor...
...primary was approaching. Senator Grundy was a natural candidate to succeed himself. Boss Vare chose as his candidate for Governor Francis Shunk Brown, onetime State Attorney General, Vare attorney in the Senate fight. Varemen approached Senator Grundy about a Grundy-Brown ticket. Senator Grundy not only spurned this alliance but also, without consulting anybody, announced that his candidate for Governor was Samuel S. Lewis, onetime State Treasurer. Promptly, with the help of William Wallace Atterbury, President of the Pennsyl- vania R. R. and Republican National Committeeman, Boss Vare chose Secretary of Labor James John Davis as his senatorial candidate, made...
...week closed he turned spitefully on the Vare machine, charged it with saddling Philadelphia with a huge debt, with "feeding at the public trough." His charges were reminiscent of those that George Wharton Pepper, Mellon senatorial candidate, made in vain against Mr. Vare four years ago. Always quick with a retort, Varemen accused Grundy of helping to "unload" on Pennsylvania some land at Valley Forge under the false pretense that it was George Washington's camping ground...
...seemed generally agreed upon these Pennsylvania points: 1) The Mellon influence will from now on dimmish in Pennsylvania politics; 2) Senator Grundy, with no ticket-mate, will be badly beaten by Secretary Davis; unless 3) with Mr. Pinchot contending formidably for the nomination for Governor against Mr. Brown, a Vare-Mellon deal has to be made, with Secretary Davis dropped as the price of electing Brown; 4) William Scott Vare remains more of a political power in Pennsylvania today than he ever was before the Senate rejected him, by simply waiting until the other element of his party...