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William Scott Vare in Philadelphia bosses the eastern end of the State. Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon and his nephew William Lorimer Mellon in Pittsburgh administer the western end. When the U. S. Senate refused to seat Mr. Vare, Governor John Stuchell Fisher, a Mellon man, appointed Joseph Ridgeway Grundy of Bristol, arch-lobbyist for the Tariff, active raiser of campaign funds. Long used to dictating to politicians though never before a large officeholder, Mr. Grundy greatly enjoyed his transition and soon regarded himself as the G. O. P. boss of the whole State. An upright Quaker...
Work Done. Last week the Senate of the U. S.: ¶Passed (53-31) the Tariff Bill (see p. 15). ¶ Adopted a resolution authorizing payments of $25,000 each to Senators-Reject William Scott Vare and William Bauchop Wilson of Pennsylvania to cover costs of their election contest. ¶ Confirmed the nomination of Judge Thomas Day Thacher of New York as U. S. Solicitor General...
...Davis will oppose Senator Joseph Ridgway Grundy. He will get no support from his Cabinet colleague and fellow-Pennsylvanian, Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon, who favors Mr. Grundy's faction of the Pennsylvania G.0.P. But he will have the backing of Philadelphia's William Scott Vare, Senator-reject, whose seat Mr. Grundy now holds. When Mr. Vare withdrew as a senatorial candidate to support Mr. Davis, the Labor Secretary acknowledged the courtesy as follows: "I'm always grateful for the help of any good man." Candidate Davis makes much of the fact that...
Pennsylvania Republican primaries are notoriously extravagant. Some two million dollars was spent by three Senate candidates in the 1926 contest which resulted in the Vare nomination and scandal. Nebraska's Senator Norris has already moved to keep the Grundy-Davis campaign expenditures under strictest scrutiny by a special Senate committee...
...Governor. The plans of my friends are working out satisfactorily-for Governor or U. S. Senator. Once in this struggle, I'll give Pennsylvania voters plenty to think about." Another candidate who vowed he would be in the May primary for the Republican nomination was William Scott Vare, Senator-Reject, invalid...