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Callers. The newsmen simply sat, fidgeted, watched callers going in and out. Early to come was William S. Vare, Philadelphia's pudgy boss, whose obtrusion at Kansas City embarrassed Hooverism and irked Pennsylvania (see p. 13). Mr. Vare also went to see Nominee Curtis at the Capitol. The nature of Boss Vare's errands remained obscure...
...Mellon suite conferences on drafting Coolidge continued to a negative conclusion. Next day, when Secretary Mellon endorsed Hoover at the Pennsylvania caucus and Boss Vare got a resolution passed alleging his right to a seat in the Senate,f newsmen snorted abusively that the Pittsburgh patrician's course had been dictated by the Philadelphia politician, that Secretary Mellon had been timid and vacillating, that his control of Pennsylvania was a myth, that Boss Vare was Boss indeed and that Hooverism had Boss Vare to thank for its deciding boost. As added evidence of the supremacy of Vare over Mellon...
During the convention, Secretary Mellon and Boss Vare sat side by side in the front row. They chatted together, sometimes laughed together. Perhaps they were patching things up. Perhaps they really like one another. Perhaps the Vare-Mellon rivalry is a fiction. Perhaps there are simple explanations of what happened in Kansas City: that Boss Vare, a contractor, heartily admired Candidate Hoover, an engineer; that Secretary Mellon, a cautious financier, wanted to explore every contingency before shifting from the Coolidge investment to the Hoover; that Vare, a blunt creature, saw no sense in waiting longer; that Mellon, alive to subtleties...
...case, the Vare-Mellon episode and the publicity it received were unfortunate for Hooverism. One cartoonist portrayed Boss Vare boosting the Beaver Man up a tree to get the Presidential apple. On the seat of the Beaver Man's white trousers appeared the dirty print of a smudgy, pudgy hand. In any campaign of Hoover v. Smith, if Republicans point to Smith's rich backer, Contractor William Kenny, Democrats will point back at Hoover's friend, Contractor Vare. If Tammany Hall is viewed with alarm, so will be the notorious voting of tombstones, alley cats, children...
...East had had a little more backbone we might have had a ticket that the whole party would have been proud of. ... I would not give three whoops in hell for the man who only goes along with the tide. I wish . . . we would not have to listen to Vare of Philadelphia name the Republican nominee...