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...primary polls last week to deal a new hand all around in State politics. Within twelve hours they had retired Senator Joseph Ridgway ("Old Joe") Grundy to his Bristol yarn mills, created a vacancy in President Hoover's Cabinet, smashed the hopes of Senator-reject William Scott Vare of becoming G. O. P. boss of the State, registered their opinion on Prohibition, recalled to high office one of their ablest and most distinguished citizens...
...Senate seated but severely condemned Truman Newberry for spending $195,000 in Michigan in 1918 to beat Henry Ford. After the 1926 primaries it ousted Frank Leslie Smith of Illinois for spending $458,792 (a large part of which came from Public Utilitarian Samuel Insull) and William Scott Vare of Pennsylvania for spending...
...five. His hair is grey, his face florid, his manner genial and approachable. He is running as an out-&-out Wet for the repeal of his State's enforcement act. Opposing him are Gifford Pinchot, a crusading Dry, and Francis Shunk Brown supported by both the Mellon and Vare factions of the G. O. P. Mr. Brown has declared for a Prohibition referendum, is classed as a political weasler on this issue...
...Brown, the regular candidate, enough votes to give Mr. Pinchot the nomination. The great Pennsylvania question: will Wet voters put party above Prohibition? In the House Pennsylvania's scholarly and aristocratic Congressman, James Montgomery Beck, is a most eloquent Wet. In politics he is a part of Boss Vare's Philadelphia machine. Lately he appealed to voters to support Mr. Brown, who had weasled on Prohibition, rather than Mr. Phillips who stood with him on this issue. Mr. Phillips' comment: "Oh, fiddle faddle...
Pennsylvania's Senator Joseph Ridgeway Grundy who goes into a primary election next month against Secretary of Labor James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis for the Republican senatorial nomination, grew so excited detailing to the Privileges & Elections Committee alleged "slush funds'' being raised against him by the Vare-Atterbury faction, that Chairman Shortridge had to call him sharply to order. Secretary Davis, when he heard a Senate committee would investigate Mr. Grundy's campaign expenditures along with his own, rapturously exclaimed...