Judge — February 1938 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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THE SENATOR-AT-LARGE The Keystone State Greases the Wagon to Go to Town ETWEEN the Ohio, the Mononga- hela, and the Allegheny Rivers on the West, and the Delaware and the Schuylkill Rivers on the East, there is a stew boiling in the Pennsylvania politi- cal pot. The Scotch-Irish Presbyterians in the Western section, the Quakers in the East, the Amish in the center of the State; the miners, the steel workers, the farmers, the manufacturers, and the bankers, are all stirring mightily. Ac- cepted rumor has it that the Democrats have their program pretty well set, with the Republicans still floundering around in a search for personalities behind which the many factions can rally. That Toga man, Joseph Guffey, whose great ability he feels will not be suffi. ciently exercised by attempting to defeat a couple of dozen Congressmen and Senators in their own States, as he an- nounced on the radio last spring, is slated to step up, or down, or sideways, as you may choose, into the Governor- ship to succeed Governor Earle who can- not succeed himself under the Pennsyl- vania law. The erstwhile Austrian Am- bassador, present Governor, and rich man filled with political ambition, who rides in open cars in Inaugural Parades, will go to the Senate to succeed the pres- ent Senior Senator, James J. Davis. That Democratic bad boy, Tom Kennedy, C. I. O.'s favorite child, and threat to the smooth operation of the Guffey machine, will be placated by the Governor's ap- pointment to the Senate to fill the unex- pired term of Joseph the Guff when he goes down to Harrisburg. What they'll do with him after that is another prob- lem for another day. For a few hours there was another threat to harmony, in the person of S. Davis Wilson, the Mayor of Philadelphia, who is a Demo- crat on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sat- urdays, and a Republican the rest of the time. He has pretty well eliminated himself, however, and is sufficiently in debt to the Kelly-McCloskey outfit in Philadelphia, to stay put where he is told. Two years from now when the Demo- cratic National Convention comes along there will be Mr. Guffey pointing with pride to the availability of Mr. Earle as a Vice-Presidential candidate, or maybe, who knows, starting him as February, 1958 number one choice for the Presidency. That takes care of the Democratic plans pretty well, with an almost unani- mous agreement as to their practicability and feasibility from everybody except the Republicans. After having seen the old machines pretty well kicked apart in the last National election, they came a long way back in the local elections this summer, and many a county which had given candidate Roosevelt tremendous majorities came back into the Republican columns with a roar. In Dauphin Coun. ty, where Harrisburg is also the county seat, under the able leadership of Frank Slack and Clayt Dougherty, and in spite of a well-organized Democratic machine functioning smoothly with plenty of war material, the Republicans took every county and state office without an ex. ception. All over the state this was re- peated, and now the Republican leaders have thrown away the 1936 voting lists. The Republicans’ problem is to name men to oppose Guffey and Earle, behind whom they can rally without division in their ranks. Senator Davis unquestion. ably would choose to run again if the decision were left to him. Gifford Pin. chot, the perennial, has announced his candidacy again for the Governorship, on a platform tearing the Earle policies apart. The Republican leaders, while they know what a campaigner he is, feel there are too many voters ready to record against him. They might look farther and do worse than naming Frank Slack of Harrisburg, or John L. Stewart of ‘Washington County, who is a shrewd and keen politician and a well-known publisher of two of the best dailies in the state. Pennsylvania's primaries are held in May, which is very near now, and a long time before election. It will be a great fight. —HN. “THIS IS A FINE TIME TO FIND OUT WE'RE IN Love!” comicbooks.com