Abstract

Vare's Last Triumph?

If power of animation could have been granted politician William Penn, as he stands aloft on Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's, City Hall, a cynical smile would have crossed his features on the eighteenth day of September. The Mackey-Greenfield make-believe war on "machine-politics," which was in reality an inter-machine struggle for control, ended in crushing defeat for the rebels. The candidates of the House of Vare swept into permanent places on the Republican ticket, therefore eventually to land in office, by majorities ranging from 150,000 to 200,000 votes. The old familiar cry of "Down with the Boss", which had been heard in more resounding tones in these primaries than since the time of mild-mannered, white-whiskered Blankenburg, has again been hushed. Out of the hubbub of battle politician William S. Vare emerges victorious and "gratified".