Show or STRESSED PRIMARY RESULT MAY EFFECT PRESIDENT MELLON OF prohibition ISSUE fight bitter between george pepper and gov pinchot with vare as leading wet it also effects secretary mellon washington with one exception the pennsylvania primary on oil tuesday Is the most important single event of tho he present political year th the e exception is the case of senator butler of massachusetts and tile the only reason t or the massachusetts el elections chions greater importance lies in the fact that senator butlers personal and geographical cal intimacy with president ca cooledge 0 iida e will viii cause the senators 3 fate to be interpreted na as having a direct bearing DU u the prestige and power of the president himself var the importance of pennsylvania primaries on tuesday thero there are many reasons it constitutes the best opportunity the wets havo have to register a striking advance in any of this years pending thirty theoa senatorial primal mailes lea nud find elections it determines the fate of so BO distinguished rul shed a senator as george W pepper it effects secretary mellon closely because lie lia has haa deliberately solicited the people of pennsylvania to identify peppers fate with his own this primary will either cither close the political career of governor pinchot or else give him a powerful shove toward a grunter greater career than lie he has yet had it will measurably determine whether tho the prohibition issue Is to figure in tile the 1928 presidential primaries and elections it if the wet candidate should win it will reveal renn pennsylvania sylvania na as a wot wet spot in the republican party almost as conspicuously as the democrats have in new york persons outside pennsylvania can best bo be given an understanding of tile the gUu atlon by a brief chronological statement george W pepper was appointed to thu tho senate four years ago is as the successor of senator penrose and by roughly the same political organization of which penrose was tile the head the tha selection of pepper expressed tile tha comparatively steady though sometimes interrupted tradition of pennsylvania that its senators at washington should be men of a higher typo of intellect tind and character that it was tile the custom to put in ordinary office by a similar pennsylvania trad tradition tion pepper shaula now bo be returned for a second term form without opposition tit in fact was the program that remains of tho the old perin penn republican organization fig as now captained loosely by secretary mellon and senator da david V I 1 1 I he heed L d |