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Show DEMOCRATS EVE Party Leaders Believe State Can Be Wrested From Republicans It) ROBERT P. S1 ILL, Special Co rreep mid exu oJ The Standard- tamiuer I (Copyright, lU.'r. by The Standard-! Examiner.) WASHINGTON, March 25 Strange political mumblings are heard In i ! Washington these days. The Demo- ! Crats are talking of electing two United states senators from Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania for this fall. Just how serious j they are in this claim it is difficult; to tell, but their assertions are directing di-recting attention anew to the fact that witii the death of Senator Boles IVn-rosi- the grand old partly in the Keystone Key-stone slate Beems lacking in constructive construc-tive leadership. I The national Democratic leaders arc taking cognizance of all that is going go-ing on in Pennsylvania politics at t he-moment. he-moment. The situation is entirely out of the ordinary. Not only is thr: state ,called upon to elect two senators :.: j once, but the direction of the dominant domi-nant pally lias fallen into lav bands. I Senator Penrose was so completely a leader that he scoffed the idea of trusted lieutenants who could be in a position to take the work where hc-left hc-left off and keep the same organization organiza-tion together FA i l l TRO! BLI . The hope of tiie Democrats lies in the differences they feci are developing develop-ing among the factions of. the Republican Re-publican party Ordinarily talk of turning Pennsylvania into the Democratic Demo-cratic column, oven in an off year. wouid dc regaraea as synonomous to selling strange coals in Newcastle, but the double blow the Republicans received re-ceived In the deaths of Senators Knox and Penrose unquestionably was severe se-vere enough to leave the party in a more or less groggy condition. OOl N I K vr RING. The Pennsylvania situation has a national aspect in lhat it has been one of the last states to remain under un-der individual control The whole country is watching to see what happens hap-pens in Pennsylvania with the old leadership gone The Democrats pro-feaa pro-feaa i,, , jn the situation a distinct trend in their direction. They declare de-clare it is jum aa essential to break the tradition of Democracy in the south. This break can come only through a serious division in Republican Repub-lican ranks. It would be the height of folly for Republicans to think that the Democrats Demo-crats are not in earnest as to their intentions in-tentions to make serious inroads into the Republican strongholds of Pennsylvania, Penn-sylvania, 'lhls not only applies to the scnatorshlps but to the contests in many of the congressional districts. The Democrats have decided to make some of their most strenuous drives tbi year in the very' heart of Republicanism. The result of the special congres- j sional election in Maine was not over- i whclmingly encouraging to the Do- I I mocracy, but there was a distinct percentage per-centage of tjaln. and to this extent the j Democrats feel they have more to point to with pride than the Republicans, Repub-licans, although the latter Insist there is nothing in the Maine contest to view with alarm. Dl M'ji RATS I I HIXG Democratic senate rs arc- kfcpingr In close toueh with tho charges and counter charges which arc making the senatorial contest in the western onrl of Pennsylvania. It seems taken for granted here that Senator George Wharton Pepper, recently appointed by Governor Bproul, will have an easy victory in the May primaries so far as the eai?tern senatorshlp Is concerned, con-cerned, but as viewed from Washington Washing-ton there is a distinct political mud-dlp mud-dlp in the west. Reports of vast "deals" in western Pennsylvania, Involving large sums of money, have been brought to Democrat Demo-crat headquarters in Washington and the Democrats are hoping that these deals are true. "In view of all tho charges which j I have been published." warned Betaa- H tor Pat Harrison of Mississippi. poiiM- cal leader of the minoritj oarty in thi I senate today." It would seem that n W investigation may be demanded if any w I of thes- deals are put through. We 1 want no -Ne.vbeiryism In the seu-, seu-, ate." j POLITIC , METAMORPHOSIS. I There is no dblSbt here thai IV 1 u- m Isylvania is undergoing a remarkable I political metamorphosis. The voters of the state arc preparing to assert I themselves at the polls us they. hav I not done fpr years. Some of the older school 01" politicians still are bdast- I ing of having "so many hundred thou- I sands of vote3" in their pockets, "bi with Him old dynasty of leadership I gone there is no tellim: what may B happen " 1JM Perihsylvania is an enigma today. I New and strange forces are working H in th'- state and Strang h..j s are be- H ing born in Democrat breasts. |