"D-R-Y"

POLITICAL NOTE

"DRY"

Last week Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. M. C. retired, announced that a petition was being circulated to put his name in the April primaries in Pennsylvania as a candidate for the Republican Senatorial Nomination. His candidacy again drew the sharp line which separates the Out-&-Out-Dry-Pinchot Republican machine from the Wet Philadelphia organization commanded by Boss William Scott Vare. General Butler's chief opponent for the nomination (which is virtually as good as an election) will be Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis, who recently switched from Dry to Wet to hold the support of Boss Vare's machine.

Following a conference with Governor Pinchot's secretary at the Butler home in Newtown Square, "Old Gimlet Eye" let out his first war whoop:

"I enter this fight as a Dry and you can spell it out in capital letters. DRY. . . . There will be two weeks' work on my lecture tour to be completed. In the interval there will be little campaigning done. After that there will be plenty. . . . The baby was just born. It is a Pinchot-Marine Corps baby."

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