"Humiliation"

For speaking out of turn for Hoover at Kansas City, William S. Vare, U. S. Senator-suspect from Pennsylvania, Republican boss of Philadelphia, last week received a formal rebuke in the June Bulletin of the Republican League of Philadelphia. This League is not to be confused with Boss Vare's machine. The statement, in part, read as follows: "Secretary Mellon was chairman of the Pennsylvania delegation. As such he could not announce the position of the delegates until after they had held a caucus. . . . For a member of the delegation, over the head of the chairman, to presume to commit the delegation to any candidate was effrontery pure and simple, and contrary to all the rules of party discipline. Unless the Mellons are willing to abrogate [sic] the leadership of Pennsylvania they must take cognizance of this effrontery and deal drastically with it. Otherwise party reglarity and organization in State affairs will be a byword in Pennsylvania."

The League described Boss Vare's act as "a disservice to the Republican Party that will loom as of major importance during the campaign. . . . The humiliation of our distinguished Secretary of the Treasury which it caused is likely to reverberate. . . ."