Pennsylvania Bolters

Last week Gifford Pinchot, Pennsylvania's Republican nominee for governor, lost the vote of William Winston ("Bill") Roper, famed Princeton football coach. Mr. Roper who, away from Princeton, is a Philadelphia councilman from the Germantown district, announced that he would bolt his party to support John M. Hemphill, Democratic nominee, because he was a thoroughgoing Wet. Bolter Roper managed the 1922 primary campaign which won Mr. Pinchot his first term as governor.

Confidently awaited last week was a statement from Philadelphia's Boss William Scott Vare repudiating the Pinchot candidacy.

Nominee Pinchot was comforted by the knowledge that he had the wholehearted support of the Pittsburgh Mellons. William Larimer Mellon, nephew of the Secretary of the Treasury, announced that there would be no Republican bolting in that family.

His Wetness cost Nominee Hemphill the votes of William Bauchop Wilson, onetime (1913-21) Democratic Secretary of Labor and Vance Criswell McCormick, onetime (1916) Chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

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