POLITICAL NOTE: Primaries

In Philadelphia, great was the to-do over the nomination of a Register of Wills, a City Treasurer, a Coroner-great was the to-do because the primary was the acknowledged battle for political supremacy between Boss William Scott Vare (three years elect, but not yet seated as a U. S. Senator) and Mayor Harry A. Mackay, once Vare's campaign manager, last week his rival. On the eve of the primary Miss Beatrice Vare coming from the Senator's sickbed broadcast over the city:

"My father needs your help, and as he is unable to come here from...

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