PENNSYLVANIA: Republicans' Return

Mr. William Hall of No. 58 North 16th Street, Harrisburg, Pa. last week rented his old horse-drawn victoria for its quadrennial job: to carry Pennsylvania's Governor to his inaugural. In the rented relic outgoing Governor George Howard Earle and incoming Governor Arthur Horace ("Breaker Boy") James rode to the State Capitol, where Republicans formally retrieved control of the State from the Democrats who held it for four years.

An old-line Republican machine politician, Governor James's first act after he took oath was to slap down a document on the inaugural stand, announce:...

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