The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-08-23
Reports on Various Candidates
Show Why Some are Already
Out and Why Others Will Be
Out After Elections


of reaction and defense of the liquor
interests, is depleted this fall by a
veritable political cataclysm. AS the
result OF designations already made
for the primary, that body will not
elect many of its old-time members
and others, if they return at all, will
know they have been through the fire,
is statement made by the Anti-Sa-
loon League in discussing the Prohi-
btion situation in that state. The
statement continues, while all the
changes to come in the Senate are not
due to public resentment, a consider
able part of them are. Fifteen of the
Senate membership of fifty-one will
not be candidates for reelection; half
a 'ozen others have contests for re-
nomination, and the New York Her
!. aid estimates that, with the usual cas-
uaties on election day, at least half
of the seats in the new state Senate
will be occupied by new members.
The prize victory for progress, so
far as the Senate is concerned, is of
course the building UP OF such hos
tile organization in the district OF SEN
ator Elon r. Brown as to cause him
to decide not to seek reelection. The
efforts of newspapers friendly to Sen
ator Brown to smother and belittle
the part of the Anti-Saloon League in
helping create the conditions which
led the senator to his exercise OF dis
erection are quite amusing. Said the
New York Herald of August 5:
Considerable opposition to Sem
ator Brown had developed in his
own county OF Jefferson and in
Oswego, which was joined with
Jefferson in the thirty-hfth Senate
district. The women voters of the
d'strict were also reported to be
opposed to Senator Brown.
The Anti-Saloon League knows con-
siderable with respect to that "oppo-
sition" to the senator, since it has had
special organizers in the district ever
since the close of the last legislative
session, and knows thoroughly all the
efforts put forth by the Brown ma
chine, even to the extent of attempting
to intimidate women voters by threats
of arrest, to prevent the enrolment
OF women in the Republican party and
batten down the matches on the politi-
cal fires that had been set going
against the senator.
Senator Robert J. Wagner leader
OF the Democratic forces OF the Sen
ate, has been nominated by Tanmany
for justice of the supreme court, and it
is reported that that is consummate
specimen OF Tammany representation
at its worst. Senator James J. Walker
may be the Democratic leader in the
upper body Those who have attend
ed sessions OF the Senate when votes
were taken on Prohibition measures
will recall the rather wandering and
artihcially-nspired rhetoric of Senator
walker on tne wet SlQc.
Senator Slater of Westminster
county is not running again, and Sen
ator Charles d. Newton of Livingston
county, whose district has been
squeezed out by the reapportionment,
is candidate for attorney general.
Senator George F. Argetsinger Of
Rochester, active lieutenant for Elon
Brown, probably recognizing the i'm
possibility of his being made the Sue
!, cessor of his late chief as majority
leader, and not willing to become
again mere private in the Senate
ranks after having been second in
command has gone to Washington
to take up work for the Red Cross
and will not be a candidate for re-
election. The nominee in his place
will be the present majority leader Of
the lower house, Simon L. Alder
Senator James A. Emerson of the
thirty-third district, and Senator
Charles w. Wicks of the thirty-sixth,
both of whom were special aides to
the Brown naturalization struggle
last winter, have bitter contests on,
and the men opposed to them are
making the ratification program a
cardinal part Of their platform Sena-
tor Emerson is opposed by Mr.. Nor
timer Y. Ferris of Essex county, and
the opponent Of Senator Wicks is ex-
Senior F. M. Davenport.
Another senator who has consis-
tently opposed temperance measures,
and who will not return to Albany
again, is Senator George Cromwell Of
Richmond county, whose district in
cludes the borough of Richmond and
the county of Rockland. There has