Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-17
|SENAT0RSH|P FIGHT
COLORADO
National Issues Pushed From
the LimeIight by Three
Cornered Contest.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch 10 Inc star.
DENVER, Col, October 10
With the action of United States
Senator c. S. Thomas in accepting
designation by petition as the ma
tionaI party" candidate. national is
sues are crowded for place in the
political limelight. He has spurneo
party ties to enter the race.
MANY old-line democrats say Judge
Tullv Scott, the regular democratic
nominee, will not suffer materially by
Senator Thomas action, but repub-
leans will make stiff fight for thell
candidate, Sam D. Nicholson. Senator
Thomas is opposed to the league OF
nations. and, with pronounced views
against the domination of the closed
shop in industry. is appealing to many
republicans who opposed Nicholson In
the primaries. Marked inroads are
perceptible already.
The state republican committee
cooperating with the Nicholson
forces, had gone so far as to bring
court action to keep Senator Thomas
from getting into the race, ap-
parently, but after he had filed his
acceptance of the candidacy. self
imposed. the republican leaders
dropped the litigation. They ex-
planned that fear of possibility that
the vacancy committee might select
a disgruntled republican to run in
stead of Senator Thomas. in the
event the latter had failed to accept.
prompted them to take drastic pre-
cautionary steps.
/. Statement by Thomas.
In a statement accounting for his
acceptance of the nomination by petit
tiop Senator Thomas assails both the
national conventions of 1920 for sue
1Nn
problems" demanding public consid-
GRAFTON. He gives fifteen reasons for
his opposition to the league of ma
tions covenant, one of which is that
it creates two international organ
isms-one for the administration of
world affairs; the other to dominate
labor as an international class institu-
ton"
Some leaders in republican and
democratic ranks content themselves
by saying that either of the major
parties must dominate, and that Sem
ator Thomas cannot be successful by
endeavoring to make the democratic
dependent candidacy. He was not a
candidate for designation to the
primary ballot in democratic councils.
Charles w. Waterman. a republican,
who opposed Nicholson in the sena-
torfal primary race, has refused to
accept the HOIIlHdIlOI ny peCltlOn
for the senatorship, filed by his
friends. 1t is not believed that the
vacancy committee will designate
some one to fill Mr.. Waterman's place
as a national Roosevelt" party candi-
date.
w. r. Callicotte, the Non-Partisan
League candidate, after being defeat
ed in the democratic primaries, where
his name had been considered By
democrats. refused to accept the third
party nomination. and has dropped
out altogether. There is a socialist
senatorial candidate, but his cam
paign is not being considered seri-
ously by major party leaders.
The Non-Partisan Leaguers will
favor Scott, the democrat. it is be-
lieved. although many democratic
votes will be cast for Thomas, the in
dependent democrat in the race. with
Nicholson holding out hopes for the
capture of many of the doubtful yot-
ers in the league.
WARREN E. BOYER.