Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-01
Coz This Week. Campaign VIII Begin Take On Definite Shape
THE WEEK IN POLITICS
Summary of National Developments Based
Reports From The Stars Special Core
spondents and Staff Writer'S

" nomination for the
presidency only a week
ahead. democratic party managers
in all parts of the country are get
ting ready to open their cam
paign with as impressive noise
as they are able to manufacture.
Ii they enter the contest with any
lack of confidence in the outcome.
they are keeping their fears well
beneath the surface. There is no
indication in dispatches to The
Star from its political correspond
ents of democratic Willingness
to default to the opposition.
1t is true that a dispatch from
Cheyenne reveals that democrats
have failed to make nominations
Tor the state legislature in nearly
half the counties, from which the
inference is drawn that they have
no hope of carrying the state, but
that is too unimportant a de-
parture from the rule to demand
serious attention. 1t probably has
no more bearing on the general
situation than has the fact that in
a number of the states in the TAR
south the republicans are nominal
ing full tickets and talk bravery
of making real campalg n re
publicans in Alabama. for IN
stance. will have two Candidates
for the United States Senate 10
oppose Senator Oscar Underwood
and Representative Thomas }. Hef-
lin, the democratic nominees but
MeSSrS. Underwood and Helm
have given no indications of
alarm.
An impressive feature of the po-
litical news of the week IS an ap-
parent disposition in both parties
to set aside fractional differences
and to work tremendously for the
success of the national tickets.
There are some exceptions to this
rule. but generally it holds.
Democrats connected with the
national management are repre-
scented as being not a little con-
cerned over the situation in New
York state Mayor George X
Lunn of Schenectady. whose name
is anathema to Tammany, is MAX
d
nomination for the United states
Senate and will try to get indorse-
ment at the hands of the state
convention at Saratoga next
Wednesday. Tammany is smarting
under the fact that Lunn broke
up the unit rule in the New YORK
delegation at San Francisco, ana
will so to any length almost 10
keep him off the ticket. Gov. smith
is expected to be renominated
without opposition, and the party
managers are counting on his
popularity to offset the bad feeling
bound to be engendered by the
senatorial contest. If the thing
goes too far the big leaders or
the party are expected to take d
hand. for New York is recognized
as vital to democratic hopes in
November.
Wisconsin is one of the states
where there hasn't been any bury
ing of the factional Ratchet. In
fact, new factions with brand-new
hatchets have come into the reck-
oning, and the republican party
now is split in about four direc-
lions. The primaries are to be held
September 7. and there are SO
many candidates the voters will
have hard work keeping track of
them.
To begin with, the La Toilette
wing is busted" wide open, with
two candidates for governor. At
torney General John j. Blaine
and Lieut. Gov. +. F. Dithman.
The Non-Partisan League has in
dorsed Blaine and James Thomp-
son, La Follette's candidate for
the United States Senate. and
Blaine and Thompson have in
dorsed the non-partisan platform.
Senator La Toilette has announced
his support of Blaine. and Thomp-
son, which leaves Dithman, who