The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-04

SAu6l
 WADSWORTH BESET l. And furthermore. Senator Wads-
 worth is wet" This would hot nec- essarily be an important factor in New
 York. but for the truth that the bulk of the dry" votes in New York is republican. William Anderson, super intendent of the Anti-Saloon League of New York. republican, has been | most abusive of Wadsworth and his | alleged liquor ring, and most insist lent in his appeals to the national re- 1 publican committee to save the na- | tional ticket by repudiating the head ! or the state ticket Senator Wads- ~worth.
 l The senator, however. will be a diff | ficult nut to crack. He is young hand
 some, and able. His record is good. I He has most adroit machine behind | him. It is safe to calculate that he
 will draw some of the wet" demo-
 cratic vote-especially "up-state." And
 what he loses becauses of his former | position respecting suffrage, he will 1 possibly make up by receiving the
 votes of women-and they were every
 where in the majority-who had no in- i terest in the suffrage battle, even if
 they did not object to it's object | The democratic candidate against 1 Wadsworth is not as able. certainly 1 not as well known. as others might have been, notably, Franklin D. Roose-
 welt. vice presidential candidate
 AND SHOOT QUAKES l And Reed Shoot is in danger. For
 the last several years. Utah has ben democratic. Four years ago it went | for Wilson by a large majority de- spite the fact that four yeafs previous 1 it was one of the two States which i cast their electoral votes for Taft 1 In the last Wilson campaign. the state i turned out all republican office hold CTS and sent Senator King a demo- crat. to the Senate. and democrats to | it's every seat in the House
 And Utah has not changed accord ing to Senator King, in recent inter- view with this correspondent Of course. Shoot as an elder In the Nor mon church, only thrice removed from the presidency of that powerful insti- tuition, has great strength. But he will not poll the total Mormon vote. The democrats were shrewd enough to nominate a Mormon against him. Shoot is an "old liner" one of Pen roses chief lieutenants. He was one of the manipulators of tile Chicago convention-one of the several sena- tors, who in the room of George liar vey early that June morning. pre- pared to put Into effect the Penrose order that Harding must be made Pres ident of the United States. Shoot suf- fers, 1t is said from the popular re- vulsion against machine politics as it is played this season.
 THE BRANDEGEE CASE
 And there is hope that Senator Brar- dagee of Connecticut will be beaten He
 Is another Penrose Iieutenant-one of
 the wisest of them all. He is anti league, ti-prohibition, anti-suffrage, anti-everything except republican and
 protection.
 There is no question but that the progressives of Connecticut are his trail Should Homer s. Cummings,
 former chairman of the democratic na- tional committee, receive the demo- cratic nomination, the chances would
 be excellent, it is said, of the demo-
 crats carrying the state. Cummings
 is an exceptionally fine orator. one with marked ability to make appeal to the idealism that lies more or less dor mant in every breast. And further more, he is an aggressive exponent of
 the League of Nations, and one of the originals in theI support of equal suf- frage
 At the same time, Brandegee is old and skilled in politics. He has abil-
 ity and a fine machine. And like all
 the republican leaders who are in dan ger, has sources from which with ease
 he can-obtain the sinews of war.
 THE c. 0. P. HOPE
 The republicans contend that they will defeat Senator Phelan in Califor- mia. Senator Nugent in Idaho. Senator Chamberlain in Oregon, and will elect successor to the democratic Senator Thomas of Colorado, who will not ask for another term in Congress. Democrats Sinsist that they will win back Missouri this year. Two years ago, Senator Spencer, republican, was chosen to succeed the late Senator Stone The nominee of the democratic party has a harder task to win than Champ Clark would have had. But Champ, at the time for qualifying. was still of the opinion that presidential lightning would strike him--and re- mained hands-off. The issue in Mis- souri. it appears. depends on whether the Reed following of the party SUD- ports or knifes the administration fol- lowing which scored successes in the primary.
 The senatorial situation Is only sec ond ir interest to the presidential. This is attributable to the fact that the marginal difference between the two parties in the Senate is two. And one of the two who give the republicans their power has been convicted of conspiracy to buy the state of Micht-