Evening star., 1922-10-29
THREE MAKE RACE
FOR SENATE SEAT
Republicans Adopt Stand
Pat Policy in Washington
State Primary.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

TACOMA Wash, October 2S.-Wash-
ington's three -cornered senatorial fight
is entering its final stages with the re-
publican campaign following the orig
inal plan of an appeal for Endorsement
on the party record made by the ma
tional administration.
one week before the time for going
to the polls Clarence c. Dill. the demo-
cratic nominee, is antiPoindexter on
the stump. but in the still gumshoe
hunt for votes he is fighting to break
into the support lined up for James A.
Duncan of Seattle, the farmer-labor
nominee. Efforts on the part Of the
Hearst crowd, the radical-democrats
and the conservative e-farmer-labor
group to force Duncan to withdraw in
favor of Dill have proved futile.
Dill's supporters believe they are
making headway with the ultra-conser
vatiye labor element, but the Duncan
leaders will not concede that dent has
been made in the real farmer-labor
organization. The situation has become
SO serious at this stage Of the campa ign
that William NJ. Short. president of the
State Federation Of Labor a platform
adviser for the democratic party and
within the ranks of organized labor. has
publicly announced his intention Of
keeping his hands off.
Opposition Active.
The only daily labor paper in the
state. the Seattle Union Record, is
stanchly supporting Duncan, Some
time ago il announced to the laboriteS
that it had considered Dill through.
In ordinary circumstances the bye
election campaigns in this state have
been a period for organization for an
approaching presidential campaign. A
great many overconfident republicans
who feel that the primaries settled the
whole controversy do not apparently
realize the Importance Of the present
preliminary contest, but the leaders of
the farmer-labor and the democratic
parties do.
The democratic leaders have worked
during the last few months attempting
to make preliminary arrangements
whereby their party at this campaign
could swallow the farmer,labor party
and then digest it during the campaign
of 1924. They planned to bring nation
ally known democratic leaders to the
state with that idea in view and they
tried to hasten matters by pleading
with Duncan to get out of the way and
paign.
AS a matter of fact it is generally
known that Duncan would have with
drawn in favor of Dill if the latter
would have announced himself as the
farmer labor candidate and nominee
and had stood under that party banner
upon the general ballot. Dill. however,
elected to stand as a progressive
democrat" and has been making his bid
for votes upon what he terms is
progressive" platform.
Edgar c. Snyder, former progressive
party state chairman. now democratic
nominee for Congress in the first dis
trict, is as careful as Dill to explain
that he is not so much a democrat that
he cannot mingle with the representa-
counties in the state. King. Pierce. Spo-
kane, Whatcome. Grays Harbor and
Walla Walla, the county candidates hold
party ties extremely loosely and in
many places are making their individ-
ual campaigns on a sort Of anti-the-
in office instead of a demo-
cratic platform. This all hampers the
organization plans for the
coming presidential fight two years
hence.
House-tO-HOuse Canvass.
Representative Albert johnson has
been following Dill all over South
western Washington. demanding to
know how Dill is faring in his fiirta-
tion with labor. Duncan is also ham
merinE at Dill along the same lines
1t is not possible to accurately esti-
mate the progress these two candi-
dates are making with their cam
paign, for there has been much
house to house, kirchen-to-bar can
vassing on both sides. Every poll
tician knows the personal contact of
a house house campaign is effec-
tive. showing unexpected results on
election day.
While this struggle between the
democrats and the farmer Labor par
ty, which really can have very i'm
portant future effect, is going on the
republican campaign is being waged
on the theory that the party record
deserves an Endorsement and that
that there wiP be enough republicans
to elect the Acket II they will vote.
There was a big stay-at-home vote
in the primaries, and there is apt to
be a large number of absentees in the
general election. The democrats and
the farmer-labor leaders are count
ing on just such condition. and the
managers frankly say
that they must during the coming
week overcome this disinclination to
make another trip to the polls being
shown by those party followers who
believe that the primary election set
tied the whole fight.