Evening star., 1924-09-14

Idaho-Republican. William E.
Borah; Democrat, Frank Martin.
Wyoming-Republic Francis E.
Warren; Democrat, Robert r. Rose.
Montana-Repubican Frank Lind
erman; Democrat, Thomas J. Walsh.
Kansas-Republican, Arthur Cap
per: Democrat, James Malone.
Virginia-Democrat. Carter Glass.
Where only the Democratic nominee
is given, the nomination is tantamount
to election. owing to the overwhelming
Democratic vote In those States.
Primaries Listed.
. The nominations in New Mexico will
be made September 15' in Rhode
Island. September 80. and in New
Jersey, September 23..
The primaries and conventions IN
the various States where nominations
of United States Senators have already
been made have eliminated number
of familiar figures in the upper house.
On the Republican side. for example.
Senator Ball of Delaware was de-
feated for the nomination, removing
from the new Senate q firm friend OF
the District of Columbia. Senator Ball
is the present chairman of the Dis
trict committee. Other Republicans
who were defeated for denomination
were Medill Mccormick Of Illinois and
Sterling of South Dakota. Senator
Elkins of West Virginia declined to
make the race for the nomination. On
the Democratic side of the chamber
Senator SHE ds of Tennessee, one of
the few irreconcilables against the
League Of Nations among the Demo-
Gratis, was defeated. and also Senator
Dial of South Carolina. Senator Owen
of Oklahoma declined to enter the
race for denomination.
Democratic leaders-although they do
say SO for quotation-are more conf
dent Of winning the control of the
Senate today than they are of winning
the presidency. They say they could
lose the presidency by so electoral
votss and still win the Senate. In the
first place they figure that in many of
the States where the fight will be close
the voters who support La Toilette
and Wheeler will prefer to vote for the
Democratic nominees for the Senate.
and for the House, too, rather than for
the Republican nominees. They be-
lieve that the attacks made by the
Republican leaders on the La Toilette
national ticket will be in some part
responsible for this preference for the
Democratic nominees for Congress
They ssay that they expect to win
seats now occupied by Republicans in
Delaware. West Virginia, New Jersey,
Illinois, Colorado, Rhode Island, New
Mexico, and that they have a good
fighting chance in Michigan, Iowa and
South Dakota.
Couzens Foe Worthy.
Now Michigan, Iowa and South
Dakota are looked upon as Republican
States. But the Democrats are saying
that Senator Couzens will be opposed
by Mortimer K. Cooley, dean of the
law school of the State University-a
very popular man: that the La Toilette
voters in Michigan do not like Couzens.
and that the old-line Republicans are
not fond of him. In Iowa the Demo-
Gratis are figuring on getting, they say.
quarter of million old line Re-
publican votes for their man against
Brookhart. the progressive Republican,
and in South Dakota they believe that
the friends of Senator Sterling, who
kyas defeated, may support the Demo-
cratic nominee.
The Republican leaders are not
backward. however, in making
claims of gains. They are saying that
the Republicans will pick up sena-
torial seats held by Democrats in
Massachusetts,. where Speaker Gillett
is running against Senator Walsh;
in Oklahoma, kentucky and Colorado.
Further, they say the Republicans
have a chance of gain in Tennessee
and Montana. They are basing their
8osy predictions on the popularity of
the Republican national ticket and
the belief that the La Toilette ticket
rs going to cut into the Democrats
more seriously than the Republicans.
But even some of the Democrats
here admit privately that the odds
against Senator Walsh in Massachu-
setts are high. They add they be-
lieve he will run many thousands of
votes ahead of the Democratic ticket
in Massachusetts because of his per-
sonal popularity in the State. But
they fear that the Coolidge senti-
ment in the Bay State will sweep
Gillett into office.