Evening star., 1926-09-22
Politics at Large
By G.. Could Lincoln.

Fall, Maine is soon to stage another
A successor to the late Senator Bert
M. Fernald is to be chosen. GOV
Brewster has fixed November l fo1
the Statewide primary, at which party
nominations will be made, and the
election itself is to follow November
90. Senator Fernald's term, to which
the new Senator will be elected, does
not expire until March 3, 1881.
So far the candidates in the running
on the Republican side are former
Gov. Baxter and Arthur r. Gould OF
Presque Isle, a business man of very
considerable experience and wealth.
The State on September 13 went sc
thoroughly Republican, electlng Ike
publican governor and all four mem
bers of the House representing Maine
not to mention the State Legislature
that it does not appear that the Demo
Gratis could make much more than
gesture in the coming senatorial elec
ton.
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The campaign for election of Sena
tors and members of the House is
warming up in Indiana and ONO. In
both the Republicans are very hopefu
of winning the senatorial elections
while the Democrats, on the other
hand. are leaving no stones unturned
In an "off year." with no elections
the lightning sometimes strikes in un
expected places. The last Democratic
Senator elected in Indiana was the
late Senator Ralston, whose seat is
now occupied by Senator Robinson, a
Republican, serving under appoint
ment by Gov. Jackson. Robinson is
himself up for election in November
When RalstOn won the senatorial elec
ton in 1922, he was pitted against
former Senator Albert Beveridge. His
success was really more the result OF
Republican weakness than of Demo
cratic strength. Thousands of Repub-
licans in Indiana then had their
knives out for Beveridge, both be-
cause he had been a Bull MoOser in
1912 and because of the bitter fight
he and Postmaster General Harry
New had waged in the primaries
that year. The HoOsier State
in normal times is strongly Repup-
lican. But the Republicans nave
rent themselves severely in factlonal
strife not infreQuently, and the Demo
Gratis have profited thereby rms
year the Republicans are believed to
be more strongly together than Tor
some time The Republicans have two
Senate seats at stake, that held by
Senator Watson and that OF Senator
Robinson. Opposed to them are AL
bert Stump, an active campalgher'
Young. a good speaker, who has been
hot on Senator Watson's trail for
months, and Evans Woollen, one OF
the best known bankers of the Middle
West, who might have had job in
President Wilson's cabinet if he would
have taken it.
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Both Watson and Robinson OPP
posed the administration on the
World Court and on the McNary :
Haugen farm relief bill. But they
were nominated by large votes In
Iieved to have sensed the sentiment
of the voters of Indiana pretty vel
on both these issues. The Demo
cratic candidates for the Senate, IN.
stead of seiZing upon the WorlC
Court as an issue against RoblnSoi
and Watson, have kept away from /,
entirely. Which is still better PROOF
of how the Court is regarded II
Hoosierdom. They have been ring
ing the changes on the Repubhcal
protective tariff as their main issue
hoping to convince the farmers thai
thew are being Disseminated against
by the Fordney- McCumber tariff law
But so far it is not of record tha'
any one is wildly excited over the
tariff issue in Indiana.
The people of Indiana are proven
bial for their interest in politics
They are politically minded. They
play the game for the interest and
| ont of L.
has not been necessary, it is said
| to spend the large sums of money II
Indiana during the campaign thai
have been spent in ne1ghborlne
States of Illinois and Pennsylvania
Senator Willis, Republican nomi-
nee for the Senate in Ohio. was IN
Washington this week and declared
himself well pleased with the way
in which the campaign was develop
ing for him. He is opposed by for-
mer Senator Atlee Pomerene, VINO
has opposition from the drys and
from organized labor. Senator Wits
insists that indications are faVoraple
to the election Of the whole Republi
can ticket. He says that the people
have reached the conclusion that the
dorsement of the Coolidge admins
tration. The people, he said. are
out to give the President their hearty
Endorsement. Pointing out that for
mer Secretary of War Baker and
former Gov. Cox, leading Democrats
Of the Buckeye State, have both come
out in favor of cancellation of the
war debts owed the United States
by Great Britain, France, Italy, etc.
and that none of the Democratic
candidates now running for office
have repudiated the stand of these
gentlemen on the debts, Senator
Willis said that the Republicans
welcomed this issue. The Republl-
can party, he says, is strongly op-
posed to debt cancellation.
Myers Y. Cooper. a successlul
Cincinnati business man, is the Re
publican nominee for governor. He
is trying to upset Gov. A. Vic. Dona
hey, the Democrat who has made a
record for economy in the State and
who was elected in 1924 when the
State was going overwhelmingly for
Coolidge. If Mr.. Cooper should be
elected in November, the presidential
aspirations of another Democrat
would collapse.
1t looks now as though the Repub
licans of New York State would have
to settle their differences over the wet
and dry question, the selection of a
gubernatorial candidate and kindred
subjects at Madison Square Garder
next week. The Republican State
convention at which the party plat
form is to be written and nominees
for governor and Senator are to be
selected opens on Monday, September
,27. This contest among Republican:
of New York is perhaps the most in
teresting that is being waged thi:
FALL and the country generally i!
| waiting eagerly to see the outcome
Senator Wadsworth's challenge to the
dry wing of the party upset the kettle
of fish early last Summer. Republi
can control of the Senate in the nex