New Britain herald., 1926-10-29
Republicans for Enforcement and Democrats Favor M0di-
 fcation or Repeal
NEW YORK FIGHT BACK
 TO MILK ISSUE AGAIN
Empire State Fight Continues Hot One However, Despite Dropping Of Personalities-Oool Strong For Butler and Fuller for Re cleo ton in His Home State.


 election campaign, with prohibition as one of the leading issues today was drawing toward it's close in Massachusetts. To a Republican policy of strict law enforcement" democratic candidates for national and state honors opposed a demand for modification or repeal of the Nolstead act and substitution of a system of government control.
 Coolidge in. Campaign
 New interest was injected into the final week of the campaign by the announcement that the President and Mrs Coolidge would return to their home city of Northampton to cast their ballots for the republican national and state tickets, In a let ter to the republican state commit tee President Coolidge announced unqualified support of Senator Will liam M. Butler and Goveror Alvan T. Fuller, both candidates for re- election,-The first formal endorse ment by the president of republican candidates in the 1926 electoral contest.
 Walsh Opposes Butler.
 Senator Butler, who was appoint ed to the senate in 1924 by Gov ernor Cox to succeed the late Henry Cabot Lodge, is opposed by former Senator David I. Walsh, democrat, who was defeated for reelection in 1924 by Senator Frederick H. Gil lett. Other candidates are John J. Ballam of Boston, workers party; Washington Cook of Sharon, urging 1, modification of the Volstead act; i and Alfred Baker Lewis of Cam bridge socialist party.
 Gaston and Fuller
 Gov. Fuller, seeking second two ] year term, has as his democratic op- ponont Colonel William A. Gaston Of Boston. Colonel Gaston, after a study of the controlled | liquor business in Quebec, injected the modification issue into the Mas sachusetts campaign and the demo- cratic state committee formally adopted 1t in its platform. Other gubernatorial aspirants are Waiter S. Hutchins of Greenfield. socialist party; Samuel Leger of Boston, so- cialist labor party; and Lewis Marks of Boston, workers party.
 Senatorial Issues
 The senatorial campaign Tn par ticular has been marked by a d. yersity of issues. Senator Butler has
 fnr him | would be an expression of faith Tn the national administration of Pres ident Coolidge while one against him would help to defeat the policies of the White House.
 MT. Walsh, on the other hand, has maintained that the Butler candl- dacv is without relation to the na- tional situation and that the senator must stand squarely upon his own record in the senate. Prosperity, too, has entered into the battle In a large way.
 The Butler adherents have lnden- tified the senator with the prosper itv which they say has followed the Coolidge regime while Walsh anu his supporters have asserted that the situation in the cotton textile ln- dustry as well as the supposed plight of inc western and southern agrlcul- turalists is a refutation of the But Ter claims. Both candidates have as- sailed the others record while Tn the senate. The issue Of free 'raue , has been live one. s
 Many Seek Reelection ' Tn all but one of the sixteen con , rressional districts representatives, , who sat in the last congress are = reelection. Congressman i John J. Douglass. democratic, , George H. Tinkham, republican, anu James A. Gallivan, in the 'ehIh' and twelfth districts re- snectively, are unopposed, In the 7 eighth district former Congressman | Frederick w. Dallinger of Cam bridge, republican, and John r. of Cambridge, democrat are contesting the seat left vacant nv the death early this year Of Con rressman Harry l. Thayer Of Wake- field.
 Women for Congress 2 Two women are among the I for congress. Mrs. Edlth s yourse Rogers of Lowell, repunh- T ,an who was elected in the tlfth [ district in 1925 to fill the vacancy V ,aused by the death of her huspaha' he late Congressman John Jacob s Pogers, seeks reelection, with James NJ. Hurley of Marlboro T democrat, as her opponent. In the | fifteenth district Minerva D. Kepple c if Fall River, democrat, is opposing $ ,or rerassn,an Joseph w. Martin, Jr.. b ,f North Attleboro, republican, 0