Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-12
FIVE PRIMARIES TUESDAY
HOLD NATIONS INTEREST
Senators Means and Weller Facing Hard
Fights i'm Colorado and Maryland.
Vermont Race Significant.

Gov. Stickney announced his can
didaCV in MAY on a loyaltytO-the-
President platform. But on July o.
to the CONSERVATION of all Vermont.
Stickney, alleging illness and advanc-
ing age, withdrew from the field. leav-
ing Dale monarch of all he surveyed
John Barrett. former director genera
of the Pan-American Union, for
while thought of entering the lists
under the stand -by-C coolidge label. but
he, too. reconsidered. Senator Dale.
therefore. will have no opposition In
next weeks primary. His admirers
declare he has won the most remark
able victory in the history of Yer
mont. where State pride gives Presi
dent Coolidge high prestige.
Senator Dale denies harbOring any
semblance of anti-COolidge sentiment
lie was at Plymouth when the Presi
dent took the famous oath of office
by lamplight on August 2. 1923, and
last month he sent Mr.. Coolidge cor
! dial telegram of feliCitation on the an
niversary OF that historic event. But
up where the tall naples grow Yer
monters do say that Porter has
put one over car rfIat will long be
remembered Whereabouts
In Colorado Senator Rice w. Means
Republican. is bitterly opposed for re
nomination by Charles W. Waterman.
Denver railroad lawyer and native
VermOnter. Waterman claims to have
been the pre-conventiOn Coolidge man
ager in Colorado in 1924. but his con
tention is contested. Means is an out
standing. klansman and Is often
named as q future grand kleagle OF
| the Realm of Colorado" which. Pc
| litically, is dominated by the Ku
! kluXers. Means is a strong Coolidge
supporter and ardent dry. tie was
| chairman of the recent Senate sub
committee which investigated prohi
| bitiOn conditions. Colorado Democrats
probably will nominate former Gov.
| William +. Sweet for the Senate. The,
believe they can elect him because OF
! the fight raging within the Republican
| fold. Waterman's principal issue
| against Means is the latter's close
| identification with the Khan. AS the
contest between them threatens to
outlast the primary, the united Demo
only the senatorship, but the COVER
| norship, as well.
| Maryland Wet and Dry Fight.
! In the Maryland Republican pri
mary there is a clean-cut dry and wet
controversy. Senator OvingtOn f.
! Weller Coolidge adherent, IS fighting
| Tor denomination on laW-enrOrCe
ment platform against Representa-
tive John Philip Hill. known as the
wettest man i'm Congress. Hill has
| the backing of William P. Jackson
! Republican national committeeman.
and Joseph |. France. former United
States Senator. Maryland IS "sop
ping Wet territory and Hill is wagine
a sledge hammer campaign for pro
| hibitiOn modification. Willard f..
! Tydings, a wet. will be the Demo
cratic senatorial nominee.
Louisiana is Witnessing a tOothand-
nall Democratic primary contest be
! tween Senator Edwin s. Broussard
and j. Y. Sanders. veteran leader, who
! for years has waged Il political feud
against the whole Broussard family.
/ In 1915 Sanders unsuccessfully OPP
posed for the Senate the late Robert
/ F. BrOussard. brother of the present
! incumbent. who died i'll office in 1918.
| In 1920 - Y" as he is known
throughout the sugarcane country,
was defeated for the senatorial nomi-
nation by Edwin S. BrousSard, whom
he is now opposing for the second
time in succession. Sanders controls
| the New Orleans city organization
and Is forcing Senator Broussard to
] fight hard for -perpetuatton.
Copyright. 1920