Evening star., 1926-05-19
Politics at Large
By G.. Could Lincoln

| The Oregon primaries on FRIDAY
| will wind up the nominating elections
| for Congress and State ofncers 1of the
| present month The interest in the
| oregon primaries centers about the
selection of candidates for the Senate
seat now held by Senator Stanf1eld
Republican. The Senator is seeking
denomination, and. according to re
| Dorts from the State, he is likely to
| he successful. There are eight can
| didates in the field for the Republican
| senatorial nomination, including Sen
| a1or Stanfield. In "a measure, the OPP
position to Senator Stanfield may be
i we'll divided with so large a field, and
bv this division his victory may be
made more easy. His chief opponents
are Frederick SteiWer and Alfred f..
| Clark, both of whom are putting up
! a strong fight. Steiwer has the in
dorsement of the Anti Saloon League.
Both are actively engaged in the
campaign while Senator Stanfield has
been and is in Washington attending
to his senatorial duties. The Senator
has been indorsed by the State Fedora
ton of Labor. He has labored hard
and long and with much success for
the bill liberalizing the civil service
retirement act. increasing the annui-
ties which go to the retired civil serv-
ice employees.
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| On the Democratic side of the
fence. Bert +. Haney, former member
of the United States Shipping Board,
and former Representative Elton
| Watkins are fighting it out with the
odds apparently in favor of Iianey.
| Watkins is Waging an active cam
paign, but the general opinion. as re-
| flected in reports from the State. is
that Mr.. IIaney will be the selection
of the Democrats.
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The first Of the June primaries is
that in North Carolina. June 3. Sena-
| tor OVerman, who has the distinction
| Of looking more like a Senator than
! any other man in that body today,
| and who not only looks like a Senator
| but acts like one, is up for renomina-
| ton. His success is assured, although
he is opposed by Robert Z. Reynolds
of AsheVille. who has made a house
| toulouse canvass in many parts of
the State. Senator Overman has been
| a member of the Senate so long that
he has become one of the pleasant
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elected Senator in 1902. and next &c
his colleague, the senior Senator from
North Carolina. Mr.. Simmons, he has
the longest record of continuous
| service OF any of the Democrats
| Senator Warren of Wyoming, Re
publican. is the only Senator. by the
way. who tops Senator Simmons il
point of service. Senator Simmons
came to the upper house just two
years ahead of Senator Overman,
The two North Carolina Senators hit
it off we'll together. Senator Simmons
is the recognized political leader in his
State and his support goes invariably
10 Senator Overman when the latter
is up for election. Senator Overmar
has II record of able and industrious
service During the World War ht
was acting chairman Of the Senate
| judiciary committee and handled mucf
of the important legislation made nee
essary by the war conditions.
Republican opposition to Senator
Overman is looked upon as little more
than a gesture. An effort was made
by the Republicans of the State 10 ge
David II. Blair. internal revenue com
missioner. to be candidate and, fan
ing him. to win over Charles Cannon
brother-in law of Mr.. Blair and {
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next November. But Mr. Cannon
declined.
| Two of the primary elections set fol
June have particular interest for th'
progressive group in the Senate-th'
| Iowa primaries on June I and tht
North Dakota primaries OH June 80. IL
the Iowa elections former Senator
Brookhart, insurgent Republican. !:
seeking to wrest the Republican nom
ination from Senator Cummins o
Iowa. and in North Dakota Senator
Gerald y. Nye, progressive. is pitte(
against former Gov. l.. 3. Hanna. thu
candidate of the ''stalwarts," nephew
of the late Mark Hanna. In botl
these elections the regular Republi
cans are putting forth their utmos
efforts 10 win. using particularly the
slogan Uphold the President,
Senator Nye, who holds his seat to
day by appointment from the Governor
of North Dakota to fill temporarily
the vacancy caused by the death las
Summer of Senator Ladd, has The
united support of the progressives O.
the State, better known as the Non
Partisan Leaguers. Senator Nye':
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tenets of the Non-Part!san League
but he is stressing also the WorlC
Court issue, the World Court beins
unpopular in the West. Senator Nyt
was one of those who voted agains
American adherence to the court las
| January He is attacking also the ad
. ministration's tax reduction bill. Witt
no little ingenuity, Senator Nye ha:
worked out the tax reductions of hi:
| constituents in North Dakota as com
pared. for example, TO the amount o
tax reduction which the new law give:
to John y. Rockefeller and othel
wealthy Americans. Using the 1872
tax figures as his basis, he estimate:
that total income tax reductions fol
all the people of North Dakota are les!
than onetwentieth of the reduction
granted Mr.. Rockefeller. AS a matter
of fact, the surtax reductions in th'
new lew, he says. affect only 10 tax
payers in the State. Senator Nye
like others of the progressive groul
in Congress, insists that the tax re
duction law was principally for thu
benefit of wealth.
Another point Of the Nye attack /.
the foreign war debt settlement. In
deed, the criticism of the present Con
gress by the progressives is to th'
effect that it has done nothing eX
cept reduce the taxes on wealth ant
give billions of dollars to the people
of foreign nations. This, of course, il
vehemently denied by the admins
tration forces. Senator Nye recentl!
introduced resolution providing tina
the farmers who borrowed money dur
ing the agricultural depression shoult
be permitted the same lenient terms
in making their payments as those &C
corded the foreign debtors of tn,