Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-12
Politics at Large
By 6. Could Lincoln.

| EOlllCdl prophets III CDIlkl T.
continue to multiply as the short
| session runs it's course. During the
| debate in the Senate Senator Bruce
| Of Maryland. stalwart wet, ventured
prediction that unless the next
| Democratic national convention
picked q wet candidate for Presi-
dent. there would be a second Demo
cratic convention In 1928 and a
second Democratic ticket in the field
! just as there was in 1860. Undaunt-
| ed by this prediction Senator Hef-
| lin, as ardent a dry as Senator
| Bruce is a wet. hazarded a predic
I ton that the Democrats would nom
| mate dry and that the Republicans
would do the same. Mr.. Hefin
| further prophesed that q combina
| ton of the South and the. West
| would elect a dry Democrat as
| President. To this Mr.. Bruce dis
scented with vigor, asserting that
only with the aid of the great States
on the Atlantic seaboard could vic
| tory perch on the Democratic ban
| ner.
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When Senator Hef1in said that he
| believed Gov. Vic Donahey, Ohio S
| dry governor, could he elected by the
| Democrats, Senator Bruce causti
cally asked if the Alabama Senator
| believed Maryland would ever cast
| it's electoral votes for Vic"
You will never expand Vic into
victory said Senator Bruce, who
| boosted Gov. AL Smith of New York
and Gov. AL Richie of Maryland as
| the probable selections of the Demo
cratic convention.
Senator Hefiin wanted to know
| If the Democratic party is to sell out
to the, liquor interests in order to
elect a President.
Senator Edwards of New Jersey
countered with a question AS to
whether the Democratic party is to
sell out to the Anti-Saloon League.
1t scarcely requires the qualities OF
a prophet to predict that in the next
Democratic national convention there
is to be a devastating conflict-with
the wet East and North lined up
against the dry South and West. 1t
does not appear likely that the Demo
cratic party can ride to victory half
wet and half dry.
X X X
Representative win Il. Wood of In.
diana, chairman of the Republican
congressional committee, did little
justifiable Growing in the House the
other day over the results of the last
congressional election. Referring to
the pre-electoin claims of a Demo
cratic landslide made by Democratic
leaders, Mr.. Wood said that If the
Democrats were as successful in 1928
the result of the next national cleo
ton would be an overwhelming vic
tory for the Republican national
ticket He made no attempt, however
to predict what that ticket would be.
During the course of his remarks
Mr.. Wood called attention to the fact
that, instead of a Democratic land
slide. a greater number of Republicans
had been elected to the House for the
next Congress than in any previous
off-year election in rs years. Indeed
he said that a greater number or Ike
publicans were elected to the House
than in any off-year election. save one,
since the formation of the Republican
party. Not unnaturally Mr.. Wood
argued that the results of the 1926
election indicated general satisfaction
with the Republican administration
The Republicans sustained only net
loss of eight seats in that election.
The Democrats have but 1875 members
out of a total of ABS in the next House,
and while there remain a dozen or
more insurgents and third-party men,
the Republicans will have a working
ma jority of the whole House.
X X X
, Already the political seers are busy
predicting what is to happen in the
senatorial race in New York State in
1928. At that time Senator Copeland,
Democrat, comes up foH reelection.
He is now pronounced wet and an
ardent supporter of Gov. All Smith for
President. When Senator Copeland
was elected in 1929, defeating Senator
Calder, Republican, he was suspected
of being a dry, partly because he had
been public health commissioner of
New York and because his opponent
was a recognized wet. There is no
one on the horizon so far to dispute
with Senator Copeland the Democrat
ic nomination. If by any chance Gov.
AL Smith is the Democratic nominee
for President in that year, Senator
Copeland's chances for reelection will
be considerably enhanced. 1t won I
hurt him to run on the ticket with
Gov. Smith. Republican politicians in
the Empire State are beginning to
talk about a candidate to run against
Copeland in the event that Senator
Wadsworth. defeated recently by Rob
ert F. Wagner, Democrat, does not
seek to stage a Comeback" in 1928.
So far those most prominently men
toned are Representative James s.
Parker, chairman of the interstate
and foreign commerce committee of
the House and one of the authors of
the Parker-Watson railroad labor act
of the last session of Congress, and
Representative Bertrand Fl. Smell,
chairman of the House committee on
rules. Either of them is said to he
acceptable to the element in the party
which really caused the defeat of Sen
ator Wadsworth after he had pro-
nounced himself Fundamentally wet
In the last campaign.
The old saw, politics ends at the
shores of the Atlantic Tor the Next
can border), is not working so well
these days. President Coolidges pol
icy in Nicaragua, instead of receiv-
ing the united support of all men,
bers of Congress, has been violently
attacked by Democrats in the House,
and has been criticized vigorously by
some fepuDuCdnS. II Will ne re-
called that when President Wilson
was in the White House his policy
in Mexico was attacked by Repub-
lican members of Congress. at one
time because he interfered too much
with the affairs of the Southern re-
public and at another because he did
not interfere enough. Now President
Coolidge is being charged with seek
ing to force a war with Mexico. via
the back door of Nicaragua, by the
Democrats. President Coolidge has
declared that the steps he has taken
have been for the protection of Amer
lean lives and American interests in
a country which owes them protec-
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