Evening star., 1928-10-22
c. 0. P. IN CHICAGO
CALLS WEST SAFE
Headquarters Claims Hoover
Will Garry Majority of
% States.
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for the Cook County Offices than there
| Judge John A. Swanson is the Repub-
| iican nominee for States attorney, VIM
ming that nomination against Grove.
incumbent The Democrats have put up
Judge William j. Lindsay as their
candidate for this office and real bat
tie is on. Swanson is the Deneen
faction candidate. nominated in April
when the Thompson-C faction took
drubbing All kinds of charges are
flying about in this fight.
Linked to Beer Baron.
Judge Swanson in an address here
Saturday night insisted that Judge
Lindsay had been partial to Joe Salts,
South Side beer baron, who has been
fugitive from police for five months:
that Judge Lindsay had held Sunday
court last year to release Salts and
some of his friends. and that he
liberated Louis Alberto, a tWo-gun man.
and rebuked police for making the ar
rest. At the same time that Judge
Swanson was delivering this broad
side Judge Lindsay was asserting that
the Deneen-SW group had formed
an alliance with John ("Dingbat'')
Oberta, a lieutenant of Joe Salts, and
committeeman of the thirteenth ward
and so it goes.
In the uprising of last April in Chi
chgo, however the voters concentrated
on few of the candidates and failed TO
eliminate several of the Thompson
Grove faction, who were nominated and
are now on the Republican ticket.
Among the candidates for trustees of
the sanitary district is Morris Eler
who is under indictment. Oscar Nelson.
who is Mayor Thompson's floor leader
in the city council, and Edward F..
Moore, appointed by Mayor Thompson
as deputy commissioner of public works.
The sanitary board has the expendi-
ture of enormous funds. There are
several other adherentS of the old
Thompson-C Grove faction on the ticket.
The problem at present is how to elect
Swanson and other DeneeniteS and
eliminate the Thompson Grove candi-
dates, and work in the State and ma
tional tickets too
In consequence, there is whole flock
of campaign organizations and head
quarters in the city, and some of them
working at cross-purposes One thing
is pretty clear, however-Chicago is
tired of the supremacy of vice and is
doing its best Ito clean up"
Drys Indorse Hoover.
The Anti-Saloon League of Illinois
is out with its Endorsements of candi-
dates. Herbert Hoover heads the list.
and Senator Curtis, ce-preSidental
candidate, is second. The league has
indorsed also the Republican candidate
for Senator, Otis F. Glenn the Republi-
can candidate for governor, Louis L.
Emmerson, the Republican nominee for
attorney general, Oscar E. Carlstrom
states attorney in Cook County, Judge
Swanson. Mrs Ruth Hanna McCor-
mick. Republican candidate for Con-
greSs-at large, and Richard Yates, also
candidate for Congress at-large, both
Republicans, have the Endorsement of
the league. The Democrats must look
to their support from the vets from
their presidential candidate on down the
line, it appears.
In Chicago it is the poor and the
people of moderate means who are
suffering most from the bombings and
the gang warfare, not the rich The
"Racketeers" undertake to say how
many tailor shops and delicatessen
shops shall be opened in a given
district, for example, and the poor are
sick of vice lords and liquor lords. They
are going to get rid of the kind Of
government which has permitted these
criminals to operate freely, If they
can. While all this is in a measure
local, observers here say it cannot fail
to have its reflection in the national
election. For that reason claims that
Smith will carry Chicago by a big
margin are discounted by the more
conservative, not because he is in any
way allied with the outfit which the
people are against, but because of the
wet campaign he is making.
The Democratic strategy in the West
has been to win to the cause of Gov,
Smith the support of the La Toilette
vote OF four years ago. 1t has been to
align with the Democratic ticket dis
gruntied farmers, and in cities like st.
Louis, Chicago, ST. Paul, the wet vote.
1t has played to the German American
vote wherever it could, and to other
foreign groups and particularly to the
negroes, as here In Chicago and in
Indiana.
The Republicans have sought their
~ ~H6NAA OAAiOAlS Vic QlyS. AUlOtlk bLl6
women and among the farmers, for
not all the farmers by any means are
of the reservation. They have sought
to convince the Republican vets that it
will be impossible for Smith to give
them beer, wine or whisky, and that a
Democratic administration might bring
hard times.
No Bread Lines.
In the West, Notwithstanding the
Iarm depression and hard times among
many of the farmers, there are no
bread lines. The girls in Oklahoma, in
Nebraska, in~Wisconsin and in fact in
all the States, wear silk STOCKINGS.
America has become silk stocking
country. Political revolutions or any
other kind of revolutions are not likely
to take place in land where wives
and daughters of the working men wear
SILK stockings. That, more than any
thing else, Is playing into the hands of
the Republicans today.
The religious issue, just as in the
South and the North and East, is max
ing itself felt in this Western country.
SO bitter are some of the Democrats
that they say that If 1t were not for the
fact Mr.. Smith is a Catholic, he could
not lose this year. But these Democrats
1all to take into consideration the fact
That there are many voters who believe
in prohibition, or the fact that ma
lorlty of the voters in the country are
usually Republican.