Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-05
C. 0. ?. FACES FIGHT
| FOR NEW ENGLAND
Wet Sentiment Encourages
Hopes of Democrats to
Nose Out Victory.
81 the Associated Press.


BOSTON. September s--Going about
liberation. most OF New England is nov
heginnins to give serious attention &c
the national issues which awakened
ether sections of the country weeks
ARc,1
Except for Maine. where the State
election takes place Monday, none OF
the States of this northeaSternmoSt
group has emerged from that prelim-
mary stage sf the campaign in which
State tickets are selected and local
alignments perfected for the test in
November. But already certain visible
signs point 70 Massachusetts As the
focal point of the impending struggle,
and to prohibition and economic Stabil-
ity as the issues 10 be kept before
the voters.
All six of the New England States
have been voting for Republican NOM
ii1eeS for the presidency with almost
unnroken regularity Two of them,
Maine and Vermont. have long since
come to be regarded as StrongholdS of
confirmed Republicanism. New Hamp-
shire is looked upon with hope by some
Democrats, who take historical COM
fort from the fact that Wilson car
RED it against Hughes in 1916, but no
debatable in 1928. OF the six this
leaves Connecticut Rhode Island and
Massachusetts,. all Of which 81 this
early period of the campaign present
some puzzling factors.
We, Sentiment Is Aid.
Briefly. the Democratic hope of break
ing the Republican solidarity of New
England III this years presidential CAM
paign may be said to rest primarily on
these considerations; Connecticut and
Rhode Island have been hotbeds of anti
prohibition sentiment and are the only
States in the Union that never ratified
the prohibition amendment. Rhode Is
land has wet Democratic Senator who
has been once reelected. MaSSachu-
sets has a divided record on prohibi-
ton and has elected and reelected
wet Democratic Senator. who also is
Catholic. The Democrats feel sure. fur
thermore that they have little to fear
from the religious issue IN any OF these
three States. for IN each one Catholics
make I'D very large percentage of the
population.
On the. other hand, to win any of the
three the Democrats must bring about
wholesale changes from the preSiden-
tiai record of recent years. In Massa-
GI1ESE&IS III AE&T AJQAAGEC EoAOA WV
Of 7Q3. 900. and the combined vote for
DAVIS and La Toilette was only 432 900.
In Connecticut the figures were $4,000
for Coolidge. with I52 600 divided be-
tween Davis and La Toilette. Rhode
Island gave Coolidge $4,000 and Davis
and La Toilette together $4,000. The
Republican leaders. taking assurance
from this record figure that the votes
are there If they can be got out, and
are preparing to meet the Democratic
onslaught by organizing every precinct
Appeal for Prosperity.
All over New England, whose life
Is essentially industrial. Republican
speakers are appealing for a continue
lion under Hoover of the Coolidge in
0ustriaI policies However much they
may have been smothered by other
issues In other parts Of the country. such
Republican talking points as the tariff,
Coolidge prosperity" and business ex-
pansion are kept constantly IN the at
tentscns of the New Englander. In the
many MIL and factory centers which do- /
the New England map. employer ana
ennp1Dse alike are advised by the Hoover