Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-17
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS

Tight races almost all along the line
featured Tuesdays Ohio primary. The
Antt-Saloon League appears to have
carried off the ator honors in the
largest primary outpouring of votes
amid the largest field of candidates Ohio
has ever known. Two Senate seats are
az stake, Fess and Burton, both teeto-
tally dry, carried off the Republican
nominations without substantial OPPOSE
ton. On the Democratic end, Graham
p. Hunt of Cincinnati appears to have
beaten Cyrus Locher present Senator
by gubernatorial appointment for the
short term, and Charles V. TruaX is a
victor by close margin for the DEM
ocratic nomination for the long term
Hunt is for modification of the Volstead
act His nomination was the only set
back the drys sustained In the COVER
norship contests. Myers Y. Cooper of
Cincinnati edged out Representative
James T. Begg by hair-line margin
an the Republican side. Both men
were Anti-Saloon League proteges,
though Cooper alone carried the Leagues
formal Endorsement. Representative
Martin l.. Davey, who has made for
tune as tree surgeon" and who is
the Anti-Saloon League candidate for
governor on the Democratic ticket, won
9 handsome victory. Total vote cast in
Ohio Tuesday is estimated at $50, 600,
divided about SOS. 900 in the Republican
primary and 225 900 In the Democratic
primary.
There are two more senatorial pri-
naries this month--in wyoming on the
/ 2lst, where the Republicans viii pick
candidate to oppose Senator Kendrick,
the Democratic incumbent. and in Cal
ifornia on the 28th. where Hiram john
son is in the limelight in the battle for
his Senate seat. Next month there are
primaries In Michigan, Nevada and Wis
consin on the 4th. in Arizona, Vermont
! and Washington on the nth, and in
| New York and Massachusetts on the
| 18th. In the Bay State there is tri-
| angular race TO pick the man 10 oppose
| Senator David T. Walsh. The three
aspirants are Eben S. Draper, wealthy
| son of a former Massachusetts COVER
nor: Benjamin l.. Young, Boston law
yer with a long legislative record, and
| Gen. Butler Ames. son of another dis
| tinguished Massachusetts family. Who
| ever wins has his work cut out for nm
| in pitting his strength against Walsh.
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! The sudden death of George K. Nor
| ris, chairman of the Republican State
| committee In New York, serves to ele-
| vate TO temporary beadship of the Re-
! publican organization In the Empire
| state Sarah Schuyler Butler, daughter
| Of the pugnacious prohibitiorist
| Nicholas Murray Butler, president of
| Columbia University, Miss Butler holds
| the post Of Republican vice chairman
! The temporary leader OF the state DEM
ocrats likewise is a woman, Miss Caro-
| line O'Day of Tye, who Is the Demo-
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| expected resignation earlier this week OF
Lieut. Gov Edwin Corning from his post
| as State committee chairman. Women
| in politics are surely coming In for
rightful end merited recognition IN the
present campaign on both sides OF the
political fence.
Intimate personal word pictures OF
he wives of the presidential nominees
were delivered over the radio ms week
on the Voters Service program OF the
| National League of Women Voters. Mrs,
John T. Pratt. member Of the New YORK
hoard Of aldermen and candidate Tor
Congress, presented the picture OF MRS.
/ Hoover. Mrs Howard Chandler Chfm"
~. wife Of the noted illustrator and
nainter spoke concerning Mrs Smith,
| Both speakers contriVed To avoid emu
sion and fiattery and yet TO eulogize IN
Elective fashion the respective subjects
Of their discourses. Mrs, Hoover and
Mrs Smith were both pictured as devot-
ed wives and mothers with characters
in which simplicity and sweetness pre-
donineted-~true helpmates Of their dis
e.nguished husbands.
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Mute but indubitable evidence ot high
scholarship and a passion for profound
research Is found between the covers of
a large tome about the size Of the old
fashioned family Hible~Whch hears
= the cryptic title "Oeorgius Agrieola~~
De IFS Metallica." The explanatory