Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-02
First Congressional Election
Since November Seen
as Vital Battle.
FORMER Representative
LEADS G. o. P. OPPONENT
Many Similar Skirmishes to Re
gain Lost Territory Ahead
of Minority Party.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

Down in the third Kentucky con-
gressional district the Democrats yes
terday staged their first big fight in
their effort to come back since their
disastrous defeat at the polls last No
vember.
Returns last night indicated that the
fight was successful and that John W..
Moore, former Representative, had de-
feated Homer Bellies, Republican candi-
date.
The third Kentucky district was car
ried in November by Republican, the
late Representative Roark. Mr..
Roark died in April. The Republicans
conducted brisk campaign to win this
district again. 1t furnished the first
test of strength. The Democrats were
no less mindful of the moral effect
which a victory by the Republicans
would have.
But the contest in Kentucky is only
a forerunner of the intensive campaign
which the Democratic national organ
ization plans to launch in an effort to
win back the States of the South which
went for Hoover in November and
against Smith, to win again some Of
the border States which usually have
been Democratic and to regain some of
their strength in the Middle West and
Far West.
Plan Monthly Meetings.
The national organization has set
I'D here in Washington headquarters for
the Democratic executive committee. It
has placed at its head Jouett Shouse,
former Representative from Kansas ana
former Assistant Secretary Of the Treas
ury. Within a short time the wnole
membership of the executive committee
will be announced, probably is In all.
Thereafter monthly meetings OF the
committee are to be held. Mr.. Shouse
is making no public announcement at
this time OF his plans, merely content
ing himself with the statement that
his effort will be to build up a strong
party organization, functioning 36S days
in the year.
The Democrats however have in mind
several very definite objectives IN the
drive which they are about to launch.
First they will seek to reclaim North
Carolina. Florida, Texas and Virginia,
all States which have been Democratic
since reconstruction days until last year
when they cast their electoral votes for
President Hoover Second they will en-
deavor to bring back into the party fold
the socalled border States. These in
clude Maryland. Kentucky, Missouri.
Tennessee and Oklahoma. which in the
past have usually gone Democratic. al
though at intervals each of these States
has voted Republican. The third OBJ
jective will be to build up strong Demo-
cratic organizations in congressional
districts which have been held by the
party in the States which usually 60
Republican, like Kansas, Ohio and I'LL
nois, but in which Republicans have
been successful in the last campaign A
fourth effort on the part of Democrats
will be to build up strong party Or
ganization in some of the Northwestern
States, particularly in the Dakotas, Wis
consin and Minnesota, where there has
been much unrest because of the agri-
culture situation.
East Satisfactory.
The Democrats regard their situation
in New England and New York as fairly
satisfactory and not requiring an inten-
sive effort at this time. New Jersey,
however, needs, they believe, some real
work. The party has lost ground there
because of the fight that was made
against Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey
City, who has been the dominating
force in the Democratic organization of
the State. Mr.. Hague recently won
what he insists is vindication when
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