Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-05
Politics at Large
By C.. Could Lincoln.

DJ u OOEtu LtHCOtns
In the second congressional election
held within a week the Republicans
apparently have been successful, al
though the Democrats won the first
DR.. G. Murray Turpin, the Republican
| candidate in the twelfth Pennsylvania
congressional district, apparently has de-
feated Mrs. John Joseph Casey, the
Democratic nominee, who was seeking
to succeed her husband in the House.
Mr.. Casey died recently. The latest re-
turns indicate that the Republican has
lead of about 500 votes, with prac-
| tically all the returns in. The Repub-
| lican victory in Pennsylvania in a
measure is an Offset to the Democratic
victory last Saturday in Kentucky The
Pennsylvania district was held by a
| day. while the Kentucky district was
held by Republican until Representa-
tive Moore was elected Saturday.
The Democrats have been much
elated over the victory of their candi-
date in the third Kentucky district
They insist it is an indication that the
pendulum is swinging back, following
the political upheaval last November
and that they may expect to regain
many of the congressional districts
hitherto held by Democrats but which
elected Republicans last Fall. A defeat
in the Kentucky district would have
left the Democrats fiat. That district
had been held by them for many years
up to the election in 1928.
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The apparent victory of the Repub-
licans in Pennsylvania yesterday has its
encouraging feature also for the G.. o.
P. This district, the twelfth, was car
ried by the Democratic nominee for
President, Alfred E. Smith, in Novem-
Der, Just as the third Kentucky district
was carried by Mr. Hoover in that cleo
ton. At the same time, Democrat
was elected in Che Pennsylvania dis
trict. Mr.. Casey, however. had ire
mendouS following and was given both
The Republican and Democratic nominal
tons. He was extremely popular with
labor and had been elected many times
to the House. The district, however,
went Republican in 1924, when the Re-
publican candidate came in with the
Coolidge landslide. After the death of
Mr. Casey the Democrats determined to
place in nomination his widow. Mrs.
Casey made strong run, but seeming
while they were solidly behind DR..
that the great popularity of the late
Representative Casey, plus the SYM
pathy accorded his widow. might be
too much for them to overcome.
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The plan for dinner in honor of
Jouett Shouse, chairman of the Demo-
cratic executive committee, to be given
by the jefferson Democratic Association
of the District of Columbia, has created
no little interest. 1t is the first big
Democratic gathering since the cleo
ton, with the exception of dinner
which was given in New York. At the
dinner, which is to be held in the May
flower Hotel on Monday, 1t is expected
a number of important announcements
will be made. both by Mr.. Shouse. who
is in charge of the national head
quarters here, and by Chairman John
j. RaSkob of the Democratic national
committee, who will attend the din
ner. The Democrats are undertaking
to launch, even as early as this, a
campaign in many of the congressional
districts, particularly In the South and
the border States, which they have
usually held, but which they lost last
year. While some Of the anti-Smith
Democrats in the South will not be
at the dinner. Representative Box of
Texas, who. while Democratic whip of
the House last Congress, declared in I'M
equivocal terms that Chairman Raskob
should resign and that the Smith ele-
ment generally should relinquish con-
troll of the national organization, has
said that he will attend the dinner.
Mr.. Shouse is himself native of Ken
lucky. He was Democratic member of
the House from Kansas and also an
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
during the Wilson administration. He
was a McAdoo supporter in 1924 and
worked hard for the election of John
w. Davis that year, and last year was
at the Smith headquarters in New
York. 1t would appear that the Demo-
Gratis could well unite behind him in
his drive to bring about the election
OF Democratic Congressman next year.
1t has been made clear that Mr..
Shouse and his organization here is
not set up in the interest of any
possible presidential nominee in 1882.
Chairman Raskob. who has been the
center of fire OF anti-Smith Democrats
in the South since the close of the last
campaign-and before it-recently ad-
mitted that he offered to resign the
Craftsmanship of the national commit
tee some months ago, but that the par
ty leaders urged him to remain. He has
reduced the deficit of $1,500,000 grow
ing out of the campaign to $3.50, 900 or
less. Even when he offered to resign. it
was his purpose to see that the debt
was wiped out.
While Mr.. Raskob continues to hold
on to the Craftsmanship of the Demo-
cratic national committee, notwith-
standing the opposition against him,
voiced in some sections of the country,
DR.. Hubert Work dropped a political
bombshell in Washington last night
when he announced that he would give
over the Craftsmanship Of the Repub-
lican national committee. No one ex-
pected DR.. Work to resign at this time,
except apparently the President and
DR.. Work himself. The announcement
by Dr. Work contained the statement
that he would call the committee to-
gether early in the Fall to elect a new
chairman and to discuss plans for con-
Quoting the campaign of 1880, when
the entire membership Of the House
and one-third of the Senate are to be
elected. In the interval the question of
DR.. Works successor will be carefully
considered by the party leaders, includ-
ing the President, @ho is the titular
head of the party DR.. Work has or
ganized the headquarters here and
everything is in readiness to be turned
over to the new chairman. whoever
he may be.
Dispatches from Wisconsin indicate
that Sol Levitan. State treasurer, has
not abandoned his hope of becoming the
next governor of the Badger State. If
Mr. Levitan is to have the nomination,
however, it is clear he must have the
backing of the La Toilette Progressives,