Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-03
NEW YORK BALLOT
FRAY AROUSESU.S.
Virginia and Kentucky EIec-
tons Also Are of More Than
Local Interest.
BY the Associated Press.

! BY the Associated Press.
| A Democratic coalition
drive against the regular Democratic
organization in Virginia and Repub-
lican offensive to complete control OF
the Kentucky State Government by OBJ
tanning a majority in the Legislature
have served to lift next Tuesdays off,
year elections out of the sectors OF
purely local interest.
While furnishing no gauge perhaps
! for coming national political campaigns,
| the quadrennial election OF mayor OF
| New York city carries its usual appeal
! to the Nation. However, the contest
| there has lacked some of the dash and
vim which might have been expected
in the meeting of such colorful politi-
cal enemies as Mayor James j. Walker.
Democrat; Representative Fiorello H. La
! Guardia, Republican: Norman Thomas.
Socialist. and Richard e. Enright,
square dealer.
Boston Race Is Bitter.
Besides New York, two other OF the
| larger cities. Detroit and Boston, and a
| host of smaller ones in Arizona, Cali
| fornia. Indiana Kansas. Ohio and
| Pennsylvania elect mayors. Detroit
l
! John w. Smith, a former mayor, and
| Charles w. BowleS.
, Partisanship sways in the Boston
contest as it does in most of the 9TH
ers, with three men-James w. Curley,
former mayor: Frederick w. Mansfield
Good Government Association candi-
date, and Daniel H. Coakley, independ-
ent-seeking the Office in the Hub City.
The single congressional contest in
the country-that On the twenty-first
New York district-has brought out a
field Of three, Joseph A. Gavagan,
| Democrat: Hubert T. Delaney, Repub-
lican, and Frank Crosswaith, Socialist,
for the Democratic post made vacant
| by the death of Roy H. Weller.
Illinois and Pennsylvania hold State
| wide elections for the selection OF State
| judges. while Ohio voters go to the
polls Tuesday to vote on tax limit
| constitutional amendment. The single
| election in Minnesota is to give the
electors of st. Paul opportunity to de-
eide whether they want city manager
or continuation of the present com
mission form of government.
Virginia Race Most Important.
To seasoned political observers, thu
election in Virginia. the lone State tc
elect a governor this year, overshadoW'
| all others. 1t is expected to furnish
an indicator as to the permanency Of
| the political revolt last year which
swept Virginia into the column of the
| Republican presidential States for thu
| first time in more than half century
Prohibition, the big issue in the
Hoover Smith campaign, is out in thi!
campaign, for both of the gubernatoria
| candidates, John Garland Pollard o.
Williamsburg and william MoSeleI
Brown OF Lexington. are drys. Tam
many, white supremacy and machine.
rule are some of the issues that have
been raised, as we'll as what is being
called "Cannonism" and "Raskobism.
| The regulars have raised the first be-
cause of the leadership of Bishop
James Cannon, jr., of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, in the move
| ment to place in the field a guberna'
torial candidate Of the anti-Smitf
Democrats.
''Raskobisrn' was the counter CRY
raised by the snti-Smiths, who hav,
attacked continuation Of John j. Ras.
kob, friend of Alfred E. Smith, a:
chairman of the Democratic nationa
committee.