Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-15
Prohibition and Choice of
Candidates Puts Repub-
IiCanS in a Stew.
ONLY HOPES OF DRYS
LIE IN FORTS CHANCES
Wiseacres Expect Morrow Victory
by $4,000 to acknowledgements
Problem Less Involved.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN,
STAFF Correspondent of The Star.


NEWARK, N. j., June 14.-New
Jersey voters go to the polls Tuesday
to determine whether Dwight w. Nor
row, Ambassador to Mexico, or Joseph
B. Frelinghuysen. former Senator, both
opposed to a continuance Of national
prohibition, or Representative Franklin
w. Fort, supporter of the eighteenth
amendment, shall be the Republican
nominee for the Senate next November.
The prohibition issue and the three
cornered race have the Republicans in
q stew.
The Democratic voters have an
easier task. They are going to nomi-
nate State Senator Alex Simpson for
the long term and Miss Thelma Park
inson for the short term, which ends
March 4 next. The Senate seat for
which the candidates are seeking party
nomination was held by Ambassador
Walter Edge, now in Paris.
The vets will have one senatorial
candidate in this State after the pri-
mary in any event. They may have
two. The Democratic nominee for the
lOIlB IcTEl, OuupSOu, u u WI4lBulB WeJp
and Miss Parkinson, although person.
ally dry will go along with her party
platform, which will favor repeal or
modification of the dry laws or both.
If Mr.. Morrow or Senator Frelinghuy-
sen should win the Republican nominal
ton. the November election would be q
wet affair.
The drys only hope is Franklin w.
Fort. II he is beaten in the primary
they have no one to turn to, except
perhaps Miss Esther H. Elfreth, a mem
Der of the old Prohibition party who
has filed as an independent 1t is rec
ognized that with her, however, the
drys can get nowhere.
Assurance for Morrow.
Mr.. Morrow is the only one of the
three principal candidates for the Re
publican senatorial nomination who has
had the tenlerity to file for nomination
for both the short and long terms.
John A. Kelly, the Republican entry
and a wet who will poll only q com.
paratively small vote, also has filed for
the short term. Mr.. Morrows nomina.
ton for the short term therefore IL
assured,
A strange situation might arise under
these circumstances. Should Mr.. Nor
TOW De nominated IOr the snort term
only, and Mr.. Fort win the nomination
for the long term, the Republicans
would have on their ticket next Fall
supporter of national prohibition re-
peal and an advocate of continuing ma
tional prohibition, both candidates for
the Senate.
The long senatorial term, beginning
next March and running for six years. ID
the big prize. Frelinghuysen and Fort
have failed to file for the short term
because they fear that some of the voters
having marked their ballots for them for
the short term, might not also mark for
the long term. Mr.. Morrow is not play
ing the game that way.
So many factors enter into the Re-
publican senatorial contest that fat
prediction of victory for any one of the
candidates is still q gamble. In betting
parlance, Morrow is a $3.50 shot, with
perhaps shade better chance. Fort,
the mystery man of the campaign, Is
rated a 4-to-5 bet and Frelinghuysen,
3 to 5. That's the estimate, by the way,
OF one of the shrewdeSt politicians in
the State in either party.
Here are some of the ifs" in this
situation.
If Frank Hague, Democratic leader
of the State, and particularly of Hudson
County, decides to throw lot of Demo-
cratic votes into the Republican pri-
mary, he may upset the apple cart CONF
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