Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-05
Mrs. Mccormick Declared in
Strategic Position to Defeat
Senator Deneen.
WORLD COURT is FORCED
AS CHIEF ISSUE OF RACE
Woman Supported by Chicago Fac
lions in Primary Set for
Next Tuesday.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN,
staff Correspondent of the Star.

CHICAGO, April swim or lose,
Mrs. Ruth Hanna Mccormick has made
a remarkable fight to place woman,
herself, in a strategic position to be
elected to the United States Senate for
the first time in history.
Pitted against Senator Charles S.
Deneen in the contest which closes
Tuesday for the Republican senatorial
nomination, the daughter of the late
Mark Hanna has pulled a few tricks
from the bag which have astonished
her opponents and given them cause
for worry. Following the elections two
years ago Senator Deneen was sitting
on the top of the heap in Illinois
politics. Len Small, former governor
had been discredited. big Bill"
Thompson and his city hall crowd had
been soundly trouced, Deneen alone had
triumphed, of all the Republican fac
tional leaders who had tickets in the
field. And it was Deneen, veteran
politician, whom Mrs. Mccormick
elected to tackle for the senatorial seat
this year. 1t looked like tough job
from the start.
But Mrs. Mccormick is a resouceful
woman. She has been in politics &C.
lively for a score of years or more. In
addition to being the daughter of Mark
Hanna, Republican national chairman
and President maker, she was the wife
and is now the widow of Medill Nc
Cormick at one time Senator. Senator
Mccormick died soon after his defeat
six years ago by Senator Deneen.
Race a Stepping Stone.
Mrs. Mccormick did not wait until
the Deneen term was drawing to a
close to get into politics again. Two
years ago she became a candidate for
Representative at large. She won
handily the nomination and in the
election she led the entire State ticket.
She had demonstrated the fact that
in a Statewide election, in the third
most populous State in the union, a
woman could defeat her male opponents.
And that election was merely a stepping
stone, warming-up gallop for the
real race she had in mind.
Mrs. Mccormick had two things in
the back of her head when she decided
to make a bid for the Senate this year.
The first and most important was the
fact that Senator Deneen has been In
politics a long time and in ONCE a
number of times and that necessarily
he had made enemies, Now an enemy
of Deneen might well be supporter
of Mrs. Mccormick, If she were OPP
posed to him. The results OF the
campaign to date have indicated the
shrewdness of her judgment. All the
Cook County factions which suffered
humiliation at the hands of the people
and Senator Deneen two years ago are
backing her today.
The second matter she had in mind
was the fact that Frank L. Smith,
running on an anti-World Court plat
form. had defeated four years ago the
late Senator William B. Mckinley, who
voted for American adherence to the
Court. Smith was later denied a seat
by the Senate. Senator Deneen, she
recalled, also had voted for adherence
to the World Court With the Court
proposal due to come again before
the. Senate with the Root formula at
tached, here was an issue against
Deneen.
Senator Deneen and his supporters
poopoohed the idea that the Court
matter could be revived. Nevertheless
Senator Deneen had not been in the
State for the present campaign more
than a few days when 1t became ap-
parent that Mrs. Mccormick had sue
ceeded in blowing new life into the
Court issue. He has had to meet 1t.
Fights World Court.
Asserting that the World Court is
the League of Nations Court, Mrs.
Mccormick has been beating a steady
tattoo on that tribunal, and through It
on the head of Senator Deneen, ever
since she began her Statewide cam
paigning last January. In every speech
she has delivered. and she has de-
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