Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-17

An Other States and Canada.
Memher al fhe Associafed Press.
Prohibition the Issue.

versus State control of the liquor traffic
elections which are to be held in Massa-
chusetts and Delaware in November
At its primary election for the nomi-
nation of party candidates Massa-
chusetts nominated on the Republican
side Gov. Allen and William M. Butler,
both supporters of the eighteenth
amendment, for Governor and United
States Senator, respectively. On the
Democratic side, Joseph B. Ely was
nominated for Governor and Marcus
A. Coolidge for Senator. Both are re-
garded as opponents Of the present dry
laws. In Delaware, the Democrats
meeting in State Convention picked
former Senator Bayard, an avowed wet,
to be their candidate for Senator and
wrote into their platform plank call
ing for repeal of the eighteenth amend
nent. Senator Hastings, the Repub-
lican senatorial nominee, is dry The
in these States, with the Republicans
supporting national prohibition and the
Democrats opposing it.
The wet sentiment in Massachusetts
Is admittedly strong Yet the Repub-
ucan candidates elected to pick the dry
side of the issue OF national prohlbi-
ton. Gov Allen led on months ago.
when he declared himself against re-
peal of the baby Volstead act" the
State enforcement law. Senator Butler
followed the Governors lead. he being
strongly opposed In the primary yester-
day by Eben S. Draper, Who like But
Ter, is 8 wealthy manufacturer. Draper
Is a wringing wet and campaigned as
such He rolled up a big vote against
Butler. 1t seems obvious that If a
large number of the Republicans who
voted for Draper yesterday turn their
support to Marcus A. Coolidge, the
Democratic senatorial nominee, Cool
idge should win in November.
The Massachusetts campaign is still
In the making however. While the Re-
publicans have beer torn over the
liquor question in their campaign for
the senatorial nomination, the Demo-
Gratis have been engaged in the bitter
est kind Of intraparty strife. The
Democratic ticket, as written yesterday,
Is headed by two out-staters. The Bos-
ton democracy has neither the guberna-
torial nomination nor the senatorial.
Both Coolidge and Ely are characterized
as Yankee" too, IN contrast to the
Irish-American designation of most Of
their opponents for these nominations.
Just how the failure TO recognize the
Boston democracy and the Irish-Amer-
lean Democratic vote, the largest vote
of the party in the State, will affect
the coming campaign remains to be
seen. There does not seem to be much
for the Boston Democrats to do, how
ever, except to go along with their
party ticket. The Boston Democrats
are strongly wet. Furthermore they
would have little really to gain by
ditchtng Ely and Coolidge.
The Republicans in Massachusetts,
have their back to the wall. They saw
their state carried two years ago by
the Democratic senatorial candidate,
David I. Walsh, and by Alfred E. Smith
in the presidential contest. Despite
the ruction over prohibition, they are
likely now to do their utmost to line
up their full party strength for the
Allen-Butler combination. They have,
however not only the liquor question
TO face, but also the unrest due to bust
ness depression and unemployment.
In Delaware the decision of the
Democrats to name former Senator
Bayard, wet, to be their candidate at
the polls in November means the
sharpest kind of a fight for the Repub-
leans in that State. Bayard is per-
sonally popular. He has the support
Of prominent members of the du Pont
family, 50 potent in Delaware, because
Of his stand on the wet and dry issue
The stage is now set for show
down at the polls in Massachusetts, and
Delaware between the friends of ma
tional prohibition and its opponents,
Just as it has been set in the senatorial
races in Ohio, Illinois and Oklahoma,
for example. In each instance the
Democrats have the wet side of the
contest and the Republicans the dry.
More and more it begins to look as
though by 1882 there may be real
division between the parties over this
issue