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The Washington times., 1930-12-27
DEMOCRATIC
COMEBACK
FEATURES
Nearly Captures Senate and
May Contro' House After
TO Years As Minority Party

such a strange and turbulent
year as 1890 in the realm Of poll
ties has rarely been known IN q
generation Of American history.
The leading feature of 1890, po-
iitically, was the astonishing
comeback Of the Democratic
party in the congressional elec-
tions. after it had been whipped
TO 8 frazzle in the presidential
fight of 1928.
The great majorities the Re
publicans have enjoyed in every
Congress since 1918 were oblter-
ated in the election Of November
4. The Democrats failed to win
The Senate of the Seventy-Second
Congress by a single seat. An un-
certain and tricky fate may yet
give them the House, for death
and retirement may yet overcome
the extremely narrow margin
which is all that is left Of the Re
publican majority Of 104 in the
lower House.
Big MajOritieS Fade
AS the year closes, the paper
situation affecting the Seventy
second Congress is this:
Senate-Republicans. 4S; Dem
Ocrats, At; Farmer-Labor, l.
House-Republicans, 218; Dem
Ocrats, 215; Farmer.Labor, 1; va
can't, /.
But probably more important
chan the partisan lineup Of the
next Congress is that 1890 saw
the Republicans sticking close to
The dry side Of the absorbing
prohibition issue, and the Demo
Gratis drifting closer and closer to
the wet side.
= In the opinion Of many OBJ
servers, the Democrats in 1882
will nominate an anti-prOhibitiOn
candidate on an anti-prOhibitiOn
platform, for the November elec-
ton revealed that the Democracy
Of the North is virtually 100 per
cent against prohibition.
It was year Of political up
Bets from the outset.
MAS" 41CCOFm1Ck'S case
For the first time in history, a
Woman-MrS. Ruth Hanna Nc.
Cormick-won the nomination
for the Senate in a major politi.
cal party. She did so in a Re
publican primary Of extraordi-
nary interest and Significance.
It was the first link in a chain
OF upSets. Mrs. Mccormick was
herself. defeated in the ensuing
November election by j. Hamil-
ton Lewis, Democrat.
The South came back to the
main Democratic highway with a
vengeance. Republican Congress
men rolled into office on the
crest Of the Hoover wave in
1923, were all defeated in Novem-
Der Of 1880. with a single excep-
tion.
The Democrats who bolted the
presidential candidacy Of Alfred
Kansas elected a Democrat to
the Senate for the first time in
many years, in the person Of
George McGill, who defeated
Senator Henry j. Allen, admin
iStration spokesman.
Ohio went wet and Democratic
at the same time by electing Rob
ert j. Bullzley, wet Democrat,
over Senator Roscoe c. McCul-
loch, dry Republican.
Massachusetts, is sending an
. AfhoP Tnolidoe tn XUa achin 0toyo
Marcus Aurelius Coolidge. Demo
cratic candidate for the Senate.
It is the first time in many,
many years that Massachusetts
has been represented in Wash
ihgton by two Democratic sena-
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BOB LEGENDRE
To SUE WIFE
NICHOLAS

CONTINUED From Page -
first rift in the martial life Of
the couple.
Last January, Mrs. LeGendre
instituted absolute divorce pro-
ceedings against her husband,
naming a correspondent with
whom she charged her husband
had been living in q Washington.
D. c.. apartment house. This
suit is still pending in District Of
Columbia Supreme Court.
The parties were married in
Cumberland, Md, on July Is,
1921, at a time when LeGendre
was nationally famous for his
prowess on track and field. While
a freshman at Georgetown Uni.
versity in Washington in the
spring Of 1919, LeGendre entered
the Penn relays and created one
of the greatest upSets in athletic
history by whipping a brilliant
field to win the intercollegiate
pentathlon.
Broke Olympic Record
In 1924, after he had left
Georgetown, the athlete won him.
self a place on the American
entry in the Olympic games and
broke the Olympic record for the
broad jump with a leap Of Is
feet 6 inches.
Later LeGendre entered the
dental corps of the Navy and at
tanned the rank of lieutenant.
He then gave up athletics. The
couple have one child.
The Washington times., 1930-12-27
AccOtink MOtOrist
Injured in Wreck

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Dec. 27,
Carl Chase, Of Accotink, received
injuries to his head today when
his auto skidded and was wrecked
near Fort Humphreys. He was
treated at the Alexandria hos
pital.
The Washington times., 1930-12-27
NJ A n BECOMES
HUMAN TORCH

WINCHESTER, Va, Dec. a.
A torch suicide" by use Of a
gallon Of gasoline, caused a shock
to residents Of this city yester-
day.
Depressed by a long siege Of
unemployment. Horace Mckee,
IS, married, walked into the
backyard Of his home on North
Avenue. poured the full contents
Of can of motor gas over his
clothing, drenching himself from
head to foot, and then set fire
to it.
A blage shot up and the
strange spectacle Of "a moving
column of flame was seen.
Young Mckee. horribly burned in
few seconds, was able to make
his way across the yard to his
kitchen door, 80 feet away. Then
he collapsed.
His parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. P.
Mckee strived futilely to ex-
tinguiSh the flames. He told
them he had soaked himself with
gasoline and fired it deliberately.
He was rushed to Winchester
Memorial Hospital and lived for
three hours, to the amazement Of
attending physicians.
Young Mckee suffered a
mental breakdown four years
ago.
The Washington times., 1930-12-27

cowboy fame
in the movies,
after trying
for two years
to get her
freedom. And
more ha n
that, she has
been awarded
the custody Of
Thorn a Sina
Mix by the
Los Angeles
8 u p e rior
Court. Elk.
trene cruelty,
W hich con-
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Rqin, SnOW Restore
Potomac to Normally

HAGERSTOWN, Md, Dec. 81,
The long drought in this area is
ended. With 2.61 inches of rain
In the last "a hours the Potomac
River will be back to normal to-
night.
Rain and three inches Of snow
fell during the night.
The Washington times., 1930-12-27
BANK STATEMENT

New York Clearing House eX-
change, $920,000,000
New York Clearing House bal
ance, $112,000,000.
Custom receipts, $24, ,507. 1918,
Treasury balance, $332, ,161, ,434.13
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phi on that
h e W q S n t
coming.
In 1928 Mrs.
MIX took
Tho m asina
a n d went to
Paris to try
and get q d.
vorce, but
Tom refused
to sign I n e
papers sent to
him. Instead
he wrote q
letter to his
wife'S attor-
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a t t r active
interior dec
o r q t o r,
against Jo-
s e p h B.
w hitehead,
heir to the
Coca = Cola
millions, is
g e t tin 6
spicier and
Spicier. The
t r o u b lie
s t a rte e d
W h e n Mrs.
Bracy fled
the suit,
AAAA-i-@
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THOMASINA MIX neyS aSSalIlng
the French divorce system.
After that Mrs. Mix returned
home and after many efforts at
last achieved success.
The Washington times., 1930-12-27
DT0DT " Who Interest You and
L EOI LIZ the Things They Do
Mrs. Bracy Opens
Spicy Affair in Suit
international Newsreel

NEW YORK, Dec. 27.-The
breach of promise suit brought
by Mrs. Annette S. Bracy,
The Washington times., 1930-12-27
MICHAEL
Tom Mix Loses Wife
and Also ThOnlasina

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 27.-Mrs.
Victoria Mix has won a decree
Of divorce from Tom Mix, Of
The Washington times., 1930-12-27
$50 LAUNDRY is STOLEN

Robbers yesterday entered the
Carroll Laundry, 100 block Four.
teenth st. N. w. and stole laun-
dry worth $50.
The Washington times., 1930-12-27

then jill e d
her for an
OF her bride.
w hi t e head
ou n t e r ed
" ! t h the
charge t h q t
Mrs. B ra cy
was far too
friendly with
S e v e n men,
and d e S / g.
mated t h e m
only by ini-
tialS.
O n e o I
these was IS.
The Washington times., 1930-12-27

Toms bringing home his two
guns rather than a box Of
candy or a bunch Of flowers.
And otter he would not come
home for dinner or even tele-
The Washington times., 1930-12-27

Perhaps the apartment yOU want Il
awaiting. yOuP selection b bodaV'0 CiaS.
Sified Ada
The Washington times., 1930-12-27

c n q 8 ng JOS. WHITEHEAD
that w hit h e a d had prom
iSed to marry her, and
The Washington times., 1930-12-27
--ThItThaIIO NUWSl
G. HI. BEESEMYER

G. III. BEESEMYER
PRISON TERM of from 10
to 100 years has been meted
out to Gilbert H. BeeSemyer,
whose confessed $4,000, ,000 de-
talcations wrecked a Los Angeles
loan association:
The Washington times., 1930-12-27

Half OR your rental worries are over
when yog consult the rental hstlAgs
In today's Classified Ads.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-20
MONSTER RALLY TOMORROW AT MADISON SO. GARDEN
A Frightened Tiger

TAMMANY by graft and corruption has been
able for to rule New York the the bankers and
big corporations unhanged Judge Panen Socialist
and the few republicans occasionally elected office have all been
hammered line bought
of Panken Tammany well satisfied that they ready
to endorse him for reelection him their family
But the time, rotten rule
challenged Fifteen thousand workers. under Communist leadership
have declared their intention fight The fight City Hall Square
and before the Board of Estimate last Thursday against their grating
bondoar budget and for immediate relief for the unemployed
this $4,000 will rapidly multiply the workers realize the
the budget steal being put while the starving And
Under the grating Mayor Walkers direction by
square only
fighting they they did They
these workers coming back in still greater numbers And
repeat, Tammany is frightened
The cunning tiger however be easily trapped This
is shown by the actions of Board Estimate Their fret
Friday million dollars o the relief of unemployment
the method of its allotment be determined later by the Board
Estimate The allotment of $oooooo while might be
large amount the worker who is penness shameful This
in New York City that it will actually the
poyed But with the of grating thieves the City
is designed provide oil for the Tammany machine while
the time creating the illusion that something being done
But under the title Help the tnemploye the grating city of
Tammany intends give still further
the bilion dollar graft budget they say:
"Ihe police department of leads with appeal for
out eleven and officers which Commissioner
Murooney needs sorey. The present unemployment sit
positions"
Following policy meeting
million "reief unemployed
to allow urooney 600 additional policemen and soooo
last allowance the police budget
million dollars additional added still other
So daily the graft budget increases The frightened tiger esp
cay voting himself the
The demonstration of last Thursday however,
make petense of giving relief the unemployed
workers will be able
In of the five borougs the
consideration the workers will be They will
billion dollar graft budget the
Walkers grating Tammany administration with republican
Socialist allies, is driven from power.
The Communist Party this fight will leadership the
workers. and the workers numbers will
fidence the Communist Party by voting the
straight-coumn New York Sate-on November
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-20
"Inciting to Riot"

secretary the Unemployed York
candidate State
finally from the murdous mob which
and beat him nearly death Mayor Walkers behest the
Council chambers Only of Nessn sturdy body could have lived
through his condition due the possibility
of internal injuries. But he lives
the still lives the dastardy
Walker
charge that he "nced rioti"
Whom did he ncie to dot?" One Communist all alone ths
four the back of the and he surrounded
by and hundreds officials and law fcers ncted
Mayor Walker such frenzy he has not had the last
nude dance at Tammany .stag party"
Perhaps Nessn "nced" Major William Deegan hydophobiac
Redbater and Tenement House the mention of whose
office followed Immediately by the thought Graft In fact
the NJ Y Times admitted that the Major excited melted
Perhaps the Communists ncited the cluster of capitalist press
reporters who the brbarans engaged nj
Nessn loss how lie about it, and although they agreed
that they should all that he Reds started it, told
contradictory stories as there reporters.
But lie they might they could the fact that Nessn
ped byetectves and paome though the New York
Times lied brazeny by trying speak vaguely about persons
the audience" audience" hell!
Nessn surrounded by uniformed patromen detectives
the Post had of the patromen
drew backaks and welded them Nesn head and shoulders
And the Telegram had to admit that t.,s
The police witnesses kicked him. with
elaboration stepped his head and his heel"
Now who considering that Nesn
"incted" that, Mayor Walker?
If Nessn prosecuted for incitng riot will find
perhaps just who rioting
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-20
ATTACK BRONX
RED MEETING
Tammany Cops Club
Workers

NEW YoRK.-Carrying out the
openly announced policy of Walker
to break up all Communist meetings
in New York City, Tammany police
and yellow Socialists" yesterday
afternoon co-operated in attacking a
Communist election meeting held at
Hunts Point Palace, Bronx.
The Hunts Point Palace meeting
was a concert and election rally at
which Comrades Morsaiye j. Olgin,
Communist candidate for Congress,
and ]. Louis Engdahl, candidate for
Acknowledgements of the State of
New York, were scheduled to ad-
dress the workers on the Communist
election program and its demand
for social insurance for the millions
of jobless workers. Just beore the
speakers appeared, the police called
in by the Socialists" announced
that there would be no election
speeches and started driving the
workers out Of the hall. The go
cialists" had first tried todisrupt the
meeting by standing in the hallway
and telling workers "the meeting is
called off; there's no meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-20
BY HARRISON GEORGE

It makes a lot of difference whose
OK is gored. So goes the old say
ing. In the case of accusations
against Tammany graft, it makes a
lot of difference whether the OK is
gored or just patted reprovingly on
the starboard quarter.
For months now, the capitalist
papers have been full of Tammany's
corruption of the courts, long
winded editorials saying that such
things aren't nice. The republicans
have generally limited that the dem
ocrats were dishonest, the demo-
Gratis have retorted that the same
applies to the republicans. And the
socialists" have issued endless
statements that graft in which they
are not given share is undermine
ing the confidence of the masses in
the holiness and sanctity of capital
list class government.
Everybody-that is, all the ere
spectacle" politicians have been
gently abusing one another with
stuffed clubs. Even without this
stage play, every child that is able
to walk knows that Tammany ad-
ministration of New York City is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-20
Proletarian SeH>Discibline
at the Oct. Il Mass Meeting
Revolutionary Discipline and Militancy Must
Characterize All Communist Demonstra-
tons, Says Baker

meeting is over.
Do not disturb the speakers or
the listeners.
Do not sell buttons, literature,
tickets or collect funds unless au-
thorized by the Committee in
charge.
Do not sell anything during the
time of the speeches.
The demonstration has serious
purpose of mobilizing the workers
to fight against unemployment, evic-
tons, wage-cuts, police terrorism,
war, etc.
Some Directives,
Observe absolute silence during
the speeches.
Remember that $4,000 workers
came to the hall and are interested
in what Comrades Foster, Minor
and Amter have to say after being
in prison months.
Silence the disturbers of the dem
onstration next to you.
Pay attention to the ushers and
Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-20
Cops Rob Warehouse Of Beer
and Sell 1t in Police Station

this year will go for all the gewga~-7,-riot-wagons
machine guns, tear gas and armored motorcycles
that are designed to stiffen the soft spnes of the
gangsters who become officers of the law when they
don their nice blue uniforms. And this Courage"
which is so extensively injected into these Tam
many gunner, is it designed to subdue professional
gangsters and murderers and rapists?
Guns to Overawe Workers.
Or is it all big parade to overawe workers
into respecting" the law which makes plea for
bread punishable by such barbarc cruelty as was
inflicted upon the members Of the jobless council
last Thursday at Mayor Walkers instgation? Read
the career of any well-known gangster. Note the
scrapng of the knees by cops whenever they have
been given opportunity" to meet these master
gunner. And then compare this with the bestial
clubbing Of an understood and underfed worker at
CONTINUED on Page 81 ll
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-20
Women Councils Call
on Workers to Greet
Foster, Amter, Tues.

The United Council of Working
Glass Women calls upon all its
councils, members, sympathizers,
and all other working class women
to turn out 100 per cent Tuesday
night, Oct. 21st, at Madison Square
Garden, at p. m. to greet the I'M
employed delegation, Comrades Fos-
ter, Minor and Amter, who were
arrested and Jailed on March 9th,
because they dared to lead the IN
employed workers to City Hall to
demand work or wages.
All council members and SYM
pathizers are urged to come early.
Sections /, 2, 3, A, and 5 and the
boxes near those sections are as
signed to the United Council of
Working Class Women. The coun-
ellis are to bring their banners.
The committee elected to greet
The committees elected to take
care of the sections, etc., are to be
at the hall at 5:30 p. m.
the delegation at the station is to
report at Workers Center, 35 E.
18th St., 4th floor, at $3.50 sharp
Tuesday morning.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-20
SOCIALIST PARTY
MISUSES D EB s
Regulates Class War;
Pebbles His Name

NEW YORK.-The socialist par
ty insults the memory of its mill
tant leader in days gone by, Eugene
V. Debs, on the occasion of the
fourth anniversary of his death, to-
day.
The New Leader ignores his
career of class struggle, but seeks
to capitalize the regard of American
workers for him by reprinting on
is back page an appeal by Debs for
subscriptions to the socialist party
papers. Written in the days when
the socialistparty, particularly in
the person of Dabs and the whole
militant left wing group whose
tradition of struggle and most of
whose personnel have now gone into
the Communist movement, use of
this article for the party of treason
to the working class, the socialist
party which has repudiated the class
struggle, is CHASTITY irony.
But this is the only use the social
st party now has for Debs and what
he stood for.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-20
"1nsmls" or A Fight for Bread? Why
Should Starring Workers Be Polite i?

to Mayor Walker and talks about
it at an official public hearing |"
At once all the Opposition"
masks of all the stage players, re-
publicans and fake Socialists" alike,
are torn off. Even the chesty har-
lot of the "Times," which has been
scolding Tammany for inexcusable
blunders in giving the republicans
chance by the horseplay about
"waiving immunity"
Workers, see how the boss papers
all rushed to the defense of the
Tammany grafters! See how the
socialists" began showing their
true capitalist colors by sympathiz-
ing with the unspeakable Walker
because he was "insulted"!
Now it goes without saying that
if the Communists have insulted the
grating Mayor of New York City,
they are not at all sorry about it.
In the first place, what possible
insulting word could be said about
Walker that is not true?
But the capitalist papers, in an
effort to defend Walker against the
workers, undertook to give the
truth couple of twists and make
Nessin say things he didn't things
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-20
CITY Hall Demonstration
Leader Scores SOB Throwing
Mass Demand Forced Tammany to Promise the
Million for Relief, Says Engdahl, Amount
Insultingly Small and Fight Must Go On

from jails and hospitals on Friday,
this same Board of Estimates that
carried out a blood bath against
workers appearing before it, met in
secret and hypocritically votes
$1,000,000 for unemployed relief"
Is An Insult.
"This crumb, thrown by the
richest city in the world, out of the
so-called record budget, is an
insult to the great masses of unem-
ployed, although it is heralded as
the first time that the city has al
lotted or considered any fund to re-
lieve the jobless."
"This hasty action, however,
taken in secret, without any oppor-
tunity being given for a public
hearing to denounce such a paltry
sop put forward in an effort to
silence he growing demands of the
jobf~ss, grows directly out of the
mass pressure brought to bear or
the Board of Estimates through!
Thursdays demonstrations and the
increasing activities of the Councils
of Unemployed under the leader
ship of the Communist Party"
This action, however. is a con-
fession of sthe false declarations
made by Mayor Walker at Thurs.
Continued on Page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-20
100000 to Date

ORDERS have far been placed with the office of the
Daily Worker for 100000 of the special Daily Worker
editions This while already showing greater
Party of the Daily Worker it's campaign still
of 100000 copies.
will be still further Pittsburgh
Philadelphia while not sending the cash. has declared
tenion of taking $4,000 tentatively
10000 The remaining $4,000 small scattered
the entire country
Chicago Detroit Cleveland Minneapolis Boston, Seattle
City, and California DISTRICTS speak the South
failed to order single additional This
weakness in their election work which
if orders with CASH are Immediately rushed in.
Surely Pittsburgh for example, which is relatively weaker than
of these districts order and cash for $4,000 copies
the districts which have
stana order nurng the possibility reaching 100000 goal
Send in orders at once!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-20

that would make it look like Nessin
was not interested in forcibly pre-
senting the demands of the unem-
ployed and insulted the Mayor only
because he invited it, but that he
said nothing at all about the unem-
ployed and simply began calling
Names"
Fact and Fancy.
We invite all workers to read
Nessin's speech, as far as he was
allowed to get, which began with
stating that:-"In the name Of
100000 unemployed workers, we de-
mand that the 100000 that is as
signed for police, be assigned to an
emergency relief fund for the un-
employed"
The complete text of Nessin's
speech was given on page 8 of the
Daily Worker, Oct. II. 1t was taken
down by an experienced court re-
porter in shorthand. What the cap
italist press had was the longhand
notes of their reporters plus de-
sire to lie about the affair. They
don't agree even with each other.
The '"Times" for example, relating
what Nessin said that was SO Gin
CONTINUED on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-20
By r. BAKER.

On the eve of the greatest indoor
demonstration ever held in New
York, the Madison Square Garden
meeting on October 81, it becomes
necessary to sourd note of warn
ing and to issue some elementary
directives on proletarian discipline
and revolutionary conduct at politi-
cal demonstrations.
Some of our recent demonstra-
tionshave been marked by a dis
graceful display of petty-bourgois
indifference, chattering, promenad-
ing and hooliganism.
The overwhelming majority of
workers attending our demonstra-
tons pay close attention to the
speakers and seriously participate
n the demonstration. A small part
of the audience and among them
some irresponsible party members
insist on expressing their complete
disregard for the meeting by de-
liberately violating all the basic
principles of proletarian discipline.
When the police destroy our dem
onstration by violence we are not
surprised. But these petty bourgeois
minded sceptics, pessimists and wise
cracks attempt to disrupt the unity
and effectiveness of our demonstra-
tons by turning them into social
gathering places, promenades and
circus grounds.
This must be stopped.
What to Do on October Fl.
Do not leave your seat until the
meeting is adjourned.
Do not talk to your neighbor after
the meeting begins and until it is
adjourned.
Do not promenade the hall or seek
your acquaintance.
Do not leave the hall until the