Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-12
The Political Mill
By G. Could Lincoln.

By G. Could Lincoln.
Pennsylvania is much in the limelirht
this week. Not only Is the nomination
of Owen j. Roberts to the Supreme Court
before the Senate, but a member of the
Presidents cabinet, Secretary James j..
Davis, is In the final drive for the Re-
publican senatorial nomination against
Senator Joe" Grundy and Francis II.
Bohlen, the wet candidate for the nomi-
nation. Mr.. Davis has the backing of
the Philadelphia organization, not to
mention the organization out in Ale
gheny County, which is Pittsburgh. He
has the Endorsement of labor and, gen.
orally speaking, is expected to roll up q
large woman vote. just now Mayor
Mackey OF Philadelphia has come out
in favor Of the Davis-Bro ticket, with
Francis Skunk Brown running for gov
ernor. On Tuesday the voters will 90
to the polls and register their desires
Unless there is something particularly
rotten In Denmark" 1t looks as though
Secretary Davis should come through
with a win In the senatorial race. The
Grundy forces have been putting for
ward the suggestion for weeks that the
Philadelphia organization Is willing to
trade the senatorship of to be assured
OF the gubernatorial nomination. If
this were true, why on earth should the
Grundyites shout it from the house
tops? They would be party to the deal,
and deal of that kind is not regarded
as particularly admirable. 1t looks as
though Mr.. Grundy had his back to the
wall and was feeling a little uncomfort.
able about 1t.
New Jersey Republicans are waiting
today for the first political speech OF
Dwight w. Morrow, Ambassador to
Mexico, a candidate for the Republican
senatorial nomination. Mr.. Morrow Is
expected to deliver this address We'd
nesday and to make clear his position
on the issue which has more interest
in Jersey today than any other, prohi-
bition. If he goes wet" IS his friends
have insisted he will do, Representa-
tive Franklins Fort, one Of the prom
inent members of the House and former
secretary to the Republican national
committee, may enter the senatorial
primary as a dry. This would make
a three cornered race of 1t, with former
Senator Joe" Frelinghuysen as the
third candidate. He has switched over
to the wet cause and the drys have
been searching for q candidate. Mr..
Fort a few months ago delivered an
address In the House which attracted
q lot of attention. In 1t he declared
that the prohibition amendment was
directed at the liquor traffic, and that
the law should be amended so as to
permit the people to make in their
homes for their own use home brew"
and light wines. Some Of the drys did
not care for the suggestion. The vets
ridiculed it. Nevertheless Mr.. Fort has
declared himself in favor of the eight
zenith amendment and ready to war on
the liquor traffic and he would be much
more acceptable to the dryS than either
Morrow or Frelinghuysen If the former
declares himself for modification or
repeal.
There is more ir this Jersey race for
the senatorial nomination than meets
the eye. Mr.. Morrow has become an
outstanding figure. First as q member
of the firm of j. p. Morgan q Co., then
as an adviser to his old college mate,
Ambassador to Mexico and finally as
a member of the American delegation
to the London conference. If he can be
elected Senator now and render valua-
BILE service in that body, there are those
who believe he would shape up well for
a presidential nomination in the future.
If anything should happen now to pre-
vent his winning the Republican sena-
torial nomination, these forward-looking
friends of Mr.. Morrow would be much
disappointed.
West Virginia may come knocking ct
the Senate door with a woman candi-
date for admission to that body. Mrs.
Lenna Lowe Yost of Huntington, w. Va,
has been urged to make the race for
the Republican senatorial nomination
this Summer. Since the decision Of
Senator Golf not to be a candidate to
succeed himself, the Republicans have
been canvassing the situation to ind
the strongest candidate to put up
against former Senator Nicely, who Is
likely to be the Democratic nominee.
Mrs. Yost Is at present Republican ma
tional committeewonan for West Viz
einia. She has been active in politics
for a number Of years. She took an
active part in the campaigns which
brought about the adoption Of the
woman suffrage and the prohibition
amendments to the Constitution. Mrs
Frank N. Mann, who before the 1928
campaign was Democratic national
committeeman for West Virginia, has
Yost. Mrs. Mann left the Democratic
party because of the nomination Of a
wet for President, Alfred E. Smith, and
intends, she says, to stick to the Repub-
lican party now. She wants to support
Mrs. Yost for the Senate. She insists
that there is a rapidly growing senti-
ment for the nomination Of Mrs. YoSt
for the Senate and that 1t is an oppor-
tunity which the Republicans and the
women of the State should not over
look.
Mrs. Yost, in addition to being Re-
publican national committeewoman, Is
also q member of the State board OF
education and the Washington repre-
sentative of the Women's Christian
Temperance Union. She has not made
up her mind yet, she says, just what
she will do about the senatorial race.
AS a matter of fact, Mrs. Yost had been
strongly urged to run for the House
from her district to fill the vacancy on
that body caused by the death OF Rep
Hughes not so long ago. It
is possible that she will determine In
the end to be a candidate for the
House nomination. In the meantime,
however, she Is being widely discussed
as a possible nominee for the Senate.
Mrs. Ruth Hanna Mccormick has al;
ready won the Republican senatorial
in Illinois. Mrs. McCor-
mick has rather expected to be the first
woman Senator Of the United States.
If, however, Mrs. Yost should win the
Republican nomination in West Viz
ginia and then be elected to the Senate
In November, she would divide the
honors with Mrs. Mccormick should
the latter defeat former Senator James
Hamilton Lewis, the Democratic choice
for Senator In Illinois.
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Down in Georgia former Gov. John
M. Slayton has been most anxious to