Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-09
The Political Mill

Brother Charley" is seeking again TO
become Governor Of that State. Mrs.
Ruth Bryan owen, daughter OF the
"Commoner," who has represented the
fourth congressional district OF Florida
in the present Congress, Is seeking re-
election; and out Sin Minnesota Silas
Bryan. son Of Gov. Bryan and
nephew q the late William Jennings,
is the Democratic nominee for Repre-
sentative against William /. Nolan, Re
publican, in the fifth congressional dis
trict. If they should be. elected. the
Bryan family would be decidedly in the
limelight politically once more. AS
matters look today, however, Mrs.
owens chances appear to be better
than those Of her uncle and her cousin.
All these members of the Bryan fam
lily are running for ONCE as Democrats.
It does not seem conceivable that they
should be anything else than Democrats
in their political Affiliations. And con-
sidering the record of the late William
Jennings, it would seem entirely prob
able that all of these scionS OF the
Bryan family would also be ardent ad-
vocates OF national prohibition. But
Silas Brown, named for his grandfather,
is declaring that he favors reieren-
dunn on the prohibition issue, ana say
ing he would be guided by that refer
endum In determining his own position
If called upon to vote as a member OF
the House on liquor legislation or on a
resubmission of the eighteenth amend
ment to the States. His republican
onnonents are quietly amused at TINS
stand of the younger Bryan. The dis
trict. Notwithstanding the fact that IL
includes Minneapolis, Is regarded as po-
litically dry. Nolan Is he'd 10 De ory'
X X y n
tn prohibition issue so far does not
annear to be playing an important part
in the Minnesota campaign. @although
Einar Hoidale, the Democratic nominee
for the Senate, also STANDS LOT a REFER :
endum on the eighteenth amenomehV
and gives in a measure MS allegiance
to the cause for the repeal Oh tne
eighteenth amendment. Holoaae mas
the support of the Association Against
the Eighteenth Amendment In MS ell
fort to win the Senate seat now occu-
MED by the blind Senator, Tom
Schall.
silas Bryan has been given clear
field in his contest for the House seat
AGAINST Representative Nolan, for the
Farmer ,abor candidate, johnson, has
recently withdrawn from the race and
Endorsed Bryan. Bryan, an attorney,
probably has too great odds against
him to win the election, however. Min
neapolis Is strongly Republican. IL Is
tr,Ie that Nolan, in the bye-election
IN All the vacancy in the House caused
nv the resignation of Walter Newton to
become secretary to President Hoover,
only carried the district by 1000 votes
against his Democratic opponent, VINO
at that time was Einar Hoidale, the
Democratic nominee today for the Sen
ate. but in that bye-election only 5O,-
600 votes were cast, although the same
district cast $4,000 votes in the cleo
ton two years ago. Thousands OF Re-
publicans, dissatisfied with the outcome
of a very bitter primary, remained
away from the polls and other Repuo-
licans voted against Nolan. In NO
vember. however, most of the vote will
be cast in the country. 1t IS district,
however, which the Democratic organl-
zation is striving to win in their at
tack on the Republican majority OF the
House.
The Democrats have another wet
candidate for the House in the third
Minnesota district, where Joseph j.
Moriarty is the party nominee against
Representative Andersen, Republican
incumbent. There is a Farmer-Labor
candidate in that district, F. H. Shoe
maker. 1t has been reported that
Shoemaker might in the end Withdraw
in favor of the Democrat.
Despite these evidences OF gathering
wet sentiment in Minnesota the poll
ticians and the people do not appear to
be greatly excited over the issue yet. AS
one cynical but we'll informed Republic
an said: THE drys have the law and
the vets have the liquor" This same
Republican volunteered the prediction
that II prohibition were placed before
the people of Minnesota on a refer
endum vote the State would go dry to-
day. Referring to the large Scandi-
navian population in the State, and its
propensity to vote dry, he added: They
have a saying out here in Minnesota
that If an Irishman gets drunk he
wants to fight, If German gets drunk
he wants to sing and if a Scandinavian
drinks too much he votes for proh1bi-
ton"
The campaign this year in the States
of the Middle West and Northwest has
taken a curious turn, particularly in the
senatorial elections. In many of these
States the Democratic nominees for the
Senate are seeking to win with the aid
not of the progressive or insurgent Re-
publicans, but with the aid of the OLD
stand-pat element of the Republican
party. 1t is quite clear that in most OF
these States the Democrats haven't 9
chance for victory unless they receive
Republican support. 1t might well be
expected that the Democratic hope
would be to receive the votes of the
progressives on the Republican side Of
the political fence. But in South Da-
kota, Nebraska, Minnesota and Okla
homa, for example, the Republican SEN
atorial candidates are all rabid insur-
gent Republicans, who voted against the
administration at every turn. Indeed
they were "coalitionists" with the
Democrats of the Senate in opposition
to the farm bill and the tariff bill. II
is quite natural that the progressive
Republicans, therefore, should follow
these Republican nominees. And it be-
comes necessary, if the Democrats want
Republican support for them, to angle
for the old stand-pat Republicans. You
have Hitchcock, the Democratic sena-
torial nominee in Nebraska, playing
with the anti-Norris stand-pat Repub-
licans. In Oklahoma, Gore, the blind
former Senator and Democratic noni-
nee, Is opposed to the insurgent Repub-
ican Pine, and In South Dakota Gov.
Bulow, Democratic candidate for SEN
ator, is running against Senator Nc
Master. another Republican insurgent
In Minnesota the Republican opposi-
ton to Schall is largely among the So
called regular Republicans, and Hoidale,
the Democrat, is expected to benefit to
some extent from that Republican OPP
position.
Il &A
Indiana has no senatorial campaign
this year, and perhaps 1t is just as well
for the Republicans that it has not.
There are signs of political revolt in
the Hoosier State. Undoubtedly the re-
volt would have materialized two years
ago and would have swept Republicans
out of Office right and left had the
Democrats at Houston not nominated