The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-10
Illinois to Enjoy CoIorfuI
Battle for Seat in
u. S. Senate.
DENEEN SHOWED UNDER
Ruth MCCormiCk'S Triumph
Is Greatest in History
of State.
BY WOLF LARSON
United Press stan Correspondent


CHICAGO. April 10.-The pros
pect of doing battle with another of
the formidable McCormicks - this
time the widow of the man who de-
feated him twelve years aso-found
James Hamilton Lewis today in en-
attitude of watchfm waiting.
Famous Jay Ham, orator ex-
traordinary and senate whip of the
Democratic party during the Wilson
administration, was taking nothing
for granted. He declined, in advance
of final tabulation of all votes
cast in the Illinois primary Tuesday.
to concede himself the Democratic
nomination.
His victory, well indicated by re-
turns giving him four times as many
votes as his four opponents, failed
to afford him the huge satisfaction
enjoyed by Ruth Hanna Mccormick
when she swept aside Senator
Charles S. Deneen from Republican
consideration with an estimated plu-
rality of 100000 votes.
Mccormick Far Ahead
With 6,452 of the states tilt pre-
cincts reporting, Mrs Mccormick
had 625,41 votes as compared with
435, 049 for Deneen. Newton jenkins
trailed with 121, 781, and two minor
candidates had only a scattering.
Belated returns today were expected
to fix Mrs McCormick's plurality at
100000 votes, or slightly more.
Her victory was the most complete
OF any candidate for the Republican
senatorial nomination in Illinois
history. She led Senator Deneen by
an average Of Ats votes to the pre-
cinct in Cook county and 1895 votes
to the precinct downstate. Six
years ago Deneen defeated the late
Senator Medill Mccormick, her hus-
band, by an average of less than
enc vote in each of the states then
5000 precincts.
Former Senator Lewis confined
his remarks today about primary
results to declarations that the issue
between Mrs. Mccormick and Sena-
tor Deneen was not the world court.
over which they engaged in much
public controversy, but the COM
parative strength of the Deneen and
Big Bill Thompson factions of the
Republican party in Chicago.
True Issues to Rise
True issues will arise during the
next several months and it will be
found, as always in the past, that
they vary widely from those pre-
sented at the primary" said Lewis.
One Of the principal points Of diff
ference between Mrs. Mccormick
and Lewis is expected to be prohibi-
ton, which she favors and he de-
cries.
The idea of having a woman for
an opponent was treated by the
suave Democrat as being of no
consequence.
"As I helped this state give to
women unlimited suffrage, SO did
do everything in my power while I
was in the senate to give them ma
tional suffrage" he asserted.
II see no difference between man
and woman in the matter of the
enjoyment of suffrage, either by
vote or in the holding of public
office"
Remarkable for Oratory
The Lewis campaign during the
coming months will bring before
political gatherings throughout the
state a man distinguished by his
neatly trimmed and parted whiskers,
reddish, bushy hair, sartorial
elegance, and remarkable flow of
words.
In past years "Jay Ham," whose
whiskers were termed pink in other
days, has been much in demand at
every conceivable sort Of assembly
in the state. 1t mattered not
whether addresses on plumbing OF
shirt manufacturing were to be the
order, he was invited to attend and
deliver flow of oratory seldom
heard in this modern age.
The euphony of his words,
wealth Of classical allusion, and a
nicely Of gesture have kept him
constantly before the pI1blic