The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-02
CARRIES FIGHT
into DENEEN'S
OWN TERRITORY
Smash of Chicago Sanitary
Board Laid to Senator
by Mrs. Mccormick.
CHARGES MACHINE LINK
Pink WhiSkered lin Ham
Lewis Watches Moves
Of Opponents.
BY MERTON 7. AKERS
United Press staff Correspondent

CHICAGO, April 2-The blood Of
old Mark Hanna. the master, was
telling today in as furious political
campaign as he ever fought in his
prime.
Ruth Hanna Mccormick. who lis
tened as a bright-eyed girl to the
sagacious counsels Of her famous
father when he was hailed as "Presi-
dent maker" is proving that she
remembers well as she uniimbers
the heavy artillery Of ballot warfare
in the closing days of her struggle
with Senator Charles S. Deneen for
the Republican nomination for the
United States senatorship.
In Deneen she has foeman
worthy of her steel. Shrewd in
the strategy of the battle-ground of
politics after terms as Governor Of
Illinois and one of the states
spokesman in the upper house of
Congress, he is meeting quip with
+. rejoinder and charge with charge.
Lewis Watches Struggle
Chicago's loop, loud with the rush
Of the workaday world, is the scene
of the final offensives. although
each candidate crowds the days
with sallies into residential districts
and suburbs. Each has campaigned
M and down the state. preaching
divergent gospels on such issues as
the world court, the tariff, political
, alliances and alleged corruption in
Chicago.
Silent but watchful, suave gen
tleman with trim white beard
stands on the side lines, studying
each move of either Republican as
-ui-anb. He is James Hamilton
Lewlf, champion of the Democrats
and one Of the most colorful figures
! in American political history.
His pink whiskers," as they once
we're. and his elegant attire have
been editorial ca5chwords for years.
His Plank Is "All Wet
He will wait, he says, until 1t is
known whether his opponent will be
Mrs. Mccormick or Senator Deneen,
and then attempt to forct lie cam
paign along a wet-dry battle front.
His plank is dripping wet. Both Re
p publicans are stanch dryS.
The brown jacket and smart lit
tie straw hat that Mrs. Mccormick
5 wore on TO the stage of the Apollo
theater Tuesday came off when she
sailed into TRADE against Deneen.
+. Shaking her finger at the huge
crowd, she declared:
1--WE tried again and again to get
Senator Deneen to tell how he
stands on the Root formula for adj
herence to the League Of Nations
: court. He has refused. AS soon as
/. I get through with this address I'll
20 over to the Women's National
Republican Club and ask him again
to his face"
Mrs. Mccormick, first Of her sex
10 attempt entrance into the United
states senate. kept her word as soon
as the meeting was over, but Deneen
was not there.
Fling Counter Charges
Senator Deneen was hurting
counter charges from the stage of
the Grand Opera house meanwhile.
lie denied the accusation of Mrs.
Mccormick that political machina-
tons of his group had caused the
breakup of the Chicago sanitary
board.
Fireworks at the Deneen meetings
. were furnished by Edward r. Lit
singer, member Of the senator's
F.. oratorical battery. He spoke of Mrs.
/. Mccormick as IAN acrobat in the
political circus" and described her
rs riding in a Ben Hur race with
one foot on a steed Of white purity
, and the other on one as black as
5 coal, the city hall horse"
Mrs. Mccormick charges Deneen
is linked up with the regular Cook
county political machine, while he
charges she is backed by the Mayor
Thompson faction.
II am running for senator Mrs.
Mccormick said. IF I am nom
Snated and elected I will be serv-
ing the United States, not some
Cook county boss"
Deneens answer was a proud
reference to his record as Governor.
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