Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-17
Massachusetts and Della
ware Party Nominees Pro-
vide Direct Test.
WISCONSIN PRoGRESSIVES
BEAT REGULAR FACTION
La Toilette Defeats Kohler-But-
Ter Downs Draper-Coolidge
and Ely Win.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

Outstanding in yesterdays primar!
and convention results in FIVE States
were:
The rout of the the regular Repubi'
can forces in Wisconsin and the smash
ing victory of the LaFollette Progress.
sives there, who nominated Phil" La.
Toilette for governor by approximately
10000 votes.
The setting of the stage for direct
clashes at the polls next November in
Massachusetts, and Delaware over the
wet and dry issue with the Republicans
taking the dry side and the Democrats
the wet.
Odds Against LaFOlIette.
When Phillip LaFollette, younger son
of the late Senator Robert Marion La
Toilette, several months ago tossed his
hat in the ring for the Republican
gubernatorial nomination at the behest
of ProgressiveS Throughout the State,
the odds were considered to be distinct
ly against him. Walter j. Kohler, the
incumbent, wealthy manufacturer,
had triumphed over the ProgresSives
two years ago. Two years before that
49,
ernoIship.
The La Toilette name, plus the per-
sonality of the youthful candidate for
Governor and the disfaVor into which
the regular Republican administration,
both State and National, has fallen in
Wisconsin, proved too much for Gov.
Kohler to overcome at the polls.
Nomination Equals Election.
Dc
again firmly in the saddle in the Badger
State. The Republican nomination Tor
Governor is regarded in Wisconsin as
tantamount to election. That means a
La Toilette will sit as chief executive
in Madison once more, as his father
did a quarter of a century or more ago,
and that another La Toilette will rep
resent the State in the United States
Senate. the present Senator Robert M.
La Toilette, ir.
In Massachusetts the Republicans
nominated william NJ. Butler for the
Senate and Gov Allen for governor.
Both are supporters of the eighteenth
amendment and for strict law enforce
ment. The Democrats, on the other
hand, nominated Marcus A. Coolidge
Of Fitchburg for the Senate and Joseph
B. Ely of Westfield for governor, both
vets.
Butler Barely Wins.
Butler, former Republican national
chairman and former Senator by gov
eernor's appointment, has won the
nomination in a close race with his wet
opponent, Eben S. Draper. The Asso-
ciated Press figures give Butler 9,095
votes to 150,550 for Draper and 22.2l6
for Andrew j. "Bossy' ellis, with a few
precincts still to be heard from.
The narrow margin by which Mr. But
Ter won is an indication of the way the
liquor question has split the Republi-
cans of the Bay State Had it not been
for the candidacy of "Bossy' ellis, the
fighting mayor of Newburyport, Butler
might have been defeated yesterday by
Draper ellis called himself moist"
and attacked both Draper and Butler on
the ground that they we're wealthy
manufacturers, who had no real interest
in the laboring man except at election
time.
Delaware to Be battle-ground.
The Democrats, meeting yesterday in
State convention in Delaware nomi-
mated former Senator Thomas F. Bay
ard as their candidate for Senator, and
wrote In their party platform a plank
calling for the repeal of the eighteenth
amendment. Right there they set the
stage for a real fight over national pro-
hibiton, for Senator Daniel o. Hastings,
the Republican nominee for Senator, is
running as dry
Outside Of the victory Of William M
Butler in Massachusetts the supporters
OF national prohibition had little TO
cheer about in the results of yester-
days party primaries and party con-
ventions. They lost out in Delaware,
where the dry candidate for the Demo-
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