Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-19
Politics at Large
By C. Could Lincoln.

The entry Of Mrs. Medill Mccormick
into the senatorial primary this year
against Senator Deneen will bring about
a loss In the woman membership in the
House, unless the unexpected should
happen. Illinois has two so-called Rep
resentatives at large, chosen in State
wide elections. There are nearly q
score of candidates for the Republican
nominations for these two places, and
only the possibility, it Is said, that one
woman will be a candidate for the
nomination, Mrs. Harold l.. 1ckeS OF
Winnetka, in Cook County, just out
side of Chicago. Her husband was ma
tional committeeman for Illinois in the
Bull Moose movement and she has been
a member of the State Legislature.
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The word has come that Frank l..
Smith, who was nominated ana elected
to the Senate in 1925, but who was not
permitted to take the oath OF ONCE and
who later resigned and sought the re-
nublican nomination for the Senate
AGAIN, but was defeated by Senator
Glenn, is to try for the nomination for
Renresenative at large in Illinois. Col
Smith was q member OF the House a
number Of years ago, before becoming
chairman Of the Illinois Public Utilities
Commission, a Job he held when he
entered the race for the Senate. 1t was
the contribution of more than SIPS, 900
to his campaign fund by public utility
magnates that caused MS unoolng ana
prevented him from getting his seat
in the Senate originally. 1t was reported
that he will seek vindication again at
the hands of the voters. II he Is elected
to the House Col. Smith will have the
privilege of entering the Senate cham
Der, the door Of which was closed to
him by vote of the Senate.
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In addition to Col. Smith, Represent
alive Yates, now Representative at
large, will seek the nomination, and so
will former Representative George e.
Foss and former Representative Frank
H. Funk of the Bloomington district.
Foss was prominent in the House and
served as chairman of the House naval
affairs committee when he was In that
body. Among the other candidates for
the nomination are Edward M. williams
of Chicago and e. J. Hargrave of Cook
| County. It Is generally expected, how
| ever, that the winners of the two nomi-
nations for Representative at large, on
| the Republican side, will be found in
the list of former members Of Congress
| and the sitting member, Yates, who
have entered the contest. The two can:
didateS receiving the highest number OF
votes will be the nominees. Illinois is
strongly Republican and the Republican
nomination will be tantamount to cleo
| ton, unless there should be tremen-
| dous political upheav2l between now
and next November-which Is not likely
to happen.
The Illinois primary is the first on
the list this year, coming in April,
Mrs. Mccormick is conducting an ac-
tive campaign for the nomination
against Senator Deneen. The Deneen
forces insist, however, that the SEN
| ator has all the better of the situation
and that things are looking better daily.
Senator Deneen has been In Washing
/ ton the greater part of the time, at
work on the tariff bill, first as a men,
Der of the finance committee which re-
ported the bill and then during the
debate of the bill in the Senate It Is
! expected, however, that he will get into
the State for a fast wind-up of the
! campaign after that bill shall have
| passed the Senate, or before, If neces-
sary. Mrs. Mccormick has been making
an antiWorld Court campaign, a cam
paign which won the nomination for
Frank L. Smith, very largely, against
the late Senator william D. Mckinley
who had, like Senator Deneen, voted
for American adherence to the court
| when the matter was before the Sem
ate. According to reports, however
there has not been q great deal of In
terest in this issue at this time in
Illinois.
Former Gov Alvan T. Fuller of Mas.
sachusetts has telegraphed Joseph L
Simon, chairman of the Republican city
committee of Salem, that he fully ex.
poets to be q candidate for the United
states Senate" Mr.. Fuller'S message
from Florida, where he is now avoiding
the chill winds of the Bay State, was
read here today with great interest
Some Of the members of the MaSsa.
chusetts delegation do not take thu
message too seriously, although it j,
perhaps the most definite statement
which Mr.. Fuller has yet made about
the senatorial nomination. They SAY
that Mr.. Fuller has shouted Wolff" toe
often in the past. They want a def.
mite announcement-"I will be a can.
didate for the Republican nomination
for Senator in the primary next Sep
TENDER before they are willing to ad.
I
race. Mr.. Fuller has attacked about
every one In the Republican party whS
has been mentioned in connection viii :
the senatorial nomination. If ho 81.
into the race he may find few orlcA.
bats coming his way, too. All of THU
kind of thing is nuts for the Democrats
who remember how effectively former
Representative Butler Ames tied thu
lobbyist title on Loring Young, his sue.
cessful opponent In the primary cam,
paign in 1928 and who was later de.
feated by Senator David I. Walsh.
Two announced candidates for thu
Republican senatorial nomination arr
former Senator William M. Butler anC
Eben S. Draper. The latter is a we
and running as such. Mr.. Butler ha,
promised to state his position on pro-
hibition. If Mr.. Fuller gets into q tri
angular race for nomination, he Il
likely to win. But If Mr.. Draper shouls
ease himself out of the picture latz
provided Fuller was in the race, FulieI
would have q real fight on his hands
with the organization and plenty o.
enemies attacking him. It has beer
published many times that the Hoo
yer administration, which means Presi
dent Hoover In the end. Is not anxiou.
to have Mr.. Fuller come to Washing.
ton as Senator, fearing he would joir
the "bolsheviks" in the Senate. The
fact OF the matter is that Mr.. Fuller
is highly regarded by the White Hous,
and there would be no hand raised X
! prevent his being nominated for the
Senate. MIR. Fuller was an arden
Hoover man in the early days of the
| presidential pre- convention campaisn