The Washington times., 1930-09-18
ISSUE CLEAR
IN SENATE
FIGHTS
Delaware, Massachusetts, in
East; Ohio, Illinois, Colo
RADIO and Montana In Vest


more interested in the fate Of the
Eighteenth Amendment than in
anS other issue. there was every
indication today Of q nationwide
test Of prohibition sentiment in
November from the six clean-cut
wet and dry battles in the sena.
torial elections.
In Massachusetts,, Delaware,
Ohio, Illinois, Colorado and Mon,
tana, the senatorial contests will
be fought with prohibition either
paramount, or a highly i'm.
portant issue.
Dry Control Safe
The drys win show little alarm
over the outcome of these six
selections, since in all but q few
sof the other senatorial contests
both nominees are pledged to
strict enforcement of the Eight
-eenth Amendment. The excep-
tions would include Michigan,
New Jersey and Pennsylvania,
where both senatorial candidates
are either moist or openly wet.
In such States as Arkansas,
Georgia, Mississippi. North Caro-
lima, New Hampshire, South
Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and
Virginia where a nomination is
tantamount to election -drys have
been nominated or renominated.
In other States, like Iowa, Kan
sas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Okla
homa, West Virginia, Alabama
and Wyoming, all the nominees
are dry and prohibition will not
be an issue.
But the Massachusetts,, Della
ware, Ohio, Illinois, Colorado and
Montana contests will find vets
and drys battling to finish. In
Massachusetts,. William M. Butler,
friend of former President Cool
idge, won the Republican nom-
ination as a dry. He will op-
pose Marcus A. Coolidge, Demo
cratic wet, who Is pledged to re-
peal of the prohibition.
n Clear.Cut In Delaware
In Delaware the vets will rally
for former Senator Thomas F.,
Bayard, nominated by the Demo
Gratis on platform for repeal Of
the Eighteenth Amendment. The
drys will support Senator Daniel
O. Hastings, Republican incum-
bent, who is satisfied with the
In Ohio, Robert H. Buckley, of
Cleveland, won the Democratic
nomination on dripping wet
platform. He will try to defeat
Senator Roscoe McCulloch's Re
publican dry, in the home State
Of the Anti-Saloon League.
In Illinois, former Senator
James Hamilton Lewis, nominated
by the Democrats, has demanded
repeal of prohibition. Mrs. Ruth
Hanna Mccormick, the Republi-
can nominee, rather straddled the
. issue, announcing herself as a
dry in her primary fight, but
later debating she would abide
by a State referendum on the
prohibition question. This brought
out a Mrs. O'Neil as a bone-dry
prohibition candidate, so the vot-
ers of Illinois will have choice
Of three.
Battle In Colorado
In Colorado, the Republicans
nominated George H. Shaw, Den
yer attorney, over Anti-Saloon
Imposition, while the Democrats
named Edward P. Costigan, a
friend of Woodrow Wilson and, a
In Montana Senator Thomas
j. walsh, of Teapot Dome fame
we renominated by the Demo,
Gratis, Prohibition win be one of
the big issues in his battle for
reelection, since he is a dry and
his Republican opponent, Judge
Albert j. Galen is an ardent wet.
This. weeks primaries and con-
ventions gave the vets and Demo
crats something to cheer about.
while sthe drys and Republicans
were silent. The Association
AGAINST the Prohibition Amend
ment boasted that dry Congress
men in New York and Wisconsin
had been defeated. and wet SEN
atorial nominees. chosen in Massa-
chusettS and Delaware. Henry H.
Currarl. it's, president, declared
the vets would gain at least 81
seats in the next House as re-
suit of the '-rimarieS.
ShOuse JubiIant
Jouett Sho Sc, chairman of the
Democratic national executive
COMMITTEES, boasted that the DEM
ocrats had chosen winning tickets
n Massa chu-> IS and Delaware.
He also blamed the La Toilette
victory in Wi-consin on the fact
that Governor alter j.. Kohlel'
had defended tie Hoover ADMIN,
igtration. H likewise expressed
deligft in the defeat Of Repre-
sentative Wallace Dempsey, chair
man of the House River and Har'
oors Committee, after terming
him a spokesman for the Hoover
Administration"
While the drys and Republicans
were silent, their spokesmen
privately expressed themselves as
satisfied with the primary result
"a. date. The Republicans feel
they will retain control Of Con
eress, while the drys know, IS
do the vets, that they, too, will
have a majc -ity in both House
and Senate after November cleo
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