The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-11
A Good Day at the Polls

Tuesday a
prejudice. religious bgotry and political reaction At
the primary polls in eight states the people Topped
of the political heads of sundry dry leaders, stand
patters. and ynching opponents; and at the same
tina. rewarded several progressive leaders.
Thanks to the intelligence of Michigan voters, jim
cozens is coming back to the senate. His easy Re-
nlblican nomination means election. That has put
crepe on the door of the old guard headquarters
down in Washington.
How they hate that mani 1t is bad enough for
Norris or La Toilette to go progressive, but wnen
multimilonaire like Couzens fights against the spe-
ctal interests it is more than they can stand. He
everastngy is showing up the tricks OF Mellon ana
the treasury department, calling the bluff OF dry
lobbyists poking his finger into shady power deals
checking the railroad and radio corporations, and
otherwise throwing monkey wrenches into the we'll
oiled machine
Since the day Couzens boosted the wages of Ford
s workers. broke with Henry and retired his mill
lions, he has been his own boss.
That is why the people want him back in the
senate where he is without fear but is feared by the
bosses and the lobbyists.
While Michigan Republicans were returning Sena-
tor Couzens out in Colorado the Democrats were
nominating for the senate expert in government
whose technical knowledge is matched by liberal con-
victions, Edward P. Costigan
IS He used to be member of the federal tariff COM
mission where he stood out against the efforts to
make that body rubber stamp for the politicians
and high rate seekers.
Running against Costigan will be George H Shaw,
who won the Republican senatorial nomination from
the Ant-Saloon League candidate, William v.
Hodges, and others.
Superintendent Finch of the Ant-Saloon League
was exposed in the role of selling wildcat oil stock to
political ofics holders and candidates. Shaw repre-
sented the ring of Senator Waterman, while Hodge
was picked by the retiring boss, Senator Phpps.
With the Republican politicians kicking each
others shirs in factional it is aczy for Colo
RADIO and the country that the Democratic candidate
is of the unusual caliber of Costigan.
Meanwhile South Carolina has repented after
forty years dug the political grave for that
iamented genius of bigotry, Cole Blease. He has
traded on racial and religious hatred to hold public
office for the last time
The former Governor and senator can preach
his lynching gospel at home in his back yard,
and whether he continues to vote dry and drink wet
will not matter.
No will miss him in the senate but his fell
himself after election day.
What laugh for AL Smith to see the three horse
men of the great bolt of 1928 go down one by one
first the ancient Simmons of North Carolina then
Hefiin and Biease!
Any would be better than Blease. But James
Byrnes, who will take Coles seat in the senate is
better than the average. When last in Washington
he Woodworking and creditable congressman.
Louisiana didn't have chance to do so well. 1t
was choice of two evils in dirty campaign. To
defeat the reactionary and hereditary Senator Rams
dell, or to keep the unreliable Huey Long from climb
S ing from the Governors chair to the senate seat
was the question.
The people decided apparently that Long with
all his wild antics could hardly be bad as the
Democratic Ransdel, who usually voted more blndly
that the Republican old guard itself.
If Long doesn't turn out to be another Bease or
Hefiin the country will be relieved
Beneath the rise and fall of political personalities
s in many of the Tuesday primaries was the sweeping
undertown of wet revolt It was the same tide which
recently carried to victory Dwight Morrow in New
Jersey Jim Ham Lewis in Illinois and Buckley in
Ohio.
In addition to the Anti-Saloon Leagues senatorial
defeats in Michigan and Colorado Tuesday, the
dry losses were heaviest in the congressional pri-
maries in the state of washington and Michigan
Two of the chief dry leaders in the house of rep
resentatives Grant M. Hudson and Louis c. Cram
ton, both of Michigan Hudson has now been defeated
Cramton, after fifteen years in Office, has been
hayed SO hard by his wet opponent that recount
probably will be necessary to determine the winner
Two other dry congressman from Washington also
appear to be defeated the basis of incomplete re-
turns. And Washington is the state which not so
long ago gave to the nation the author of the insult
ferable hve-snd-ten prohibition law, Senator Yves
ley L. Jones'
But Washington is learning Both Republican
and Democratic state conventions have gone wet
That has made Five-and-Ten Jones attempt to
stradde the popular referendum fence, where sits
Ruth Hanna Mccormick and other suddenly timid
dry senatorial candidates. hoping to escape the wet
food
All in all, the Tuesday primaries indicate that the
voters are not SO dumb the politicians and spe-
cial interests of one kind and another want them
to be.
And since these primaries in line with earlier
results in other states there may be whole let for
the people to cheer about by the time the November
elections are over.
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