Evening star., 1930-10-30
The Political Mill
By C.. Could LincolH.


] present campaign. How effective the
plea to be regular" will be only the
election returns will tell. For example.
| down in Alabama John H. Bankhead,
the regular nominee for Senator of the
| Democratic party, is asking the Demo-
Gratis of that State to support him be-
| cause he is the party's choice and be-
! cause Senator Tom" Heflin, now run
ming as an independent to succeed him.
self. deserted the Al Smith ticket In
1928. In Pennsylvania Clifford Pinchot.
| Republican nominee for Governor of
| the Keystone State, is calling upon the
Republicans to bear In mind the need
of party regularity while Bill" Ware
! and his Philadelphia organization has
| gone over to the Democratic candidate
| for Governor, Hemphill Illinois Re
publican leaders, supporting Mrs. Ruth
Hanna Mccormick for Senator, are
viewing with alarm the desertion of Re-
| publican dryS to the standard of Mrs.
| Lottie Holman ONeil, Republican inde-
pendent candidate. And New York Is
/ the field of another independent can
didacy that is causing the Republicans
| trouble. Prof. Carroll of Syracuse Uni
Versity Is an independent dry candi-
| date-the candidate of the new Law
! Preservation party-for Governor whom
thousands of Republican drys are fol-
| lowing in this election.
Tom" Hefiin, denied the right to
enter the Democratic primary last
Summer and seek denomination to the
Senate, is the candidate of the new
Jeffersonian party-the only way he
could get on the ballot-yet he an
nounces at every meeting and political
rally, Il am a Democrat" At the same
| time Hef1in is hoping to receive the
aid of the Republican voters on elec-
| ton day.
The Republicans have not put up a
candidate for the Senate in Alabama
! this year. 1t is obvious that the Re-
| publicans would not have the ghost of
a chance to elect Senator in Ala
bama. Nevertheless, in one or two
| districts of Alabama the Republicans
| poll a very considerable vote. Should
these votes be cast for Hef1in, added to
the votes OF the supporters of the Sen
ator among the Democrats, they might
mean his election over the Democratic
nominee. Hefiin. stumping the State
| from one end to the other, has en-
deavored to raise the religious issue of
1923 again. He has charged that the
Catholics were responsible for keeping
him out of the Democratic primary.
II Mrs. Lottie Holman O'Neil rolls up
a big vote in Illinois 1t means sure de-
feat for Mrs. Mccormick, it is said.
The size of the vote which Prof. Car
roll obtains in the gubernatorial race
In New York will have a definite effect
upon the result there, although from
| all accounts Gov. Roosevelt, the wet
democratic nominee, might we'll de-
feat Charles H. Tuttle, the Republican
candldate, If there were no independent
dry in the field. 1t is almost impossible
| to estimate with any degree of GER
talnty what vote an independent can
didate, put forward by drys or vets, as
the case may be, will poll in an election
To-Day. In Illinois four years ago an
independent candidate for the Senate.
Magill, put In the field by Republicans
VINO were aroused over the slush fund
revelations in the primary campaign
| won by Frank L. Smith, Republican,
ran up total of $4,000 on election
| Gay. 1t was not sufficient to cause the
defeat OF Smith, who ran ahead of the
late George E. Brennan, Democrat, bv
considerably less than 100000 votes.
! In the same year, however, an inde-
pendent dry Republican candidate,
Cristman. polled $4,000 votes in the
New York senatorial race, causing the
wet Senator James w. Wadsworth, Re
| publican, to lose to Senator Robert F.
| Wagner, Democrat.
Former Senator Wadsworth and DR..
Nicholas Murray Butler, leading Re-
publican vets in New York, PLAYED
their part in bringing about the nonni-
nation of Charles H. Tuttle for Gov
ernor after Tuttle had declared for
repeal OF the eighteenth amendment.
| But neither of these Republicans has
so far had an important part in the
campaign which Is now waging. There
is very definite fear on the part of
some of the Republican leaders in
new York that to put these Wringing
wet gentlemen on the stump would be
| like waving red rag in the face of
bull, the bull beirg the dry element
Of the Republican pay, whose votes
Iuttle must have in large numbers
If he is to have any chance at all
against his opponent. Gov. Roosevelt.
The dry organizations in New York
are out to punish the Republicans for
daring to place in their platform a
| proposal to repeal the eighteenth
amendment. This was the last straw.
Many of the drys might have stood
for futile even after he had an
nounced himself against the continu-
but when the State Convention went
ahead and placed repeal plank in
the party platform they quit. Party
| loyalty could not hold them.
But although the drys may succeed
| in bringing about the defeat OF the
Republican State ticket this year, it
| does not appear to be on the cards
that the Republican party of New York
will be forced back into the position of
standing for national prohibition. 1t
| has gone over, and it is likely to stay
wet, despite the defections of the bone
drys. Sentiment against prohibition
| in New York is not growing weaker,
but stronger The bone-dry Repub-
licans this year are, in effect the
allies Of wet Tammany, which is back
! ing to the limit Gov. Roosevelt and
| the rest of the Democratic State ticket.
But that makes no difference, appar-
| throw the fear of prohibition strength
| into the hearts of the G.. o. P, which
up until the present time the drys have
been able to dominate in State con-
ventions. A victory for a wet Re-
publican on a wet State platform in
New York would be real blow to the
cause of prohibition in this State.
Massachusetts is another of the
States in which the question of party
, loyalty is particularly strained this year.
There, however, it is the wet Repub-
licans who are threatening to hop to
| the Democratic candidates. They have
taken a leaf from the book of the dry
Republicans in New York and Illinois
william M. Butler. the Republican
nominee for the Senate, is dry ana
supports the eighteenth amendment.
His opponent, Marcus A. Coolidge, Is a
| wet and a Democrat. The Republican
vets are declaring in numbers they in
tend to vote for Coolidge. The Butler
people are demanding party loyalty
| from these vets. But it does not ap-
pear that the wet Republicans are
! likely to answer the call any more than
| the dry Republicans in New York ana
| Illinois.
While it looks as though New York
will GO Democratic in the gubernatorlal
race, it does not appear that the
Denoc sats are likely to win more than
one House seat now held by Repuollc-