Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-13
Hard Times and Liquor Issue
Aid Democratic Candi-
date in Illinois.
WOMAN FOE COUNTING
ON USUAL G. 0. P. MARGIN
Bitter Battle Complicated by Bone
Dry Aspirant Drawing From
Other Two.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN,
stan Correspondent OF The Star

Stan Correspondent of The Star
CHICAGO, ILL.,, October l3.-Eiard
times and the liquor issue may elect
James Hamilton Lewis, Democrat, to
the Senate Of the United States in
November.
Such result will not be accom-
plished, however, without the most de-
termined opposition on the part OF Mrs.
Ruth Hanna Mccormick, widely ad-
vertised as the daughter of the late
Senator Mark Hanna and widow Of
Senator Medill Mccormick. Mrs. Nc
Cormick has fought hard to be the
first woman elected to the Senate.
Two years ago she won her way into
the House Of Representativ as mem
ber-at-large from Illinois. The men
said she could not he elected, that the
voters would not support woman In
Statewide contest. She ran like wild
fire across the Illinois prairies. how
ever. and rolled up big vote, too, in
Cook County, Chicago.
Then Defeated Deneen.
Her next step was the defeat of Sem
ator Charles S. Deneen in the primary
for the Republican nomination for Sena-
tor last April. Again against odds, Mars.
Mccormick turned the trick. And now
j, Ham" will know that he has been
in q real battle before this campaign
Is over. Mrs. Mccormick Is a stern
campaiSner. She seems to be made OF
iron. Day in and day out she Is going
about the State. speaking everywhere.
No weather conditions halt her. She
fills all her speaking dates.
Former Senator Lewis, however, Is the
child Of political fortune. 1t may be
stretching o point to refer TO the Sem
stor as q child. But there is no doubt
that he has had a remarkable career In
the world Of politics and that he has
been successful in unexpected places
and at unexpected times. Born in the
South, he became q member of Con-
gress from the State of Washington
His next field Of political activity was
III Chicago. Eventually he was elected
Democratic Senator to represent Illinois
in Washington.
Won In G. o. r. Split.
There, indeed, fortune stepped in.
Illinois had elected no Democrat to the
Senate for many years. But in 1912
came the Bull Moose party and g. split
in the ranks OF the G. o. p. Lewis was
on the spot at the right time. He en-
tered the Senate i'll 1914.
When Senator Lewis was defeated for
ELECTION in 1913 by the late Senator
Medill Mccormick, his political future
looked to be quite dead. And now II
years later he Is q real contender, for
his old seat in the Senate. II he de-
feats Mrs. Mccormick. the cycle will
- -
out Senator Mccormick. who had elimi-
mated Lewis. Mrs. Mccormick gave
Deneen the political coup de grace, and
Lewis is now i'll q way, it is said. TO
smother the Mccormick ambitions.
At the outset OF the year it did not
seem possible that the Republicans
could lose the senatorial election in ILL
nois. They may not lose it. But the
situation has shifted materially. Pres
ident Hoover carried Illinois two years
ago by huge lead over Al Smith, 455.-
600 votes in round numbers, and four
years earlier Calvin Coolidge'S lead over
the combined Davis and La Toilette vote
was 445, 900.
Change Now Noted.
It had been the custom TO refer to
400, 900 as the margin of superiority If
the Republican party i'll Illinois over the
Democratic party. Early in the year 1t
appeared that, no matter which candi-
date was nominated, MIS-. Mccormick Oh
Senator Deneen, the Democrats would
not have a look kin. There has been
change.
In the first place came business de-
preston. The party Ill power always
suffers i'll days of depression. Condt-
lions in Illinois, SO business men, farm
ers and labor leaders say, are bad. IN
employment is found not alone in Chi
cago, but in all parts of the State. The
drought hit sections of Illinois hard,
making the farmers more unhappy. III
the second place, the primary contest
for the Republican nomipation for Sen
ator has left much bitter feeling. The
Deneen organization outwardly is
aligned with Mrs. Mccormick in the
present race.
But there is a suspicion in the minds
of many that that organiza ton is not
going to break its back to support Mrs.
Mccormick. who, in the primary was
Endorsed by the city hall crowd, the
Big Bill" Thompson outfit. 1t is true.
however, that Roy o. West. Republican
National Committeeman and first lieu
tenant of Deneen. attended the first
big rally of Mrs. Mccormick held here
a week OF SO ago and sat on the stage.
1t is, true that Senator Deneen prob
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