The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-06

SETS despite the intervention of his old friend Calvin
Coolidge.
Representative Ruth Hanna Mccormick of Illinois
al extreme chauvnist who spent third of million
to get the Republican senatorial nomination, was
swept to defeat while trying to straddle the prohibi
ton fence James Elwood Jones wealth in West
Virginia could not cancel the opposition of the labor
forces, which he has vctimized in his anti-Iabor
coal mines.
But most spectacular was the defeat of President
Hoovers two special friends Senator Allen of Kansas
and Representative Reece of Tennessee. Allen was
Hoovers hand-picked publicity director in the last
campaign and his election was considered certain
because of the normally heavy Republican majority
in Kansas.
But the voters remembered that Allen represented
the administrations unpopular farm policy and that
he was of the lonely leaders in the unsuccessful
effort to force John j. Parker upon the supreme
court.
In this connection it should be recalled that SEN
ator McCuloch Of Ohio was another who was defeated
partly because of his vote for Judge Parker and his
anti-labor record
Representative Reece of Tennessee obtained ma
tonal prominence the last session of congress by
blocking the Norris Muscle Shoals BILL and then by
being rewarded by the personal Intervention Presi
dent Hoover his favor in the primary fight on this
issue. Reece was the only candidate in this election
so favored by Hoover. He not only defeated but
by an independent candidate who entered the race
only ten days before election.
Among the new liberal senators, the country is apt
to hear most in the future from Morrow, New Jersey
Republican, and the Democrats Hull of Tennessee and
Costgan of Colorado. Morrow by his great diplomatic
achievement as ambassador to Mexico and by his wet
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eign affairs and prohibition repeal
Costigan, former militant member of the tariff
commission and Hull who has been the most active
low tariff advocate in the house. will be key men in
the senate fight to repeal the Hawey- Smoot tariff
Jim Ham Lewis of Illinois, Marcus Coolidge of
Massachusetts, and Robert j. Bukley of Ohio are men
of high type much superior to their predecessors and
senators whose mild liberalism may increase in Office
Finally several leading progressives have won CUB
ernatoral races Chief among these are La Toilette of
Wisconsin, Pinchot of Pennsylvania Meier of Oregon,
and the reelection with unprecedented plurality
of Franklin Roosevelt of New York
In every instance, power was one of the major
issues Roosevelt's power fight as Governor is we'll
known. Pinchot since the days of the Roosevelt adj
ministraton, ranked with Senator Harris as the
most vigorous opponents of private power monopoly
He won Tuesday the Republican ticket in spite of
wholesale desertion by the G. o. P. bosses.
Julius L. Meier, one of the largest merchants on
the Pacific coast, carried Oregon as independent
candidate public ownership platform
Young Phil La Follette's brilliant race in the
primaries against the conservative Governor KohIer
and now his election as Governor beside his brother
Senator Bob La Toilette, is perhaps symbolic.
For the first time in several years, there seems at
least to be national trend in public opinion toward
the progressive principles identified long with the
name La Toilette.