Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-25
STRONG OPPONENT
FACES I. ]. WALSH
G. o. P. Counting on Galen
to Align Montana Behind
Administration.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HELENA, Mont. October 25.--Mon-
tana must decide on November
whether 1t will retire to private life
man who for 10 years has been its
representative in the United States
Senate and whose activities in and out
of Congress have brought him and the
State into marked prominence,
Thomas j. Walsh, one of the Senate's
outstanding Democrats, and its prose-
cutor In the now historic oil funds in
vestigation, is opposed for reelection BY
Justice Albert j. Galen, brought forth
by the Republican organization IN an
asserted EFFORT to align the State be-
hind the national administration.
Three times Walsh has been charged
by the citizens of Montana with rep
resenting them in the United States
Senate-each time by q highly COM
plimentary majority. But Galen, too,
has found favor with these same voters.
An affable, rugged native son, who
grew I'D on q cattle ranch, Galen first
entered the States service as attorney
general. During the war he served as
q member of the Judge Advocate Gem
erals STAFF, in Siberia, with the rank
Of colonel. Returning, he was elevated
to the State Supreme Court, where he
Is serving o second term.
State Not Party Bound.
Montana Is not party-bound. The
fact that large majority Of its ON
GERS are Republicans has not prevented
frequent choice Of q Democrat for Gov
ernor and the election Of Democrats
to three Of its four congressional po-
Sitions.
A senator, two Representatives, q
Justice of the Supreme Court. members
of the Legislature and county officers
viii be chosen.
The Democrat, Representative John
NJ. Evans, and his Republican colleague,
Scott Leavttt, are actively opposed.
Mark d. Fitzgerald, dairy stock breeder,
and farmers cooperative leader, Re-
publican candidate In the first district,
lost his initial tilt with the veteran
Evans two years ago. Tom Stout, pub
Usher of the Lewiston Democrat-News,
member of the Sixty-third and Sixty
fourth Congresses. seeks Leavitt's place.
Campaign discussions seem to have
labeled the Republican ticket as wet,
while the wei known dry sympathies
Of Senator Walsh seem to designate his
party as dry.
walsh Avoids Dry Question.
dalen has expressed himself In favor
Of controlled manufacture and sale Of
liquor. So has Fitzgerald. Leavitt IS
silent on the subject. Walsh has avoided
the question during his campaign, but,
during the Summer, volunteered the
statement that he would not oppose
referendum and would abide by Mon
tana's vote thereon. This also Is Evans
position, but he considers the people
voted wet when they repealed the States
prohibition code In 1926, and declined.
In 1928, to restore It, Stout Is frankly
wet. Neither party referred to the sub
ject in its platform.
Tariff and farm relief have been en-
phasized as issues. Democratic speakers
have seized on reduced mining activity,
the difnculty Of marketing livestock and
the diminished grain prices Is argu-
mentS against extension OF further aid
and comfort to the administration.
Republicans challenge the position of
Senator Walsh In opposition to the
tariff. fSssisn
The Republican Senator, La toilette
Of Wisconsin, has indicated an interest
In the success Of walsh, to the extent
Of scheduling i've campaign speeches In
the State.
Registration figures reveal q total ai-
most equal TO that In 1924 and 1923,
presidential years, when the State bat
ties were most ardent and veteran
political leaders profess never to have
seen attendance ct political meetings
In an "off year" equal to that Of the
present campaign.