Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-17
DEMOCRATS GIVEN
/. EDGE IN KENTUCKY
TO BEAT ROBSON
Two Candidates Oppose Sem
ator for Long and Short
Terms in Upper House.
HOOVER ADMINISTRATION
LEADING ISSUE IN STATE
Minority Party Expects to Regain
House Seats Lost Two.
Years Ago.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

LOUISVILLE, KY, october 1.-THE
senatorial race in the Blue Grass
State this year is a "horse race
There are plenty ready to bet on both
sides.
Democratic political leaders will sit
down with paper and pencil and gliby
prove that the State is going for theil
candidates by $4,000 or $4,000. Or
the other hand, Senator Robson, the
Republican nominee to succeed himself
is confident he will carry the State
by not less than $4,000. More impair
tial observers will tell you that the
contest is likely to ebb very close, and
that no one really knows yet how it is
going to wind up. Some of them add
however, that it is folly to found Sen
ator Robson out of the running at
this stage of the game.
Depression, dought, hard times and
unemployment have made their impress
sion on the voters here as well as in
other States. Just how strong will be
the protest vote registered against the
party in power. no one is able to pre-
dict with certainty. Conditions, it ap-
pears, should aid the Democrats, and
under these conditions the Democrats
should be given the edge in the sena-
torial race.
Two Democrats Running.
The Democrats have two nominees
for Senator. Ben Williamson of Cat
lettsburg, a business man of wealth. 1t
Is said, is the candidate for the short
term, the unexpired term of Ambassador
Sackett. who left the Senate to repre-
sent the United States in Berlin. Judge
M. M. Logan of the Court Of Appeals
Is their candidate for the long term,
which will begin March next. The
race really lies between Logan and
Robson. Williamson will run along
with Logan In the balloting and If
Logan is victorious 1t Is expected VIII
hanson will win also and take the seat
in the Senate when that body meets in
December.
Kentucky is extremely close, pOlti-
cally, as between the two major parties
This is true especially in State wide
elections, which have a bearing on ma
tional politics. If anything, the Repub-
hcan party has been increasing Its
membership in recent years. The cleo
ton two years ago, in which President
Hoover carried Kentucky by 177,000
over Al Smith, is no real criterion, how
ever, of Republican and Democratic
strength. The religious issue entered
enormously into the election at that
time, and lifelong Democrats were
working their heads OF against Smith.
But in 1924 Calvin Coolidge carried the
State with q lead of 24,O0O over John
w. Davis, Democrat. Harding lost the
State by 1000 votes to Jimmy" Cox in
1920, and four years earlier President
woodrow Wilson defeated Charles Evans
Hughes by $4,000.
In this "off-year" election campaign
both the parties have had fractional
dinerences with which to contend. In
the main, however, these differences
have been Strengthened out. The
Republicans have been working like
beavers under the leadership of Senator
Robsion, tall, rawboned mountaineer,
who for many years represented the
eleventh district In the House.
G. o. P. Well Organized.
They have organized thoroughly
throughout the State. The Republican
strongholds lie in the tenth, eleventh
ana n1tn congressional districts The
NTH district includes Louisville, and
the tenth and eleventh are in the
eastern part Of the State and have
always been Republican. Here in
Louisville the Republican strength has
been constantly on the increase. The
Republicans here registered ~ 600
more voters than did the Democrats
There are 10000 so called independents
also registered in Louisville. and
which way the independents will vote
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