Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21
.DRYS HOLD POWER, Z.
THOUGH VETS GAIN.
Mcbride Sees Cut of 8 or g
Votes in Lower Cham
Der This Fall.
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the House CT Representatives.
THE Democratic party has been con-
stantly increasing in vigor in Mas
sachusetts and has developed a strength
capable of giving the Republican party
a real battle under normal conditions,
when it presents candidates who are
able to attract the large independent
vote of the State. Such candidates
have been nominated.
Sees Democratic Victory.
1.-THE conditions that affect political
elections are so Enthusiastically favorable
to the Democratic Party that, in my
judgment, Democratic victory is GER
tain. Economic conditions have Gre
ated general unrest in Massachusetts
as elsewhere. There is no mistaking
the fact that the greatest asset that the
Republican Party has enjoyed in the
North and West has been the fact that
it was capable of convincing the cleo
torate in election after election that 1t
was the party of prosperity. The pros
perity slogan has collapsed; so has the
issue, Elect Republican Senators and
Republican Congressman in order to
uphold the hands of the President
I'm addition to this present political
advantage to the Democratic Party,
there is an active wet and dry issue
in Massachusetts, which Is certain to
prove tremendously helpful to the
Democrats. The Republican Party in
Massachusetts is split almost in half
on this issue. An increasing number
of Republicans believe intolerable con-
ditions existing in the country today
make the wet issue the most prominent
of all issues. and are no longer Wnhng
to SUPPORT Republican candidates VINO
approve of present conditions. On the
other hand, the Democratic Party Is
practically united on this question. lts
candidates will not lose a handful or
votes while Republicans on this issue
will lose votes by the thousands, par
ticularly in the large cities, because IL
is supporting the dry side"
Wet PIanks Adopted.
Another Democratic Senator, Sena-,
tor Dill of Washington, also returned
To Washington yesterday. Out in his
state both the Republican and Demo-
cratic party conventions adopted wet
blanks in their platforms this year. In
the primary elections, Representative
Miller, Republican. representing the
Seattle district, was defeated for re-
nomination by a wet, and the Demo-
Gratis in the same district have noml-
mated a wet But Senator Dill is not
ready to concede that his State is really
wet IN sentiment IA bAiC lIidStSA SSAAiNS
to a showdown at the polls. Senator
Dill himself has voted dry in his service
in the House and Senate, but he has
not stressed the dry issue in his CAM
paigns in the State. The Seattle dis
trict. he admits, has been consistently
wet and 1t was due to the fact that tie
drys were caught mapping he says that
the party conventions in Washington
this year were dominated by the vets.
This is much the same point of view
on washington expressed by DR.. Bride
OF the Anti-Saloon League.
Senator Walsh, although he is up
holding the wet cause vigorously n
Massachusetts, will campaign for Scna-
tor Thomas j. Walsh, Democrat, who
is seeking reelection in Montana,
against a wet Republican, Judge Galen
OF the State Supreme Court. The Mas
sachusetts Senator will deliver two adj
dresses in Montana for Senator Thomas
J. Walsh in October. He has cast
aside his wet preferences in this matter
and viii support Senator Thomas j..
Walsh as a Democrat, Of value to the
service of the country.
Ohio Fight in Limelisht.
The Ohio fight for the senatorial
election is in the spotlight. Robert j.
Buckley. Democrat, former member of
the House from Cleveland, is an an
nounced opponent of the eighteenth
amendment He is opposed TO Senator
McCulloch, a dry Republican, who has
the hearty support Of the Anti-Saloon
League. The drys are making des-
perate effort to elect McCulloch and In
sist they will do so.
How much the wet and dry issue will
figure in the Nebraska senatorial cleo
ton remains to be seen. Senator Nor
ris is a dry. His opponent, former Sen
ator Gilbert N. Hitchcock, Democrat,
voted against the resolution for the
submission Of the eighteenth amend
ment to the States on August !, 1917,
when he was a member of the Senate.
The Anti-Saloon League counts Hitch
cock wet and will support Norris, al
though the progressive Republican Sen
ator aroused the ire of the drys when
in 1923 he came out for the election OF
Al Smith, wet Democrat, to the presi-
dency.
The stage is set in Delaware, too, for
a knock down, drag-out fight between
the vets and the drys in the sena-
torial race. Senator Hastings, Repuo-
lican, is the dry champion there, ana
is opposed by former Senator Bayard'
Democrat, an avowed wet.
Possible Wet Gain OF SIX.
Should the vets win in the senatorial
contests in Massachusetts,, Delaware,
ohio Montana and Nebraska, they
would pick up five seats now held by
dry Senators. Add TO this the I'LL
nois Senate seat, now held by the dry
Senator Deneen and it makes total
gain in the next Senate OF six seats:
The announcement OF Wheeler OF
Montana in favor OF repeal OF the
eighteenth amendment adds still an
other wet. although he is already a
member of the Senate. Subtract from
the wet group in the Senate the seat
now held by Senator Gould, VINO VIII
be replaced by White, dry, and the
total possible gain of the vets in the
Senate Is six seats.
Senator Walsh of Massachusetts ex-
pressed the view yesterday that 20 was
the outside strength of the vets In the
Senate today That would mean that
76 represent the dry strength In the
Senate. Give the vets every break In
the coming elections and they win have
considerably less than a third OF the
total Senate strength
Gov Huey Long Of Louisiana, the
Democratic nominee for the Senate, Is,
according to the officials of the Anti
Saloon League, a dry. 1t Is reported
that Long threatened to veto bill re-
pealing the State dry enforcement law
il the Legislature should pass 1t and
send it to him for his approval. Long
will succeed Senator Ransdell, who also
is a dry and voted for the eighteenth
amendment.
When the eighteenth amendment
resolution was adopted by the Senate
the vote was SIS to 20, with several OF
the Senators absent OF paired The
change from dry 30 wet strength, even
after the coming election, apparently
v,{ll not no oraaf numerically aS rom =