The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-12
ASSAILS LIQUOR
ISSUE AS STATE
BALLOTS TODAY
Tells Democrats Voting Is
'Tammany and Catholic
SideShoW.'
KHAN ANGLE APPARENT
County Tickets Draw Many
to Polls in Spite OF
Warning.

Bu Tnffcd Prcse
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Aug. r.
Shadow of the 1923 presidential
election fell heavily over Alabama S
primary today.
Il did so despite the fact that the
state Democratic committee be-
lieved il had read Senator Thomas
Helm out of the party, depoSed MN
as a political power and relegated
the 1928 revolt which he led TO the
limbo Of forgotten things.
yet when the balloting began
this morning, most OF the voters
realized that what they were doing
was merely picking men to oppose
Hchin for senator and Judge Hugh
Locke. his teammate, for Governor
in November.
To complicate this situation, Hef-
lin and his followers we're increaS-
ing their appeals to voters to re-
main out of the primary.
If you go into this primary on
Aug. II you will be told a hundred
times before Nov. 4 that you are
bound by it hand and foot" read
an appeal to voters issued by the
Hefin forces in Chambers county.
"Stay out of Side Show"
"WiIl YOU support an un-Ameri-
can and illegal primary? every
Protestant church, every Christian
organization and 90 per cent OF the
Christian ministers of Alabama and
the nation have declared for the
prohibition laws which are threat
ened under the Smith-Raskoo
Democratic committee program IN
Alabama" j..
senator Heflin says stay out OF
the Tammany-Raskob side show on
Tuesday
Helms troubles with the Demo-
cratic organization began when he
led a militant revolt against Alfred
E. Smith. the party's choice Tor
President.
He was ruled out as a candidate to
succeed himself by the state Demo-
cratic committee. His answer was
to organize what are called the
,Iedersonian Democrats" in collabo-
ration with Judge Hugh A. Locke
OF Birmingham.
The "Jeffersonians" have set up
Headquarters in many counties ana
actually have held primaries OF their
own in four of them. In two OF the
four they polled more than hall Oh
the normal Democratic vote.
Solution Is Far OF
So in picking candidates today.
the Alabama voters will be choos-
ing men to oppose Helm and Locke,
the "Jefersonians" in the general
election.
November will see what will
amount to two Democratic parties
in the field. each claiming to be the
genuine and original. Victory then
will leave one side or the other IN
control. but not until then is there
hope Of solving the muddle.
Astute observers believe that many
might heed Helms call TO stay
away from the polls today were 1t
not for the fact that in each of the
states sixty-seven counties, tickets
of county officers are being named
and such local contests will serve TO
draw out the vote.
Moreover, Attorney @ ener a
Charles c. Mccall. himself one OF
the leaders among six candidates
for Governor, has issued an opinion
informing voters that they can vote
for whomever they please in Novem-
Der, regardless Of their vote in the
primary. His assurance may offset
the pleadings of Heflin and Locke to
some extent.
The six candidates for Governor
and John H. Bankhead and Fred
erick I. Thompson, the candidates
for senator, closed their campaigns
Monday.
Khan Question in Foreground
Thompson has attacked Bankhead
as the friend Of the power interests.
Bankhead has denied the charge
and accused Thompson of violation
OF the corrupt practices act, which
Thompson in turn has denied. Sup
porters OF each profeSSed confidence
of victory.
The Ku-Klux Khan question has
come into the race for the governor
ship. Mccall. while attorney gen.
eral, was a prosecutor Of the Khan.
w. c. Davis, now Lieutenant
Governor, who is said TO have the
support of Governor Bib Graves.
has been credited by B. NJ. Miller.
another candidate. with having the
same khan support which, in the last
election. went to Graves. This Da-
Wis has denied.
The remaining three candidates,
Colonel Woolsey Finnell, Judge j.
A. Carnley and Watt T. Brown, now
Democratic national committeeman
from Alabama. have kept clear OF
the khan question.