Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-07
DEMOCRATS AGREE
ON !. "HAM" LEWIS
FOR ILLINOIS SEAT
Former Senator Will Be
Nominated by Party in Pri-
mary Tomorrow.
WILL CAMPAIGN AS WET
AGAINST G. O. P. VICTOR
Deneen and Mrs. Mccormick Are
Making Whirlwind Finish
in Republican Fight.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

CHICAGO, April TN the midst of
the hurly-burly of the Mccormick
Deneen Republican row for the SEN
atorial nomination, there is entire calm
among the Democrats here today. The
reason Is simple. All factions Of the
Democratic party appear to have agreed
upon former Senator James Hamilton
Lewis to be their candidate for the
Senate.
AZ Ham," as the former Senator was
Familiarity and effectionately called in
bygone years, is now ~. Hamilton" He
Is surrounded with dignity. And in
this primary campaign he has not had
to lift a hand While the Republican
contestants have gone up and down the
State and city reviling each other and
attacking and upholding the World
Court, j. Hamilton has remained serene
since his nomination was determined
upon by the party leaders and himself
He has made only two or three speeches.
He will be nominated at the primary
tomorrow.
While the Democrats are hiding their
time until the general election cam
paign next Fall, they declare themselves
entirely satisfied with the turn OF events
which will bring their candidate for
the Senate face to face with a dry"
Senator Lewis is wet" and will cam
paign as wet" and Chicago loves a
wet A wet referendum carried in
the State by something like 100000
votes when the question was put to the
voters not so long ago. The sentiment
against prohibition is even stronger to-
day, the Democrats say.
Prepares for Dry Fight.
So Senator Lewis is prepared to dis
cuss prohibition with either Senator
Deneen or Mrs Mccormick when the
time comes. Neither Mrs. Mccormick
mol Senator Deneen will be in posi-
ton to shift on this issue from the
dry cause, whoever is nominated. To
do so would be to bring down the
wrath of all the drys In the State.
In one of the few speeches he has
made, delivered at Jefferson banquet
at GaleSburg, Senator Lewis had this
to say about prohibition:
"A prohibition law as a principle OF
morality can be sustained by all those
who believe that morality can be en-
forced by law, if that law is the will of
a people expressed by the people-but
1t has failed and become an engine OF
oppression through the method of its
enforcement by officials named at
Washington who use their power to
prosecute the defenseless, Cypress the
innocent, disorder the State, consume
the citizen in expense. These never
named by the State, city or county, nor
known to the citizen, have put blem-
ish upon the State and disgrace upon
the family under the cry of morality.
This pretense producing corruption and
crime denies the State the privilege to
maintain its own morality and the cit
izen to protect and enforce temperance
in his family"
raises a roar of approval in the City
of Chicago. It is the issue that the
Republicans will have to meet in the
Fall.
The Democrats would prefer the NOM
dnation of Mrs. Mccormick. They be-
1ieve the fact she is a woman in the
end will initiate against her in the
senatorial election, although not much
has been said on that score in the
primary campaign which closes today.
There have been many rumors that
considerable number of Democrats will
be unable to resist the temptation to get
into the Republican senatorial fracas
and that many of the Democrats will
vote for Mrs. Mccormick. If they do,
it will aid her cause materially. There
is Just one thing that may keep the
Democrats largely in their own primary
election. While the Democrats are not
exercised over the senatorial nomina-
ton they are working hard over the
elections of ward committeeman and
some of the other offices.
Although the Democratic senatorial
nomination Is admittedly going to Sen
ator Lewis four other Democrats have
their names on the ballot for the
nomination. None of them has a look
in and their entries are looked upon as
merely efforts to put them in the lime
light. The opponents of Senator Lewis
are Harold M. Beach, in the advertising
business and a resident Of Chicago:
James H. Kirby of Petersburg, who as
member of the State Legislature earned
the nickname High Heels" Kirby be-
cause he offered a bill to make 1t illegal
for women to wear high heels: Louis
Warner, city attorney of Chenoa, and
James o. Monroe, once chief clerk in
the Office of secretary of state and a
candidate many times before for the
senatorial nomination. Monroe ran
against Anton j. Cermack, Tony" Ger