Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-30
Question More Troublesome
to Republicans Than Intra-
party Strife Is to Foes.
THREE C0RNERED FIGHT
is WAGED FOR SENATE
Butler, Dry, Opposes Draper, Repeal
Advocate, With ellis Providing
Laughs in Campaign.
BY g. GOULD LINCOLN,
STAFF Correspondent of The Star.

BOSTON, Mass, August 3o.-The
prohibition issue has dragged its any.
thing but shrinking form across Re-
publican party lines in Massachusetts,.
Today prohibition is the main issue n
the Republican senatorial primary.
which is to be held September I6 In
the Bay State.
Gov. Frank Allen, Republican, who
Is seeking denomination and who is
sure to obtain it, has but one opponent
IN the primary and he, although
negligible quantity in this contest AZ
a wet. And now Joshua L. Brooks, one
OF the principal candidates for the Re-
publican nomination for the House IN
the second congressional district. has
come out frankly "wet." That is the
district which was carried by the DEM
ocrats for the first time In history last
Spring. Granfield, the winning DEM
ocrat In that election, is an ardent wet.
The prohibition question is causing
the Republicans more trouble in Mas
Sachusetts than intra-party strife Is
causing the Democrats of this State.
It has been estimated that from so to
% per cent OF the Republican voters
mere are dry. Yet the wet Republicans
are so wet, 1t is said, that they win
vote for a wet Democrat or stay away
from the polls rather than vote for 3
dry Republican. All the Democratic
nominees viii be wet.
Three Candidates in Field.
The senatorial primary is causing
more interest among the Republicans
than any of the other primary con-
tests. Three candidates are in the
f1eld, William M. Butler, former Sena-
tor under appointment and former
chairman of the Republican National
Committee; Eben s. Draper, veteran of
the World War and a former member
of the State Senate, and Andrew
Joseph "Bossy" ellis, Mayor of New
Butler has come out dry. He says
he sees no chance of repeating the
eighteenth amendment and that the
only thing to do. therefore, is to 60
ahead and enforce prohibition. He Is
opposed, too, to the proposed repeal of
the baby Volstead act" the State
prohibition enforcement act, aligning
himself with Gov. Allen on this issue.
Eben Draper, on the other hand, Is
as wet as Buzzards Bay, MaSSachu-
sets Bay or any of the other waters
which lap the shores of this State. He
has made the repeal of the eighteenth
amendment or its modification the
main issue of his campaign against
Butler.
ellis Gets the Laughs.
"Bossy" ellis is the clown of the
three-cornered race. He cannot win
In 1fVan low lafNk Ia ernk ktaa
laughs when he appears at Republican
rallies with his more dignified OPP
ponents. ellis has announced himself
neither wet nor dry, but moist" He
fought his way into the office of Mayor
of Newburyport to even things up with
some of his enemies He has been in
Jail for short time because he violated
some civic regulation of his town, but
when he came out he turned the tables
on his opponents. He does not seek to
use senatorial language in his addresses
to the voters. He says he is accused
Of being a clown and declares he pro-
poses to clown" for the crowds. At
one meeting where he spoke after But
Ter and Draper had finished, ellis said
the only thing dry about the former
distinguished chairman of the Repub-
lican National Committee was his talk
and that Butler and his friends were
only waiting until after the meeting TO
get to Scotch high ball. He turned
on Draper. too, declaring that he posed
as a business man, but that all he
knew about business was cutting cou-
pons Off the stock, which he had in
herited.
ellis is likely to get several thousand
voteS-perhapS a dozen. His only inn
portance in the contest lies in the fact
that he may draw votes that otherwise
would go to one of his opponents.
Butler today appears to have the
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