Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-02
NEW YORK TURNS
|. EYES TO CONGRESS
Democrats Expect Gains In
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Victory Seen.
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Special Dispatch to The star.
ALBANY, N. Y. November Aside
from the possibility that the reelection
of Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt would
make him one of the chief contendefs
for the Democratic presidential noni-
nation in 1882, the chief concern Of
Republican and Democratic national
leaders In the New York State election
this year Is the outcome of the con-
greSsional elections, which may have
an important bearing on control of the
House at the next session of Congress.
Forty three Representatives, but re
United States Senators. are to be elect
ed Tuesday. The Democrats. now hold
ing % seats to the Republicans 20, ate
making one of the most determined bids
they have ever attempted to gain an
even greater majority. The Republican
leaders are making an equally stiff fight
to hold the seats they have.
In view of the fact that the present
division of congressional seats in the
State is the result OF the outcome Of
the 1928 presidential election, when the
full Republican vote came out 1t APP
pears the Democrats, in an of year.
hold whatever edge there is in the fight.
for it is conceded the Republican State
organization cannot approximate the
vote it got two years ago.
Party Lines Broken.
The injection of the wet-dry issue
to an extent has openly broken down
party lines and has complicated the ste
uation considerably Il would appear
the Democrats have q chance to gain
one or possibly two seats.
There are six districts which two
years ago elected Republicans in which
, the Democrats are making special drives
with the profeSSed hope of victory To
impartial observers it would appear they
have chance in but two, or at most
three, OF these.
Guernsey T. Cross, secretary to the
Governor, has been granted leave of
absence from his official duties in the
executive chamber in an attempt to
overturn the twenty-seventh congress
s1onal district, including the counties OF
| Sullivan, Orange and Ulster. Mr.. Cross
Is running against Representative Har-
court j. Pratt, who won two years ago
by an approximate vote of So, 900 to 34;-
900. It is conceded Mr.. Cross will make
an exceptional run. but whether it viii
! be good enough to give him margin
of victory Is considered doubtful.
Mrs. Pratt Hard Pressed.
The best Democratic chance lies In
the seventeenth congressional district,
where Mrs. Ruth B. Pratt, Republican,
| is in three cornered contest. Her
margin of victory two years ago was
only slightly more than 1000 and re-
/ ports reaching the Capitol are that she
Is in trouble. Louis B. Brodsky, her
Democratic opponent, is making quiet
personal campaign, while the fireworks
of the contest are coming from Hey
wood Broun, New York newspaper COLI
umnist, who is running as Socialist.
The point in this contest appears to be
whether Mr.. Broun win take more votes
from Mrs. Pratt or Mr.. Brodsky.
| The Democrats think they have D
chance also In the fortieth congressional
district. where Representative s. Wal
| lace Dempsey, chairman OF the House
Rivers and Harbors Committee, was de-
feated for q denomination after pri-
mary fight. william G.. Andrews, Re.
publican nominee, is q wet Frank g.
Perkins, independent nominee, is q
Republican dry. Roland Prangle, the
Democratic nominee, hopes this division
will give him victory. However, the DIS
trict went Republican two years ago in o
ratio of $4,000 to 10000.
In the thirtieth congressional district,
| the Democrats are making bid to de-
feat Representative Frank G. Crowther
| Of Schenectady. Mrs. ISetta Jewel Mil
Ter, an influential woman Democratic
leader, has been nominated against him.
Mrs. Roosevelt, wife of the Governor,
has appeared at one or two functions TO
| further Mrs. Miller'S campaign and
party leaders are hopeful she viii cut
heavily into the vote OF two years ago,
when Mr.. Crowther received about So
600 votes to his opponents $4,000.
Chance in Thirty third. I
The wet-dry issue may give the
Democrats chance in the thirty third
congressional district where they are
trying to defeat Representative Fred
erick M. Davenport, dry. Mr.. Daven-
port won two years ago by a vote Of
$4,000 to 10000, but the Democrats
contend the district Is wet. James J.
Lofts, the Democratic nominee, is
| campaigning on the wet issue.
| Even in the twenty congress
sional district the Democrats are max
| ing fight, although rather hopeless
one. Against Representative James 8.
Parker, a dry, who has carried the dis
trict without difficulty year after year,
| they have nominated a wet, Theodora
A. Knapp of Saratoga. While Mr..
Knapp may make some inroads in the
normal Republican vote in the district,
his chance of victory is concededly al.
most nil.
The wet declaration of Charles H
! Tuttle, Republican nominee for Cows
ernor, who ravors repeal of the eight
zenith amendment, may hurt some of
the Republican congressional nominee,
as registration has fallen off heavily In
thirty-three dry upstate counties. =