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regarding the vote she will receive. The
Anti-Saloon Leaguers say she will get
between 900 and 500, 900 votes. But
it is entirely unlikely that she will get
so large a vote. Other estimators give
her from 100, 900 to 10000 votes. They
admit, however, that they are only
guessing. Mrs. O'Neill is running with
out an organization. She has just be-
gun campaigning actively. But she is
hitting at Mrs. Mccormick viciously.
She attacks the Republican nominee on
the ground that she has straddled the
prohibition issue.
Mrs. O'Neiu has also charged in her
speeches that Mrs. Mccormick will
never be seated by the Senate If she Is
elected, because of the large expendi-
lures in her campaign. Why, she says,
vote for a candidate who has no chance
of taking her seat? That is the kind
of defeatist argument that may have
its effect on some of the voters.
Senator Lewis has been touring the
State He has drawn huge crowds as,
indeed, has Mrs. Mccormick. He has
shown himself again an effective cam
paigner. His candidacy has been taken
far more seriously than it has IN the
past. Jokes about his pink whiskers"
have been eliminated. He differs es-
sentially from the Democratic candi-
date for the Senate in 1925, George
Brennan. Brennan was dubbed a typi-
cal political boss of the Tammany type.
No such charge is lodged against Lewis.
Brennan was Catholic and Lewis Is
Protestant. The Democrats are said to
be more solidly back of Lewis than
they have been behind other candidates
in recent years.
Criticizes Her Position.
Senator Lewis, always gallant in his
treatment of the fair sex, nevertheless
has criticized his Republican opponent
and attacked the Republican admins
tration and its policies. A speech re-
Gently delivered by Senator Lewis, al
luding to Mrs. Mccormick, made the
State laugh. and laughter is dangerous
to her candidacy. Referring to Mrs.
McCormick's declaration regarding pro-
hibition and her support by the city
hall crowd. Senator Lewis said:
The lady. yielding to the illusion of
Senate seat, surrendered and became
aligned with the city hall, agreeing
that, however dry as a mummy to the
State outside of the city she might be,
she was now to be transmitted by the
magicians Of the city hall, for the pur-
poses of q city hall election, into
dripping Venus arising from the
waves"
This necromancy was obtained I'M
der the magicians presto-change-th
city hall giving the presto and the lady
giving the change"
Although Mrs. Mccormick, in her
speeches, declares her support of the
administration, Mrs. O'Neill claims that
Mrs. Mccormick does not stand with
the President on a number of important
questions, including the World Court
and prohibition.
Senate Control at Issue.
The Republicans need Mrs. McCor-
mick in the next Senate If they are to
retain control of that body. The ma
tional organization is giving her its
support. Senator George Moses, chair
man Of the Republican Senatorial Cam
paign Committee, has been here and
there is no doubt that the Republicans
will do all in their power to bring about
her election.
1t is too early, with three weeks of
the campaign still remaining, to pre-
dict definitely the outcome of the
senatorial election here. 1t does look,
however, as If the Democratic candi-
date has a better change of election
than other Democrats have had in the
more recent past.