Evening star., 1930-06-14


approximately $4,000.
Expcos Bigger Vote.
Because of the great interest aroused
over the wet and dry issue, 1t is be-
lieved that an even larger vote Will
be cast In the Republican primary Tues
day, than was cast In 1928. All sides
are hoping to benefit by the big vote
expected. The women are expected 10
play a big part in the election. The
wives of the candidates have been
racing about the State, making speech-
es, attending teas and receptions, IN
unprecedented fashion, and the woman
vote is likely to be split three ways.
Neither the Morrow supporters nor
the Fort people will admit that Sena-
tor Frelinghuysen now has a chance
for the nomination. OF course, that Is
not the position taken by the Freling-
huySen management, which has been
working hard for months. Both the
Morrow and the Fort camps assert that
the real race IS between Ambassador
Morrow and Representative Fort, and
that Frelinghuysen will run third. How
ever, there are those who contend FIRE.
1inghuysen will get a very substantial
and even a surprising vote, although
they do not believe he will win.
The drys are SarcaStically asking
what will be the situation if Morrow,
champion of repeal of the eighteenth
amendment, should be nominated. Will
the Republican State convention there
after adopt a platform containing q
plank declaring for repeal Of the pro-
hibition amendment? Such a plank,
the drys poirlt out, would be in direct
conflict with the Republican national
platform of 1928 and with the pledges
~ hn al
administration. How will it be possible
for the six dry Republican members Of
the House to run on such a platform,
Is another question the drys are asking.
They contend that the State conven-
ton, In the event Of the nomination
of Morrow, will have to decide whether
It win repudiate Morrow's stand on
prohibition or adopt wet platform.
Prohibition Big Issue.
The drys in one breath tell you that
the only big issue In the present cam
paign for the Republican senatorial
nomination is prohibition, and in the
next they complain because Morrow has
not discussed other issues. Fort has
gone at considerable length into the
farming situation in the State and has
discussed the tariff and other matters
aside from prohibition.
Morrow's campaign speeches, since he
made his opening address dealing With
the prohibition issue, have touched on
American relations with Mexico, on the
London naval treaty, on business and
and tolerance" II he
intends to discuss other issues, appar-
emily It viii be In the general cam
paign after he is nominated, provided
he wins on Tuesday. This has trri-
tated both Fort and FrelinghuySen, who
have continued to PROFOUND questions |
70 Morrow about number, Of subjects
to which the Ambassador has paid lit |
tie attention. FrelinghuySen, particUs
lAKly, has sought to raise the issue of
greater regulation Of the public utilities
oe the State. He has gone 50 far as to
intimate that Morrow, former vice pres
ident In ]. P. Morgan a. Co., will side
with the public utilities and against the
common people@of New Jersey. He has
called Morrow the "hand- -picked candi-
date" Of the machine bosses at the
State, etc. But Morrow has paid little
attention 70 these attacks. He goes the |
even tenor Of his ways undisturbed out
wardly. lEt3
Fort has just had violent dispute |
With the Republican organization Lead |
srs. One Of them charged that Fort, |
months ago, sought the support Of the |
organization for the senatorial nom |
nation against Frelinghuysen, before |
ganization was good enough for Fort in |
those days, why, say the leaders, should |
Fort assan 1t and them now? To this |
Fort has replied In no uncertain terms
that he did not seek the organization
leaders, but that they proposed to him
that he be q candidate. Further, he
says, the organization leaders asked
him very pertinently whether he was
willing to underwrite the campaign for
large sums Of money.
Turned to Morrow.
It has been charged that one organ
lZation leader wanted the sum OF $780,
600 for his own county, and that this
was one of the demands which Fort
turned down. Forts controversy has
been conducted with Mayor Jerome T.
Congleton. Fort said he told the lead
ers at the time, too, that he would run
as a defender Of prohibition. When he
had made his position clear, he said,
the leaders did not want him for q
candidate and turned to Morrow.
During his campaign Fort has made
D number of explanatory speeches deal
ing with the address he made in the
House last Spring in which he declared
that the eighteenth amendment was de
rected particularly at the liquor trafic
and that under certain circumstances,
''horne brew might be legal. This
speech was interpreted widely at the
time as an advocacy Of home brew as q
remedy for prohibition evils. Fort has
sought to show that he did not in that
speech advocate home brew. The drys
have accepted his explanation and
taken him to their bosomS as q 100
Der cent prohibitionist.
The drys have had to face the argu.
ment advanced by the Morrow people
that Morrow is the only candidate who
would have q chance to win in the
November election against the Demo-
cratic nominee, who will be State Sen
ator Alex Simpson. This, they say, Is
mere defeatist talk. Why, they say,
should the wet Republicans desert Fort,
If he be nominated in the general elec-
ton, any more than the dry Repub-
licans should desert Morrow in the event
Of his nomination?
Simpson Also Wet
The Anti-Saloon League officials say
they have not made up their minds
what they will do in the event OF the
nomination Of Morrow, 1t is too late
for them 70 put an independent Repub-
lican dry In the field for the general
election, for under the terms of the
State law the time limit for fling eX-
pired at midnight Thursday. They
might urge the dry Republicans to stay
auyov fvono thu nolls in November and