Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-28

High hopes are entertained in
various interested quarters that the
President may be prevailed upon 70
say something soon respecting prohibi-
ton, which will make easier the path
Of Republican candidates for the Senate
in the Fall election: Some Republican
leaders have pointed out to Mr.. Hoover
that without some such pronuncia-
mento the party Is apt to lose se1a-
torial seats IN Massachusetts,, New Jer-
sey, Rhode Island and other States,
where anti.prohibition sentiment Is
strong. AS matters now stand Repub-
lican candidates in these States, who
take a liberal position on prohibition,
are open to the criticism of repudiat-
ing the President. The suggestion
made to Mr.. Hoover Is that he re-
afirnn his duty and determination to
uphold the eighteenth amendment, and
to enforce the laws relating thereto,
but that he recognizes the right Of
Republican candidates for Office to take
whatever personal position on prohibi-
ton they see At, as rejecting the views
Of the people of the States which they
aspire to represent. In other words
administration leaders are striving to
prevent the dry end of the prohibition
question being forced upon the can
didates of the party in the Eastern
States. Whether or not the President
will shift his position from the extreme
dry wing Is altogether one of the most
interesting possibilities IN the coming
campaign.
With the congressional elections still
eight months Of, the Democrats are
proclaiming publicly their expectation
Of overturning the present Republican
majority Of l02 in the House and
achieving actual control of Congress.
Privately they entertain no such expec-
tation:: In their private calculations
they hope to gain approximately 90
seats-cuite sufficient to throw the
House into the hands of Democratic
insurgent coalition, such IS now grips
the Senate. Checking up the prospects
district by district, the Democratic STRAIT
eRists figure to gain the following seats:
Virginia, 8: North Carolina, q Ken
lucky, S; Pennsylvania, s.; Indiana, 5;
Illinois, 8; Massachusetts,, g.; New Jer-
sey, q; Connecticut. !; West Virginia,
2; Ohio, 2; Missouri, 8; Oklahoma, 2;
Nebraska, ].
Capital gossip is busy with Chairman
Claudius Huston OF the Republican ma
tional committee, and predictions are
freely hazarded that his retirement from
the party helm Is only q matter of
months. At the moment administration
critics are on tiptoe of expectancy for
Mr.. Huston's appearance before the
Caraway lobby probe committee to tes-
tify as TO his participation in the af-
fairs Of the Tennessee River Improve
ment Association and his alleged con.
nection with the efforts Of the American
Cyanamid Co. to secure lease Of Mus
Gle Shoals. Already Washington specu-
lation turns to the question Of Mr.. Hus-
tons probable successor as national
and In this connection the
name most frequently heard Is that Of
Walter r, Brown OF Ohio, present POST
master General.
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Though Representative Pearl Peden
Oldheld Of Arkansas. who succeeded her
deceased husband In Congress, in an
her determination to volun-
tarily retire to private life, says her ex-
perience has led her to the conclusion
that "the ship Of state now, and q
hundred years from now. should be
guided by the menfolk," there is little
evidence that she bespeaks the prevail
ing feminine viewpoint. Rather there
appears 20 be IN increasing urge for