New Britain herald., 1930-09-29
AUTUMN ELECTIONS
 EVOK|NG INTEREST
Prohibition, Tariff and Business Among Chief Issues

IegiSlatOrS on Tuesday, NOV. f. : Several hot, close fights are in progress in the senat atorial campaigns and interests in the congressional elections is heightened by the possi- bility that the democrats may cap ture congress
 The outstanding issues being ad- Vanced by rival candidates are the record of the Hoover administration, the tariff, the business depression unemployment and conditions among the farmers.
 The democrats are expected to gain in both house and senate. There is chance that they may get a majority in the house. There is less chance that they will capture the senate, although they will share control in strengthened alliance with the republican progressives
 The vets have no chance of cap- turing either house. but they are expected to gain in both.
 The most exciting contests seem to be these:
 Illinois, Mrs. Ruth Hanna Me Cormick, republican, vs James Hamilton Lewis, democrat, vs. Mrs. Lottie Holman O'Neill, independent dry.
 New Jersey: Dwight W. Morrow, republican, vs Alexander Simpson, democrat.
 Nebraska: Senator George w Norris, republican, vs. Gilbert M, Hitchcock, democrat.
 Alabama: Senator J. Thomas Heflin, independent endorsed by the republicans, vs. John H. Bankhead, democrat.
 Massachusetts: William M. But Ter, republican, vs. Marcus A. Coolidge, democrat.
 Ohio: Senator Roscoe C. McCul- loch, republican, vs, Robert J. Bulk ley, democrat.
 Montana: Senator Thomas J.. Walsh, democrat, vs. Albert J. Ga len. republican.
 Elsewhere strong battles will be put up by these democrats who hope to succeed republicans: Edward P. Costigan against George H. Shaw in Colorado, Thomas Gore against w. B. Pine in Oklahoma, Governor Will liam J. Bulow against Senator Will liam H. McMaster in South Dakota, Thomas F. Bayard against Senator Daniel O. Hastings in Delaware, M. M. Nicely against J. Elwood Jones in West Virginia and former Senator Peter Gerry against Senator Metcalf in Rhode Island.
 Illinois Race Hot
 No one knows what will happen in Illinois since Mrs. ONeill went into the senatorial fight with the Anti-Saloon League behind her. She is likely to take enough dry repub- lican votes away from Mrs. McCor- mick to assure the election of Lewis.
 Mrs. McCormick's primary defeat of Senator Deneen and the former probability that she would be the first woman elected to the senate made the Illinois primary one of the most interesting of all. Her subse- quent troubles with Senator Yves campaign committee that investi- SdeSu llCl AoIllpal6h CAptllotSr llSl promise to vote wet (despite her personal dryness) in case the vets carried the Illinois referendum and the complicating entry of her arch enemy, Mrs. O'Neill, have produced one of the most interesting political shows ever seen-made still more colorful by the pink whiskers and itH- of Tor LN democratic nominee.
 Odds Favor Morrow
 Morrow's overwhelming victory in the New Jersey primary and his opposition to the eighteenth amend ment form one of the years politi- cal highlights and they're talking about Morrow as 1882 presidential possibility. The betting favors him to beat Simpson in the election. If he doesn't, his presidential possibil- ities will evaporate simultaneously.
 Senator Norris of Nebraska is the outstanding progressive in congress, sponsor of most of the senate's pro- .gressive legislation, foremost leader in the fights against Ware of Penn- sylvania, Smith of Illinois and Judge Parker of North Carolina and the most active foe of the power trust" His independence led him to support Al Smith, democratic can didate for president, in 1928. Stand pat republicans, the Anti-Saloon League and public utility interests failed this summer in determined 
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 Ex-Senator Hitchcock. his oppo- nent, was the democratic leader in the senate under President Wilson and is a prominent Nebraska pub fisher. Norris is still dry despite the enmity he aroused from dry organi- cations, but Hitchcock favors modi- fication. Hitchcock is expected to at- tract a certain number of conserva- tive republican voters as we'll as the democrats.
 Heflin Facing Defeat
 Heflin has to run as an independ- ent in Alabama because the south this year turned vigorously to the job of spanking it's "Hoovercrat leaders of 1928 defeating the aged Senator Simmons in North Carolina's democratic primaries licking Bishop Cannon's gubernator. ial candidates in Virginia and wal. loping other bolters wherever they raised their heads. General belie in Washington is that Bankhead- who is of the Oscar Underw ooC type, thought lacking Underwood! ability-will be elected over Heflin
 Aside from Illinois, the wet-dr! issue will predominate in the sena torial elections of Massachusetts Ohio. Montana and Delaware. Mar GUS Coolidge of Massachusetts is modficationist and is likely to bea Butler, who decided to be dry Tn dry Senator Walsh said he woulc