Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-22
Democrats Espouse Liquor
Cause, With du Pont FAM
lily Widely Split.
HARD TIMES AND TARIFF
WRAPPED UP IN RACE
Wilmington, Regarded as Repub-
lican Stronghold, Is in
Doubtful Seat.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN,
staff Correspondent of The Star

WILMINGTON, Del, october az
The wet-and-dry issue has smashed
party lines to smithereens in the sena-
torial and congressional elections in
this State. Wet Republicans under the
leadership of Pierre and Irenee du Pont
have gone over, for this election at least,
to Thomas F. Bayard. former Senator
and Democratic nominee for the Sen
ate, and to Col. John P. Lefevre, Demo-
cratic nominee for the House. Bayard
and the Democrats have espoused the
wet cause.
To offset these OBJECTIONS from the
Republican ranks, dry Democrats, who
supported the late Josiah Marvel, presi-
dent Of the American Bar Association
and candidate for the Democratic
senatorial nomination this year against
Bayard, are planning to vote in no in
considerable numbers for Senator Daniel
o. Hastings, Republican incumbent, and
for Robert G. Houston. Republican, who
is seeking reelection to the House.
Senator Hastings and Representative
Houston are running as drys.
Wrapped up in this campaign also
are hard times, unemployment and the
tariff. Altogether, the State of Della
ware, the second smallest in the Union,
is mess this year politically.
Du Point Family Dominates.
The du Point family, because of its
great industrial and other interests in
the State, has long been dominating
factor in its politics as well as in Its bus
mess. But the du Pont family is not
a unit in this campaign. Although
Pierre and 1renee have come out for
Bayard, their brother, who is now presi-
dent of e. I. du Point de Nemours &
Co., Lammot du Pont, is siding with
Senator Hastings and Mr.. Houston in the
congressional contest. Lammot du
Pont. however, while declaring In favor
OF Hastings, is opposed to national pro-
hibition and says so very frankly in a
letter he has written to Senator Hast
ings announcing his support of the Re
publican ticket. He remains loyal to the
@. o. p, he says, because he believes
that party Is better able to work out the
problems which confront the country,
including prohibition.
Senator Hastings has the support of
other members of the du Point family,
including former Senator Coleman T.
du Pont, to whose seat Senator Hastings
was appointed when du Point resigned
on account of i'll health In December,
1923. Frank v. du Pont son of
Coleman, and r. r. M. Carpenter,
brother-in-law Of Pierre du Point, both
OF whom are powers In the Republican
party IN Delaware today, are backing
the Republican ticket also this Fall.
Split Over Presidential Race.
The du Pont family split two years
ago over the presidential election with
much the same alignment as Is found
today, because some of the family IA
vored AL Smith and the stand he took
on prohibition over President Hoover,
and the stand of the Republican party
Tor the continuance Of prohibition.
1renee, however, remained loyal to
the Republican ticket that year.
The wet-and-dry fight In this State,
therefore, is not new.
Two years ago, however, the sup
porters OF the dry candidate for Presi-
dent won in walk. President Hoover's
lead, despite all the talk about wet
Wilmington and what 1t would do, was
1857 over Al Smith, an unprecedented
Republican majority. In that same year,
eA1S ASSPuDHSnI CdhouudIe 1Or Ine 0en-
ate, Senator Townsend, defeated Mr..
Bayard, who is the Democratic candi-
date for the Senate again this year,
by 22,897 votes, and Houston, the Re-
publican candidate for the House, won
by 23,316 over his Democratic opponent.
1t was thought at the time that SEN
ator Bayard's personal popularity might
pull him through, but he went down
with the rest of the Democratic ticket
in the Hoover landslide.
Here in Delaware, as in other States,
there is noticeable drift away from
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