Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-02
INDIANA MAY YIELD
DEMOCRATIC GAINS
From Three to Six Seats in
House Predicted-G. o. P.
Denies Estimate.
Special Dispatch TO The Star.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, No

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, November
Indications that the Democrats will
increase their congressional holdings
in Indiana to six and possibly nine
seats are seen by observers in the
closing days of the campaign.
The Democrats now hold three con-
gressional seats and it Is generally con-
coded they not only will retain those
but will add three more, with q good
chance in three other districts, in two
of which the wet and dry issue has
been raised. The United States sena-
torship and the governorshtp are not
at stake this time, but State candidates,
including the secretary Of State and
the Legislature, are up for election.
Most observers agree that the Demo-
Gratis will retain the second, fourth
and seventh districts, which they now
hold, and will win the first, third and
eleventh districts. On the other hand
it Is expected the Republicans will re-
tain the sixth, eighth. ninth and tenth
districts, while the fifth, twelfth and
thirteenth are regarded as doubtful.
One of the hardest battles in the State
Is that being waged by Louis Ludlow,
veteran Washington newspaper cores
pondent, to hold the Democratic can
gressional seat from the seventh. or
indianapolis district. He Is opposed by
"A. NJ. nan, a uldIlu1ACuLCAs
Others Deemed Safe.
Barring q Democratic landslide,
which some party leaders are predict
ing, little danger Is felt for such Re-
publican veterans as viii r. Wood,
chairman of the House. Appropria-
tons Committee; Fred S. Purnell,
ranking member of the Agricultural
Committee; Richard N. Elliott and
Albert Vestal. 1t is generally believed,
however, that Harry E. Rowbottom,
from the first, is slated for defeat by
John w. Boehne, jr., son OF a former
fTom the third H VIII ' GO down before e
3. Grove, a protege Of the late Tom
Taggart.
Noble Johnson, Republican from the
fifth, has a hard battle on his hands
with the signs pointing toward his
Democratic opponent, CORTLAND Gillen.
Albert Hall, Republican, is slated for
defeat in the eleventh by Glenn Girls
void, young lawyer. In the twelfth
David Hogg, Republican dry, is men
aced by Thomas Riddle, q compare
lively Unknown but wet candidate. The
same Is true in the thirteenth, where
the veteran Andrew j. Hickey, Repub-
lican, is faced by Samuel Pettingill, a
Democratic wet. Wood, too, Is con-
fronted by a wet candidate, Charles J.
Murphy.
Watson Sounds Keynote.
The Republicans, following the key
note laid down by Senator James Il.
Watson, administration leader, have
urged the election of Republican
I House TO uphold the hands Of President
Hoover in the next session, but the
Senator was obliged to drop out Of the
campaign because Of illness. Senator
Watson frankly waded into the indus
trial depression, the chief reliance Of
the Democrats, and attributed it to
worldwide economic conditions, but his
colleague, Senator Arthur r. Robinson,
insisted that it was entirely due to John
j. Raskob, chairman Of the Democratic
National Committee.
For the first time the Democrats did
not import a single national speaker,
relying almost entirely on local orators,
chief Of whom was Paul v. McNutt,
dean Of the Indiana University School
Of Law and formerly national commando
er Of the American Legion.