Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-17
WET AND DRY LINE
DRAWN IN ESTATES
Massachusetts and Della
ware Nominees Will Pro-
vide Direct Test.
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cratic senatorial nomination, Josiah
Marvel, recently elected president Of the
American Bar Association, was running
against Senator Bayard.
Connecticut Platform Is Damp.
In the Connecticut Republican Stats
convention held yesterday in Hartford,
the Republicans nominated a dry for
Governor. 1t is true, but they wrote into
their party platform q plank calling
for the restoration of liquor control to
the States. The plank originally had
been drafted so as to demand the repeal
OF the eighteenth amendment This was
changed overnight at the demand OF
the Republican boss of the State, j.
Henry Horabach. How the control OF
liquor traffic is to be placed entirely
with. the States without some change
in the eighteenth amendment is diff
cult to understand.
In Wisconsin, three dry ProgreSs1Ves,
candidates for denomination for the
House, were defeated and in New York,
Representative Dempsey, chairman OF
the Rivers and Harbors Committee, was
defeated in the Republican primary for
denomination by wet, Gresham
Andrews, who favored dry law repeal.
outside of the defeat Of Mr.. Dempsey,
the upstate Republicans, running 40
drys for Republican nomination for tbs
House, appear to have won.
Bitter Fights I'm Bay State.
The Massachusetts primary contests
were fought bitterly by both Repub-
leans and Democrats. The candidacy
of William M Butler for the Senate was
supported by former President CalviF
Coolidge, whose campaign manage
Butler was in 1924. 1t was Oppose
strongly, however, by members of TIN
family of the late Senator Lodge, in
GLIDING Senator Lodges daughter, Mrs.
Constance williams, who charged that
Lodge had been treated like pick
pocket" at the Cleveland Convention in
1924 at the instance of Mr.. Butler, then
national chairman. Many of the younger
leaders of the Republicans swung over
to Draper in opposition to Butler, too.
The Democrats have nominated in
Massachusetts two yankees" for the
key positions on their party ticket
Marcus A. Coolidge for Senator and
Joseph B. Ely for Governor. The
Boston democracy has been denied
either of these two places on the party
ticket. The situation was complicated
greatly for the Democrats in the last
week of the primary campaign by the
withdrawal of former Mayor John F.
| Fitzgerald of Boston from the guber-
| material contest.
CurIey Backed Loser.
Fitzgerald gave as his reason III
| health 1t had been expected that
| Honey Fitz' would be nominated. He
had the support Of Mayor Curley of
Boston. After Fitzgerald Withdrew,
| Curley urged the Democrats to nomi-
nate him anyway, so that Fitzgerald
could Withdraw after he had been
nominated and permit the State Com
mittee to pick a candidate. Curley at
| tackled Ely and Cummings, the other
candidates, vigorously and raised the
race issue against Ely, insisting that
Ely was antagonistic to the irish
Americans, who composed the Boston
democracy for the most part.
With wet sentiment running strongly
in Massachusetts,, the Democrats ins
sist they will be able to elect Marcus
A. Coolidge over Senator Butler. There
has been feeling. however, that Gov.
AlleRs a strong candidate, will win the
election
In the contest for the Republican
nomination for Governor in Wisconsin,
Phillip La Toilette declared himself in
favor of a return of the liquor traffic
control to the States and that was part
OF his platform. Gov. k0hler came
out in favor of amending the law so
as to permit the manufacture and sale
of beer, and for a national referendum
on the eighteenth amendment.
The Kohler faction pleaded for sup
port of the national Republican admin
istration and attacked what it called
an effort to establish political "dy-
nasty" in Wisconsin. with the La Fol-
lette family in the dictator role.
Shouse Sees Dual Victory.
Jouett Shouse, chairman of the Ex-
ecutive Committee Of the Democratic
National Committee, commenting on
the results Of the Democratic primaries
in Massachusetts and the party conven-
ton in Delaware, said:
I'VE will sweep both Massachusetts,
and Delaware in the elections this
Fall"
Mr.. Shouse added that failure of
Representative Wallace Dempsey to win
denomination in his congressional dis
trict in New York was in measure an
answer to the statement made by Mr..
Dempsey on his return from Europe
this Summer. in effect that the new
Republican tariff law had not injured
American foreign trade.