Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-13
COLORADO WAIVERS |
IN c. 0. P.LOYALTy.
Election of Senator by Party
Considered Uncertain at
This Time.
BY THEODORE C. WALLEN.


Special Dispatch to The Star
DENVER, October 13.-Colorado,
normally Republican State" is by no
means sure to return a Republican
Senator to Washington this year. Re-
publican leaders concede 1t to be high
ly debatable ground with an admin
istration seat in doubt in the House
as we'll as in the Senate.
While the signs favor George H.
Shaw, the Republican senatorial nomi-
nee, many doubt that he would carry
the State today, though sharing the
prevailing view that he has more po-
tential support to draw upon between
now and election day than his Demo-
cratic opponent, Edward p. CoStigan.
The outcome is considered to depend
largely on what success the Republicans
have in closing an unprecedentedly wide
division in their ranks.
Phipps Not Candidate.
The Senate seat involved is that held
by Senator Lawrence Cowle Phipps, not
candidate for reelection. Coiorado's
senior Senator sought unSucceSsfully to
nominate for his place william v.
Hodges, former treasurer of the Repub-
lican National Committee. Instead,
Charles w Waterman, Colorado's
junior Senator, and Clarence c. HAM
line, Republican National Committee
man. nominated Mr. Shaw, a Denver
lawyer, 40 years old, but not without
a primary battle so bitter that it split
the party.
Surprisingly little effort has been
made to patch the breach. The Shaw
faction is too proud to ask peace and
the Hodges camp is too resentful to
offer it. Complaining the prospect is
q continuing contest for Statewide con-
troll of the party, which seems certain
to mean a fight to unseat Senator
Waterman two years hence unless his
ill-health results in his voluntary re-
tirement at the end of his term.
Meanwhile Mr. Costigan, one-time
member of the Tariff Commission by
appointment of President Wilson, is
forcing the present contest, going up
and down the State, asSailing Mr.. Shaw
as the choice of the power trust" and
characterizing President Hoover's adj
ministration as q failure which brought
on the Hoover panic" as he calls it.
Stands for Hoover.
Mr.. Shaw, accepting the issue, is
standing on the administrations rec
ord. Prohibition does not figure di-
rectly in the senatorial campaign,
though endangering the reelection of
Representative william r. Eaton, a dry,
in the comparatively wet Denver dis
trict, and thus indirectly affecting the
senatorial contest.
To be sure, william H. Adams, the
old-fashioned but highly popular Dem
ocratic Governor, is passively opposed
to national prohibition. His Republic
can opponent for reelection Is dry, in
cidentally former upstate New Yorker.
So, although the rival senatorial can
didates are dry, whatever wet favor Is
to be found in the campaign Is on the
Democratic side.
Whethers Denver's general attitude
will be Influenced by prohibition under
the circumstances, the crux of the
campaign is in this city. 1t casts one
third of Colorado's total vote and nor
maly decides the outcome of State
elections.
Two Districts Conceded.
Two Of the three other congressional
districts are conceded to CoStigan at
the outset by Shaw managers. One of
them, the fourth, covering the entire
western half of the State, has IL times
straight sent q Democrat, Edward
Thomas Taylor, to the Lower House of
Congress and is prepared to do so
again.
The other is the third (Pueblo) dis
trict, embracing the southeastern sec
ton, which adjoins New Mexico, Okla
homa and Kansas. Senator Waterman,
carrying the State by a scant 10000 in
1925, also lost these districts, but car
ried Denver. So did Senator Phipps In
1918. The support of organized labor,
including the Big Four Railroad Broth
erhoods, is pledged to Costigan. Hav-
ing been the State leader of the Pro-
gressives' revolt against the Republican
marty in 1919 CoStipau anneals tn the
more extreme former Progressives.
The indifference Of Denver Republi-
cans as the campaign goes into its final
month has moved the. party's State
leaders to call responsible Republican
business men into conference to ac-
quaint them with the realities of a
none-too-promising situation.