Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-02
DEMOCRATIC GAINS
EXPECTED IN OHIO
Buckley Victory Over McCuI-
Ioch Held Assured by
Large Majority.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, November L.
Robert j. Buckley, former Democratic
member of Congress, and an advocate
of the repeal of the prohibition amend
ment. is practically certain to be elected
to the United States Senate in next
Tuesdays election. over Senator Roscoe
c. McCulloch, who now holds the seat
by appointment of Gov. Cooper to the
vacancy caused by the death Of Sena-
tor Theodore E. Burton.
The Democrats seem, also, certain to
gain at least one seat in the Lower
House of Congress, and they have a
fair chance or better to gain two others.
Gen. John G. Speaks, the present MEM
Der from the twelfth district, Is eX-
pected to be defeated by Arthur Lam
neck, Democrat and wet. Gen. Speaks
is dry. In the fourth district, John l..
Gable, Republican, who now holds the
seat, is in danger Of defeat by DR..
Gainor Jennings, Democrat and liberal,
and in the fourteenth district Repre-
sentative F.. w. Seiberling is likely to
be defeated by Dow Harter, Democrat
and wet. Seiberling is dry.
There is a chance that Wilbur White
may be defeated by his Democratic
opponent in the ninth district, Scott
Stahl. as the result of the defeat OF
Representative w. w. Chalmers for the
nomination by White. There Is some
feeling as the result Of this primary
result. Both Stahl and White are wet.
Chalmers was dry.
May Gain Two Others.
If the election should develop big
Republican slump Representative G. G.
danger
of defeat in the sixth district, but that
seems a remote contingency. The DEM
ocrats are also claiming the election OF
Carl w. Smith over Representative
Grant Mouser in the eighth district,
and they may make good there, but 1t
does not seem likely. Mouser is dry
and Smith wet.
The Republicans may gain a seat in
the twenty-f1rst district now held by
Representative Robert CroSSer. He Is
opposed by State Senator George w.
Bender, a politician OF ability ana ag-
gressiveneSs. Both candidates are wet.
Crosser will probably win. The Repub-
licans also claim they have chance
to carry the eleventh district, now rep
resented by Nell @. Underwood, Demo-
crat, but it seems very remote.
From this resume of the COMPRESSION
al elections in the State 1t appears that
the Democrats are sure Of carrying one
district now represented by q Repub-
lican. the twelfth: have good chances
of winning two others. the fourth and
fourteenth, and have fighting chances
to win two others, the eighth and sixth,
and still another very remote chance
in the ninth district.
Now Have Three Seats.
vr1ha Ren,ihlicans have a small chance
To win O. seat now held by Democrat
in the twenty-first district The Demo-
Gratis have now three seats in Congress
| They are quite sure to increase this
number by at least one. The proba-
bility is that they will add three to
| their present number, and they might
under a pronounced Republican slump
add two or three more to that. Every
, Democratic gain scored will also be
gain of one to the wet strength in the
| House. Should the Republicans gain
| the twenty-first district by electing
Senator Bender over Crosser, no change
in the wet and dry strength In the
House would be made, as both Repre-
sentative Crosser and Senator Bender
are wet
The industrial and business depres-
sion and agricultural difficulties, aggra-
waited by the unprecedented drought OF
| the year, have proved the principal fac
| tors in the State campaign. AS always
this rests upon the party OF the admin
istration, and the indications are that
Gov. Myers Y. Cooper. Republican, WI
be retired with single term. He mas
made a good Governor, is an excellent
campaigner and is clearly far out ahead
| Of Senator McCulloch, his senatorial
appointee, in the running. In addition
| to the handicap Of hard times that
| the Governor is carrying, Senator NC
| Culloch has the opposition Of consid-
cradle elements Of organized labor and
Of the colored voters, because OF his
vote to confirm the appointment OF
Judge Parker to the Supreme bench.
Prohibition Secondary.
While the prohibition issue has been
prominent in the campaign. 1t Is not
the principal determining factor. Neither
| party platform mentioned it, but Mr.
| huxley. the Democratic candidate for
| United States Senator, has insisted upon
advocating the repeal Of the prohibit
| ton amendment in his campaign
speeches. Senator McCulloch has bold
| ly defended prohibition. Many wet
| Republicans are for this reason bolt
| ing the Senator. But, on the other
hand, probably just as many dry Demo
Gratis are boiling the nomination OF
Buckley. One offsets the other.
Gov Cooper has declared himself a
| dry and In favor of retaining prohibit
| ton, but his Democratic opponent,
| George White, has taken the same po-
sition, so prohibition cannot be an
| issue as between these two candidates
The cities are heavily wet and the
| farmers who would ordinarily be looked
| to to support the dry candidates are
'sore" politically, because Of conditions
and do not seem to be rallying 10 Sen
ator McCulloch's aid. The outlook Is
that the Senator will be Overwhelmingly
| defeated-possibly by as much as 30o.-
| 600 votes. Gov. Cooper is likely to come
nearer to popular approval, but he viii
probably fall from fifty thousand to 8
| hundred thousand short Of a majority
The entire Republican State ticket Will
! probably be defeated.
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