Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-15
KNIFE
READY IN INDIANA
Republicans Sense Situation
and Call for Assistance.
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year Ludlow has a stronger opponent,
Archibald M. Hall, highly regarded in
this district. Nevertheless, because of
the record he made in Washington
during the last two years and because
of a large personal following and the
fact that this appears to be Demo-
cratic year, Ludlow Is expected to win.
An independent Republican wet,
Warren Sampsell. has filed in the
seventh district. But he is not likely to
get many votes, although there is much
wet sentiment here, indeed, a growing
sentiment. In the Republican primary
this year, Ira Holmes, running on wet
platform, gave Hall, the nominee, a
close race.
Candidates Favor Repeal.
For the first time since national pro-
hibition came in q decade ago. canGi-
dates for important offices are this year
publicly announcing themselves in In
diana as favoring repeal of the eight
eenth amendment. 1t is significant of
{. real drift, it is said, away from the
bone dryness which has held Indiana
in its grip for years. 1t Is becoming
respectable to take stand openly
against national prohibition. Indiana
has one of the most stringent dry laws
of all the States, If not the most
stringent the Wright law. 1t makes
possession of liquor q violation of the
law and denies the right of physicians
to make use of whisky for medicinal
purposes.
Up in the tenth district, now repre-
sented at Washington by Will r. Wood,
chairman of the Republican Congress
Sional Campaign Committee, Charles j.
MurPhy n he Democratic nominee,
wet. Wood shotIS. win. He is strong
" intrenched there. But Murphy Is
making fight for 1t and will get lot
of votes in wet Lake County, an in
dustrial center. Recently there have
been Republican scandals in that Coun-
ty, too, and although Mr.. Wood Is not
connected in any way with these scam
dals, they do not help the Republican
ticket.
Representative David Hogg, dry Re-
publicans, Is opposed, too, in the twelfth
district by wet Democrat, Thomas P.
Riddle. Hogg is expected to win, al
though Riddle is likely to pick up q
number OF Republican votes on the
liquor question. This is the Fort Wayne
district. The thirteenth district also a
battle-ground for the vets and drys with
Representative Andrew j. Hickey, dry
Republican, opposed by the wet Samuel
B. Pettengill, a Democrat. PettengiIl
is popular and is giving his Republican
opponent real race, although the odds
appear to favor Hickey.
So it appears that out Of a total of
IS congressional districts in Indiana,
the candidates Of the Democratic party
in three Of these districts are running
as vets and for repeal Of the eighteenth
amendment, and in the fourth district
there is an independent Republican wet
candidate. The Ku Klux Khan, which
dominated politics in this State q few
years ago, has diSfntegrated. In its
palmy days its boast was that the Khan
had 100000 members in Indiana.
Despite its alleged dryness, Indiana
does not differ from other States. Liquor
can be had and is obtained readily
enough and in large quantities. There
is one feature of the State dry law
which has been under fire. 1t provides
that a prosecutor who wins case In
volving violation of the prohibition laws
shall receive a fee Of SIS. A so-called
crime commission, appointed by the
Governor, although 1t refused to study