Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-05
SENATORIAL RACE
IN ILLINOIS IS HOT
Mrs. Mccormick Declared in
Strategic Position to De-
feat Senator Deneen.
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livered hundreds and has travelled
$4,000 miles in her open automobile
to deliver these speeches, she has an
nounced opposition to the League and
to the Court, with or without reServa-
lions. Her attacks on the Court al
ways get applause. And, by the way,
the anti-Deneen factions in Chicago,
the City Hall crowd, are as one with
Mrs. Mccormick In this issue. They
hug it to their boSomS as the one issue
on which they can make an appeal
to honest citiZ,nS.
Quite naturally Mrs. Mccormick has
hoped for support from a large number
Of woman voters, although she has def
nitely stated from the first that she
did not wish to be considered as a
woman candidate for the Senate but to
run merely on her qualifications for
the job and the platform she an
nounced. Many OF the women strong
for peace have been partial to the
World Court. So Mrs. Mccormick has
been at pains to declare her affection
for peace. She announced to the thou
sands who have come to hear her that
she is a Quaker, friend of peace. Her
opposition to entry of the United
States into the World Court, she says,
is based on the danger that it may
involve the United States in war rather
than keep the United States at peace.
She puts forward number of hypo-
thetical cases showing how this coun-
try, as a member of the court. might
become involved in European quarrelS.
She does it cleverly.
So far as the people here can OBJ
serve, the only other issue is that Mrs.
Mccormick wants to get into the Sem
ate and Senator Deneen is striving to
stay there. Both have been Endorsed
by the Anti-Saloon League.
Attracts Many Men.
At q typical Mccormick rally here
yesterday in the Apollo Theater the
audience was composed almost entirely
Of men, who filled every seat and stood
in the rear of the building. 1t IS
rather astonishing that men have pre-
dominated at almost all OF Mrs. McCor-
micks meetings, except when she has
addressed woman'S clubs. Perhaps
many of them come. out OF curiosity
to see woman candidate for the Sen
ate in action. particularly a woman
candidate of such prominence and with
such a background. But for whatever
reason, the men turned up. gave
the woman candidate the closest kind
Of attention and no little applause.
Mrs Mccormick in action Is tense,
interesting personality. Though she
speaks well and makes her points, she
does not class as an orator. She hasn't
the rhetorical ability of a Reed OF MIS-
souri, or the facility of Borah. But
she gets her speeches across In clear
voice that carries. Occasionally she
relaxes and tells story. Generally
she sticks to her arguments, with
big rap now and then at Senator
Deneen. One of her Quips at Deneen
is to call him Next Week Charley" be-
cause he has not always responded to
her challenges as promptly as she de-
sired.
Like Father, Like Child.
There's not the slightest doubt that
the fact Mrs. Mccormick is the daugh-
ter of the late Senator and boss of the
Republican party is being played for all
1t is worth. Like father, like child able
and political-minded is the implication.
Mrs. Mccormick celebrated her fif-
tieth birthday only few days ago with
a big rally at her home. Despite the
fact that she has worked harder than
most men could work, she shows no
signs of fatigue. Tall, slender, severely
hut fashionably dressed, she has win
ming personality and real gift for
dealing with hard-boiled politicians
She declares, however, that she is COM
mitted to no faction. She is criticized
in some quarters because she is sup
ported by the old City Hall croWd-the
Groves and ThompSons and Galpins and
Shows. Her reply is that she has the
support of these factions merely be-
cause she is going to win and that she
has made no promises and entered into
no deals with them. She is not so
foolish as to scorn any votes she can get.
The Deneen people declare that these
TQrf1nnG lao vh1
been odoriforous in the nostrils of the
people OF Chicago, are for Mrs. Nc
Cormick because they have nowhere
else to go. These leaders hate Deneen
and they fear him. They cannot beat
MIN without candidate, and Mrs. Nc |
Cormlck Is eminently respectable. 1t is
possible that many of the people may, |
on election day, vote for Deneen be- |
cause they do not want to see the City |
Hall crowd ride back into power on the |
skirts of Mrs. Mccormick. The City |
Hall crowd is obviously out to get |
Deneen, and they do not believe that |
Mrs. Mccormick would disturb them
after they once more get their grip on .
Cook County.
Senator Deneen has not let the claim
OF Mrs. Mccormick to being aloof from
factions in Chicago go unchallenged
He has published a letter written by
u.s. ASSOllAhth AAl 4oEO W OuuRG
Daniel P. Trude, then a candidate for
county judge, in which Mrs. Mccormick
declared herself for the Barrett Grove
ticket. The letter said II am very
sorry not to be able to indorse your
candidacy, but l am a practical poll
ttcian and have cast my lot with the
ticket. Most of the
women who have been active in civic
are inclined to indorse in
6lV1nnQl candidates dnrNn,@i.1r I
their records, on both tickets, but hav-
ing had 20 years of experience in poll
tics have found it is more effective
In the long run for me to indorse one
ticket or the other, taking it for better
or for worse"