Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-30
'COLORLESS FIGHT
WAGEO IN OHIO
Cincinnati Issue Involves
LongWorth Seat. Key
of 1892 Trend.


And. furthermore, such tactics might
raise Cain with the charter group Re
/ pubucans
/ Portable situations for the two candi'
! oates is a campaign for Nick Long
! worth's seat that Is about as bloody a;
pink tea Both are gtIm-shoeinf
along until November 3. trying to offend
+ no one. Brickbats there are none.
/ Even the liquor question. over which
/ quite row could be raised at any timI
| In this district II either of the candi-
| dates was a DRY. has failed them Hol-
/ lister is a prominent member of tht
/ Crusaders the militant prohibition
I organization, and has denounced thS
eighteenth amendment and all IL:
works Lorbach. whose grandparents
| were both born in Germany. is q wet
| too, and faYors repeal of the eighteenth
amendment. There has been whisper
ing campaign against Jorbach among
the Republicans, some of whom assert
| thet ne IS not as wet as he ought TO be
But Lorbach laughs at this and calls
attention to his German ancestry.
City Election Foremost.
The truth Of the matter is that Gin
cinnati is all wrought up over its cam
paign for the election of the City Coun-
Gil. AT present the charter group has
control of the Council, with six out OF
the nine members The Republican
organization has the other three OF
the six charter group councillors three
are independent Republicans and three
are Democrats. The Republican or
ganization is hoping to elect at least
four members of the Council at the
coming election All the noise is about
the City Council and little is heard
about the congressional election. The
formation of the charter group has its
roots back in the days of George B
Cox, Republican machine boss of I'M
sainted memory. The charter group OF
fusion has had control of the city gov
eminent for six years, come this Janu-
airy. 1t has done a grand job for Gin
cinnati, it is admitted generally The
one particular argument which the Re-
publican organization is making against
it today is that it has raised taxes to
meet the expenses of the improvements
made in the city streets and elsewhere
and that the assessments may be still
further increased.
Because they are going about the
campaigning job quietly does not mean
that HOLSTER and Lorbach are not
anxious to win. This is HOLSTERS first
essay into the field of politics, unless
his election to the School Board for a
number CT years can be considered poll
tics He comes, however, of a family
that has served the city and State In
public Office with distinction. His
father was county judge and later
United States Judge in Cincinnati. His
great-grandfather was a prosecuting
attorney of Hamilton County, which in
cludeS Cincinnati, hundred years ago
HOLSTER served as a captain of artil-
lery In the World War and went over
seas.
Republican Drafted.
The Republican candidate for Con-
greSs had no intention of entering the
race. He was really drafted by his
friends, one of whom, Hubert Taft,
editor of the Cincinnati Times-Star and
son OF the late Charles P. Taft, was
prominent in bringing him forward. He
was picked because he was popular and
had made a record for himself at the
bar as well as in the war. He also had
the advantage of having not been
prominently identified either with the
Republican organization or the Charter
group, and, beyond this, he is a law
partner of Robert Taft and Charles
TAFT, sons of the late Chief Justice and
President of the United States. 1t hap
pens that Robert Taft, a State Senator,
has been prominent in the Republican
organization and is at present chairman
of the Executive Committee here, while
Charles Taft is an ardent member of
the Charter group, and at one time was
prosecuting attorney. elected as an anti
organization candidate Certainly Mr.
HOLSTER has strong friends on both
sides OF the Republican row here. Both
| the Taft brothers are supporting him
| for Congress.
David Lorbach is a newcomer, too
in politics Last year he leaped into the
| limelight by winning election as State
Senator in Republican district and
running far ahead of his ticket here
Like HOLSTER. Lorbach is a lawyer, and
| enc of his partners is Alfred G. Allen
formerly Democratic member of the
| House from the second Ohio district
which takes in all that part of Gin
| cinnati not included in the first district
! He is graduate of the Harvard Law
! School, the same school from which
HOLSTER graduated. Hollister took a
| four-year course at Yale before going
TO the law school,
The Republican candidate for Con-
| gresS is regarded as a silk stocking y
| an ariStrocrat. like the late Speaker
! Longworth. His district is used to
| voting for such a candidate, however
/ and HOLSTER has the advantage of be-
| ing member of the American Legion
| Although he is only 40 years old he has
| made great strides in the practice in
| his profession.
| Bride Charge Recalled.
Although personalities have been
| kept out of the congressional campaign
! it is said here that Lorbach did not
| help himself by charge he made
while serving as chairman of a legisla-
| tive committee investigating the high
| way department, to the effect he had
been offered bride of $3.50, 900 to ease
| up on the inquiry. He mentioned the
! name of Clyde j. KniSely. a former en-
| ploye of the highway department as
the man who approached him. So far
| Lorbach has not produced proof of the
| charge which, he made last Summer
| and Knisely has filed suit against him
for $4,000 for SANDER.
| More recently still George Remus
known one time as the bootleg king in
| these parts. has brought suit against
Lorbach and Leonard Carver, a Law
| partner, for S150,000 alleging that they
| divided up with Remus' wife money re-
ceived from the sale of property owned
by him while he was in jail. Remus
| killed his wife several years ago. when
he finished his sentence for bootlegging
was acquitted on the ground of insanity
and then declared to be sane. His
charge against Lorbach is not taker
| seriously here. The Democratic candi-
date for Congress has suggested that
the Remus suit, coming at this time, is
| a low-down Republican trick.
There is a third candidate for the
Longworth seat in the House Robert A
| Duderstadt running as a Progressive
MFR. Duderstadt, said to be well over 10
years old, was at one time a college