Evening star., 1932-09-02

Politicians see fresh evidence OF the
Nationwide revolt tgainst the 'ins" in
the defeat of Senator Shortridge, Re
publican, of California for renomina-
ton. He has gone the way Of Morrison,
Democrat, of North Carolina, and Brook
hart. Republican, of Iowa, and met the
fate which many members OF the Lower
House of Congress have encountered
this wear in attempts to perpetuate
themselves In office. While both Repub-
licans and Democrats alike are whole
sale victims Of the popular uprising
against the "ins," Democratic leaders
view it as a certain indication that the
biggest in" Of them all-the Hoover
Administrations marked for repudl-
alton. Their reasoning is that voters In
November are not going to be governed
so much by their intelligence as by their
emotions and instincts. Despite the up
turn in business. the rise in the STOCK
market. the increase in COMMODITY prices
and other signs Of Improvement, tne
Democrats remain invlnclbly nopelul
that depression is going to sweep tnem
into power in a landslide of unprece-
dented proportions. Some OF them 30
the length of asserting In all seriousness
that Hoover and Curtis will not carry
Hiram johnson will not be donnins
sackcloth and ashes over the nemesis
that has overtaken Long Sam" short
ridge in the California senatorial prl-
mary. The senior and junior Coasl
solons have been at daggers drawn for
wears. Their feud has not diminished In
ierceness during the Hoover presidency
with handing over of California patron
age almost exclusively to Shortridge
though both Senators are Republicans
Administration leaders see no cause fol
alarm. as far as the Presidents chances
in his home state are concerned. In the
fact that Shortridge, a Hoover supporter
was beaten. The White House takes
heart of grace from the circumstance
| that a couple Of hundred thousand more
! votes were cast In the @. o. P. primary
than in the Democratic primary, not.
| withstanding that the McAdoo contest
brought out an unusually heavy Demo
cratic poll. The deduction is that Cali
| fornia Is still safely Republican.
Il 4
John w Pole. retiring controller oi
! the currency, quits Federal Office, like SC
J MANY valued servants of Uncle Sam. ir
! order to better his personal financia
position. He is to take the presidency o.
| the Fidelity Investment Association o.
| Wheeling, w. Va. in which number o.
| men prominent in washington off1cla
! and business life are interested. Amont
| them are former Senator Howard
Sutherland alien property custodian
1 former Assistant Attorney General Johr
| Marshall and Merle Thorpe. editor o
the Nations Business Mr.. Pole woult
have left the controllership some tint
ago. but yielded to President Hoover
entreaties to remain until the worst o
the national banking crisis was past. 4
| native of England, Mr.. Poles claims U
| distinction include rather remarkaol
resemblance to woodrow Wilson. HI
has come through the countrys graves
banking conditions with a record tina
enlists the praise Of the whole financia
world.
Col Hanford MacNider of Iowa. wit
has just laid down the American min
istership to Canada, will probably mex
be heard of as the Hoover admins
tration's battle ak at the American
Legion convention In Portland, Oree
It was MacNider and Young Teddy
Roosevelt who mainly engineered thing
at last years Legion convention in Bos
ton so that the service men vote,
against the bonus after the President
personal appeal Col. MacNider hA
towering political ambitions. Wheneve
the I'd Division of the A. 4. 7
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