Evening star., 1932-10-29
RACE MAY DECIDE
SENATE LINEUP
Colorado Seat Likely to
Break Tie in Next Session
of Congress.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DENVER, October 29.-Upon Colo
rado voters rests the responsibility of
tor in determining whether the Demo
Gratis or the Republicans shall have a
numerical Senate majority in the next
Congress
Unless there are further changes ir
the lineup before the second session
Of the Seventy-Second Congress meets
the successor to the late Colorado Re
publican Senator Charles w. Water
man. to be selected at the November
election, will figure prominently in tbs
very close lineup OF the major parties
The count now stands at tie, each
major party with Al. The outcome OF
the Colorado election and a short-ternl
race in New Jersey will fix the party
standing in the Senate.
The choice of Senator for the un-
expired term of Waterman lies in a
three-cornered race, which is the only
senatorial contest in the Rocky Noun
tain tier of Colorado, Montana
New Mexico and Wyoming-an other
Senators of these States holding over
this year.
Candidates for the short term ending
next March are Walter Walker, Grand
Junction. Colo, newspaper publisher
former Democratic State chairman, and
Karl c. Schuyler. who is the Repub-
lican candidate for both the short
term and the six-year term starting
next March Walker was appointed by
Gov. w. H. Adams, Democrat, to sue
ceed Waterman pending the selection
to h. do hHyf hn for q hn
vember election.
Alva B. Adams. who served in the
Senate from 1928 to 1925 under ap-
pointment as successor to Senator Sam
uel d. Nicholson, Republican, who died
in 1923, is the Democratic candidate
for the siX-year term. When it de-
volved on the Democratic State EXecu-
tive Committee to make a designation
of candidates for the short term, Adams
indicated he did not want to accept
this, believing voters might be con-
fused in marking their ballots.
Adams is a lawyer and is president
of bank at Pueblo. His father, Alva
Adams, served two terms and part of a
third term as Governor.
The present Gov. Adams. who has
been in Office since 1927, and who is
voluntarily retiring this year. is an
uncle of Alva B. Adams.
Schuyler. who began his career as a
railway call boy for the old Colorado &
Southern when he was 13, later work
ing his way through law school to be-
come an attorney, has been active in
State politics for many wears. He has
made his campaign in support OF the
national Republican administration.
Two members of the House OF Repre-
sentativeS in this group of four States
were eliminated in the primary election
They were Charles B. Timberlake. Re
publican. who has served continuously
from the second Colorado district since
the Sixty-fourth Congress, and John M
Evans, Democrat, who has served II
nine sessions since the Sixty-third. te
which he was first elected from the
first Montana district.
All the other incumbent Represent
atives of the four States are in the
running.
Aside from New Mexico. where the
Progressive Republicans went over tc
the Democrats, the campaign In this
section for State Offices has been moving
smoothly, with principal attention di-
rected toward economy in State af1alrs
The tariff, rehabilitation OF silver anc
economic reconstruction have been the
principal national issues discussed BY
campaign orators.
In each of the four States there has
been an increase in registration.