Evening star., 1932-09-01
The Political Mill
By C.. Could Lincoln.

| cally announced the swing 10 HOOSSV6lt
of the California and Texas delegations
at the recent Democratic National Con-
vention, has won the Democratic SEN
atorial nomination in California. But
that is about as far as Mr.. NcAdCo
will get in his race for the Senate, If
there is any real significance in the
number of votes cast in the DemoA
| cratic and Republican senatorial pri-
maries on Tuesday.
Five Democratic candidates for the
nomination polled approximately 259.-
600 votes less than a similar number
of Republican candidates for the sem
atorial nomination in about 5000 pre-
cincts out of a total of 10,521. The
race in the Democratic primary was
hotly contested, too, with Justus Ward
well, a San Francisco wet, who led
the Roosevelt campaign in California
when McAdoo was fighting to elect
delegates to the Democratic National
Convention pledged to Garner, strongly
opposing McAdoo. McAdoo rolled up a
big lead over Wardwell, however.
| Notwithstanding the unrest and hard
, times, California has not, it appears.
broken away from its Republican moor
| ingS. There has been big swing to
the Democratic standard this year in
registration and in the primary cleo
1 llOllS, Dut 1dT leSS IIldIl tilOuSH W CdIly
| the State for the Democratic candi-
! dates Furthermore, President Hoover
! will head the Republican ticket in CAL
| ifornia as in other States, and Hoover
is Californian.
Notwithstanding polls taken by some
| of the newspapers in California towns,
showing Roosevelt more popular than
| Hoover and therefore published glee-
fully by the Democratic National Com
mittee, Mr. Hoover is regarded as sure
| TO carry the State next November. For
! that reason it would appear extremely
| probable that Mr. McAdoo will be de-
feated by his Republican opponent,
I either Senator Samuel Snortridge or
! State Senator Tallapt Tuobs, who is as
wet as his name. If Mr.. McAdoo loses
this election, then the public will watch
with interest to see what post he is
! picked to fill should Gov. Roosevelt at
the same time be elected to the presi-
| dency.
Gas Maine goes, so goes the country"
1t will not be long now until the politi-
! cal seers turn their eyes toward the
| Pine Tree State for some light on the
decidedly mixed campaign now under
way for the election of a President of
the United States. Maine still adheres
| to its early date for elections of Gov
| ernor, members of Congress and State
officers. This year the election falls
on September II. just 10 days hence.
| The Democrats in Maine are all popped
up. But pep or no pep, it is scarcely
likely that they can acrry Maine, which
mas always been strongly Republican.
/ The Democrats may cut into the Re-
publican majorities. however, and there
may be a chance for them to win one
or even two of the three House seats for
which the voters will ballot Six months
| ago the Democrats might have proved
much more effective in the election.
| The Republicans there were pretty wei
| discouraged, as they were, for that mat
ter, all through the country. But today
the Republicans have caught their sec
ond wind. They have been encouraged
by partial Improvements in business and
by the rows which the Democrats have
had. Furthermore, the wetness CT the
Democratic national platform is not
likely to aid the party's cause particu-
larly in Maine, which has been dry for
many years.
The Republicans have a particularly
able leader in their State chairman,
Daniel F. Field, who has directed cam
paigns for them many times before and
with great success. The G. o. P. can
didate for Governor this year is Bur-
leight Martin, and the Democrats have
put forward Louis ]. Brann Martin
has been mayor of Augusta, Speaker of
| the Maine House of Representatives and
President of the State Senate, not to
mention the fact that he is the grand
son Of a former Governor. Brann has
I been mayor of Lewiston, one of the
Democratic cities in Maine. He is a
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dry platform in contrast to the party )
national platform. The opinion OF po-
litical observers in Maine is that Martin
the Republican. should win. unles7 there
is veritable Democratic landslide, and
that is not yet in sight.
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Maine this year elects only three
members Of the House. The State lost
seat in the reapportionment of tht
House under the census of 1890. Tho
redistricting has made the result:
somewhat uncertain and the Demo
Gratis are claiming that they will carry
the second district and that they have
a good chance in the first distiic:
The third district looks quite certain
for the Republicans. In the second
district John E. Nelson. who repre-
sented the old third district for years
Is the Republican nominee, and against
him the Democrats have nominatcc
Edward c. Moran, jr., who has beer
an unsuccessful candidate for Gov.
ernor a couple of times. Lewiston, witr
it's heavy Democratic vote, is now il
dependent, candidate. Frederick P. Bon
ney He is Republican and the vote!
he receives will be handicap ID Mr
Nelson. Carroll L. Beedy, thorough
going dry. is the Republican nominet
for the House in the first district HI
has a lot of wet constituents and wor
the nomination by a vote of $4,000 II
10000 from a wet opponent. Joseph
E. F. Connolly of Portland, formerly
Judge of the Superior Court. is Mr.
Beedy's Democratic foe, and he is (
pronounced wet.
Former Gov. Ralph o. Brewster is
the Republican choice for the House in
the third district Brewster has made
several bids for the Republican nomi-
nation for the Senate, but failed on
each occasion to win. He has been at
outs with the old line organization Re-
publicans. This year, however, the
regulars promise to take him under
their wing and elect him in the third
district. 1t may be good politics, in
deed, for the Republicans TO have Brew
ster on their congressional ticket this
year. for he has a strong following. and
harmony in the ranks is one thing the
G. o. P. wants at present.
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What the Maine election will mean
to President Hoover or to his Demo-
cratic opponent for the presidential
election, Gov. Roosevelt, is after all
problematical The country does not
always go as Maine goes. But since
the Civil War the country has gone
Republican the great part of the time,
and Maine has, too, which is probably
responsible for the saying "As Maine
goes so goes the country
The old saying slipped a cog when
Wilson carried the country in 1912 and
again in 1916, when Maine elected Re
publican Governors in September. Also
when Grover Cleveland was elected to
the presidency in 1884 and in 1892, Re-