Evening star., 1932-10-13
The Political Mill
By G.. Could Lincoln.

is going "hell bent" for Roosevelt, with
in the last few days have begun to
wonder II, after all, they are right.
There is a growing realization that the
Republican campaign, at last fully un-
der way, may have its effect on the
voters. Furthermore, many Of the voters
have be7n disappointed in Roosevelt s
own campaign. They are saying, as
they travel about or visit the f1lling
station or other places Of business, that
perhaps Mr.. Hoover has not done such
bad job after all.
Incidentally, Calvin Coolidge's speech
Tuesday night in Madison Square Gar
den caused a favorable reaction here
for the Republican ticket, and all along
the Pacific Coast the speech of the
former President, urging the re-elec-
tion OF Hoover and panning Gov. Roose-
welt, was heard on the radio and the
newspapers gave it a big play. The
Coolidge speech was easy to understand.
It was not over any ones head. Those
who heard him knew, for example,
that the former President was attack
ing Roosevelt because he has remained
for weeks mum about the soldiers
bonus and was challenging him to make
his position on that issue clear. They
could understand, too, that Mr..
Coolidge, like Alfred E. Smith. had little
use for the forgotten man" talk of
the Democratic presidential nominee.
Here in San Francisco the Chronicle,
Republican, is handling the Roosevelt
candidacy. which Is supported by Will
liam r. Hearst and William Gibbs Nc
Adoo, without gloves. The Hearst news
papers, on the other hand, are shooting
viciously at President Hoover and the
Republicans. But the Republican Chrcni-
Gle is going to the battle with a Zest
which Is lacking, or has been lacking,
In some OF the Republican dailies OF
the Eastern country. 1t pictures Mr..
Hearst as the man who is not going to
be forgotten" If Roosevelt is elected
President. Editorially, too, it discovers
the cause OF the drop in the stock mar
ket, asserting that it registers fear
again because so much has been said
and written about the possibility of
Roosevelt's winning. In the same edi-
toriaf it is recalled that when Congress
adjourned last July the stock market
took an upward swing and continued
upward until in the opinion Of many
persons the election of Roosevelt and
Garner seemed strong possibility
Then the market, the editorial says,
took another nose dive.
Perhaps those Democratic leaders
and there were many-Who hastened
last Summer to claim that the stock
market had taken an upward turn be-
cause of the imminent probability that
the Democratic presidential candidate
would be elected may now have a diff
dcult task explaining, as Election day
draws near, with wide claims of Demo-
cratic victory, why the stock market
has dropped and dropped
The Chronicle insists that with a
Roosevelt victory I'VE shall still have
Huey Long. with his fantastic scheme
to divide up property. We shall have
Patman, who wants to start the print
ing press and to print us all pockets
full Of money" To the list of Demo
Gratis who will be in control the edi-
torial adds Representative Goldsborough
Of Maryland, who proposed TO order
the Federal Reserve Board to initiate
at once to the dizzy price pitch OF
1929; Jack Garner, who wants to
slip every voter a piece of pork" the
Raineys and the Golfers. 1t continues
Gov. Roosevelt would never be able
to handle this milling herd. His charm
ing personality is not enough. He has
never shown us the iron it takes to put
the brand on that bunch Of mavericks
If this crowd ever rides free with its
Treasury -looting raids and money
printing schemes, then good-by to the
credit Of the United States, and to hope
of return of prosperity This is the
cause of alarm now rising again in this
Nation. This is the source of the fear
registered in the drop in the stock
market"
In a measure the Chronicle editorial
is merely putting into different words
the warning which President Hoover
gave the country in his Des Moines
rpeech and Calvin Coolidge conveyed to
Square Garden.
The ardent drys will set up a cheer
if en- November the voters of Califor-
MIA elect to the Senate the evangelistic
Shuler. who was nominated in Califor-
MIA primary on the Prohibition ticket
Shuler has a real chance for election
over both his Democratic and Republic
an opponents, McAdoo and Tubbs, re-
spectively. incidentally Shuler, If
elected. will be the first Senator Of the
United States which the old National
Prohibition party has ever had. Shuler
declared himself a member of that par
tv when he entered the primary in CAL
ifornia, although he also sought the
senatorial nomination Of the Republic
ans and of the Democrats.
Shuler is the dryest of the dry Tubbs
is as wet as Shuler is dry, end McAdoo
is standing on the Democratic platform
at present, although lot of Democrats
/ in the Northern part of this State are
wondering where they will find him il
he Is elected to the Senate.
The California primary laws. enacted
under the leadership of Senator Hiram
Johnson when he was Governor, have
gone long way toward breaking down
party lines. They permit candidates
! for Office to run for nomination in any
ard all party primaries at the same
time. although the candidate must an
nounce his own party when he files anc
he must win the nomination of thai
party If his name is to go on the bal
| lot. For example, if Shuler had failed
| to win the nomination of the Prohibi.
ton party and had won that of the
Democratic party, he could not have
| gone on the ballot as the nominee Of
the Democrats. But had he won the
Democratic nomination as well as thai
of the Prohibition party he would have
been listed on the ballot as the candi.
date of both parties. Three widely
known and popular Republican mem.
berS of the House, Mrs. Kahn, Richard
j. WEIGH and Albert E. Carter, all tool
advantage Of the provisions of the pri'
mary law and won the Democratic a
well as the Republican nominations fol
the House in the primary this year
They will have no Democratic oppcsi
ton whatever and are as good as elect.
ed today.
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Whether California is wet or still dr.
is question that the voters will b.
asked to determine at the polls, in ad
dition to voting their preferences TO
wet or dry candidates for Office. Their
is a proposal to repeal the State DIR
| enforcement law and at the Same tim