Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-09-25
BY WILLIAM HARD.

Great calls are being sent out from
Washington to Republican workers all
over the country to wake up and stay
awake, If the can, day and night Till
and including November 8. 1t Is not
only q matter Of the presidency. 1t
is a matter also Of the House Of Repre-
sentatives and also Of the Senate.
Much bad luck seems to have &C
cumulated upon the Republicans in re-
gard to both branches Of the Congress.
The nominating primaries wiped out
some Of the Republican party's veteran
leaders in the House. illustrations are:
Timberlake of Colorado, Chindblom OF
Illinois, Ramseyer Of Iowa, Strong Of
Kansas, Hawley Of Oregon.
To that list there might be added
Burtness and Hall Of North Dakota.
They were classified as fairly Repub-
licanly safe and sane" for North
Westerners. The present Republican
candidates for the House Of Repre-
sentatives in North Dakota are James
Herbert Sinclair, who has always
classified himself a non-partisan"
Republican, and William Lemke. who
is such 'non-partisan" Republican
that he is supporting Franklin D.
Roosevelt for President.
Such Republicans give no thrill to
the Republican high command in Wash
ington. Nor does it fill that COM
mand with elation to know that
Senator Gerald P. Nye will almost
certainly be reelected Republican
Senator from North Dakota and that
Senator Peter Norbeck will in all
probability be reelected Republican
Senator from South Dakota. Such
Republicans give the Republican ma
tional authorities more internal pains
than the Democrats give them external
alarms.
1t is true that great encouragement
was felt by the Republican national
regulars when the nominating pri-
maries within their party eliminated
Smith Wildman Brookhart as a party
candidate for the United States Senate
in Iowa and eliminated also John
James Blaine as party candidate for
the United States Senate in Wisconsin.
Those have been the two great inside
party triumphs of the Republican reg
ulars SO far. Now, however. they begin
to pOrtend not established peace, but
renewed eternal trouble.
Blaine and Brookhart may run in
their respective States for the Senate
as independents. 1t is not at all GER
tain that they might not pick up
enough progressive" Democratic votes
to add new white hairs to the heads of
regular Republican deep thinkers 1t
is, at any rate. well within their power
to make Republican family life in Iowa
and in Wisconsin magnificent theme
Tor Democratic scandal writer's.
Eighteen Republican seats IN the
United States Senate are in dispute
before the voters in the elections this
Fall. Only Is Democratic seats are
similarly up before the voters for re-
consideration.
Seven of those Democratic seats are
in the solid South and cannot possibly
be captured by the Republicans. Four
OF them-in Maryland, Kentucky, Mis-
souri, and Oklahoma-are in the Dor
der" between the North and the South:
and the Republicans in that region are
not this year giving themselveS my high
optimistic expectations. Just four Dem
ocratic disputed seats remain-in New
York. Ohio. Kansas and Arizona-that
the Republicans might really seriously
regard as being in mo mans land" II
nevertheless they should capture just
one OF the four, they would welcome 1t
as meteor out OF the dark.
Meanwhile. out of their own 70 sena-
torial seats in controversy in this Falls
elections there are at least 10 that wrap
them in worry.
Ir California, for instance there is
for them the profound apprehension
that Bob" Shuler, running as an in
dependent for the Senate, may take
couple OF hundred thousand dry Re
publican votes away from the Repub-
lican candidate, Mr.. Tallant Tubbs,
whose name. as the drys look at it,
might as well be Kegs or Barrels. BY
being a sopping wet. Mr.. Tubbs out
ragged the evangelical church people.
BY defeating the sitting regular Repub-
ridge. for the Republican senatorial
nomination he did nothing to endear
himself to the Republican national ad-
ministration. Any sort OF new set OF
combinations and manipulations in
California seem now to the National
Capital to be possible; and the candi-
dacy of William Gibbs McAdoo, Demo-
crat, for the Senate from California Is
regarded here among Republicans with
growing respect.
In the State of Washington the sit
ting Republican Senator, Wesley L.
Jones. author of the five and ten law"
for the more adequate finlng and falling
of anti-prohibition chance-takers, was
renominated but is opposed. on behalf
of the Democrats, by candidate, Mr..
Homer T. Bone, who combines pro
gressivism" in the matter Of prohibition
reform with ''progressivism" in the
matter of the reform of the power