Evening star., 1932-08-31
AL|FORN|A VOTE
ONE OF PROTEST
Victorious Candidates Won
on Campaign for Change of
Present Conditions.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
SAN FRANCISCO, August 81 (CP.
AD.-A big protest vote was cast in
California's senatorial primary election
Tuesday, incomplete returns indicate.
The beneficiaries we're William Gibbs
McAdoo. who apparently captured the
Democratic nomination for the Senate
by sizeable plurality. and Rev. Rob-
ert P. C"Fighting Bob" of radio fame)
Shuler. whose surprisingly large vote
made four cornered race out Of the
Republican contest.
The victim of the protest vote was
Senator Samuel M. Shortridge,
staunch Hoover supporter and for II
years a conservative G. o. P. regular
in the Senate. who seems to have
failed Of denomination.
McAdoo's Platform.
McAdoos campaign was waged upon
his record OF public service during the
crowded years" of the administration
OF his father-in-law. President Wilson,
and upon plea for a change at Wash
ington. The former Treasury Secretary
assailed the Republican national ad-
ministration, blaming 1t for the depth
of the depression and for failing to
take proper measures to relieve the
country from hard times.
Shuler, an outSpoken critic of Off
cialdom both in Los Angeles and in
Washington, capitalized surprisingly
upon present discomfort. The bulk of
his vote came from Los Angeles and
contiguous counties, but many more
votes than were expected were cast for
him throughout the State. The evan
gelist was a candidate upon the Re-
publican, Democratic and prohibition
tickets. with certainty of gaining the
dry party nomination.
The desire of the Southern part OF
the State to have one of California S
Senators come from that section was
McAdoo on the Democratic side and by
Shuler and Representative Joe Grail
on the Republican, and the prohibition
issue was important in the Republican
contest.
Tubbs for Repeal.
Youthful Tallant Tubbs. well-to-do
San Francisco State Senator and cord
age manufacturer, made his campaign
largely upon the prohibition issue upon
which, as an out-and-out repealist, he
made a surprisingly strong bid two
years ago for the lieutenant governor
ship of the State. Senator Shortridge
also ran as a wet, taking a stand SIM
liar to that outlined by the Republican
platform and President Hoover Grail
and Shuler are both ultra drys, the
former having the support of the allied
dry organizations of the State for the
Republican nomination.
Prohibition was not an important
factor in the Democratic race. as Nc
Adoo announced throughout the cam
paign that he stood, Squarely upon
the whole Democratic platform and
Justus Wardell, his chief opponent, is
a militant wet. McAdoo. however, did
not discuss the prohibition issue and
received both wet and dry votes, the
latter on his past record of support
ing national prohibition.
1t is believed that a record vote for
a primary election was cast in the
State, there having been considerable
interest in congressional, legislative and
local contests as well as the Senatorial
races.
San Francisco in response to an in
tensive campaign Overwhelmingly
passed a S6,500 900 bond issue for re-
lief of the unemployed.
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