Evening star., 1932-10-30
PUbL|CANS SEEK
HELP OF COUzENS
Party Believes Word From
Senator Will Swing Mich
iqan for Hoover.
By p. c. POWELL.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

SPECIAL Dispatch TO The Star.
DETROIT. Mich, October 29.-Now
that 10th political parties have flooded
the State with oratory of their leading
candidates and best Spokesmen the
campaign has narrowed to intensive
WORK of organizations which have
been built with much care and dill
genCe. This work is under way at a
high and intensive speed.
President HOovers address here a
WeeS ago was heartening to the Re-
publican leaders. However they admit
that to keep Michigan in the Republic
an column hard work must be the
order of each DAY until election.
Probably the most optimistic feature
of the Presidents visit from Re-
publican standpoint was the fact that
Senator James Couzons journeyed to
Toledo with Other Republican leaders
to nee. the presidential party, accom-
panied i. to D2troit and sat on the
platform while the President spoka
, This. at leaSt. gave the Republicans the
neral support of the wealthy Michigan
/ Senator.
Hope for Statement.
Since then pressure Of every deScrip-
ton is being brought to bear on Sena-
tor COuzens to aid the cause verbally
One statement by him in support OF
Hoover. is looked on by many as tbs
final card necessary to make Michigan
again safe for Republicans.
| Blocking such a statement to date
| many believe. is the figure and influence
of Detroit's young and red-halrec
mayor Frank Murphy, Progressive
Democrat. Aside from Senator Couzens
| the mayor is the dominant figure ir
| Detroit politics today. His policies have
/ received the moral, verbal and financia
/ support of Senator COuzens. The sum
OF ST .00OO0O was loaned the city by the
/ Senator last Winter to tide over a finan-
| cial crisis.
/ In return Murphy is expected to give
! aid and comfort to the Senator's ambi-
/ tIOnS. tie chief of which is to have his
| son. Frank COuZonS. follow in his foot
/ steps as mayor of Detroit and United
! States Senator. The young man is now
| president of the City Council and i;
| looked on as a candidate for mayor il
! the near future. particularly so if the
| Democrats win and Murphy gets Fed
| eral appointment.
Democrats Undaunted.
| The Senator's friends say he has done
enough bv giving his moral support tC
the campaign: that the faction which
controls Republican politics in the State
has done little for him: that he has car
ried on his campaigns practically inde.
pendent of their aid and they should
carry on their campaigns without hi!
aid
! Figures were published in the State
this week to show the stupendouS task
the Democrats have to carry Michigan
These figures show that the last Demo
cratic candidate for President to carry
Michigan was Franklin Pierce. Hard
/ ing had a majority of 529,415 votes
! Coolidge had a majority of 600,258 ovel
both Davis and La Toilette. while Hoover
won BY a majority of 568, ,634. carrying
every county in the State. State ticket
| record for victories is nearly as bad
The Democrats remain undaunted
| Their chief arguments are that in the
primary their candidates ran ahead Of
! the Republicans in Wayne County Ode
| trOit, and that such men as Senator
/ George w. Norris. insurgent Republican
have aroused the farmers to such an ex.
| tent they will break the precedents o.
generations and vote the Democratic
! ticket this year.