The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-07
VETS EXPECT
GREAT gain IN
SENATE VOTE
rs of 81 Races Up for De-
CiSiOn Tuesday May Go
Against DryS.
SOUTH SWITCHES OVER
Issue Gives VoIStead Foes
q Good Chance at Victory
in Iowa, Wisconsin.
nv HERBERT LITTLE
BY HERBERT LITTLE
Times stan Writer

WASHINGTON, Nov Anti
prohibition forces wound up their
election campaign today in high
hopes that they would win at least
twenty-five of the thirty-four SEN
ate seats to be decided Tuesday. Six
teen Of these already are certain,
three apparently are already taken
by the drys in Arkansas, Kansas and
Oklahoma, and fifteen contests pro-
vide distinct fighting grounds.
The sweep which the vets expect
in congress they count on to con-
vert majority of the holdover sem
ators-and indeed the lame duck
session of both houses meeting in
December-to passage Of repeal and
modification legislation
The solid south has astounded
drys and vets alike by the outspok-
en- stand taken by at least two
thirds of the congressional candi-
dates and many Of the incumbents
from that section in support Of the
Democratic party's stand for repeal
and modification.
Sure in South
Thus dominantly Democratic
states are assured Of electing wet
senators Tuesday from Alabama,
Arizona, Florida, two from Georgia,
Louisiana, North Carolina, and
South Carolina States in which
both major party candidates are
wet are Connecticut, Illinois,. Mis-
souri,, Nevada, New Jersey, New
York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
The fifteen senatorial battle
grounds over the prohibition ques-
ton have received the most at
tention from wet and dry organiza-
tions. These are:
California, where wet Tubbs, ex-
dry McAdoo, who now supports the
Democratic platform, and ra-dry
Z prohibitionist Shdler are fighting
a unique three-cornered race, with
Shuler playing the dry south against
wet northern California.
Watson in Danger
Colorado, Idaho, Indiana, Mary
land, oregon and Washington, in
which the Republican candidates
support of the Hoover revision plan,
without mention of beer, has
aligned them on the dry side as
against the Democrats, who favor
repeal and modification.
In this group anti-prohibition
sentiment endangers the seats of
Thomas of Idaho, despite Borah'S
support; Watson, the Indiana Re-
publican leader; Steiwer of Oregon
and Five and Ten" Jones OF
Washington.
In Iowa, where Brookhart lost in
the primary, and Wisconsin, where
Blaine similarly was ousted, inter
eSting races are on. Brookhart has
entered as an ultra-dry independent
against Field, dry Republican nomi-
nee, thereby giving wet Lewis Muir
ply, Democrat, an excellent chance
TO win.
In Wisconsin, Chapple, the con-
sentative Republican, has been ST.
lent on liquor, despite a wet state
plank, and Blaine and the progress
sives have joined with the Demo-
Gratis in support of the wet Ryan
Duffy, now deemed almost certain
to win.
Kentucky Turns Wet
Kentucky. according to all re-
ports, has turned wet with venge-
ance. Dry Senator Barley saw it
coming and switched the states en-
tire Democracy to fervent support
of the party platform He is re-
ported to be certain of reelection
over Thatcher, a dry.
In Vermont, New Hampshire and
Utah, wet Democrats have put three
senate Republican wheelhorSeS,
Dale, Moses and Smoot, on the spot.
All three have tried to Submerge
the issue. Dale has good chance
to win, but Smoot and Moses are in
bad way
The two DakotaS present a differ
ent picture. The progressive Nye,
still uncertain, is clasSed as evasive
by the vets. and they are support
ing the wet Democrat Lanier.
In South Dakota, Norbeck has
aroused the enmity of vets by his
silence and the wet labor elements
by his statements on labor, and
they are campaigning hard for U.
S. G.. Cherry, Democratic repeaist.