Evening star., 1932-11-01
NATION WATCHING
SENATORIAL RACES
Interest Is Centered on Cam.
paigns Conducted in
13 States.
n the Associated Press.

b. the Associated Press.
As1Ge from general interest in the
presidential, congressional and guber-
material contests next Tuesday, political
leaders are paying particular attention
to senatorial races in dozen or more
States.
Chief interest of the party captains Is
centered on the senatorial races in Cali
fornia, Idaho, Indiana. Iowa. Kansas,
Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey,
Ohio, Oklahoma, Utah, Washington and
Wisconsin, along with several others.
In California, Tallant Tubbs, young
Republican State Senator; William G.
McAdoo, former Democratic Secretary
of the Treasury. and Rev. Robert P.
(Bob) Shuler, Prohibition party candi-
date, are in three-cornered contest for
the junior senatorship left open by the
primary defeat CT Senator Samuel M.
Shortridge, Republican.
Tubbs is for outright repeal of the
eighteenth amendment, McAdoo stands
on the Democratic repeal platt 3rn.
Triangular Fight in Iowa.
Another three-way struggle is under
way in Iowa Henry Field, primary
winner over Senator Smith w. Brook
hart. Republican independent, is OPP
posing Louis R. Murphy, Democrat, and
Brookhart is running as Progressive.
The latter is a prohibitionist, while
Fields and Murphy are standing on
their respective party planks.
Indiana is all popped up over the
contest between Senator James E. Wat
son, the Republican leader, and Fred
erick Van Nuys of Indianapolis, former
United States district attorney Van
Nuys has been attacking Watson's rec
ord in Congress Watson has been talk
ing mostly about the tariff and also the
home loan bank act which he Spon-
on their party prohibition planks.
Adherents Of Republican Senator
Reed Smooth, senatorial dean, and DR..
Ebert D. Thomas, professor of political
science of the University of Utah and
Democrat. are mixing it in old-time
fashion. It is a race between man
who has never held political office and
one who has served in the Senate con-
tinuously for 80 years. Both are promi-
nent members of the Mormon church.
Moses Opposes Brown.
Senator George H. Moses, Republican
dItO pLO
of the Senate, is conducting an active
campaign for reelection against Fred
H. Brown, Democrat while Senator
Robert j. Bulkley. Democrat. Ohio. and
his Republican opponent, Gilbert Bett-
man, Ohio attorney general, have at
tracted considerable attention as a re-
suit of their clashes on the stump.
Bulkley is for repeal of prohibition.
Bettman favors the Republican sub
mission plank.
Interest also is being manifest in the
attempt to win House seats from Ohio
by Mrs. Edith Mcclure Patterson, lee
turer and member of the Dayton School
Board, and Judge Florence E. Allen of
the State Supreme Court. Mrs. Patter-
son, Republican, is running against
Representative Byron B. Harlan, Demo-
crat in the third district. Judge Allen,
Democrat, IS opposing Representative
Chester C. Bolton, Republican, in the
tWenty-second
Other senatorial contests of unusual
interest to national leaders are the fol-
lowing:
Idaho-Senator John Thomas, Re
publican, against J. P. Pope, Demo-
cratic mayor of Boise.
Kansas - Senator George McGill,
Democrat, against Ben S. Paulen, for
Clark Runs in Missouri.
Missouri-Bennett Champ Clark, son
of the late Democratic Speaker of the
House, against Henry W. Kiel, three
times Republican mayor of St. Louis,
for the seat left vacant BY the retile-
ment of Senator Harry B. HaWes, Demo-
Crat.
New Jersey-Senator W. Warren Bar
bour, Republican. against Percy H.
Stewart, Democrat, for the remainder
of the term of the late Dwight w.
Morrow expiring March 3, 1887.
Oklahoma-Senator Elmer Thomas,
Democrat, against Writ Franklin, head
of the Independent Oil Producers As
sociation, both advocates OF an oil tariff.
Washington-Senator Wesley L. Jones,
Republican, chairman of the Senate APP
preparations Committee, against Homer
T. Bone, Democrat.
Wisconsin-John B. Chapple, Ashland
publisher, who defeated Senator John
j. Blaine, Republican independent, for
the Republican senatorial nomination,
against F. Ryan Duffy, Democrat.
Other House contests attracting in
terest are those between Representa-
tive Fiorello H. La Guardia. Republi-
in New York, Representative Oscar B.
Lovette. Republican incumbent now
running as in independent; B. Carroll
Reece, who defeated Lovette in the
primary, and Albert Upton. Democrat,
in Tennessee, and Representative Sey-
mour H. Person, Republican, Claude
E. Cady, Democrat, and former Repre-
sentative Grant NJ Hudson, independ-
ent in Michigan