Evening star., 1933-11-30

NORWICH university, ulllIldIy StllOol VI
high standing; jeremiah Evarts OF
Windsor, son OF l.4axwell Evarts, promi-
nent as a railroad attorney; Frank
Wakefield Of Burlington, States attor-
ney of Chittenden County, and Maj.
Loren Pierce of Woodstock The lone
woman in the race is Mrs. Blanche
Bryant of Springfield, who resigned as
a member of the State Board OF Edu-
| cation when she announced her can
| dldaCy for thf House NOMINATION., Int
| Democrats have picked an attorney,
| Ready, of st. AIbans.
The Democrats are In q frame OF
mind to tackle anything these days,
| even a congressional election in YER
mont: For that reason the Repuo1teSans
| put on a real battle IN Vermont on
| January 16, hoping at least to roll up
siZabie vote to prove to the coun-
try the popularity Of the Roosevelt
administration, even in such a rock
ribbed Republican State.
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Republicans in Washington accepted
defeat in the third West Virginia con-
| gressional district on Tuesday as grace
, fully as possible. They were not in
clined TO seek an alibi. However, some
| of them insisted that despite the fact
! that the vote cast in this West Vr-
| ginia district showed the Democrats
! still to be about as strong as they were
! a year ago, there are indications OF
unrest and disappointment with Demo-
/ cratic rule which may boil over by the
time election day rolls around next
! year. The way they put 1t Is that
many of the voters are sore, but not
yet ready TO rebel against the ad-
mlnistration.
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| There is a vacancy in the House
| from the Illinois twenty-fir district,
due to the resignation of J. Earl Major,
a Democrat. This has been close dis
trict between the Republicans and the
Democrats in the past. If the Governor
calls a special election, it Is expected
real fight will be. staged. However,
under the Illinois State law, these va
cancies in the House have sometimes
been allowed to stand for year, until
| the next general election. 1t Is up TO
Democratic Governor, Henry Horner,
| to determine whether he wishes to have
| a special election or to let 1t slide until
next November.
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| Gov. Ritchie's handling of the mob
situation in Eastern Shore section OF
| Maryland may have its political raml-
fications. Either he will gain prestige
by his demand for law and order, or
he will lose friends because OF his go
ing into the district with the National
| Guard to arrest suspects in the lynch
| ing of Armstrong. 1t was not so many
years ago that Republican Governor
of Massachusetts, leaped into the spot
light as a defender of law and order
during the police strike in Boston-and
| landed finally in the White House.
Gov. Ritchie is due to come up Tor re-
election next year. He has been 1our
times elected Governor Of Maryland
and is the first man ever to have been
reelected Governor of that State.
| Efforts of Gov. Ritchie to bring TO
trial men charged with having had a
hand in the Armwood lynching have
proved ineffective. The men arrested by
order of the Governor through the use
of the State Militia after the local
authorities declined to act have been
released on habeas corpus writs by the
/ local court on the ground OF insufhclent
evidence. That evidence, Gov. Rltehie
| telegraphed and telephoned the judges,
could be produced, and he insisted that
no opportunity was given to present 1t.
What will be the final decision OF the
State in this matter when there has
been time for sober thought remains to
be seen. When the Governor of another
great State, California, not only con-
dones but approves the iynching Of two
kidnapers, the wonder arises whether
the American people are sick OF gov
ernment by law. If there Is something
wrong with the court system in this
country q reform Of the system so as to
assure swifter and more real justice Is
a course that commends itself. Perhaps
the evidence of the necessity OF bring
ing about court proceeding reform will
be sufficiently strong to force such ac-
ton. Certainly it has been delayed long
enough.
The value of the dollar is to be fixed
by the value of the commodity, not the
value of the commodity by the value of
the dollar. That seems to be the object
Of the administration in its efforts to
establish a commodity dollar" If it
Is, the people who own commodities and
labor will swap places with those who
own dollars. Naturally, this is not going
to take place without a row. Further
more, CIleT6 dTc pleIlty VI pcOPiC VIII
contend that 1t can't be done. Never
theless, the President is driving ahead
with his plans for that end according
to all reports from Warm Springs, Ga.
Ever since the administration came into
power it has sought to raise commodity
prices. This effort to bring about a
e0Wm0dlty dollar VI " u Sal0I lWt part
Of the program to get prices of COM
would Just make certain that the pur-
chasing public Is provided with more Of
these dollars, or any kind of dollars so
long as they are real dollars. it would
go a long ways to doing away with the
present depressing situation. Putting
up prices is not going to be a great deal
Of help unless the people have the
money to pay these prices.
There Is theory on the part Of
number Of persons in Washington that
the President Is conducting his opera
tions in gold and dollars to head off ac-
ton by Congress to put the printing
presses to work turning out money, or
to compel the immediate payment of
So ,00O, ,000, 900 by the Government to the
veterans Of the World War, the re-
mainder Of the bonus. In the meantime
the sound money crowd insists that Mr..
Roosevelt is just another William Jen-
nings Bryan.
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