Evening star., 1934-10-23
DONAHEY VICTORY
0vERFESSL0OMS
Refuses to Debate New
Deal, Center of Fight by
incumbent.
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to have been elected three times con-
secutively Governor of Ohio. When
he took himself out Of the political
picture and declined to be candidate
to succeed himself In 1928, it was VOL
unfairly. This year he leaped into
the Democratic race for the senatorial
against Gov. George
White.
The Roosevelt Democrats at the
eleventh hour. under the leadership of
Senator Bulkley, trotted out Repre-
West as their candidate in
the primary They pleaded with the
voters to nominate West for the sake
of President Roosevelt. Former Gov.
Jimmy Cox, who was the party's presi-
dental candidate in 1920 when Presi-
dent Roosevelt was his running mate
for Vice President, made a particu-
lar plea for West. But did this make
any difference? 1t did not. And
Donahey was overwhelmingly nomin-
ated.
viii Be No New Dealer.
If and wher Donahey gets to the
Senate, he will be no New Dealer, in
the opinion of many of his friends
here. Doubtless a victory by Donahey
will be acclaimed New Deal victory
by the Democratic organization. But
that will be because Fess, an ardent
anti" will have gone down to de-
feat
Donahey has made two statements
during the campaign which seem to
bear on the subject. One was: IN
support President Roosevelt in every
proper way The other was: "Ill
never vote knowingly to subvert the
Constitution" His longest interview
with the press during the campaign
was a description of his own recipe
for sugar-curing ham.
In the past, Donahey has always
been able to count on couple of hun
dred thousand Republican votes to
help him to victory. He has had a
strong hold on the great rural districts
of Ohio and on labor. He has never
been friendly with or had the ardent
support Of the so-called organization
Democratic leaders. He is no polished
speaker and has frequently been ac-
cused Of numbering the queens Eng
liSh."
1t IS such an opponent that Senator
Fess is called upon to defeat in year
that seems to be Democratic. Fess,
like Donahey, has great many friends
in the country districts. He always
pulled the dry vote and the church
in the days when prohibition was
strongly intrenched in Ohio politics.
Fess will get the support of many
business men in Ohio who have not
been enamoured of the New Deal, and
he will have pretty generally the aid
of all the old-line Republicans. There
are signs, too. that many Republicans
who voted Democratic are coming
back into the party in Ohio this year.
Labor Handicaps Fess.
Serious handicaps to the Fess can
didacy are found in the favor with
which organized labor looks on the
Roosevelt New Deal, In the great
numbers Of persons who have been
ION relief" in the industrial centers
Of the State with the probability that
many of them will vote Democratic
and in the floods of Federal money
which have flowed into Ohio in the
shape of farm benefits, P. w. A. funds,
etc. The Railway Labor Executives
Association has Endorsed Donahey and
so have other labor leaders and organi-
cations.
Families on relief rolls in Ohio up
to September / numbered 200, ,134, and
it is estimated there will be 1908, ,759
individuals on relief. Among them
will be represented very large num-
Der of voters. The amount expended
for relief of the destitute in the State
during the first nine months Of 1884
totaled S86,075, ,073. of which $45 ,606,-
418 was c. w. A. funds, used between
January l and April l. when the
C. w. A. went out of existence.
In the poll taken by the Columbus
Dispatch, the most complete straw
vote of its kind attempted by any news
paper and a poll that has been cor
rect IN its estimates of results for
more Than a quarter of century,
Donahey Is shown to be running far
ahead of Fess. With more than
40, 900 votes already tabulated, Dona-
hey is credited with 28,148 to l5,719
for Fess. If the vote on election day
should reach upward Of 100000 as
it may, and the same proportion be
maintained, Donahey would lead Sen
ator Fess by five or six hundred
thousand votes. But even the sup
porters of Donahey say they do not
expect their candidate to win by such
a margin. Rather do they put his
victory at from 100000 to 350.000.
Fess Gaining Ground.
There seems little doubt that Fess
has been gaining ground during the
last week or two. His supporters in
sist that he has a chance to win,
notwithstanding the big odds that he
appears to have against him. They
recall that two years ago, after news
paper polls had indicated that Roose-
velt would sweep the State by half
million votes or more, he only
carried the State with $4,000 lead.
They figure that Fess will prove to
be far stronger than he appears to be
on the surface.
Donahey's running mate on the
ticket this year, candidate for Cover
nor, is Martin L. Davey, tree doctor
and former member of the House.
Davey barely nosed out a couple of his
opponents in the primary race and is
not regarded as strong candidate.
Indeed, the same newspaper poll that
shows Donahey running far ahead Of
Fess indicates the closest kind of a
race between Davey and his Republican
opponent, Clarence j Brown, former
Secretary of State. Davey appears to
be vulnerable from several angles, and
the Republicans have not hesitated to
60 after him. Also, quietly, the re-
ligious issue has been raised against
him on the ground that he promised.