Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-29
THE POLITICAL
MILL
By G. Could Lincoln.

NOloln& company DILL DcCOtuco u uCLLiVc
issue In the special election to I'LL
vacancy in the House from the first con-
gressional district Of Rhode Island on
August 8.
The Democrats there nominated last
Friday State Treasurer Antonio Prince,
but only after adopting q resolution
pledging the nominee to support the
President on the death sentence"
clause.
The Republicans have nominated for
the place Charles r. Risk, who is attack
ing the Roosevelt administration all
along the line.
The frst congressional district has
been represented In the House by O
Democrat, Francis B. Condor, who re-
signed to become q member Of the State
Supreme Court.
II Prince wins, his victory will be
acclaimed Is q Roosevelt triumph. He
made An acceptance speech in which he
said: "One beacon light CLOVIS in the
white heat Of truth In the midst OF the
battle. Under the leadership of Frank
lin Roosevelt We have gone q long way
forward from that dark day in 1888. We
have yet a long journey to make to the
hilltop Of complete economic recovery.
VIC nuot pfCoo IilC uh0Ck tAAS ACuA-
ership Of Franklin Roosevelt"
The nomination Of Prince was not
accomplished without bitter factional
row among the Democrats. In addition
there are threats Of two Democrats rum
ming independently. One OF these Is
former State Senator Isaac Moses who
was four times q member OF State
nominee for Congress from the second
congressional district In 1924. He has
already filed the papers necessary for
him to run as independent, containing
the names Of nearly TOO electors. He
is to run as good government" party
candidate.
The other possible Democratic inde-
pendent candidate Is Mayor Felix Toupin
Of WoonSocket. who in the convention
which nominated Prince received 80
votes to 81 for Prince and for Samuel
Smith, jr.
Prince was backed by the "organiza-
ton" Toupin had the support of the
Thomas P. Mccoy faction. Although
defeated in its effort to nominate Tou-
pin, the Mccoy faction forced the adop-
ton Of the resolution pledging the
nominee to support President Roose-
velt's death sentence" clause in the
holding company bill. How far the fac
tional bitterness will affect the result OF
the election remains to be seen.
The convention fight was bitter in the
extreme and lasted for hours. One of
the Mccoy leaders in the convention,
Public Works Commissioner Albert j.
Lamarre, offered the resolution to bind
the nominee Of the convention to sup
port the death sentence" clause. The
reason this resolution Is necessary" said
Lamarre, lis that one Of the nominees
to be put before us is puppet OF Gov.
Green and his oligarchy on Smith Hill.
I say 1t is germane to instruct this man,
this weakling, who is going to be elected,
as to our position on this important
Issue" He was referring to Prince.
This is merely sample of the vitu-
peration that went up during the con-
vention.
The resolution relating to the death
sentence" clause which Lamarre offered
and which was adopted read as follows:
Resolved, that the Democratic Con-
vention OF the first Rhode Island con-
gresSional district of Rhode Island,
assembled In Providence, r. l., July
26, 1885, hereby pledges the nominee Of
this convention to support President
Roosevelt and the so-called death SEN
tence' of the public utilities holding
company bill"
All hands in the convention praised
President Roosevelt, 1t Is true. But how
solidly the Democrats would support
Prince is another matter. The election,
however. will be regarded as test.
There is no slightest doubt that the
result will be hailed as triumph for
the Roosevelt New Deal or as a defeat
for 1t, once the balloting is over.
Risk, the Republican nominee for the
Rhode Island district, opened his CAM
paign with q speech. in which he charged
that an E. r. A. worker, John Walls,
with q wife and five children, had been
discharged because Walls had voiced his
preference for Risk for Congress over
the Democratic nominee.
The Republican nominee is making a
great deal Of the processing tax issue
also. The processing tax on cotton has
not been at all popular in mill centers,
and Risk is charging that because of this
tax manufacturers have had to curtail
production, shut down mills and throw
men and women out OF work.
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The first congressional district Of
Rhode Island In 1882 went for Presi-
dent Roosevelt over former President
Hoover by more than 80 900 votes. How
ever, Condor, the Democratic candi-
date for the House, won by little more
than $4,000. The claim is made now in
some quarters that the early date of
the election coming when many persons
are away on their vacation, will be an
aid to them. This seems to be just an
other way Of saying that more Repub-
hcans take vacations than Democrats.
Both the Republican and Democratic
candidates now nominated in party con-
ventions are considered strong. Risk
Is . former district court judge, leader
in the American Legion and an advocate
Of the cash payment Of the bonus.
Prince Is q Franco-American. He, too,
has a war record, and was a member of
the Royal Canadian Flying Corps during
the World War.
The district covers the eastern half
of the State. 1t takes in part Of Provi-
dence, Central Falls, Newport, Paw
tucket, East Providence, Woonsocket and
other towns. In the district are num-
Der of industrial communities which
have been strongly Democratic.
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Business Is taking squirt in New
England, according to canvasses Of the
situation made by the Boston Globe.
In fact, the last week has brought some
of the most encolIrap inr rennrts m in