Evening star., 1935-08-07

This little Australian boy has
tasty tidbits. Colloquially, the kooka
early settlers of a donkey'S bray.
Island has gone Democratic in the
last two presidential elections. Roose-
welt carried the State in 1882 by 81 1903
votes over Hoover. The vote in the
first congressional district only nine
months ago elected Condor, the Demo-
crat, by 70,507 to 49.l07 for his
Republican opponent. The first dis
trict has been held by Democrats ever
since the State was rediStricted in
1890, when the State had its repre-
sentation cut from three to two seats
inc the House. In the first district
lies one-half of Providence, which has
been Democratic, and many other in
duStrial centerS which also have been
strongly Democratic. The sweep for
the Republicans yesterday elected a
Republican mayor in Newport for
the first time in IT years. Henry S.
Wheeler, the Republican nominee for
this office, won with vote Of 5,449
to 4,166 for jeremiah P. Mahoney,
Democrat. Risk carried the city with
| a vote of 4,637 to 4,106 for Prince.
Central Falls, a Rhode Island city
which had been Democratic even in
the days of the Harding landslide of
1920. gave Risk a lead of 800 votes
over Prince. Woonsocket and Warren
alone gave pluralities to the Democrat.
1t is true that the Democrats faced
the burden in this election of bitter
factional row, with Thomas P. Mccoy,
a power in one section of the first
congressional district. opposing the
nomination of Prince and denouncing
Gov Green and his administration.
While this may have had some effect
in the Mccoy StrongholdS, as in Paw
| tucket, the trend against the Demo-
Gratis was just about as strong in other
parts of the congressional district. So
| the Democrats can scarcely claim
these factional troubles as an alibi
for the result. Indeed, Mccoy came
through finally with an Endorsement
of Prince.
The falling off in the Democratic
vote was tremendous in this election
as compared to the election in 1884,
while the Republicans. on the other
hand, polled almost as many votes as
they did in the earlier election. The
total vote cast was many thousands
less than in the election last Fall,
which was to be expected in a mid
Summer by-election. The candidates
for Office were nominated less than
two weeks ago and the campaign last
ed only 10 days. Both Republicans
and Democrats worked like beavers
however, during the brief period. The
campaign of Gov. Green to put across
the bond issues, however, had been
under way longer time. The bond
issues, with the exception of that for
direct relief, were fought tooth and
nail by the Providence journal and
the Bulletin. Indeed, these newspa-
pers were the head and forefront of
the opposition to the bond issues A
Democratic hand bill said, in part:
Don't be fooled by the Journal and
Bulletin. You are not appropriating
money when you vote yes to all refer
endums. All projects authorized by
the referendums must be submitted to
the Federal Government and ap-
proved by President Roosevelt" Ap-
parently the voters took a different
view of the matter and believed that
If once they agreed to put the State
In debt for these projects, the money
would be used.
Cotton Tax Factor.
The mill towns of Rhode Island
took a swat at the administrations
processing tax on cotton. There
seems no other way of explaining
what happened In these industrial
centers. which have been strongly
Democratic in the past Lincoln, a
mill town in the Blackstone Valley,
for example, went for Risk by 1000
over Prince, although it went Demo-
cratic in the 1884 election by 5000.
It has been contended by the Re-
publicanS that the processing tax on
cotton has helped to close the mills,
making it impossible for American
mills to compete with foreign impor-
tations of cotton cloths.
Both Risk and Prince are veterans
of the World War. Risk declared for
the immediate cash payment of the
soldiers bonus, while Prince was
vague about the matter. Prince is of
French extraction. But this did not
appear to help him even in the towns
where there are large numbers of
Franco Americans. When former
Representative Condor resigned from
the House to become a member of the
State Supreme Court, he unconscious
ly opened the way for a test of the
Roosevelt New Deal popularity yester-
day, which might otherwise have been
avoided. Last January the Democratic
Assembly elected five judges of this
court, which had been composed of
five Republicans. 1t chose three
Democrats and two Republicans. Con-
don was one of the Democrats. The
chickens have now come home to
rooSt.
Farley Sent Radiogram.
Although New Deal officials in
Washington generally sidestepped the
campaign, Postmaster General James
A. Farley two days ago sent good
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