Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-08-27
THE POLITICAL
MILL
BY C. GOULD LINCOLN.

Hampshire Democrats are more than
usually hopeful this year. They have q
greater degree Of harmony than usual,
which should be helpful to them. More
over, the Democratic party in the White
Mountain State has shown signs Of
steady growth for the last six years.
Former President Hoover carried the
State by a scant 5000 votes four years
ago. In that year they defeated former
Senator George Moses by almost the
same vote that Hoover carried the State,
sending Senator Fred Brown to the
Upper House in Washington. Two years
later the Democrats reelected William
N. Rogers, with lead Of 5000 votes over
his Republican opponent, and only failed
to elect their candidate for Governor by
about 1900 votes. This is record not to
be sneezed at.
This year the Democrats have q
strongly built organization. They have
been aided by Federal patronage In the
construction Of their organization. Fur
thermore, Federal aid of various kinds
has been poured into the State and is
likely to have its effect in the coming
election. The Democratic and Repub-
lican primaries are set for September Is.
The Democrats will nominate Repre-
sentative Rogers for the Senate and
Amos N. Blandin, 7O-year-old speaker Of
the State House of Representatives, Tor
Governor. They have only one contest
of major importance in their primary
the nomination for the first congress
sional district, to I'LL the seat now
occupied by Rogers. Seven candidates
are seeking this nomination, with the
plum likely to fall to John j. Sheehan,
county solicitor The first is the district
in which the Democrats are found In
numbers. The second district, strongly
Republican. has but single Democratic
candidate for the congressional nomina-
ton, Daniel ]. Hagerty Of Nashua.
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In the Republican camp the same ex-
tent of harmony does not appear.
George Moses is seeking to stage come
back in the senatorial primary, with his
opponent the present youthful and ener-
getic Gov. H. Styles Bridges. There Is
contest, too, for the gubernatorial NOM
ination. The Democrats believe that
they have in Rogers a senatorial candl-
date who can defeat either Moses or
Bridges. They expect him to carry the
first district by at least 5000 votes and
not to lose the second by more than
5000. II they are correct in their eSti-
mates, the Democrats will pick up
another Senate seat now held by the
Republicans. However, if the Repub-
licans get together after their primary
and Landon is doing well in the State
their calculations may be upset.
An old Republican wheel horse, former
Representative John Q. Tilson, has de-
clared himself a receptive candidate for
the gubernatorial nomination in Con-
necticut. Tilson, although he has been
out of the House for several years, has
kept himself more or less in the political
foreground. He has always had strong
support in his home town. New Haven.
The Democrats are expected to renom-
mate Gov. Wilbur L. Cross. TilSon, for
many years an important figure in the
House and Republican majority leader
until the contest between himself and
Representative Smell, developed after
the death of the late Speaker Nicholas
Longworth, in 1880, might make strong
candidate against Gov. Cross.
Now that the Democratic primary in
Mississippi Is over. the fear which some
of Senator Pat HarriSon'S friends ex-
pressed for denomination seems to have
been very much misplaced. Harrison's
defeat of former Gov. Conner, his chief
opponent for the senatorial nomination.
by large majority. makes those fears
seem particularly foolish. Harrison has
for years been leader among the Demo-
Gratis in the Upper House. He has handled
much Of the Roosevelt administration S
tax legislation, as chairman of the Senate
Finance Committee. There seems now
no doubt who is boss in Mississippi
Democratic politics. Senator Bilbo might
as we'll have saved his strength. in the
light of what happened to Conner, whom
the junior Senator supported.
The Roosevelt New Deal had another
good break in the South on Tuesday.
when Senator Jimmy" Byrnes, long
recognized as a spokesman for the adj
ministration in the Senate, ran over two
anti-New Deal opponents in the party
primary. His denomination in South
Carolina Is equivalent to election for the
Republicans do not count in that State.
any more than they do in Mississippi.
Death stepped into the Roosevelt New
Deal calculations in Minnesota Saturday
night. The late Gov. Floyd B. Olson had
been counted upon as tower Of strength
to the Roosevelt cause in that State this
year. And now Olson Is out Of the picture.
1t is true that from what proved to be
his deathbed Gov. Olson issued an appeal
to his followers to vote for the reelection
of President Roosevelt. His own strong
personality, however, is gone. That con-
stitutes q loss both to the Farmer-Labor
party, of which he was member and a
leader, as well as to the Roosevelt New
Dealers with whom he was in alliance.
It is expected that the situation created
by the death of Olson will be more favor
able to the Republicans and the Landon
candidacy in that State. The Repub-
licans in Minnesota have shown greater
life this year and more unity than for q
long time. The third party ticket, headed
by Representative Lemke of North
Dakota is expected. too to be an aid to
the Republican national ticket there. In
the Minnesota primaries several months
ago the Republicans rolled up q very
much bigger vote than did the Farmer
Laborites, showing which way the wind
has been blowing there. In Minnesota
the Democrats have played only a minor
role for a number OF years.
What part Senator Shipstead, Farmer
Labor Senator from Minnesota, will play
remains to be seen. Shipstead and Olson
did not get along Indeed, there was q
time when it was thought that Olson
would undertake to step over Shipstead
into the Senate. Shipstead has in the