The Washington times., 1936-07-29
Il STATES HOLD
PRIMARIESIN
AUGUST
By EARL GOODWIN

States now represented in the
House by IS Democrats and Is Re
publicanS. and the Democratic
claim that eventually these pri-
maries will lead to elections of sub
stantially the same proportion Of
Democrats in the next House ap-
pears to have some basis.
There may be a heartbreak in
two of these StateS-Idaho and
Mississippi-where Governor Ben
Ross is going to give Senator Will
liam E. Borah a tremendous fight
on election day and Senator Pat
Harrison, for the first time in his
life, is threatened with political
extinction.
Although his friends are conf
dent he will win, Senator Harri-
sons light will go out on August
IS if he is defeated for the Demo
cratic nomination, which, in his
State, is equal to an election. Sena-
tor Borah, of course, probably will
be renominated, and his test
comes on election day in Novem-
Der.
Eleven Next Month
The States where the voters
choose their party candidates
next month are Kentucky, Kan
Sas. Mississippi, Missouri, Virginia,
Tennessee, Arkansas, Idaho, Wyo-
ming, California and South Caro-
lima. OF these States only two,
Missouri and California, do not
nominate senatorial candidates
next month.
Democratic Senators up for re-
nomination are Logan, Kentucky;
Glass, Virginia; Bachman, Mis-
souri,; Robinson, Arkansas; Harri-
son, Mississippi, and Byrnes,
South Carolina.
Republican solons are Capper,
Kansas; Borah, Idaho, and Carey,
Wyoming. Democratic campaign
managers concede the election of
Senator Capper, and they have
no great hope of defeating Sen
ator Carey. A good Landon swing
in Wyoming would clinch that
seat again for Carey.
Oppose Senator Logan
There is some inside party OPP
position to Senator Logan, of Ken
lucky, but party prophets here
see him nominated, and they also
expect Kentucky to return eight
Democrats and one Republican to
the House. Democrats admit free
" that Kansas is a battle-ground;
its House delegation is three Re
publicans and four Democrats
and the best the Democrats can
do is to hold that proportion.
Big tales of Republicans turn
ing Democratic in that State are
said to be based in some degree
on men who have been registered
as Republicans, but voting Demo
cratic, finally registering Demo
cratic under the famous Kansas
branding law"
Missouri's one Republican, Rep
resentative Short of Joplin, will
be returned without a doubt on
the face of current reports.
There is no excitement in the
Virginia chances, nor in Tennes-
see. Had Senator Long lived,
there might have been a battle
in Arkansas to defeat Senator
Joseph Robinson, Democratic
floor leader, but that seems to
have faded away with the death
of the "Kingfish."
Ross Has Chance
From this distance the chances
are that Governor Ben Ross,
o Democrat, will be the opponent
against Senator Borah for the
Senate, and Governor Ross is
being watched carefully as hav-
ing a good chance to defeat
Senator Borah. Governor Ross
gives a good account of himself
in a campaign; he knows Idaho
and has been there constantly,
while Senator Borah has been
becoming a national instead of a
State figure.
While Commissioner George
Allen, a Mississippi expert, bets
that Senator Pat Harrison will de-
feat his active opponent, Mike"
Conner, three to one, nevertheless
the campaign experts here are not
willing to accept that statement
without further research.