Evening star., 1936-09-14

that PENNSYLVANIA and Michigan will
decide the 1896 election. Whichever can
didate captures their respective So and
19 electoral votes will, he has it all doped
out, be victorious. His calculations are
based on Landon's carrying New York
and the bulk OF the East. and on the
theory that whoever wins will do so by
about as slim a margin as Wilson's vic
tory over Hughes in 1916-277 to 254-or
less. Philadelphia's old-time Republican
presidential registration last week has
considerably raised keystone G.. o. P.
hopes.
Along with the maha-Herald, the
Baltimore Sun becomes the second great
Democratic newspaper to desert the New
Deal. Detection of the widely circulated
Maryland journal, the influence of which
extends far beyond its own State, is un-
questionably one of the severest jolts the
Rooseveltian cause has suffered. AL
though the Suns own poll thus far has
registered Roosevelt trend in Maryland,
the big primary vote rolled up there last
Spring by Col. Breckinridge reveals a
strong undercurrent of hostility to the
President among Free State Democrats.
Together with Republicans who sup
ported Roosevelt in 1882, but will not do
so in 1886, they inject into the situa-
ton an element that decidedly puts
Maryland in the doubtful column.
Women momentarily seem to be TAX
ing the lead in notable switches of party
allegiance. Emulating DR.. Mary E.
Woolley of Mount Holyoke College, in
leaving Republican moorings to support
Mr.. Roosevelt, Mrs Charles S. Whitman,
wife of the former Republican Governor
of New York, is about to take the stump
for the Democrats. Mrs. Dwight F..
Davis, formerly Mrs. Pauline Sabin, one
time Republican national committee
woman from New York, who was for
Roosevelt in 1882, announces she is for
Landon this time and will campaign for
his election. Mrs. Davis was the leader
of the national women's organization
which crusaded for prohibition repeal.
Arrangements for Gen. Hugh johnson,
Blue Eagle boss in N. r. A. days, to go
on the hustings for the Democratic tic
ket, suggest that he may be cast for the
role of trailing Father Coughlin and Rev.
Gerald Smith and replying in kind to
the colorful attacks they're expected to
launch against F. D. r. 1t would be
job, his friends think, to which johnson
would leap with joy and one in which
he would prove himself fully equal to
the rough and tumble stuff in which the
Detroit radio priest and Huey Longs
political heir specialize. johnson has
frequently matched invective with
Coughlin, but has never taken on Smith,
who is combination of Bryan and Billy
Sunday at their rabble-rousing zenith.
Former Republican Representative
Philip Pitt Campbell Of Kansas is back
in washington from a speech delivered
before the Boston Republican women's
organization. He took occasion to put in
a word for young Henry Cabot Lodge,
Republican nominee for the United
States Senate, pleading that the voters
of Massachusetts, owe it to the memory
of the candidates famous grandfather,
whose name he bears, to send Lodge to
the scene which his kinsman so long
adorned Campbell gathered the i'm
preston that there's an excellent pros
pect of finding another Lodge on the
Senate roll call after next January.
Democratic leaders concentrating on the
senatorial campaign are said to concede
that the only one Of their Senate seats
nov ct III doubtful u the one for which