The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-12
As Maine Goes Today, So What?
 And What Of The Eight
 Primaries
 Tomorrow?

Washington, Sept. 12.-Out of eight state primary elections Sept. 13, hardly one seems to hold any possibilities of bad luck for either the New Deal or its foes. .
 So many candidates are to be
 nominated without opposition that
 sum total interest is less than in
 either the Georgia primary the
 following day. when Senator Wal
 ter George is expected to beat
 New Dealer Lawrence Camp i'm
 stead of being "purged," or the
 Maine general election in the 18th
 where former Gov. Louis Brann
 and three Democratic congress
 sional nominees are entered
 against Republican incumbents.
 The slogan, "As Maine goes, so goes the nation" was exploded in 1886. But any increase or slump in the Pine Tree states Demo- cratic vote may have national sig niflcance.
 CONNECTICUTS state Demo- cratic convention, Sept. 1914, is ex- pected to renominate Senator Augustine Lonergan and Gov. Will bur L. Cross. Liberal Congressman Herman P. Kopplemann, pro-Roose- welt candidate, has been deemed a loser since Attorney General Cum mings personally endorsed Lonergan. AS THEY GO
 TO THE POST
 The primaries on the 18th:
 WASHINGTON: Democratic Sen- Homer T. Bone is opposed by former State Treasurer Otto Case, Towns endite. Bone is New Dealer who was non -committal on the supreme court plan and voted against the Roosevelt reorganization bill on the ground that he feared fascism. Because Bone promises to support any old age pension plan that has 8 chance in congress and because the states Townsendites are in a bitter factional split, Bone is the favorite. He may have November election trouble with former Prosecuting Attorney Ewing Col- win of Seattle, who seeks the C.. O. P. nomination and whose chief plank is alleged damage done the lumber industry by New Deal trade agreements. Bone supports the trade agreement program.
 MICHIGAN: Democratic Gov. Frank Murphy is unopposed for re- nomination, but faces a hard, bitter election campaign. Former Gov. Frank T. Fitzgerald, whom Murphy defeated by 48000 votes in 1886 as compared with Roosevelt's 300,000 majority former Attorney General Harry S. Toy, and Roscoe Conklin Fitch seek Republican nomination. A close friend of Roosevelt and backed by the Michigan Federation of Labor and c. I. O., Murphy is at- tackled for his labor relations rec- ord dating back to automobile sit- down strikes. He replies he Is proud of the record, contending he averted bloodshed. Split in the United Au- tomobile Workers Union Is doing Murphy no good.
 F. D. R. DOESN'T
 WANT ALVA
 COLORADO: Senator Ava Ad- ans, although Roosevelt doesn't want him back, has no Democratic opposition because a New Dealer couldn't get enough state conven- ton strength to land on the ballot. Adams should beat Attorney Archi- bald Lee of Denver. Republican nominee. Gov. Teller Ammons, Democrat, will have a stiff fight against former U. s. Attorney Ralph Carr, certain c. O, P. nominee.
 UTAH: Senator Ebert D. Thomas, New Dealer, will be nominated without opposition. President Frank lin s. Harris of Brigham Young university may lick him in Novem- Der, assuming Harris defeats Dr. Arthur c. Warey and Claude Barnes, also c. O. P. aspirants. ARIZONA: Senator Carl Hayden, Democrat, is favorite over Dr. Colt I Hughes, state public health super intendent.
 NEW HAMPSHIRE Senator Fred Brown, New Dealer is unopposed in his own party. Republicans will nominate Congressman Charles W. Tobey or Elliott A. Garter, Nashua manufacturer.
 VERMONT: Senator Ernest W. Gibson and Gov. George D. Aiken, Republicans, will be renominatea without opposition and presum- ably reelected.
 Gibson and Gov. Getaoinshrdlu-- LOUISIANA: Senator John H. Overton, administration Democrat, will be renominated and rec elected without opposition.
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