Evening star., 1938-04-13
KELLy-NASHRUL
BROKEN ASLUCAS
Wins CLOSE RACE
Horner's Senate Candidate
Has Lead of 28,O36 in
Illinois Ba||oting.
D0WNSTATE DISTRICTS
AID IGOE DOWNFALL
Judge Who Was Dropped by
Chicago Machine Is Named
With G. 0. P. Aid.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

The Kelly-Nash Democratic ma
chine in Chicago took a licking at
the polls in the primary yesterday,
and Gov. Horner and his organization
are sitting on top of the heap.
Representative Scott w. Lucas o.
Havana. ILL.,. won the Democratic
senatorial nomination, judging from
the latest returns, over Michael L.
1goe of Chicago. This was the main
Statewide contest, with Mr.. Lucas
backed by Horner and Ieoe by the
kelly-NaSh organization.
With returns received from 7,2ll of
Illinois 1926 precincts, Lucas had
674,38S votes and Igoe 649. .533-a lead
of 24,855. Later reports brought the
lead to 28,O36. with all except ss8 pre-
cincts reporting. Most of the returns
still to be included in the total are from
doWnstate districts, where Mr.. Lucas
strength lay
Administration leaders in Washing
ton today insisted there was no issue
fought out in the Illinois primary in
volving Roosevelt prestige. They said
that both Mr.. Lucas and Mr. 1goe were
supporters of the President.
Although Mr. Lucas has been called
a 100 per cent Roosevelt man, it was
recalled at the Capitol today that
during the Presidents fight to increase
the membership of the Supreme Court
last year Mr. Lucas spoke on the floor
of the House against the proposal
Also during the special session last
December he was one of those men,
bers of the House who voted to
recommit the wages and hours bill.
With such record, opponents of the
administration insisted that Mr.. Lucas
victory over Igoe had more in it than
appeared on the surface.
Mr.. Lucas was absent and recorded
as not voting when the House last
Friday killed the Presidents reor-
ganization bill.
Claim State Is Democratic.
These Democratic political generals
also maintained confidently that nli-
nois was still overwhelmingly Demo-
cratic-as demonstrated by the very
large vote cast in the Democratic pri-
mary and the comparatively small vote
in the Republican primary. Democratic
troubles. they added, would be largely
forgotten or patched up before the
election in November. The Statewide
Democratic vote will reach 1850 900,
when all the returns are in, and the
Republican vote will be only a few
hundred thousand.
On the Republican side of the fence.
however. there was no contest. Rich
ard J. Lyons. 42-year-old State Rep
resentative. was nominated for Sem
ator, running as an anti-New Dealer.
He will face Mr. Lucas in the CAM
paign next fall
Many Republicans. it is reported,
went into the Democratic primary to
help smash the Kelly-Nash organiza-
ton and to support Judge Edmund
K. Jarecki of Cook County Chicago.
Judge Jarecki charged that the Kelly
Nash organization had turned him
down and not placed him on the
ticket because it wanted to seize con-
troll Of the voting machinery in Cook
County, which comes under the di-
rection Of the judge. The organization
put up Circuit Judge John Prystalski
Col. Frank Knox, Republican vice
candidate of the G. o. P.
in 1886. in the Chicago Daily News
which he publishes urged Republicans
to go into the Democratic primary
and support Judge Jarecki.
Dieterich Drops Out.
There was much interest in the
Illinois primary-the first to be held
this year When Senator Dieterich,
who supported President Roosevelt
vigorously in the fight over the Su-
preme Court last year, faded out of
the picture as candidate. there was
slight dimunition of interest from
the national point of view. Senator
Dieterich was opposed by both Gov.
Horner and the Kelly-Nash organiza-
ton for denomination
Gov. Horner's victory over the Kelly
Nash machine was an encore of what
happened in 1896, when Kelly, who is
(See ILLINOIS. Page A-3.)