Evening star., 1938-05-31
PRIMARY IN IOWA
JUNE'S BIC TEST
Only One of Five Elections
Expected to Give Line on
Roosevelt Strength.
~ the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Iowa's primary election next Mon
day is only one of five scheduled for
June. but its Democratic senatorial
contest probably will be the months
outstanding test Of Roosevelt admin
tstration strength.
In none of the other June pri-
maries-North Carolina, Maine. Min
nesota and North Dakota-has an is
sue of first rate national interest de-
veloped.
The Iowa balloting might have at
tracted only normal attention had it
not been for a recent remark by
~. P. A. Administrator Harry Hop
kins that If he were citizen of Iowa
he would cast his nominating vote
for Representative Otha Wearin rath-
er than for Senator Guy Gillette.
Wearin New Deal Choice.
That statement and the furore
which it raised both in Congress and
elsewhere has marked Mr.. Wearin in
the public mind as the administra-
tion's choice. 1t has rallied to Sen
ator Gillette's support such anti-ad-
ministration members of Congress as
Senators Wheeler Of Montana and
Burke of Nebraska, who, like him,
opposed the Roosevelt court bill.
The Iowa primary will be the fourth
IN which individual candidates have
had some form of administration sup
port, and so far the score stands two
to one for the administration. 1t
scored victories in Florida, where Sem
ator Pepper won overwhelming re-
nomination, and in Oregon, where
Henry L. Hess campaigned success
fully for the gubernatorial nomination.
In Pennsylvania, however, Demo-
cratic voters defeated Thomas Ken
nedy, c. I. o. candidate for Governor,
whom Postmaster General Farley had
Endorsed. They nominated Mr.. Ken
nedy's opponent, Charles Alvin Jones.
Another Farley-approved candidate,
Gov. George H. Earle, captured the
senatorial nomination.
Crop Program Reaction.
The Iowa primary has national
significance for another reason. 1t will
be the first to afford an opportunity
for farm belt reaction to the admins
tration's crop-control program.
The first June primary will take
place Saturday in North Carolina,
where Senator Robert Reynolds is
opposed for Democratic renomina-
ton by Representative Frank Han
cock. Both have carried the admin
iStration banner. Mr.. Hancock has
stumped the State, but Senator Rey-
nolds has made only one address, a
broadcast discussion of his record.
Primaries will be held in Maine
and Minnesota June 20, but in neither
State is a Senate seat in contest.
North Dakota Vote.
Eight days later, however, the Re-
puhlicans of North Dakota will de-
terlnine whether they want to re-
nominate Senator Gerald Nye. The
youthful-appearing, energetic SEN
ator Nye is opposed by Gov. William
LANCER, once his political ally, who
entered the race as the candidate
Of the States Nonpartisan League.
The LANCER forces have claimed the
backing Of many who lined up with
Senator Nye when he was elected in
1882.
The months political calender will
close with the Indiana State Demo-
cratic convention June 28 and 29. A
foregone conclusion Is that the con-
vention will renominate Senator Van
Nuys, who opposed the Roosevelt
court bill. He already has announced
he would run as an independent.