The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-28
BY the Associated Press


Illinois.
Led by c. Wayland Brooks,
the curly-headed Senator from
| Chicago, they profess to be on
the road back to the dominant
position in State Politics that
has been additionally theirs
since the days of Abraham Lin
coin.
If their hops are fulfilled, the
] Republican party will elect its
first full-term Senator since
1928, put a working majority in
the assembly cit has a majority
now, but it doesn't always work)
and gain seven congressman.
MAY WIN 20 SEATS
There are now Is Republicans
in the Illinois Congressional del
egation of q. Reapportionment
reduces the delegation to rs this
year, and Ben Berve, COP State
chairman, said he expected to
win % of these seats.
All that stands in the way OF
these aspirations is the Demo-
cratic party-which polled l.
O26,644 of the 1858, 298 votes
cast in the April primary.
The Democratic destinies OF
1912 are in the hands of one OF
the most efficient political
groups in the United States, the
Chicago organization headed by
| Mayor Edward J. Kelly and Pa
trick A. Nash.
Against Brooks, who was
elected in 1910 to serve out the
unexpired term of the late Sen.
James Hamilton Lewis, the
Democrats have nominated an
eloquent but comparatively UNI
known Congressman from Chi
cago, Raymond S. McKeough.
Republicans dubbed him Small
Potatoes" McKeough.
The Democratic candidate for
Congressman-at-large is another
Chicagoan, Benjamin S. Adam
owski, a young lawyer who for
merly was majority leader of the
State House of Representatives.
Adamowski is opposing Rep.
Stephen A. Day of Evanston, a
pre-Pearl Harbor j S olationist
who was embarrassed politically
when it became known that his
anti-British book was published
by a firm with which George
Sylvester Viereck, convic e d
Nozi propaganda was associat-
ed.
These are the two major Of
fices at stake in the off-year
election.
ISSUES CLEAR CUT
The issues are GEAR cr\ Both
parties want to win the war, and
as quickly as possible. But the
Democrats claim it can't be won
expeditiously in pre-war isola-
tionists like Brooks and Day
are returned ffiootcDaf-- d.
are returned to office.
Brooks and his supporters as
sert that McKeough was practi-
cally pulled out of a hat by the
Kelly-Nash organization and
would be merely rubber
stamp" in Washington. They al
so accuse the Chicago Democrats
Of endeavoring to extend their
control throughout the State.
Republican hopes for victory
are based in part upon an unuS-
ualy large registration of voters
downstate, where the greatest
COP strength lies. A total of L.
832,57O citizens have qualified
to vote in this area, where only
100000 cast their ballots in
November, 1888, the last Off
year election. Registration in
Cook Co., (Chicago) the DEM
ocratic stronghold, approximates
100000.
VOTE ENCOURAGING
Another factor encouraging to
the Republicans is the increasing
size of the party vote in recent
elections. Democrats have out
voted them in every election
since 1892. For the last two
years, however, the trend ap-
peared to be changing, and in
the April Ia primary the COP
came within $1,000 votes of
catching up.
Generally quiet campaigns
have been reported from other
midwestern states.
In North Dakota the candi-
dates ran into a late harvesting
season that cut into their
crowds. Secretary of State Her
man Thorson has estimated that
not more than 100000 voters
will 60 to the polls, compared
with 275, los in the 1898 general
election. Gov. John Moses, the
only Democrat in the State
House, is opposed by his lieu
tenant governor, Oscar w. Ha-
gen, heading a coalition ticket.
Pre-war isolationism Is an is
sue in Wisconsin, where Repub-
lican Gov. julius p. He'll seeks
a third term against Democratic
progressive, and Socialist candi-
dates.