Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-18
Fall Election
To Raise War
Issues Again
80 States Hold Primaries
in August, September

in August, September
BY GEO. ROTHWELL BROWN
special TO THE DETROIT TIMES
THE political pot thus far has
been merely Simmering-in
August and September it will
boil.
Primaries will be held in 80
states during these two months,
and in - of them candidates for
the United States Senate will be
nominated.
In two states in the corn and
wheat belt-KanSas and Ne
braska-the senatorial contests
revolve around two veteran
statesmen. Arthur Capper. who
has served in the Senate since
1919, and George w. Norris,
whose terms began in 1913.
OF these two Capper was an
"isolationist' prior to Pearl Har-
Dor, while Norris has supported
the Presidents pre-war policies,
Notwithstanding which fact ii is
probable both continue TO enjoy
the support of constituencies
which are much alike in Charac-
ter.
MORRIS. 81, has announced he
A' will not again be candl-
date, but will retire on the lau-
rels of his 40 years in Congress,
and this has opened the flood
gates to a perfect deluge of am
billions.
Certainly he will not be can
didate in the Democratic or Re-
publican primaries, for he is
classed as an independent" but
pressure is being brought TO
bear on him to stand again. The
dean of the Senate, but one-he
is topped in service only by Cot
ton Ed Smith of South Carolina
may change his mind-he has
done il beforehand run in the
November elections, with the
blessing of the White House, and
probably of Mr.. Willkie.
Most formidable aspirant for
the Democratic nomination for
Senator is Rep. Harry B. Coffee,
of the fifth congressional dis
trict.
Norris might throw his bat
tered old felt lid into the ring,
if Coffee should win in the pri-
maries on August IL, for Coffee,
like Capper. was what the New
Dealers and the burgers term
an "iSolationist" up to Deem
Der 7.
Coffee voted against the
lend-lease bill, as il was called,
and voted against the huge ST.
000,000,000 appropriation with
which il was first supplemented.
He also voted against the draft.
ON THE basis of this record,
" and according TO the presi-
dental formula laid down in
New York, Coffee will be OPP
posed by the administration
forces, which means plenty,
what with the bureaucracy and
the vast spending program, for
he has also been out of step
with New Deal social reform.
Coffee has six opponents in
the Democratic primary, includ-
ing former Rep. Terry Carpen-
ter. whom he succeeded in the
House in the seventy-fourth
Congress. The rest are 1.-THE
field"
There are three candidates
for the Republican nomination,
Hugh D. Ashmore of Palisade;
Kenneth S. Wherry, of Pawnee
City, and Voyle D. Rector of
Omaha.
IN KANSAS they are making
L against Senator Capper the
same sort of fight which the
President is making against iso-
lationists in New York state.
The Senator who stands No. 6
in seniority in the Senate will
be opposed in the Republican
primary on August 4 by John
Allison, an oil man of McPher-
son. and by c. C.. Isely, a grain
dealer of Dodge City.
Both of them are making the
iSolationist charge, particularly
lSely who is stressing in his pre-
primary campaign the fact that
the grand old man Of Kansas"
d. everything he could prior TO
the Japanese attack on Pearl
iarbor 10 keep the United
States out OF war.
SNATOR CAPPER was able
u 10 do a good many things
10 avoid war, prior TO the sur
prise firing on the flag by the
Jams. for he IS a member of the