Evening Star Newspaper, October 5, 1930, Page 53

& \ DRY 1SSUE PERIL OF MRS. MCORMICK llinois Senate Race to Be Close, With Some Predict- ing G. 0. P. Defeat. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO IN CONGRESSIONAL SET BY DAVID LAWRENCE. CHICAGO, October 4.—Mrs. Hanna McCormick has a real fight on her hands with James Hamilton Lewis | to win the election as United States| Senator, an¢ the remarkable part of it | is that the closeness of the election will | be due to the prohibition issuc, and not to the controversy over expenditures or the charges and counter-charges of spy- ing and wire-tapping growing from the Senate Committee investigation of the | Ilinols situation. Aside from prohibition, the para- | mount influence is the economic situa- | tion. Unemployment has affected the | mood of the masses, while business | men, usually Republican, are complain- | ing About the ineffectiveness of the| Hoover administration in restoring | prosperity. Mrs, McCormick has iak(‘a her posi- | tion alongside of President Hoover, and | is insisting that the people be patent and give him a chance to set in motion the processes of recovery, Mr. Hoover as popular as he was | in 1928, and the number of Republicans | who have expressed their disapproval of his administration may not be large, | but they certainly are‘vocal. Many Forecast Defeat. Inquiries among people who usually are well informed in politics elicit the response that the election will be close, while not a few to whom this corre- spondent talked insisted that Mrs. Mc- Cormick would be defeated on the pro-| hibition issue. | There are two factors which stand | out as controlling in Illinois. One is the staunch Republicanism of the State and the other is its wetness. Going| back six years, Charles S. Deneen won his seat in the Senate by a majority of more than 600,000. Two yvears later, Frank L. Smith, Republican, won out by a plurality of 67,000, after the people of MNiinois had been told all about ex- ocessive expenditures and public utility influence in politics. Also the late George Brennan was the Democratic nominee. He not only was popular with the people, but he had the whole-heart- ed support of the Democratic machine, | which he controlled. Again in 1928, when Al Smith was| ninning for the Presidency on the Dem- ocratic ticket, and when thousands of blicans were deserting their stand- on the prohibition issue, Mr. Hoo- | wver oarried the State by ,more than 800,000, and Ruth McCormick, running a8 & candidate for representative-at- , ran way ahead of the Hoover jority. is s third candidate in the fleld, Mrs. Lottie Holman O'Neill, who is ing as a bone dry. Ungquestion- sbly she will draw votes in the rural district that otherwise would have gone to Mrs. McCormick. The big question 18 how many votes the second candi- date’ will poll. Experience so far in Iilinols elections shows that only 156,- 000 votes constitute the high point of independent strength and this was in the 1926 campalgn when Frank L. Smith was running with the State fully Ruth aware of the disclosures with reference to campaign expenditures. Wet Vote Possibility. Mrs, McCormick could afford to lose 150,000 votes and still win by a_ com- fortable margin, provided she does not also lose a considerable number of wet votes that are ordinarily Republican. 15 really the crux of the situation. ow many republicans who take their weétness seriously will really vote the Demoeratic ticket on election day? How many thousands of them were friendly to Al Smith in 1928, and talk- ed about him in most affectionate terms only to find themselves voting the straight Republican ticket When_ they sctually got into the polling booth? This attitude grows from the fact that many Republicans have become W. B. MRS. JACK A. MARSHALL, With her young son Miller. Mrs, Marshall is the daughter of Representative Tilman B. Parks of Arkansas. —Underwood Photo, imbued with the idea for generations | with the overwhelming Republican vote, that the Republican party somehow has make it difficult to come to the con- a magic way of kesping the economic | clusion that a State which could not condition of the country on an even |give as popular an idol and as wet a keel. The present business depression |candidate as Al Smith its electoral has not altogether shaken the confi- | vote in 1928, is now ready to turn over dence of Republicans in the power of | proportionately over a quarter of a mil- their chieftains to bring business to a (lion votes, because that would be necea- favorable status in due time. Anyhow |sary to change the popular attitude the thought of complicating the next|toward Mrs, McCormick and Herbert two years with a Democratic Congress | Hoover. is not relished by & good many Repub- | licans who would like to see less inter- | ference by Congress in business. ‘The big question is whether these considerations will weigh uppermost in the minds of Republican businessmen when they go to the polls. Judging by past observation, most of the Repub- lican regulars will stay regular on eco- nomic issues that they think are im- bedded in the viewpoint of the two major parties, In that event. Mrs’ Mc- Cormick would win by a plurality of at least 100.000. ‘The committee, headed by Senator Nye of North Dakota, has let go of the Illinols situation and is not going to continue its investigation until after election. While opinions differ as to| the wisdom of 'Mrs. McCormick’'s tilt | with the Senate committee, and some | people think that she got some polit- | ical advantage out of the argument— for Senate committees are not too popu- lar in Illionis—the fact remains that a good many disinterested citizens wish that she had not become tangled in a controversy with the committee in the middle of the campaign. The bet- ter politicians say that success in poli- tics depends on a minimum of contro- (Copyright, 1930.) 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