Evening Star Newspaper, November 1, 1931, Page 4

TAMMANY SEEKS IREPUBLICAN HOLDS SOCIALISTS' VOTE Replace District Leader With 0ld-Fashioned Scrapper to | Win Fifteenth District. BY LEMUEL F. PARTON. Bpecisl Dispatch to The Star NEW YORK, October 31.—Tuesday's election here centers around the one Jittle oasis of Republican strength in New York, the fifteenth Assembly dis- trict, where dwell the Van So-and-Sos, and of which the resplendent Park avenue is the main stem. Tammany Hall wants it bad, and the reverbera- tions from this battle carry far into national politics. Just a few more Assembly votes and Tammany may end the Hofstadter in- | quiry into municipal affairs and, simul- | taneously, much embarrassment to re- | mote major politicians figuring next year's Democratic Convention line-up. This district—the gilded tail now | wagging the dog—has been the cause of many desperate encounters in the | past. Many years ago the effulgent . Cram taught Tammany new tricks in clothe: and behavior for use | n just such localities, and three years | ago the sachems tried out his scheme by a series of formal teas in the fif- teenth. It a far cry from the big | tubs of suds with which the Big and | Little Tim Sullivans used to bash into | & doubtful district. and it didn’t work. | jcaded in their pent houses, the barons of finance served moye and | better tea, fought off the enemy and | sent Ruth Pratt to Congress and young | Abbot Low Moffat to the Assembly. | No Tea Parties This Year. | In this fight Tammany is giving no | fen parties. Its old-fashioned tactics | have brought the charge from Keyes Winter, Republican leader, that it is colonizing the district, and the Seabury Committee is examining witnesses in dnvestigating this charge. At a recent election the Democrats ousted Frank Briarly, their district leader, and re-| laced him with J. E. Sheehy, old-fash- | Fonea scrapper and gifted politician. The Republicans are fighting desper- ately to hold on, and the district pro- vides the only real excitement in a @rab campaign. Tammany has four urgent reasons for eoncentrating on this silk stocking re- gilon. It needs an Assemblyman to add to the five which it hopes to get up- State, so it may scize the Legislatur. it wants to punish Samuel Hofstadter, Republican Senator from the district, ‘who heads this probing, prying Seabury committee; it wants to eliminate the ‘crusading young Mr. Moffat and it wants to send a solid delegation to the As- sembly from New York County. Twenty years ago the Republicans had seven Assemblymen from Manhattan and now they have but one Up-State there are sharp contests in Byracuse, Utica, Buffalo and Bingham- ton, where Tammany hopes to pick up a few Assemblymen on the prohibition issue. In Binghamton the Democrats are driving hard, in the hope of defeat- ing the veteran dry leader of the House, Assemblyman Edmund B. Jenks. For the first time in his 16 consecutive terms, Assemblyman Jenks is menaced Amendment No. 3, one of six consti- tutional amendments to be voted on, also has drawn some hot fire from both eides, but appears to be certaln of pas- #age and is not a major issue. This is Gov. Roosevelt’'s $20,000,000 plan for | reforestation, land development and | marketing, which Alfred E. Sgith so | vehemently attacked at the resent big | Tammany rally apd subsequently. Cu- yiously, the amendment, adopted by the Legislature and now up~for public rati- feation, is in close accord with a long finm of similar legislation advanced y former Gov. Smith. His action in assailing it, with his eager participaton in Tammany's Old Home week, was in- vlgrm as a break with Gov. Roose- who has made & pet of the amend- ment. Probe Roosevelt Strength. There is little beyond conjecture to be’ noted in this interpretation. Tam- many chiefs are a bit angry with Gov. Roosevelt, but not too angry. From all over the country they are getting re- ports on his strength. Some of these | rts are that it is like the Platte | fver, as Bill Nyo described it—a mile | wide 'and a quarter of an inch deep. Others are that it has volume and in- creasing momentum. The most in- formed predictions are that neither Tammany nor Mr. Smith will break | with the Governor until they know more | mbout how the country is responding to his candidacy, and probably not then If it should appear that his chances are So far as this election is concerned. professional and detached opinion is that Tammany Hall will win a sweep- ing victory in New York City, with the | possible exception of the fifteenth di trict; that the Republicans will retain control of the Assembly, and that| amendment No. 3 will be adopted.| Nothing but cynicism has come out of the uproar over the bipartisan judge “deal” in Brooklyn, by which the Re- B\:bhuns get five new judges and the | mocrats seven. Voters have no alter: natives, other than the Socialist candi- dates, and the “deal” must go through. Judge Seabury examined J H ps. and got only genial explanation of how it about. ‘The newspapers impotently and there (Copyr VU. S. To Seize Lottery Tickets BROWNSVILLE. Tex, October 31 N deputy customs ire of v Radio purchasers in le said the sta- tng the Unite tion sold ticke mail $1 for a ticket | of the Nav EDGEINFIRST OHID Hollister Seen With Advan- tage Over Lorbach to Suc- ceed Late Speaker. (Continued Prom First Page) ocrats have put in the fleid a wet Saginaw. Ssginaw County has nea 40 per cent of tae vote in the & trici, and to put theis despite the the district only last 20,000 votes. The other vacancy t filled Tuesday is in the second Pen sylvania district, the old Grabam dis- trict in Philadelpnia, sure to go Re- | publican. Parties May Be Even. Shoutl the Republicans win first Ohio, the eighth Michigan the second Pennsylvania districts and the Democrats be victorious in the twentieth Obio and the seventh New York districts, the House membership | after Tuesday's election would be R blicans, 216 Democrats, 216; rmer Labor, 1, and 2 vacancies. Of these vacancies, one is to be filled De- cember 1 and one in January. Both are usually strongly Republican dis- tricts, the first is the fifth New Jersey district, where the late Representative Ackerman was elected by a two-to-one vote in 1930, and the second is the first New Hampshire district, whi was carried by the late Representat Fletcher Hale a year ago with a lead of 16,000 votes. over his Democratic opponent. It is obvious that the paper major- ity of one in the House, won by the| Republicans last year, is in jeopardy and that a single upset in these by- elections would give the Democrats equal strength with the Republicans and leave Kvale of Minnesota, Farmer- Labor, holding the exact balance of power between the two parties. The c#mpaign in this first Ohio dis- trict is in a measure a test of the attitude of the German-American voters in this country toward Presi- dent Hoover. It has been estimated that from 40 to 50 per cent of the ple of Cincinnati have German lood in their veins, although many of them are removed from the father- land by two or more generations. Cin- cinnati boasts that of all cities of its size today, it has a higher percentage of American-born citizens. More than 89 per cent of its population is native born. The German-American vote in this city, however, has always been a potent factor and has been, as a rule, strongly Republican. The Ger- man-Americans have been disgruntled because of the depression and unem- ployment, and_ particularly because of the stand of President Hoover against repeal or modification of the eighteenth amendment. Horbach Speaks German. The Hoover debt holiday, in connec- tion with German reparations and other intergovernmental debts and the other efforts which President Hoover has made in recent months to come to the aid of Germany in her financial and economic distress has won him favor with the German-Americans here, offsetting to a degree the spirit of protest that was growing up among them. This fact is likely to be an aid to John B. Hollister in his race for the Longworth seat against David Lorbach, Democrat. But Lorbach is of German descent. He is a member of the National Citizens’ League, which includes in its membership the Ger- man societies of Cincinnati, and he has gone to their meetings and addressed them in German, giving him something of an advantage over his opponent. Hollister, who spent a year in a Ger- man University after he finished col- lege in this country, speaks German, and on Friday night delivered an ad- dress in German over the radio to German-American voters, in an effort to offset Lorbach's constant talks to the Germans in the vernacular. The German language newspaper pub- lished here, the Freie Presse. is Re-| publican and is supporting Hollister edi- torially. Hollister is wet enough in sentiment to satisfy the German-Ameri- cans, or this paper might have a hard time coming to his support. Of thej American language daily papers in Cin- cinnati, the Times-Star is ardently sup- porting Hollister, the Post has indorsed the candidacy of Lorbach solely on the tariff issue. and the Cincinnati Enquirer is maintaining a neutral attitude as between the Republican and Democratic candidates. Jahncke Opens Campaign. Neither Hollister nor Lorbach have tmported speakers from outside the dis- trict to aid them in the campaign which is coming rather quietly to & close Ernest Lee Jahncke, Assistant Secretary it is true, came here at the opening rally of the Republicans this Fall and spoke for Hollister. But no other spell-binders have come 0 the State. Both sides have decided it was| the better policy to fight the thing out locally, despite the fact that they have talked only of national issues and the Nation is interested in the outcome of the election here On the surface, neither side is spending much money in_the campaig! Because of the keen interest in Cin- | cinnati over the election of a ty | ratively big vote may be | on Tuesday. This| man_across on the and would d like to vo! ry. The Holli mary pr er forces are hop! . which m listeners to | s fact that Vincent carried | THE SUNDAY than the man in the moon of being elected, but if he can take 2,000 or 3.000 or even 5000 votes which might have |been cast for lorbech by unempi and disgruntied voters, his candid might swing the election to Holliste Duderstadt's Platform. tadt is & woodcarver by trade o find a worker & job in private and if that was impossible, & Tgency work for the Gover x His idea of a minimum privat wage would be $1 an hour. He fa old-age pensions, physcal inequal herhood pensions and estate by the Government interest three candidates for the Long- the House will be voted by them- way the comgression: not become involved e The consensus here in political cir- Hollister has the better 1t is true that even the Jemocrats, when they talk privately, do not_believe thelr candidate will win. Nevertheless, there is a great element of doubt in the protest vote which m: be because of hard times. It c ble, and even ine Republicans admit it, that this p otest vote may swell to such proportions as to cause the defeat of the Republizan nominee. Cincinnati is not in such bad condi- { the other cities in Ohio the country. This is partly by the fact that Cin- i's_industries are diversified and many. It is admitted, however, that there is more unemployment here today than there was last year at this time, and that perhaps 6,000 families wili and through ed ing the coming Winter. Interested in Prohibition. The local organizations looking after the poor have prepared for a hard Win- ter. Their leaders believe that they will be able to cope with the situation ade- quately and there is strong sentiment against a Federal dole for the unem- ployed. One issue the people of Cincinnati are tremendously interested in is prohibi- tion. A candidate who announced him- self “dry” would not have a China- man’s chance for any office here. The late Speaker Longworth, although it was realized he was an opponent -of the eighteenth amendment, suffered in the 1930 election from the fact that he did not come out flatly for repeal of the amendment and, indeed, said nothing about prohibition. His friends here believed that his failure to make 2 definite announcement, against prohibi- tion cost him many votes and had much to do with cutting his majority down 10 3,500 in that election. As a matter of fact, after Mr. Longworth becamc Speaker of the House he said nothing about prohibition one way or the other He could not have been elected Speake: because of the overwhelming dry vote in the House if he had not agreed tc keep off the wet and dry question in his public statements. Furthermore, his party nationally was taking the dry stand. Hollister lacks this handicap in hie race again Lorbach. “It has been clea: for some time that prohibition is im- possible,” he tells the voters, adding “the recent action of the American Le- gion at Detroit is merely another indi- cation of the trend of the times.” The Republican candidate favors repeal of the eighteenth amendment and pending as to permit light wines and beer. Thi: goes well in the district that in the olc days used to be known as “Over the Rhine. May Figure Next Year. This interest in the wet and dry question in Cincinnati does not run alone in congressional elections. Lead- ing Republicans here insist that if President Hoover doesn't at least give assent to & referendum proposition on the liquor issue, he cannot carry Hamil- ton County next year. Today, some of them say, Mr. Hoover, between the de- pression and the wet and dry issue, could not carry Ohio. This may change before election day next year. The President’s recent plan for a big credit corporation to aid the banks has been well received in Cincinnati and has gained him_friends. Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War in the Wilson administration, may be the fair-haired son of Cleveland Demo- crats for the presidential nomination next_year, but he doesn't rate so well in Cincinnati. popular here. The impression among the politicians here is that the Demo- cratic nomination for President is like- ly to go to Gov. Roosevelt of New York, rather than to_an Ohio Demo- crat. However, if the Democrats should win the elections Tuesday in the first and twentieth Ohio districts, indicat- ing that there is a strong Democratic trend in this pivotal State, the Ohio democracy may put up & strong fight yet for an Ohioan as the head of the Del }ior!e. Colo., Bank Fails. DENVER, October 31 (®.—The Bank of Del Norte, Del Norte, Colo., was closed today and the directors asked the State bank commissioner to take charge. The bank had deposits of $206.406.65 and $20,000 capital when the last report was made to the com- missioner June 2T7. March your bills li STAR, have to be provided for by charity dur- | that repeal a modification of the law sc | The World War and | the Wilson administration are not so | Democratic national ticket next year. | WASHINGTON, CERMAK T0 URGE WET PARTY STAND Chicago Mayor in Conference With Eastern Leaders to Ask Firm Policy. By the Associated Press. | PITTSBURGH, October 31.— Mayor | Anton J. Cermak, who came to Pitts- | burgh today to see a foot ball game, | explained that he is not going to New | York to settle any differences that may | exist between Eastern Democrats, but | merely to tell them “what we think out in Illinois.” “It has been reported.” he said. “that I am on my way to New York in the | hope of promoting harmony among | Eastern party leaders. That's not actly correct. In the first place. what ness have we of Illinois attempting settle any fight that folks may have down there? To Lay Cards on Table. “We are going to New York primarily to lay our cards on the table—to tell the Democrats of the East just what we think out in Illinois. We expect to confer with John J. Raskob and the others and to tell them that, as we see it, the Democratic party cannot afford to ‘pussyfoot’ on the prohibition question—it cannot win if it does— and deviation from this policy may even bring forth s third party, | ~“The Democrats have a fine chance to win the next presidential elect! | the mayor continued. “They can win if they stand firmly for a candidate of the Al Smith type—the party must not draw away from the views expressed in its last platform. “Furthermore, there’s the question of unemployment, which dovetails _with the question of prohibition. These problems go hand in hand and must be solved together. Consider, for in- stance, the grain that is going to Tot that could be utilized were it not for | prohibition. And then consider, too. | the jobless who would have work if | it were not for these dry laws.” | Cermak terminated the interview with the remark that he felt sorry for “those Carnegie Tech boys this after- noon.” 'BORAH IS OFFERED BACKING FOR 1932, BUT BIDES HIS TIME (Continued From Pirst Page.) ever, is just another symptom of unrest in the Republican ranks. If the Republicans should fare badly in the congressional elections, which are to be held in five congressional dis- tricts on Tuesday, to fill vacancies in the House, and in the New Jersey and Kentucky gubernatorial races, the anti- Hoover forces in, the party would hail | the results as proving that the.G. O. P.! must find another candidate for Pres! dent next year. ‘The leaders of the Republican party, on the other hand, continue to take the position that the party could get mno- | where by ditching Mr. Hoover next year |and turning to another candidate for | President. They must sink or swim | with the record of the Hoover adminis- | tration, and it would not look well for the party to seek to get rid of the man who made that record in large part. If the Progressives fall out among themselves as to which one is entitled to the Republican nomination, it will only enhance the chances of the Presi- | dent for renomination. It begins to | look as though Johnson and Borah | might have a spat of their own over the honor of becoming the Progressive Re- publican candidate for President next year. | * Borah and Johnson, if they undertake | to make the race for President, are like- ly to stress as an issue the step taken by the Hoover administration to place | an American in conference with the | League of Nation’s Council over the Sino-Japanese row in Manchuria, Hiram Johnson has already “sounded off” on this subject, declaring that the | administration by its action in Geneva is taking the United States into the | | quarrels of Europe, in violation of the | | Constitution and the will of the people. | ! A series of meetings at which the | course of the administration in this | respect will be attacked is being ar-| ranged by the “bitter-enders” in the old fight against American entry into| | the League of Nations. These meetings probably will be held in Chicago, Min- | neapalis, New York and Boston, and | | Senator Borah and other irreconcilable | Senators, including Johnson, are expect- ed to speak. These meetings.are under- stood to be part of the movement of the opponents of American adherence to the World Court under the so-called Root_formula, which is to come before | | the Senate during the next session of | Congress. | —_—— = Mrs. John Myers of Brown, Okla.. preserved 1,700 cans of food from | Spring and Summer gardens, and plans to put up 300 cans of meats. A 'Bank — doing sm4LL things BIG through k> a general. Take command of your B .C NOVEMBER 1 Sheppard Does Bit For Texas by Using tton Stationery { Senator Morris Sheppard, Dem- | | ocrat, of Texas, is doing his bit | these days toward improving the | | cotton situation in the South by using writing stationery made from cotton. The Senator, who comes from | | the cotton-growing area of the | | country, said he began about a month ‘ago using this kind of paper In his correspondence. 1931—PART ONE. - REMOVAL OF CYR STIRS LOUIGIANA New Lieutenant Governor Takes Office—Long May Change Plans. | By the Assoctatea RITCHIE HITS G. 0. P. ASDERELICTINDUTY Governor Voices Criticism of Tariff and Bureaus in Boston Speech. By the Assoctated Press. BOSTON, October 31.—A sweeping criticism of what he termed the Re- | publican party's failure to meet the troubles of the day with a constr: e | program was sounded here today by Gov. Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland speaking before & luncheon gathering | of the Democratic State Committee. “What has the Republican party to | say to the woman who asks where ‘her man’s job is now?” demanded Ritchie, | referring to the Republican campaign promises. Only a return to the “sound princi- | ples of the Democratic party” could | save the day, the Governor said as he | entered into a vigorous arraignment of | the national acministration’s handling of the problems of the Western farmer, | the Southern cotton planter and the | Eastern manufacturers. | Assails Tariff and Bureaus. “Tariffs which invite reprisals and which destroy export trade when world markets are what we need will not make producer, manufacturer or con- sumer prosperous,” he sald. Assailing the increasing number of governmental bureaus “Imposed upon an already overtaxed and overregulated people,” Gov. Ritchie said: “We still have national prohibition imposed upon us, although @very one ought to see | ow that it will nét and cannot pro- hibit and that a return of this question to the State is the only way out of the wilderness of unhappy consequences which have followed the eighteenth amendment.” He charged the Government was derelict in its duty in not warning the country of the impending economic crash, which, he said, “might not have been so bad had the Government warned the country it was coming.” Discussing the agricultural” situation | and price stabilization, he charged the Republican party had’ tried to lift the Western farmer by his own boot- | straps. | HOUSE CLERK TO SPEAK | W. T. Page Will Be Guest of Wash- | ington Round Table. William _Tyler Page, clerk of the| House of Representatives, will be the | guest speaker of the Washington Round | Table at & meeting of the body in the Jewish Community Center Tuesday at | 45 pm, Mr. Page will discuss “The | Machinery of Congress. i Following the talk, the subject will be open-for debat BATON ROUGE, La, October 31.— Politics buzzed in Louisiana today with Gov. Huey P. Long the the focal point. In the midst of it all, Gov. Long an- nounced he might take his seat in the United States Senate “probably next February 1” and forsake his oft repeated declaration that he would not go to Washington until he has finished his term as Governor next May. Files Answer to Plea. ‘The Governor's announcement came {after he had filed an answer to the suit of Paul N. Cyr, who as lieutenant governor brought ouster action against Long, and after Attorney General Percy Saint had ruled that Senator Alvin O. 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