Evening Star
- Dawes Condemns Primary System to Legionnaires
- Deadly Gang War Flares in Chicago
- Mall Site Opposed for Commerce or Any Department
The Evening Star's front page of October 12, 1926 led with Vice President Dawes telling the American Legion convention in Philadelphia that direct primaries should be largely abolished in favor of nomination by conventions, arguing that voter apathy let organized minorities of roughly 7 to 12½ per cent of qualified voters pick nominees and officeholders. An Associated Press dispatch described the machine-gun killing of North Side gang leader Earl Weiss and a lieutenant across from Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago, and traced the feud with Al Capone's faction back to Dion O'Banion's murder in the same flower shop. The paper printed the Commission of Fine Arts' letter to Senator Smoot urging that no department building go on the Mall and that the new Commerce Department building stay between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets. A staff correspondent in Ohio predicted that prohibition would decide the Senate race between Frank Willis and Atlee Pomerene.
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Dawes Condemns Primary System to Legionnaires
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No. 30,114. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D.C.
DAWES CONDEMNS PRIMARY SYSTEM TO LEGIONNAIRES
Nominations by Conventions Would Insure Better Candidates, He Says.
CALLS “MINORITY RULE” RESULT OF LETHARGY
France Renews Invitation for Session to Meet in Paris Next Year.
By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, October 12.—Vice President Dawes today joined hands with those seeking the abolishment of the American system of primary elections for selecting candidates to public office. He expressed his sentiments in the course of a plea made before the national convention of the American Legion for a greater exercise of the franchise by the voters of the United States, whose lethargy, he said, made it possible for a very small minority to choose nominees who later were elected.
“Personally I believe that the primary system should be largely abolished and that if we follow the theory and plan of representative government laid down in our Constitution by providing for nomination by conventions, a better and more impartial class of candidates will result,” he said. “But even if the primary system were abolished an increase in the impartial voting in the United States is the crying need of the hour.”
Legion Project Indorsed.
The basis for Mr. Dawes’ address was the plan of the American Legion for getting out the vote in national, State and city elections. This project he indorsed as one “vital to the welfare of the Republic.”
“If the American Government is to be a success,” he said, “the American people must vote. Indifference in the attitude of the American public toward the franchise is the greatest existing menace to American institutions. It is tending to substitute government by aggressive and interested minorities for government by the people.
“Especially is this the case in State, county and city elections. The percentage of the qualified vote cast in non-presidential years is far below the 52 per cent cast in the 1924 presidential election. After making some examination into statistics gathered from different localities I should say that in the primary contests preceding elections in nonpresidential years in State, county and city elections, North, South, East and West, an estimate that 25 per cent of the qualified vote is cast is, if anything, excessive. Since there are still two dominant political parties, the vote in most localities is quite evenly divided between them.
Minority Elects, He Says.
“In such event the election of the candidates to be voted on at a future election is determined in each party by a majority or plurality, as the case may be, of only about 12½ per cent of the qualified voters. Under such circumstances men who are elected to office are thus selected by a small minority of around 7 per cent of the qualified voters.
“We all realize that as our national wealth and population increase and business broadens and becomes more diversified there arises the necessity not only for the centralization of greater power in State, county and city government, but for its constant use in the carrying out of its legitimate projects.
“Especially is this true in connection with State governments. Immense road-building projects are being carried out by States, assisted by the national Government. Our state and city administrations are accustomed not only to use public employes in getting out a primary vote to maintain an existing administration in power, but in many places all those interested in construction or other public contracts with their organization and employes are expected to perform active service in getting out the primary vote for the same purpose.
“At the time, therefore, when, owing to the indifference of the public to the franchise, the number of qualified voters necessary to control a primary election is lessening, the number of those having a business inter[…]
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Deadly Gang War Flares in Chicago
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LY GANG WAR ES IN CHICAGO
- Gun Slaying of Two Fatal Reprisals, Poce Apprehend.
ciated Press.
O, October 12.—Chicago’s gang battle—a war to exn—has opened between nt bands of booze racketeers of the city liquor traffic.
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re killed almost instantly, s riddled by slugs, as ma-, spitting their deadly mesdeath from a rooming dow, and an automobile n with a withering cross
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len Hit Seven Times.
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back into the past, the ausaw the O’Banion slaying esis of a series of reprisals er-reprisals, culminating in assault. Weiss was a faithant of the florist-gangster. e-Johnny Torrio band was the shooting. Later Torot down, but not killed, and alled a reprisal by O’Baners.
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[…] streets has been proposed as the location for the new Commerce Department Building and has been opposed by Secretary of Agriculture Jardine.
At the same time the commission in a letter to Senator Smoot, made public today, suggests that the original location of the Commerce Department structure in the area between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets, Pennsylvania avenue and B street be retained for that structure.
Text of Letter to Smoot.
The letter of the commission to Senator Smoot, chairman of the Public Buildings Commission, follows:
“Dear Senator Smoot:
“Your communication of July 7, inclosing a letter addressed to you as chairman of the Public Buildings Commission by the Hon. the Secretary of Agriculture, was received. You ask the comments of the Commission of Fine Arts on the Secretary’s letter.
“Secretary Jardine is opposed to the erection of the building for the Department of Commerce in the area on the north side of the Mall, opposite the Department of Agriculture. He states that the workers in the Department of Agriculture have long looked forward to a new home on that site, and he asks that the Department of Agriculture have opportunity to lay before the proper authorities its recommendations as to the utilization of these grounds.
“After conferences with Secretary Jardine, the Commission of Fine Arts has reached these conclusions:
“1. That the Mall area in question should not be allotted to any departmental building, but should be reserved for a building of the Museum type, which can be kept down to a height uniform with other buildings in the Mall and can have those landscape features essential to park buildings. This would preclude its use for the Department of Agriculture, as well as for the Department of Commerce.
“2. The Commission of Fine Arts is of the opinion that the Department of Commerce Building should be located as provided by Congress, in the area between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets, Pennsylvanian avenue and B streets northwest.
“For the commission,
“Very respectfully, yours,
“CHARLES MOORE, Chairman.”
Commission’s First Stand.
The letter today is the first statement of the fine arts body in opposition to placing the Commerce Department Building on the Mall. H. P. Caemmerer, secretary of the commission, explained that Congress originally intended the Commerce Department should be placed in the Fifteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue site, even though some conflict has arisen in connection with a claim by the Department of Justice on this location.
Another new development came today with the information that plans are under consideration for placing the Department of Justice Building on Pennsylvania avenue at Sixth street, where the St. James Hotel is now located.
Mr. Caemmerer said the commission is of the opinion that the Mall should be reserved for semi-public buildings of the type of the Freer Gallery and the National Museum and should not be utilized for building of the purely public nature of the large Government Departments. He added that at some future date a national gallery of art building will be constructed in the Mall and that it should probably go in near the present National Museum.
The commission secretary said the automobile parking problem is becoming pressing and indicated the commission feels parked automobiles should be kept off the Mall as much as possible. Plans for the new Commerce Department building include parking space within the building for about 500 cars with a ramp arrangement.
Patent Office Problem.
In this connection, the commission also has before it the problem of locating the proposed new Patent Office Building. In the view of the commission officials, this structure, a large and commodious building to take care of the greatly increased work of the Patent Office, could well be constructed in the area between Pennsylvania avenue and B street and between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets, along with other buildings of the Commerce Department, the entire group to be connected either by arcades crossing above the intersecting streets, or by passageways below street level under the streets. The Commerce Department, according to Mr. Caemmerer, could use at least two and possibly three blocks in the area between Pennsylvania avenue and B street. Another suggestion has been made that the building to be vacated by the Patent Office if a new structure is built for the office, can be used by the Labor Department, now housed in a rented building on G street near Seventeenth.
Secretary Jardine early in the Summer, when the Twelfth and B (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.)
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MEMBER OF THE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE CONGRATULATES PITCHER GROVER CLEVELAND ALEXANDER AND INVITES HIM TO ASSIST THE DEMOCRATS IN THE CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN
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DRY VOTE TO BEAT POMERENE IN OHIO
Prohibition Issue Is Declared Determining Factor for Success of Willis.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
Staff Correspondent of The Star.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, October 12.—The wet and dry issue is likely to settle the senatorial election in Ohio, although to date neither of the candidates has stressed this issue in his campaign speeches.
Ohio, the home of the national organization of the Anti-Saloon League, is faithful in its allegiance to the dry cause. No man in public life has been more consistently dry than Senator Frank B. Willis, the Republican nominee to succeed himself. Former Senator Atlee Pomerene, the Democratic nominee for the Senate, personally dry, is nevertheless regarded as a wet for the purposes of this campaign. And whether he desires it or not, he will stand or fall, in all human probability, on the prohibition issue. The Anti-Saloon League and the W.C.T.U. both have indorsed Senator Willis, and they will leave no stone unturned in his interest.
Dry by 100,000 Votes.
Four years ago the voters of Ohio rejected by a vote of 908,522 to 719,050 a proposed constitutional amendment legalizing wine and beer. Allowing for some turnover in sentiment in favor of the wets in recent years, Ohio is still a dry State. It has its wet spots, Cincinnati, Cleveland, other industrial centers. But take it by large, the State is dry today by at least 100,000 votes and probably more.
Senator Willis has other issues to aid him in this fight. Senator Pomerene was opposed to woman suffrage, while Willis favored it. The women in this State have long memories and they still hold this against Pomerene. The Republican leaders are fanning the flames of resentment. Furthermore, in the Democratic primaries this year Senator Pomerene, coming out as an eleventh-hour candidate, defeated Judge Florence E. Allen of the State Supreme Court for the Democratic nomination for Senator. This rankles in the minds of some of the women in Ohio.
In a measure, Senator Frank Willis is the political Rudolph Valentino to the women of Ohio. He has stood consistently for the two things in politics which have had the earnest support of the women—prohibition and woman suffrage—and he is to reap the benefit now in his race with Senator Pomerene.
Labor Opposing Pomerene.
A third element of Willis’ strength is organized labor. It is not that labor loves Senator Willis so much as that it loves Pomerene less. The labor vote was credited with having had a large hand in the defeat of Senator Pomerene in 1922, when Senator Fess succeeded him. Railroad labor particularly has its knife out for Pomerene, and yesterday it was announced in Cleveland that the railroad workmen’s organization would support Willis. W. G. Lee, president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, speaking not only for his own organization, but also for the Brotherhoods of Locomotive Engineers, Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, Railway Conductors and allied organizations, declared their support of Willis. During the primary campaign, the editor of Labor, the organ of the railroad brotherhoods, sent a special edition into this State in the interests of Judge Allen and against Senator Pomerene.
To cap the balance still further for Willis, Ohio is normally strongly Republican. It has a great regard for President Coolidge and his administration. President Coolidge carried this State in 1924 by a plurality of 340,000 over the combined vote for Davis, Democrat, and La Follette, Progressive. His plurality over Davis alone was nearly 700,000. It is only fair to suppose that part of the vote which went to La Follette was normally Republican, and that had there been only Coolidge and Davis in the race, the Coolidge plurality would have been 500,000 more.
“Stand By Coolidge.”
Senator Willis, campaigning vigorously throughout the State, has been ringing the changes on the need of sending a Republican Senator back to Washington to support the President. President Coolidge and his administration, he insists, would be repudiated by the election of Senator Pomerene. To effect the strength of the appeal, Senator Pomerene has said that he would consider vote cast (Continued on Page 5, Column 6.)
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Context
Dawes against a Progressive-era reform
Dawes was attacking a reform barely a generation old. Before the twentieth century, party candidates were chosen in caucuses and conventions, which reformers criticized for corruption and manipulation by political machines. Wisconsin's 1903 primary law, championed by Governor Robert M. La Follette, began a rapid national shift, and by 1918 all but four states used primaries for some or all statewide nominations. As the Star reports him, Dawes turned the reformers' argument around: he tied convention nominations to the Constitution's plan of representative government and claimed they would yield better and more impartial candidates, while low-turnout primaries let about 12½ per cent of qualified voters choose nominees and around 7 per cent effectively choose officeholders. Those percentages are his own estimates from an informal look at local statistics, not published returns. His charge that public employees and contractors were mobilized to keep administrations in power resembles a later assessment of the primary: it weakened party bosses, but some experts argue that it unintentionally increased the role of special interests as party discipline declined. His proposal did not prevail; except in a few southern states where they are optional, primaries are now the required method of nominating candidates for state and local offices.
A feud that began in a flower shop
The Associated Press dispatch traced the shooting back to Dion O'Banion's death, and later accounts support that chain of events. O'Banion was killed at his headquarters flower shop on November 10, 1924, and Weiss, who succeeded him as North Side leader, launched a campaign of revenge against the Torrio-Capone gang and the Genna brothers. In August 1926 a contingent of Capone gunmen attacked Weiss and Drucci in a gun battle on South Michigan Avenue, apparently the Michigan avenue attempt the article says Weiss wanted avenged, although the paper describes Drucci alone as the target. On September 20, 1926, a convoy of cars fired into Capone's Hawthorne Hotel in Cicero, an attack police attributed to Weiss and other North Siders; the front page does not mention it. The story of a failed 'parley' at which Weiss demanded that Capone give up two gunmen comes from information authorities gave the press, and the background accounts consulted here neither confirm nor contradict it.
The Holy Name ambush and what followed
Later accounts broadly match the Star's description of the October 11 ambush while differing on details. Jury selection for the murder trial of Joe Saltis, an ally Weiss was courting, began that day, which explains why Weiss's party had come from the criminal courts building and why police found a list of prospective jurors on him. Two gunmen hidden in a nearby rooming house opened fire with a submachine gun and a shotgun; the Star adds an automobile to the attack. The paper says the lawyer William W. O'Brien was hit by seven bullets, while the later account says four. A witness even accused Weiss's own wounded companions, Pellar and Jacobs, of shooting him, but later summaries describe Weiss as killed by Capone's men at the age of 28. Vincent Drucci, the 'Schemer' whose near-killing the article cites as the spark, succeeded Weiss as leader of the North Side gang.
How the Commerce building left the Mall
The letter records a site dispute at the start of the federal building program that became the Federal Triangle. The Commission of Fine Arts had been created in 1910 to approve designs, and the Public Buildings Commission in 1916 to advise on housing federal agencies; Congress's Public Buildings Act of 1926 set the program in motion. On July 7, 1926, the Treasury Department and the Fine Arts commission announced sites that placed the Commerce building on the south side of B Street on the National Mall, the plan Secretary Jardine objected to. President Coolidge refused in September to let the building go on the Mall, and a few weeks later the commission decided it should be relocated to 14th and 15th streets, the position the Star prints as the commission's first public statement against the Mall site. On November 17, 1926, the Public Buildings Commission formally moved the Commerce site off the Mall to the blocks between 14th and 15th streets. Construction began on October 4, 1927, and the building, completed in 1932 on the block between Constitution and Pennsylvania avenues, was then the largest office building in the world.
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DAWES CONDEMNS PRIMARY SYSTEM TO LEGIONNAIRES
WEATHER. (U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Increasing cloudiness tonight; tomorrow, showers and warmer, followed by cooler at night. Temperature-Highest, 66, at noon today; lowest, 54, at 6: 30 a. m. today. Full report on page 5. New York Stock Market Closed Today No. 30, 114. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. DAWES CONDEMNS PRIMARY SYSTEM TO LEGIONNAIRES Nominations by Conventions Would Insure Better Candidates, He Says. CALLS " MINORITY RULE " RESULT OF LETHARGY France Renews Invitation for Session to Meet in Paris Next Year. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, October 12. - Vice President Dawes today joined hands with those seeking the abolishment of the American system of primary elections for selecting candidates to public office. He expressed his sentiments in the course of a plea made before the national convention of the American Legion for a greater exercise of the franchise by the voters of the United States, whose lethargy, he said, made it possible for a very small minority to choose nominees who later were elected. " Personally I believe that the primary system should be largely abolished and that if we follow the theory and plan of representative government laid down in our Constitution by providing for nomination by conventions, a better and more impartial class of candidates will result, " he said. " But even if the primary system were abolished an increase in the impartial voting in the United States is the crying need of the hour. " Legion Project Indorsed. The basis for Mr. Dawes ' address was the plan of the American Legion for getting out the vote in national, State and city elections. This project he indorsed as one " vital to the welfare of the Republic. " " If the American Government is to be a success, " he said, " the American people must vote. Indifference in the attitude of the American public toward the franchise is the greatest existing menace to American institutions. It is tending to substitute government by aggressive and interested minorities for government by the people. " Especially is this the case in State, county and city elections. The percentage of the qualified vote cast in non-presidential years is far below the 52 per cent cast in the 1924 presidential election. After making some examination into statistics gathered from different localities I should say that in the primary contests preceding elections in nonpresidential years in State, county and city elections, North, South, East and West, an estimate that 25 per cent of the qualified vote is cast is, if anything, excessive. Since there are still two dominant political parties, the vote in most localities is quite evenly divided between them. Minority Elects, He Says. " In such event the election of the candidates to be voted on at a future election is determined in each party by a majority or plurality, as the case may be, of only about 12½ per cent of the qualified voters. Under such circumstances men who are elected to office are thus selected by a small minority of around 7 per cent of the qualified voters. " We all realize that as our national wealth and population increase and business broadens and becomes more diversified there arises the necessity not only for the centralization of greater power in State, county and city government, but for its constant use in the carrying out of its legitimate projects. " Especially is this true in connection with State governments. Immense road-building projects are being carried out by States, assisted by the national Government. 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DEADLY GANG WAR FLARES IN CHICAGO
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O'Brien had just come riminal Courts Buildings, a away, where a jury had eted to try Saltis. O'Brien, seven bullets, but declared ger, denied that the florist rendezvous of Saltis worklice found a list of all men jury service in Weiss ' hile a safe in Schofield's d a list of State witnesses testify against Saltis. Alusual silence of gangland fter the shooting, the police the lore of the underworld, tack was the apogee of a illa warfare between two gunmen and beer runners. ieved the shooting was the lt of the failure of a ree parley " between henchScarface Al " Capone, king - [?] vicelands, and Weiss. ng broke up, according to n in the hands of authoriWeiss demanded that Cafor assassination the two had tried to kill his partner, Schemer " Drucci, on Michi -, several weeks ago. The as rejected, and the war back into the past, the ausaw the O'Banion slaying esis of a series of reprisals er-reprisals, culminating in assault. Weiss was a faithant of the florist-gangster. e-Johnny Torrio band was the shooting. Later Torot down, but not killed, and alled a reprisal by O'Baners. o months ago came the atll Drucci, partner of Weiss adership of the O'Banion ned on the Capone faction. blow by the Weiss-Drucci ed on Page 2, Column 3.) streets has been proposed as the location for the new Commerce Department Building and has been opposed by Secretary of Agriculture Jardine. At the same time the commission in a letter to Senator Smoot, made public today, suggests that the original location of the Commerce Department structure in the area between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets, Pennsylvania avenue and B street be retained for that structure. Text of Letter to Smoot. The letter of the commission to Senator Smoot, chairman of the Public Buildings Commission, follows: " Dear Senator Smoot: " Your communication of July 7, inclosing a letter addressed to you as chairman of the Public Buildings Commission by the Hon. the Secretary of Agriculture, was received. You ask the comments of the Commission of Fine Arts on the Secretary's letter. " Secretary Jardine is opposed to the erection of the building for the Department of Commerce in the area on the north side of the Mall, opposite the Department of Agriculture. He states that the workers in the Department of Agriculture have long looked forward to a new home on that site, and he asks that the Department of Agriculture have opportunity to lay before the proper authorities its recommendations as to the utilization of these grounds. " After conferences with Secretary Jardine, the Commission of Fine Arts has reached these conclusions: " 1. That the Mall area in question should not be allotted to any departmental building, but should be reserved for a building of the Museum type, which can be kept down to a height uniform with other buildings in the Mall and can have those landscape features essential to park buildings. This would preclude its use for the Department of Agriculture, as well as for the Department of Commerce. " 2. The Commission of Fine Arts is of the opinion that the Department of Commerce Building should be located as provided by Congress, in the area between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets, Pennsylvanian avenue and B streets northwest. " For the commission, " Very respectfully, yours, " CHARLES MOORE, Chairman. Commission's First Stand. The letter today is the first statement of the fine arts body in opposition to placing the Commerce Department Building on the Mall. H. P. Caemmerer, secretary of the commission, explained that Congress originally intended the Commerce Department should be placed in the Fifteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue site, even though some conflict has arisen in connection with a claim by the Department of Justice on this location. Another new development came today with the information that plans are under consideration for placing the Department of Justice Building on Pennsylvania avenue at Sixth street, where the St. James Hotel is now located. Mr. Caemmerer said the commission is of the opinion that the Mall should be reserved for semi-public buildings of the type of the Freer Gallery and the National Museum and should not be utilized for building of the purely public nature of the large Government Departments. He added that at some future date a national gallery of art building will be constructed in the Mall and that it should probably go in near the present National Museum. The commission secretary said the automobile parking problem is becoming pressing and indicated the commission feels parked automobiles should be kept off the Mall as much as possible. Plans for the new Commerce Department building include parking space within the building for about 500 cars with a ramp arrangement. Patent Office Problem. In this connection, the commission also has before it the problem of locating the proposed new Patent Office Building. In the view of the commission officials, this structure, a large and commodious building to take care of the greatly increased work of the Patent Office, could well be constructed in the area between Pennsylvania avenue and B street and between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets, along with other buildings of the Commerce Department, the entire group to be connected either by arcades crossing above the intersecting streets, or by passageways below street level under the streets. The Commerce Department, according to Mr. Caemmerer, could use at least two and possibly three blocks in the area between Pennsylvania avenue and B street. Another suggestion has been made that the building to be vacated by the Patent Office if a new structure is built for the office, can be used by the Labor Department, now housed in a rented building on G street near Seventeenth. Secretary Jardine early in the Summer, when the Twelfth and B (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) 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He s in the Dee have long new home on that the Dee have oppore proper audations as to grounds. h Secretary of Fine Arts sions: in question any departould be rethe Museum t down to a er buildings those landto park buildits use for riculture, as ent of ComFine Arts the Departng should be Congress, in and Fifylvanian avenue yours, ORE, Chairman. Stand. e first statey in opposimerce Departretary of the that Congress mmerce Delaced in the Pennsylvania some connection with nt of Justice ent came toon that plans for placing ice Building on Sixth street, otel is now r said the comthat the Mall or semi-public of the Freer Museum and r building of of the large s. e future date building will Mall and that it the present e commission obile parking ing and infeels parked kept off the le. Plans for rtment buildspace within the cars with a blem. commission roblem of loPatent Office the commisure, a large to take care work of the be constructPennsylvania and between th streets, ings of the the entire either by arhe intersectssageways behe streets. ment, acr, could use ssibly three een Pennsylet. Another ade that the by the Patent is built for by the Labor in a rented Seventeenth. early in the elfth and B Column 2.) - Page 28 DEMOCRATIC BULLETIN MEMBER OF THE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE CONGRATULATES PITCHER GROVER CLEVELAND ALEXANDER AND INVITES HIM TO ASSIST THE DEMOCRATS IN THE CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN MAYBE I CAN GET JACK DEMPSEY WHY N DRY VOTE TO BEAT POMERENE IN OHIO Prohibition Issue Is Declared Determining Factor for Success of Willis. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Staff Correspondent of The Star. COLUMBUS, Ohio, October 12. - The wet and dry issue is likely to settle the senatorial election in Ohio, although to date neither of the candidates has stressed this issue in his campaign speeches. Ohio, the home of the national organization of the Anti-Saloon League, is faithful in its allegiance to the dry cause. No man in public life has been more consistently dry than Senator Frank B. Willis, the Republican nominee to succeed himself. Former Senator Atlee Pomerene, the Democratic nominee for the Senate, personally dry, is nevertheless regarded as a wet for the purposes of this campaign. And whether he desires it or not, he will stand or fall, in all human probability, on the prohibition issue. The Anti-Saloon League and the W. C. T. U. both have indorsed Senator Willis, and they will leave no stone unturned in his interest. Dry by 100, 000 Votes. Four years ago the voters of Ohio rejected by a vote of 908, 522 to 719, 050 a proposed constitutional amendment legalizing wine and beer. Allowing for some turnover in sentiment in favor of the wets in recent years, Ohio is still a dry State. It has its wet spots, Cincinnati, Cleveland, other industrial centers. But take it by large, the State is dry today by at least 100, 000 votes and probably more. Senator Willis has other issues to aid him in this fight. Senator Pomerene was opposed to woman suffrage, while Willis favored it. The women in this State have long memories and they still hold this against Pomerene. The Republican leaders are fanning the flames of resentment. Furthermore, in the Democratic primaries this year Senator Pomerene, coming out as an eleventh-hour candidate, defeated Judge Florence E. Allen of the State Supreme Court for the Democratic nomination for Senator. This rankles in the minds of some of the women in Ohio. In a measure, Senator Frank Willis is the political Rudolph Valentino to the women of Ohio. He has stood consistently for the two things in politics which have had the earnest support of the women-prohibition and woman suffrage-and he is to reap the benefit now in his race with Senator Pomerene. Labor Opposing Pomerene. A third element of Willis ' strength is organized labor. It is not that labor loves Senator Willis so much as that it loves Pomerene less. The labor vote was credited with having had a large hand in the defeat of Senator Pomerene in 1922, when Senator Fess succeeded him. Railroad labor particularly has its knife out for Pomerene, and yesterday it was announced in Cleveland that the railroad workmen's organization would support Willis. W. G. Lee, president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, speaking not only for his own organization, but also for the Brotherhoods of Locomotive Engineers, Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, Railway Conductors and allied organizations, declared their support of Willis. During the primary campaign, the editor of Labor, the organ of the railroad brotherhoods, sent a special edition into this State in the interests of Judge Allen and against Senator Pomerene. To cap the balance still further for Willis, Ohio is normally strongly Republican. It has a great regard for President Coolidge and his administration. President Coolidge carried this State in 1924 by a plurality of 340, 000 over the combined vote for Davis, Democrat, and La Follette, Progressive. His plurality over Davis alone was nearly 700, 000. It is only fair to suppose that part of the vote which went to La Follette was normally Republican, and that had there been only Coolidge and Davis in the race, the Coolidge plurality would have been 500, 000 more. " Stand By Coolidge. " Senator Willis, campaigning vigorously throughout the State, has been ringing the changes on the need of sending a Republican Senator back to Washington to support the President. President Coolidge and his administration, he insists, would be repudiated by the election of Senator Pomerene. To effect the strength of the appeal, Senator Pomerene has said that he would consider vote cast (Continued on Page 5, Column 6.) 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