Makings of the 72nd (Cont.)

Makings of the 72nd (Cont.)

Three state primaries nominating candidates for the 72nd Congress last week concluded pre-election voting throughout the land.

Massachusetts. By a scant 7,600 votes William Morgan Butler, dry onetime Senator, won the Republican Senatorial nomination over his chief rival Eben S. Draper, Wet. Nominee Butler, old friend of Calvin Coolidge, had the support of the Old Guard, Candidate Draper of the Young Guard. The total Wet Republican vote in the state was some 15,000 more than that by which Nominee Butler won. Without difficulty was Republican Governor Frank Gilman Allen renominated just a few hours before his wife bore him a daughter.

Because Massachusetts favored Alfred Emanuel Smith in 1928, because it goes Wet in liquor polls, the Democratic primary was crowded. The leading Boston Irish candidate for Senator, James F. O'Connell, and for Governor, John F. Fitzgerald, fell ill and retired from the contest but not in time to get their names off the ballot. Boston's Mayor James Michael Curley called for their nomination on an "all-green ticket" anyway, suggested that the Democratic state committee could later make substitutions for the November election. This political trick left Democratic voters cold. Instead they formed an "all-Yankee" ticket by nominating for the Senate Marcus Aurelius Coolidge, onetime mayor of Fitchburg, manufacturer of machinery, banker, no kin to Calvin Coolidge, and Joseph B. Ely of Westfield for the governorship. The spectacle of a Wet Coolidge running against a Dry Butler in November piqued state interest. Nominee Coolidge, delighted, celebrated his victory by taking his family to Newport to see another Irishman lose another race (see P- 34).

All sitting members of Congress who sought another term were nominated.

New York. Defeated for renomination in the Lockport (40th) district by Wet Walter G. Andrews was dry Republican Representative Stephen Wallace Dempsey whose 15 years house service had raised him to chairman of the Rivers & Harbors Committee. Both parties nominated Wets for the 25th district (Westchester) seat voluntarily vacated by Dry Republican Representative Jonathan Mayhew Wainright.

Wisconsin. In a Republican primary that nominated Philip Fox La Follette for Governor (see p. 20), two Dry House members were turned out by Wets. In the 7th district Gerald Boileau beat Congressman Merlin Hull for renomination while in the 8th district Gardiner Withrow was disposing of Edward Everts Browne, a Congressman since 1913. Renominated for the 19th time in the Racine district was Congressman Henry Allen Cooper, 80, white-bearded, upstanding No. 1 long-service man of the House.-- Representative Cooper entered the House in 1893 (53rd Congress). His anti-War stand caused his defeat for the 66th Congress (1919-21). He was re-elected in 1920. Total service: 35 years./- Representative Cooper made a memorable impression upon all delegates at the G. O. P. Repub- lican National Convention at Cleveland in 1924 when, a La Follette supporter, he defied the Old Guard in a thumping speech from the rostrum.

Last week's convention:

Delaware. Democrats at Dover by a vote of 115 to 95 nominated Thomas < Francis Bayard, Wet, for the Senate over Josiah Marvel, new president of the American Bar Association (TIME, Sept.1). Nominee Bayard's father, Thomas Francis Bayard Sr., his grandfather James Asheton Bayard Jr. and his greatgrand-father James Asheton Bayard Sr. all at different times represented Delaware in the Senate. So did Nominee Bayard (1923-29). His Republican opponent: Dry Senator Daniel O. Hastings. Delaware's single Democratic Congressional nominee: John P. Le Fevre.

*Not to be confused with the House's oldest member, North Carolina's Congressman Charles Manly Stedman, 89, Major, C. S. A.

/- The House member with the longest consecutive service--31 years--is Iowa's Representative Gilbert N. Haugen, chairman of the Committee on Agriculture.

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