WET-DRY FIGHT SEEN LIKELY IN MASSACHUSETTS
WET-DRY FIGHT SEEN LIKELY IN MASSACHUSETTS Republican Senate Candidates There and in Delaware Are Dry; Democrats Wet (Special To The Progressive) WASHINGTON, D. C. — Senatorial election battles...
...Democrats chose a wet, Joseph E. Ely of Westfield, to oppose him...
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...Republicans in both states have committed themselves to.the support of prohibition by selecting dry candidates, and Democrats in both states have chosen wets as their standard bearers...
...Delaware Republicans assembled in state convention recently renamed the present dry Senator Daniel O. Hastings as their senatorial candidates, and at the Democratic convention this week former Senator Thomas F. Bayward, a wet, was chosen to run against the Republican nominee...
...Democrats Wet (Special To The Progressive) WASHINGTON, D. C. — Senatorial election battles in Massachusetts and Delaware next November will be largely fought out on the wet and dry issue along party lines, the nomination results just received from these two states indicate...
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...In Massachusetts dry Republicans also secured the nomination of their candidate for the governorship, the present Governor Frank G. Allen1...
...Democrats in their primary gave Marcus A. Coolidge a 25,-000 plurality over a field of five candidates for the senatorial nomination...
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...In their Massachusetts primary Republicans nominated former Senator William M. Butler, once chairman of the Republican national committee, who is an active dry, by a slight margin over Ebon S. Draper, his wet opponent •for the nomination...
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...The situation now existing In these two states, as well as similar line ups in others, have given strength to the belie...
...Coolidge and his next highest opponent in the race, Joseph F. O'Connell, are ardent wets...
...that the national Republican organization will take the dry side in the next presidential election and the Democratic party will go completely wet...
...There is some dissenUon to this belief, however, by observers who do not believe that the southern Democrats will agree to a wet plank in the'national Democratic platform...
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...With the repeal of the prohibition law as an important plank in their campaign platform, Democrats in both Massachusetts and Delaware are predicting victory for their party in November against the dry Republicans...
...chairman of the Democratic national executive committee, and other wet Democratic leaders have expressed satisfaction over the primary returns in Massachusetts and the action of the Delaware convention, and have predicted a big swing of Republican wet votes to the wet Democratic candidates...
Vol. 1 • September 1930 • No. 42
