POLITICAL PICKINGS
Sorghum, Sen.
Political Pickings [By SEN. SORGHUM] SPECULATIONS INHERE Is something In the air, say the many roving political correspondents of the rig city dallies who are touring the country In search of the...
...Hoover appointee to the supreme court of the United States...
...and all signs point toward the election of former Sen...
...Otto quotes the plank in Phil La Kol-lette's platform providing against the placing of the University under absolute and dictatorial control of the executive...
...At the same time it became known that no official endorsement had been made of the Pinchot candidacy from the White House, although Pinchot had made a claim to that effect, in a recent speech...
...Here, as in Ohio, the Republican candidates are largely dry and the Democrats wet...
...who remains true to the administration...
...Thomas F. Bayard...
...Bulkley, a pronounced wet, Is running up votea galore in all corners of the states by speeches favoring the repeal of the prohibition law and denouncing Hoover and McCulloch...
...presumably to devote his energies to Hoover's new unemployment committee...
...Bulkley...
...Apparently his Democratic opponent, former State Sen...
...If they hold their own anywhere, say observers, it will be in these Eastern states where the Republican organizations seem to be withstanding the seige best...
...Otto's article is one of a series being printed in The Nation, a liberal weekly having a country-wide circulation, dealing with educational experiments under the title, "On the College Frontier...
...Middle West, and South, the Republican managers are turning loose their main efforts to keep their control of the industrial states of New England, and in the days before the campaign are launching one of the most expensive and elaborate campaigns ever known in the history of off year elections...
...With the situations for Hoover supporters growing blacker every day as election approaches, much pressure Is doubtless being brought to bear upon the president to come to the rescue of the most hard pressed of his followers...
...In some occupations in the cigarette industry, workers were found employed on the piece work basis, but rates were so low that even the fastest workers were unable to earn materially higher weekly wages...
...McCulloch...
...Democratic candidate for senator...
...The platform states, "We believe this policy both wasteful of the taxpayers' money and destructive of free and un-trammeled democratic education...
...Marshall Robsion...
...Dwight W. Morrow, .aeems to have the state firmly in his grasp and will be elected by a substantial majority in the election...
...MORROW IS POPULAR THE interesting little man from New Jersey...
...Secretary of Labor James J. Davis, candidate for United States senator, has unexpectedly announced his retirement from active participation in the senate campaign in Pennsylvania...
...From the Eastern seaboard, all through New England, in the South, 1 he North, and thr West, comes the sort of crackling that many say betides a landslide—a landslide against, the Old Guard and Hoover forces...
...Daniel O. Hastings, dry Republican nominee, is apparently fighting with his back to the wall against his opponent...
...DELAWARE BOLTS TE tiny state of Delaware is a maelstrom of oratory on the prohibition Issue, and here, as elsewhere, party lines are being shattered like so many rows of old bottles...
...Parker, of course, was not confirmed by the senate on account of his anti-labor record and his participation In furthering the yellow-dog contract in labor eases...
...Party lines in many states have fallen, and the old seasoned, well oiled organizations are disrupted and falling apart on all manner of issues—prohibition, the lariff unemployment, farm relief, and probably most of all Hoover...
...When Sen...
...in the pre-election hush, is the time for airing one's views...
...A LAST MINUTE EFFORT WITH pure losses in many states, particularly in the West...
...Max C. Otto of the department of Philosophy at, the University of Wisconsin in an article in the current Issue of The Nation...
...The Bureau made a study of wages in the cigarette industry covering a period of the last fiscal year, and it was found that the average weekly wage for men was $18.86, while women earned only $13.37...
...Hoover's support of Robsion, too, is believed to have added to the general lack of Interest in the Republican's candidacy, and the general concensus Is that the Democrat...
...Davis' victory over the Democratic candidate is considered quite certain, according to most observers...
...Another week and speculations won't be necessary, but now...
...One of the big surprises was the recent bolt of several leaders of the Republican machine, Including several members of the DuPont family of munitions millionaires, to the standard of the Democrat...
...Hoover's popularity in the state has declined steadily, especially on his stand on the enforcement of the prohibition laws...
...Judge M. M. Logan, Democratic candidate, is given the edge over Sen...
...GOOD FOR STANDPATTERS [Nezperce, Idaho, Oct...
...Hoover, he hadn't, a word to say to his oueslionpis...
...One, of the most, telling attacks made on McCulloch concerns that senator's endorsement of Judge John J. Parker...
...A LISTLESS FIGHT KENTUCKY, however, is one state where there is apparently little excitement and the campaign has done, little more than arouse the apathy of the voters...
...Hoover thought or said when Sen...
...Republican, and former Cong...
...Moses came torn the sanctum sanctorum of Mr...
...When the rumor had rrfpt out that Hoover was responsible for calling Davis from the Pennsylvania campaign, parties close to the president gave indication that the chief executive had been annoyed at these reports concerning his participation in the Pennsylvania campaign, which put him in the position of withholding his support to Republican candidates...
...DAVIS QUITS AS running mate of Gifford Pinr.hot...
...Data was gathered from the actual pay roll records in Virginia, Kentucky, and North Carolina, and the wages of over 6,000 men and 8.000 women workers were included in the survey...
...4th in the various states...
...For Hoover and his policies, unwittingly, perhaps, has split, the Republican's wide open, and if the observation of many of the wise old dope-stera are correct, only the Old Guard remnants still cling to his banner...
...In network radio broadcasts, and from countless platforms in political rallies throughout the Eastern states, the Republicans are striking their last and hardest blows against the opposition that has attacked Hoover and the Old Guard on every issue from prohibition to the business depression and unemployment...
...Moses Rave the chief executive the cold, hard •'nets, it is likely that there were not '•cry many exclamations of toy from the president...
...Prof...
...Referring to the ousting of the Stalwarts from their control of the highest executive office in Wisconsin...
...Prof...
...Fobslon was appointed to the senate by the governor of Kentucky to fill the vacancy of Sen...
...16 Per Week Is Wage for Making of Cigarettes Report of Labor Rureau Is Made Public...
...Republican candidate for the governorship of WLsconsin...
...The only life was Injected into the campaign when Sackett returned from Germany to make a few listless speeches for Robsion...
...THE FIGHT TN OHIO THOSE who like excitement in election campaigns can find a paradise in Ohio in the red-hot battles being carried on there...
...Shows Starvation Wages in Tobacco Industry WASHINGTON, D. C—Less than $16 per week were the average wages paid to the thousands of men and women workers who made the 120 million cigarettes produced in the United States in the last 12 months, according to figures Just released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor...
...Even his support of the Hoover administration seems to be overlooked in that state where his popularity is unquestioned...
...MOSES REPORTS JUST what Mr...
...New Jersey by storm, and his recent denial that be would consider the presidency In 1932 Is taken more or less with the traditional "irrain of salt" by the Republican leaders of the state...
...Judge Logan, will be the next Kentucky senator...
...The president, it is known, Is taking a keen Interest In the senate campaigns, although he has with difficulty refrained so far In taking any official part in any of them...
...This year, however, the situation is different...
...Otto states that Phil La Follette can naturally be expected to further the educational tradition which his father, the late Senator Robert M. La Follette, was so closely identified with...
...Phil's Victory Aids University Says Professor Max C. Otto of Philosophy Department at U. W. Praises Phil in Nation Those concerned for the future of democratic higher education in Wisconsin were greatly encouraged by the recent nomination of Philip F. La Toilette...
...Prof...
...Among the Progressives and working people of Ohio, McCul-loch's attitude In this important matter has been vigorously condemned, and what support remained to him among the voters is being steadily weakened by the general dissatisfaction among the Republican forces...
...declares Prof...
...Morrow, who has come out firmly against prohibition, has swept...
...Sackett, who resigned to accept Hoover's appointment as ambassador to Germany...
...Davis plans to spend most of his time in Washington from now on...
...George H. Moses, chairman of the G. O. P. senatorial campaign committee, placed before him a report on the situation in the several states concerning the probable outcome of senate elections, has not been disclosed, but, if Sen...
...Aside from Senator Borah, this state has a bunch of stand patters as strong as yon can find, and I think our paper would do a Jot of good this Wear while a lot of them are open tq reason.— P. M. Mitchell...
...In making the study, only the wages of workers actually employed in the production of cigarettes were considered...
...The party organizations behind the two men appear to be doing all the work In the campaign, and although the Republicans seem to have, the most efficient machine in this respect, they are apparently making little headway...
...Republican, but neither candidate has apparently succeeded in arousing very much interest among the electorate...
...One of the favorite devices being used in literature and from the platform is that the Democrats are the ones really responsible for present conditions on account of their opposition to the administration, and it is declared vehemently that grave danger would lie in the gaining of control by the Democrats in congress...
...Otto declares...
...The study shows further that workers put in on the average 50 hours per week...
...These persons, according to the report, were employed in 13 cigarette factories scattered throughout these states...
...Democratic higher education in Wisconsin is once more at a critical state because political changes' in the state have presented a new opportunity...
...Prohibition and the policies of the Hoover administration are the two clear issues on which the senatorial campaign is being waged between Sen...
...Alexander Simpson, has given up all hope of defeating him, which of course i.« not an unusual situation in hide-bound Republican New Jersey...
...Morrow's Republicanism and his endorsement of Hoover don't seem to be important to the voters,—It is a matter of perwinal affection that keeps his popularity sky-high when other Old Guard candidates are suffering from Republican unpopularity...
...28.] — After reading the issues I have received, I believe it would be an excellent thing if we could get copies of this paper to about, half of the voters in this state...
...SORGHUM] SPECULATIONS INHERE Is something In the air, say the many roving political correspondents of the rig city dallies who are touring the country In search of the latest "dope" on the elections of Nov...
...but appeared Irritated when a"ked how bud the Old Guard lo«ses would be...
...Republican nominee for the governorship of Pennsylvania who has smcrceded in alienating all of the Old Guard bosses of his state because of his stand on prohibition...
...Prof...
...the average for both sexes being $15.87...
...In the senate contest...
...On an hourly basis, the study made by the Bureau showed men's wages to be approximately 37 cents and women earned 27 cents...
...According to his statement...
Vol. 1 • November 1930 • No. 48
