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Show I INTER-PARTY STRUGGLES MARK j CAMPAIGNS IN EASTERN STATES Some Bay State Republicans Trying to Displace Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, While Deep Rivalry Ri-valry Exists Among Democrats Eager To Be New .York's Governor i I , NR"W1 YORK. Aug. 17 I Hy the .Associated Press.) The Republican Contest In Massachusetts to wrest, from Ienrr Cabot Lodge a roncwnlnatlon for She Unltod States s.-nate, shares with Jhe rivalry within the Democratic pa r-y r-y of New York state In the choice iXf a candidate for governor, the chief ' 'p inert t In congressional and state i 'campaigns In eastern .states. m Advocacy of both stricter and modified modi-fied prohibition enforcement, the tnr-Kf, tnr-Kf, soldiers' compensation, Inbor legislation legis-lation and various state governmental Jefornis, are among the Issues. Four enndhlates aspire to the Democratic Smnl ni tion for United States senator from Massachusetts. Tho ren" won of Governor Channlng ll Cox by Massachusetts, RiuhHcan is opposed oppos-ed by vttorney Qeneral J. Weston Jr n The Democratic nomination is Bought by four candidates. Both, Kubcrnatnri.il enndidatea in Pennsylvania, Glfford Pin, hot Republican, Re-publican, nnd John A McSparra n. iDemocrat, have declared for rigid pro-. pro-. 1 ihttion onforce.nent New Jr rsi . h. ? a September primary contest ai Republic a n s for the United Bt Ltea bi n - ' 'ate nomination and the Democrats over their candidate for govern ir Prohibition and public utilities are 18-jsues. 18-jsues. The textile situation and prohibition pro-hibition are exported to flgur.- In the iRhode Island campaign and the 1 'iff will be Connecticut's chle! debet-1 'ing subject between Republicans .m l I 'Democrats. I I OF ISSUES. MASSACHUSF.'ITi-. Joseph Walker, former speaker of tho Mai house. Is seeking tho toga of 8( I r plcnry Cabot Lodge, on the frrnun.1 thai this leadership is not progressive enough to represent the party. Mr. VVnlkcr champion.' American membership member-ship In the lenep,. ot nations. R !A. Wood of Cambridge, and Washington Washing-ton Cook of Sharon, also may enter the lists. William A Gaston, banker. (Sherman L Whipple, attorney; rol i I Jackson Walsh, a former state senator jfu.d Professor Dallas Lore Sharp of Boston university are campaigning for llhe Democratic nomination for sena- tor. Prof. Sharp is for abolitl i n i ! Ts r. j The renominatlon of Governor Chnn-1 Chnn-1 Inlng H. Cox for a second term la 0P- Iposed on the Republican side by Attorney At-torney General l Weston Allen, whose successful prosecution ot two district attorneys on charges of malfeasant- "brought him prominently in the public I eye. H I NEW YORK: New York candidates iTOr governor and United Stat tor rwlll not be known until the party con-H con-H mentions September L'8-29. the Repub- H ;llcans meeting in Albany and tho Democrats in Syra .: i ndl .local offices for the legislature and Ihouse of representatives will be chosen chos-en at the primaries September 19 Governor Nathan I,. Mlllrr. Republican, Republi-can, seems assured of renominatlon if lie will accept. Little organized opposition op-position nas develop d lo the r momin-otlon momin-otlon of United S.ii-s S. nat..r wriiam M CaJder. Admirers of William Randolph Hearst arc waging an ener-Fetic ener-Fetic campair-n to -give the newspaper publish, r thf r ' t,Mib..rii.i:..r-Jal t,Mib..rii.i:..r-Jal nomination. While h ti ngt of the Hearst boom has not been determined, determ-ined, violent objection ha - been reg-lstered reg-lstered to It h many up-sl Lte Dei cratic leaders, who are urging the candidacy of Cornier Governor Alfred TO. Smith Such promlnenl Democrats ns former Ass! tant Secretary of Navy. Franklin b Roosevelt ere deratood to believe that Hearst's hostility hos-tility to President Wilson would militate mili-tate against him es a candidate and that his nomination would disrupt .tho party The Republican platform la expected to endorse the administration administra-tion of Governor Miller and to recommend recom-mend a continuance of his policies of economy in state, administration, consolidation con-solidation of departmental activities, and staff supervision over hydro-electric development Tho Democrats will ask for the return to tho direct primary system for nomination of all indidates, for modification of the prohibition enforcement statutes, ro- peal of tho motlrn pictures censor-I ship, and for the establishment of a minimum wage commission PENNSYLVANIA! Glfford Pirn hot Republlcan( and John A. McSparran, Democratic, candidates for governor In Pennsylvania, favor tho rljfld en-f( en-f( rcement of the prohibition law Effort may be mado In tho coming campaign to eleel legislators who favor fav-or a more drastic enforcement law The Republicans haVnot yet adopted a party platform, but Mr. Plnchot Is committed to an economical administration adminis-tration with an efficient budget sys-ti sys-ti an Mr McSparran is pledged to business administ! ation and to investigate inves-tigate thoroughly expenditures of the prevent Republican administration. !( Is also pledged to lower and more equitable taxes The fight for Hi" two Seats In the United States senate and for congressmen will be fought along national party lines There has been talk of a Labor party, but nothing tangible has appeared. T i:L W'A n K "o outstanding Is sues have appeared for the coming tate campaign. The contest for l'nlted States senator. It Is expected, will be along national linos NEW JEKSKV United States Senator Sen-ator Joseph S. Frellnghuysen, seeking the Republican renomlnutlon and opposed op-posed by George D. Record of Jersey City, holds that the people want prohibition pro-hibition and that modification of the Volstead act woulu virtually nullify the Eighteenth amendment. lie supports a protective tariff. Mr. Record makes . monopoly-curbing the chief issue, do-Cllnlng do-Cllnlng to discuss prohibition. Governor Govern-or Edwards apparently will have no opposition for th2 Democratic nomination nomin-ation for United States senator. Judge Georgo 8b Sllzer, Democratic candidate candi-date for the gubernatorial nomination has done no campaigning. His opponent. op-ponent. William E. Tuttle. state banking bank-ing and insurance commissioner, ad-vocates ad-vocates modification of the Volstead law and Is against appropriations for state prohibition enforcement. MAIXE William R. Pnttangall. former state attorney general, on the stump as Democratic candidate- for governor slr?c the primaries Juno 19, has confined his efforts mainly to criticisms of the Republican state administration. ad-ministration. Governor Porclval P. Baxter Republican candidate, has defended de-fended his official acts. The governor declined Pattangall's Invitation to debate de-bate state Issues from the same platform plat-form United States Senator Frederick Frede-rick Hale, Republican Candidate for re-electloq is opposed by form-T Governor Gov-ernor Oak-lev fl PurM nf I'nrilKnil Democratic. The election will be held September 1 VERMONT: State Senator Redfield Proctor, candidate for the Republican nomination for governor, will be the third member r,f his family to hold that office f he Is elected His opponent op-ponent for nomination is a farmer Abram Foote. Thus fur only state Issues Is-sues hae been raised. Congressman FranI: L Grren Is the only announced Ri publican candidate to succeed I'nlt ed states Senator Carroll S Page, who is to retire. NEW HAMPSHIRE. There are no senatorial contests RHODE ISLAND: Prohibition en-fcrc( en-fcrc( ment and differences growing out of the long textile- strike are expected to figure In the fall political campaign cam-paign but as no primaries are held in I his state and the party conventions do not come until October, the lineup both as to Isoii-M ar.d to candidates, except ex-cept for the l'nlted States senate, Is somewhat vague. Former Governor R LHIngstorf Boeckman is expected to be the Republican candidate for the l'nlted Slates senate In opposition to Senator Peter Goelet Gerry, Democratic. Demo-cratic. They have long been friends and nelghbora In Newport's fashionable fashion-able colonv. CONNECTICUT: Full definition of the party issues of Republicans and Democrats await the state political ntions and platforma The Rc-publicana Rc-publicana will make the tariff the domirant lsm- Cni'.-d :- . nafor McLean Will bo renominated and his tariff stand endorsed. Tho Democrat'; Demo-crat'; are involved In p.rsonal and factional disputes over nominations for the senate, house of representa-tlvoi representa-tlvoi and governor. They will demand an amondment permitting beer and wines; urge more liberal treatment o? war veterans and oppose the Republl- aha on the Larlff WEST VIRGINIA : Howard Sutherland Suther-land of Elklns. United States senator v.-As, n nominated by the Republicans primary August 2 over three op-ponente. op-ponente. The other Republican candidates can-didates had made campaign material of his vota against seating Senator Newbi The Democrats nominated for senator M. M. Neely of Fairmont, though his opponent. Mrs. Izetta Jewell Jew-ell Brown, of Klncwood, widow of Congressman William C. Brown, show, od strength in some counties. ' Mrs I Brown baned her candidacy on what sne represented a.s the need for "moth-' er love in politics. " Miss Hattle Stein a former Red Cross worker, was de-1 fen ted for the Republican congressional congres-sional nomination in tho sixth district dis-trict by L. 6. Echols of Charleston, incumbent. |