POLITICAL NOTES: Alarums

As the national campaign became vocal everywhere (see pp. 8 to 13) state primaries and conventions provided excursions and alarums.

Massachusetts. Registration in Massachusetts increased from 475,000 in 1924 to some 640,000 this year. In last week’s senatorial primary, Hoover Republicans nominated Benjamin Loring Young to oppose Senator David Ignatius Walsh, Smith Democrat. A wet Republican, Eben S. Draper, ran close behind Nominee Young.

New York. In Manhattan, Mrs. Ruth Sears Baker Pratt, society widow, defeated Phelps Phelps, “Tammany Republican” for a G. O. P. nomination for Congress. In Queens, queer, sprawling borough, of New York City, lately notorious for a sewer-pipe scandal, the political heir of the scandalized Democratic administration, Bernard M. Patten, was renominated for Borough President, beating a “clean government” candidate.

Wisconsin. All night long the Wisconsin Republicans wrangled in a state convention. The factions were the old-time LaFollette progressives and the followers of Walter Jodok Kohler, plumbing fixture tycoon, Hooverite nominee for Governor. At dawn the Kohlerites had forced an endorsement of Hooverism—the first time in 20 years that the Wisconsin Republicans have been “regular” in a presidential election.