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Ohio. So certain seemed the defeat of Dry Republican Senator McCulloch by Wet Democratic Nominee Bulkley that Chairman Fess suddenly dropped his national duties to go home and stump frantically for his colleague...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Shadow of the Polls | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

...reduced, due to unemployment. . . . The issue that is causing the greatest trouble is Prohibition and in Ohio and Massachusetts some Republican candidates for the House may be defeated because of this. . . . In the always accurate poll of the Cincinnati Enquirer the Democratic candidate for the Senate [Robert Johns Bulkley'], who favors repeal of the 18th Amendment, is running 100% ahead of the Republican candidate [Roscoe Conkling McCulloch] who is dry. . . . Many dry Republicans may go down to defeat in the November election. But ... 7 cannot see the Democrats winning the House. However, the Republican majority will be reduced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Speaker Speaks | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

...Canton, his home, political sentimentalists liken him to McKinley, long a Canton resident and buried there. He is a serious hard-working campaigner. In his current campaign he is being assailed by Negroes for his Parker vote, by Wets who favor his Wet opponent, Democratic Nominee Robert Johns Bulkley. Hard to hold is the Senate seat he now occupies. Frank Bartlette Willis died in it in 1928. Cyrus Locker was voted out of it the same year. Theodore Elijah Burton died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 20, 1930 | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

Half Wet, Half Dry. Ohio furnished the strangest political contradiction over Prohibition. Fortnight ago Republicans convened at Columbus to write a platform on which Dry Senator Roscoe Conkling McCulloch could stand for reelection. Delegates from Wet urban centres were frankly frightened at the strength developed by Robert Johns Bulkley, Demo- cratic Senatorial Nominee, a "repeal-and-return" Wet. Maurice Maschke, Cleveland boss, Ohio's Republican National Committeeman, fearful lest Nominee Bulkley should break through in Cleveland, Toledo, Youngstown et al and work Republican disaster, urged a Wet referendum plank of sorts upon the convention. But Wet resolutions were quashed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Effects of a Groundswell | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

Last week Ohio's Democracy appeared in the same Prohibition motley when Nominee Bulkley faced his party's convention at Columbus, flayed the 18th Amendment and the Anti-Saloon League ("It is no more needed today than an anti-slavery society") and expressed surprising satisfaction with a platform that weasled on Prohibition as obviously as did the Republicans. His Wet candidacy was endorsed "without a reservation" by the party's bone-Dry gubernatorial nominee, George White...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Effects of a Groundswell | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

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