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...detective admitted that he had been assigned the task of looking up Senator Nye's "life" but insisted he was not trying to get something on him. Asked by newsmen if he thought the detective had been employed by friends of Illinois' Republican Senatorial Nominee Ruth Hanna McCormick whose campaign expenditures the Committee has been scrutinizing, Senator Nye declared: "I don't see how you can assume anything else." The Committee was asked to make two other inquiries: Massachusetts. Conrad W. Crooker, counsel of the Liberal Civic League, charged that onetime Senator William Morgan Butler & friends...
...Ruth Hanna McCormick, Illinois Republican Senatorial nominee, last week gave Dry officeholders throughout the land a smart demonstration of how a long-time Prohibitor may turn Wet without losing political face. Mrs. McCormick was elected Representative-at-Large in 1928 as an out-&-out Dry. She voted Dry in the House. In the Illinois primary last April she was nominated for the Senate as a Dry. Afterward she declared: "I'll run as a Dry in the election. I've always been a Dry and I don't switch on things." Because Illinois Democrats had nominated James...
...previous Prohibition polls (1922, 1926), Illinois voted Wet two-to-one. Observers last week could detect no shift in sentiment this year toward Dryness. The Republican leaders at Springfield therefore framed a party plank pledging themselves to go Wet if the referendum should go Wet. Up rose Nominee McCormick to declare...
...McCormick's willingness to go along with the Wets if they carried the State stirred the ire of the Drys. An independent Dry ticket headed by Mrs. Lottie Holman O'Neill, longtime McCormick foe. was widely discussed. Such a ticket, it was conceded, might cost Mrs. McCormick many a Dry vote, throw the election to Nominee Lewis...
Democratic Senator Thaddeus H. Caraway of Arkansas last week made a prediction: if Republican Senatorial Nominees Ruth Hanna McCormick of Illinois and James John Davis of Pennsylvania are elected next November, the Senate will deny them seats on the ground of excessive campaign expenditures. Senator Caraway was the first Senator to formalize this speculative subject in a definite prophecy. Congresswoman McCormick's expenditures so far approximate $325.000. Some $300,000 was spent on the G. O. P. ticket headed by Secretary of Labor Davis. The Senate virtually set a campaign expenditure limit of $195,000 in the case...