THE CONGRESS: Makings of the 72nd (Cont.)

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Michigan. Without difficulty Republican Senator James Couzens, Wet, was renominated over Chase Salmon Osborn, Dry, onetime Governor. Republican voters in the 6th & 7th Congressional Districts unexpectedly stood the Anti-Saloon League on its head by denying renomination to two of its most potent and vociferous spokesmen in the House. In the 6th District white-haired Representative Grant Martin Hudson, onetime Michigan Anti-Saloon League superintendent, was defeated by Seymour H. Person, Wet attorney who won fame by securing dismissal on retrial of the case against Mrs. Etta Mae Miller, Michigan's first woman "life-for-a-pint" convict. In the 7th District Representative Louis C. Cramton, House Dry leader who refused the National Law Enforcement Commission a cent to investigate the wisdom of Prohibition, was beaten by 102 votes by Jesse H. Wolcott, Wet.

Washington. Despite their party's Wet declaration at last May's State Convention, the State's four Republican Congressmen ran for renomination as Drys. One was unopposed. Two squeaked by with small majorities. The fourth. Representative John Franklin Miller, for 13 years a House member, was defeated in the Seattle (1st) District by Ralph A. Horr, strong Wet, who will oppose Charles G. Heifner, Wet Democrat, in the election.

Arizona. Renominated by Democrats was the State's lone Congressman, young able Lewis Williams Douglas, son of Copper Tycoon James Stuart Douglas for whom Douglas, Ariz, was named. To George Wylie Paul Hunt, seven times Governor, went the Democratic gubernatorial nomination to oppose Republican Governor John C. Phillips in the election.

Maryland. Renominated were this State's four Democratic, two Republican Congressmen.

State convention of last week:

Delaware. To stand for his first election Republicans chose Senator Daniel O. Hastings, appointed nearly a year ago to succeed Senator Coleman du Pont, resigned. Because Senator Hastings is Dry, Irénée and Pierre du Pont, potent Republican Wets, bolted their party ticket, pledged their support to onetime Senator Thomas Francis Bayard, Wet Democratic candidate for the Senate.

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