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Oklahoma. In a Democratic primary runoff, Thomas Pryor Gore was nomi- nated for Senator, onetime Representative (1913-17) William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray for Governor over rich but politically inexperienced opponents. Nominee Gore, accidently blinded as a child, entered the Democratic party via Populism and Texas, was Oklahoma's first Senator (1907-21). Defeated because of his anti-War position, he continued to live in Washington, practiced law there, lobbied a little. In the November election he will be opposed by Republican Senator William Bliss Pine who was politically handicapped this year when an enormous gusher came in on his Oklahoma land, made him suddenly rich. Nominee Murray, who boasts of drinking his coffee from the saucer, rarely bathes, and who said he would rent the executive mansion and live in the garage, was immediately threatened with impeachment if elected over Republican Nominee Ira A. Hill. Declared "Alfalfa Bill:" "So be it. I am a candidate for impeachment, but it'll be like a bunch of rabbits trying to drag a wild cat out of a tree."
Ohio. Renominated without opposition by Republicans were Senator Roscoe Conkling McCulloch and Governor Myers Y. Cooper, both Drys. Democrats nominated for the Senate over four Drys or weaslers Robert Johns Bulkley, 49, Cleveland attorney, forthright Wet, onetime (1911-15) Congressman. Nominee Bulkley helped carry Cleveland for Smith in 1928, was supported this year by Newton Diehl Baker, Scripps-Howard newspapers, the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. The McCulloch-Bulkley campaign will be a clear-cut Wet-&-Dry contest. To George White, who as chairman of the Democratic National Committee managed the 1920 Cox campaign for President, went the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Nominee White is as Dry as Nominee Bulkley is Wet.
To oppose Speaker Nicholas Longworth, renominated, in the Cincinnati district, Democrats selected John Williams Pattison, son of a onetime Governor of Ohio, wealthy, politically independent. Nominee Pattison, blond, affable, drove a truck in France during the War, later fought the Reds as a captain in the Polish air corps. He still flies, golfs. Speaker Longworth, opposed by Labor as a reactionary, may have to hump himself, for the first time in 15 years, to be returned to Congress.
The one outstanding Congressional upset in the Ohio primary came in the 9th (Toledo) District where big, white-haired Republican Representative William Wallace Chalmers, weaseling on Prohibition, lost to Wilbur McKinley White, managing editor of the Toledo Times, an out-&-out Wet. Chalmers' defeat was a direct blow to Chalmers' prime supporter, Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown. Toledo's G. O. P. boss. Nominee White's paper's rival, the Toledo -Blade, turned Wet, supported him.