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Arizona Democrats renominated eloquent Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst because of his long and loyal services, Governor Benjamin Baker Moeur in spite of his State tax program, Congresswoman-at-large Isabella Greenway because of her personal popularity and close connection with the White House.
Roche Defeat. "This looks like a good healthy battle," James Aloysius Farley had told the man and woman who wanted to be Colorado's Democratic Governor. "Go to it!"
Arrayed behind Josephine Aspinwall Roche of Denver was the liberal following of Senior Senator Edward Prentiss Costigan and union labor. Miss Roche, 47, divorced wife of Edward Hale Bierstadt, Manhattan author and criminologist, left Vassar in 1908, took her M. A. at Columbia along with Frances Perkins. Like Miss Perkins, she went in for social service work. After her father died in 1927, Miss Roche was left with a large share of Rocky Mountain Fuel Co., second biggest coal mine in Colorado. She bought complete control, was the first operator in the State to unionize. When non-union owners tried to break her by underselling, Colorado unionists put on a voluntary promotion campaign, took a temporary wage cut. Miss Roche's company now sells Denver most of its lignite.
Back of Governor Edwin Carl Johnson, country politician and son of a Swedish immigrant, was the Adams family organization. An Adams has held elective office in Colorado ever since Statehood (1876). Present political chief of the clan is Junior Senator Alva Blanchard Adams. A conservative small town banker, Senator Adams split with Senator Costigan over the New Deal, would like to oust onetime Republican Costigan from the Democratic Party.
As primary day approached, Governor Johnson's adherents cried that Senator Costigan was having people dropped from relief rolls for failing to solicit votes for Candidate Roche. Senator Costigan denounced the Johnsonite Denver Post for its "nauseating campaign of unwarranted invective and deception." But Colorado Democrats gave Governor Johnson a 7-to-6 majority over the first female aspirant for his office. Nate C. Warren of Fort Collins was the Republican chosen to oppose him.
Reclaimed Michigan. Best news of the day to the G. O. P. was the Michigan primary. Recovering from the 1932 Democratic landslide, Republican leaders marshalled nearly three times as many of their partisans to the polls as Democrats did. Defeated for renomination was Governor Comstock, sent to Ann Arbor two years ago largely because as a political "angel" he had financed his party through long lean years of defeat. Instead, Democrats chose for Governor a Detroit attorney named Arthur J. Lacy. For Senator the Democrats picked Frank A. Picard, militant New Dealer and head of the State liquor commission, to oppose Arthur H. Vandenberg, Republican incumbent.
Meager Job. The Governor of New Hampshire gets a salary of only $5,000, has to supply his own executive mansion. For the past ten years he has also been a Republican. After last week's primary the man who seemed slated for one of the most meager U. S. gubernatorial jobs was Public Service Commissioner H. Styles Bridges of Concord. His Democratic opponent: John L. Sullivan (no kin) of Manchester.