Primaries

Arkansas. In the home state of Nominee Robinson, the Democratic primary is all that matters. Held last week, it resulted in renomination for Governor Harvey Parnell. For Commissioner of Agriculture the Arkansas voters chose Earl Page, a man with no legs; for State Auditor, J. Oscar Humphrey, a man with no arms.

Ohio. With a Democratic Governor, a Democratic Senator, several Democratic Representatives and several Wet cities, the home state of seven Republican Presidents and the birth state of the Anti-Saloon League is inscrutable political ground this year. The Anti-Saloon League apparently demonstrated continued vitality in last week's primary. Both the candidates whom it endorsed for Governor were winners--Myers Y. Cooper of Cincinnati (Republican) and U. S. Representative Martin L. Davey* of Kent (Democrat). Both the League's candidates for the seat of its dead champion, Senator Willis, came out ahead--U.S. Representative Theodore Elijah Burton of Cleveland (Republican) and U.S. Senator Cyrus Locher of Cleveland (Democrat). But the Wet-Dry issue was confused. The victorious Messrs. Davey and Burton are famed votegetters in their own right. And the G. O. P. vote was no index to Hooverism since it contained a town-v.-country aftermath of the Hoover-Willis fight for Ohio's delegates to the Presidential convention. Moreover, Dry Democrat Locher's victory over Wet Democrat Graham P. Hunt of Cincinnati seemed reversed when errors were discovered in the vote-counting. It looked as if Mr. Hunt had really finished 96 votes ahead of Mr. Locher. A complete official recheck by Ohio's 88 county election boards was necessary, a full week's job.

With November in mind, Republicans took their greatest comfort from the following Ohio totals, irrespective of alcoholic content--Republican votes cast, some 625,000; Democratic, some 225,000.

*Famed "tree surgeon."