The Washington times., 1922-04-23
SPRING RACE OF
ASP|RANTSF0R
SENATE IS ON
Recruits Said to include Bryan
Who Would Succeed
Tramm<2 of Florida.
POLITICAL "BooKIES" BUSY
Al Smith, Former Governor of
New York, Slated as
Good Possibility.
BY GEORGE r. HOLMES,
international News Service.

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BY GEORGE r. HOLMES.
international News Service.
Spring training Is not confined
alone to baseball. 1t exists also In
that other great national pastime
politics.
The spring crop of Senatorial
recruits this year Is especially
promising. 1t is made all the
more so because sprinkled here
and there through the ranks OF
the aspirants are some battle
SCARED veterans. attempting that
most difficult of all tasks in base
bali or In politics. comeback.
Bryan May Run.
BY no stretch of Imagination could
william Jennings Bryan be termed
a political rookie" Yet he may be-
come a pronounced Senatorial recruit
by trying for the Senate this year
after having tried unsucoessfully
three times to be President of the
United States. The Commoner wants
20 succeed Park Trammen from
Florida Senator Trammell doesn't
want to be succeeded.
Political Boolsmakcrs Busy.
The political booxmakers of the.
Capitai-and they even outnumber
the racing boolSmakers--are engag-
ed these languid spring days in some
interesting speculation regarding the
possible makeup of the next Senate.
From present appearances It is going
to be changed materially, and IL even
a third of the new blood gets In that
is assiduously engaged In trying to
get in It promises to be livelier
Senate in the Sixth-eighth Congress.
There are many Republicans as
well as Democrats. in washington
who would like to see William j.
Bryan enter the United States Sen
ate. They are the ones who mourn
the passing of the good old days"
when the Senate was composed Of
leaders and orators instead OF rctir-
ed lawyers and bored business men.
One prominent political parsonage
described the Senate the other day
as IAN exclusive and wealthy club.
where tired and retired lawyers and
business men go when they get fed
up with the hustle and hustle OF
making money" j
EVEN the fkepuDllCtils COhOSao thab
w. ]. B. would liven things up con-
siderably. He would at least draw
galleries, which is more than can be
said for many Senators in these days.
outside of Borah. of Idaho.
Smith Has the Bee.
Another Senatorial possibility Is
AL Smith, of New York, former gov
ernor, and rated by POLITICAL friends
and foes alike as one of the best
two-legged, two-fisted debaters that
ever stepped, on a legislative floor.
Smith is now in business life, but his
political friends in the Capital assert
that he can be drawn back into
politics.
Tammany Democrats In Washing
ton say that Smith can have the
Democratic nomination IL he wants
II and that II he takes II he certainly
will be elected. Smith ran a minnion
votes ahead of his ticket In 1920,
which. considering the Republican
landslide, was an Illuminating in
sight into the former governors pop
ularity in New York State.
Smith, too, could be counted upon
to "jazz" things up in the Senate.
The former governor is a hard-hit-
ting speaker when on his feet. His
forensic forays at Albany, while he
was Democratic leader in the legis-
lature. sometimes penetrated even to
Washington.
The New York primaries are not
held until late in the summer, Sep
tember 10. Between now and that
time, according to his friends here,
"Ai" will DECIDE whether he wants TO
give up directing his profitable
trucking business in New York and
Join the "wealthiest gentleman's
club in the world" His probable op-
ponent in the election will be Senator
William l.. Calder Rep.) of Brooklyn,
up for denomination and reelection.
Beveridge n Candidate.
Another name being conjured with
In a Senatorial way Is that of Albert
J. Beveridge, the silver-tongued
speaker, of Indiana Beveridge, an
out-and-out candidate, is now en-
gagged in a hotly contested primary
race with Senator Harry 8. New,
who seeks reelection. Beveridge has
friends in the Senate from the old
days, he having served in the Senate
before the famous split of 1919. The
Indiana primary is less than a month
hway-May 2. Seldom in Indinna's
more bitter nomination fight been
waged than Is now going on in the
Hoosier State between the New and
Beveridge factions.
From Michigan there IN a new
Senatorial prospect in the person of
Pat Kelley, who is serving his fifth
term in Congress. He is seeking TO
succeed Senator Charles Y. Towns
end, himself a candidate, thus ensur-
ing another Republican family row.
Kelly is from Lansing, a lawyer.
and was neutenant-governor before
coming to Congress in 1918.
Change I'm Pennsyivanis.
A new Senator from Pennsylvania
is assured. Senator William e. Grow,
who succeeded the late Philander C.
Ko,nx will be succeeded by a west.
ern Pennsylvania.
The political situation in Pennsyl-
vania, which has been in a turmoil
since the passing of Penrose,
changes with such lghtning-like ra-
pidity that Republican leaders In
Washington are uncertain from one
day TO the next who to expect in.
the Senate from western Pennsyl-
vanis. 1t was Major David Reed,
of pitt ghurQh at last arC0unta Tn