Arizona republican., 1922-05-21
Bv HERBERT COREY

WASHINGTON, d. c., May IT,
Caraway, r. H, batting for Pat Har-
rison.
This Caraway boy may be a conner:
And he may not. You never can tel
about these rockies from the brush
But there is one good thing about
him. He gets right up to the plate
and they can't make him pull away.
He's a. handy hitter, too. Not free
swinger. like Pat Harrison. Harrison,
YOU know, has something, the Baoe
Ruth style. to his wallop. His plan
is to get the opposing pitcher mao
enough to hop out of the box and De-
gin to throw rocks. Then Harrison
lams the next ball up high, wide ana
handsome.
Caraway is different. He might
be called a mean sort of a walioper'
He doesn't get too close to the plate
and he doesn't pull away He just
stands there ready, holding his bat
about third of the way down the
handle and he keeps his eye on every
thing-the other pitcher and Senator
Lodge and the ball and what they're
going to think back home in Arkan-
sas and the hope that fire may break
out In the East Room of the White
House. He doesn't swing too wide,
either. He's a sort of a place hitter.
Just drops the ball where the enemy
fielder can't get it in time.
Caraway Is Unreconstructed
All this, of course, is about Cara
way. T. H. senator from Arkansas.
That's all most folks knew about him
until the other day. He has almost
been travelling in the United States
senate under an alias. In the Con-
gressional Directory, where one
learns all about the first wives OF
our legislative lords and what they
think of their mothers and their pref
erence in the matter of breakfast
cereal, Mr.. Caraway has confined his
confessions about himself to the fol-
lowing brief but impeccable state
ment, under the general head of Ad-
kansas and its senator's:
."Caraway, T. H., Democrat, Jones'
boro."
He's unrecounstructed. He said so
the other day in the course of debate.
He intin1ated that the civil war was
over and that it probably is a good
thing. as there are a lot of other
matters pressing for attention and
that he is ag'in the bonus and that
the American Legion can put that IN
its pipe and smoke it and that any
senator or representative who voted
for the bonus bill merely to get back
into congress isn't worth the money
he will cost the country, and that
we once fought q war over states
rights and the South got whipped
and that ne. personally. still thinks
the South was right. But up to this
time he had not attracted great
deal of attention as a senator. He
entered the senate in 1921, and he
may or may not go out in 1927.
Appears as Pinch Hitter
Harrison of Mississippi has at
tracted most attention on the minor
ity side of the senate up to this time.
Harrison is a teaser. There is Moth
ing he more enjoys than the news
that Senator Lodge is on the floor.
What he then has to say may not be
of enduring value, but it rarely fails
TO jar Mr.. Lodge out of that Bos-
tonian calm he has successfully
maintained for so many years. The
debate that follows, if a debate fol-
lows, makes one think of what might
happen if Frank Tinney and Lord
Balfour were to get into an argu-
ment. Balfour might be eternally
right, but it would be Tinney who
would pull the funny lines. The
other day Mr.. Lodge stamped his foot
as he headed for the courtroom dur
ing a guerrilla raid by Harrison
Those nearest said that Mr.. Lodge
said.