South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-04-20
BY GEORGE r. HOLNIES.
T. ". :. Stan Correspondent.

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l. y. 5. Stan Correspondents.
WASHINGTON. AprI 19.-Spring
training IS not confined alone TO
/ baseball. II exists also in that other
great national pastime-politics.
The spring crop OF senatorial re-
cruits this year is especially prom
\ Using. IL is made all the more so
because sprinkled here and there
| through the ranks OF the aspirants
! are some battle-scarred veterans,
attempting that most difficult Of all
tasks in baseball or in politics.
comeback.
BY no stretch OF imagination
could William Jennings Bryan be
termed a political rookie" Yet he
may become a pronounced senator
ial recruit by trying for the senate
this year after having tried unsuc-
cessfully three times 10 be president
Of the United States. The common
er wants to succeed Park Trammeu
from Florida. Sen. Trammell
doesn't want 10 be succeeded.
Political Bool1maEers Busy.
The political bookmakers Of the
capital-and they even outnumber
the racing bookmakers-are en-
gaged these languid spring days IN
some interesting speculation regard
ing the possible makeup Of the
next senate. From present appear
auces it is going 10 be changed ma
terially, and - even a third Of the
new blood gets in that is assiduous- !
ly engaged in trying 20 set in It
promises 70 be a livelier senate In |
the 6Sth congress.
There are many republicans, as
well as democrats, in Washington |
who would like 10 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 re- |
tired lawyers and bored business
men.
One prominent political person
age described the senate the other /
day as "aR exclusive and wealthy !
club, where tired and retired law |
yers and business men go when they |
get fed up with the hustle and bus
tie of making money"
Even the republicans concede that /
". J. B. would liven things up
considerably. He would at least
draw galleries, which is more than
can be said for many senator's in
these days, outside OF Borah, OF
Idaho.
Beveridge a Nominee?
Another name being conjured
with in a senatorial way is that OF
Albert J. Beveridge. the silver
tongued speaker of Indiana. Bev-
eridge, an out-and-out candidate, !
is now engaged in a hotly contested |
primary race with Sen. Harry S. |
New, who seeks reelection. Bev-
eridge has friends in the senate |
from the old days. he having served /
in the senate before the famous |
split OF 1912. The Indiana primary
is less than a month away-May . |
seldom in Indlana's checkered poll |
teal history has a more bitter nom |
nation fight been waged than is /
now going on in the Hoosier state |
between the New and Beveridge /
factions
From Michigan there is a new /
senatorial prospect in the person OF |
Pat Kelley. who is serving his fifth /
term in congress. He is seeking 10 |
succeed Sen. Charles It. Townsend.
himself a candidate, thus ensuring /
another republican family row. /
Kelley IS from Lansing, a lawyer, |
and was acknowledgements before /
coming to congress in 1913.
EX-GOV. Smith Nav Run.
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-fsted 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 If he wants
l. and that If he takes IL he certain
" will be elected Smith ran a mil
lion votes ahead Of his ticket in
1920, which, considering the repub-
ican landslide. was an Illuminating
A4-e-544+ INTO the FORMER EOAeEnO s I
popularity 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 az Albany, while he
was democratic leader IN the iegis-
lature. sometimes penetrated even TO
Washington.
The New York primaries are not h
held until late IN the summer. Sep
TENDER 10. Between now and that
time, according 10 his friends here.
"AI' Will decide whether he wants
70 give up directing his profitable I,
trucking business in New York and
join the "wealthiest gentleman's Il
club in the world" His probable
opponent in the election viii be Sen. N
William L. Calder republican, OF \
Brooklyn. up for denomination and
Change in Pennsylvania.
a new senator from Pennsylvania
is assured Sen. William Z. Crow.
who succeeded the late Philander c. n
Knox, VIII be succeeded by a West
ern Pennsylvania. The political n
situation in Pennsylvania. which has
been in a turmoil since the passing
Of pr~-0ea chances vr-fsh crr-r, rgChs