Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-06
The HaSkin Letter 81 e : Rssaz
POLITICS ASSUMES IMPORTANCE

Washington, d. c., June 2. -
Throughout the country politics may be
tagging. Not SO in Washington. Here
at the nations capital the well known
cauldron may not be exactly seething
as yet, but 1t is simmering appreciably
and before another month has passed
il will be bubbling merrily. Thirty
four senatorships and every seat in
the house Of representatives are the
national stakes for which the pa. ties
will contend at the polls in November.
The senator's and four hundred-odd rep
resentatives whose successors will lie
chosen are here, and each has ais sec
retaries, clerks and political hangers
on who are deeply concerned in the re-
suit.
Also, the popular verdict in the IN
gressional elections will be hailed as
one of APPROVAL or disaproval of the
Harding administration. Hence the To-
cal ferment, and it is not surprising if
Washington just now is paying more
attention to politics than is in evidence
in any other part of the country.
Two notable primary contests during
VIC uOAIA Vi May cCINCu W NhCt IL
interest Of Washingtonians in things
political. One was in Indiana, where
former Senator Albert J. Beverage
wrested the republican nomination
from Senator Harry S. New. The 9th
er was in Pennsylvania, where Clifford
Pinchot came home a winner in the
gubernatorial stakes, defeating Attor-
ney General Alter, the organization
candidate. Both results, it may be said,
were contrary to general expectations.
Both Beverage and Pinchot, be it
remembered, were progressives when
Theodore Roosevelt was the great fig
ure in the embattled hosts of Arma-
geddon, and their victories against the
forces of the party organization in
their respective states are extremely
significant. Some of the republican
leaders deny this. but the fact remains
that they were not expected to win,
and they did win. Thermometers that
register the political temperature here
abouts made a decided jump when the
news came from Indiana after May ?,
and another when Pennsylvania was
heard from after May 16. The returns
from the next primaries will be awaited
with anything but idle curiosity as
everybody wants to know if there is to
be more of the unexpected.
Iowa Comes Next
Iowa comes next with primaries on
June 5, to select the party candidates
Charles A. Rawson. This is the seat
held so long by William s. Kenyon,
who resigned a few weeks ago to ac-
cept a federal judgeship tended him
by President Harding. The full list of
senator's candidates to succeed whom
are still to be chosen, together with
! the states and the dates of the party
primaries or conventions thus far fixed,
follow:
In the following list are the names of
the present senator's. state. and date of
primary.
Charles A. Rawson. Iowa. June 8.
Park Trammel, Florida. June 8.
Frederic Hale. Maine. June 20.
Frank B. Kellogg. Minnesota, June
Porter ]. McCumber, North Dakota,
June 2S.
Charles A. Culberson. Texas, July %.
James A. Reed, Missouri, August 1.
Claude A. Swanson. Virginia. Aug. 1.
Howard Sutherland, West Virginia,
Aug. I.
Atlee Pomerene, Ohio. Aug. S.
! John B. Kendrick. Wyoming, Aug. s..
John Sharp Williams, Mississippi,
Gilbert NJ. Hitchcock, Nebraska,
Hiram W. johnson, California,
Aug. 20.
Henry L. Myers, Montana, Aug. %.
Key Pittman, Nevada, Sept. 5.
Robert NJ. LaFoIlette. Wis. Sept. 3.
Henry F. Ashurst, Ariz., Sept. II.