Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-07-31
Rx r. 7. S.

Special Correspondent Of The Great taiIs Irloo"e'
Copyright, 1922. By The Great FANS lrlouhe'
Washington, July 3O.-Tbe whirllglg
of politics as played in the primaries
has turned up an interesting situation
in that two governors who were not
permitted to serve their full terms ID
that high office of state. are offering
themselves today for the United States
senate.
Former Governor Lynn Frazier OF
North Dakota already has won the re-
publican nomination from that state'
defeating Senator Porter j. McCum-
Der, chairman Of the all-powerful sen,
ate finance committee, a place coveted
by Boies Penrose in preference 70
the presidency. /,
Governor Frazier was hurled out OF
office not so long ago at a recall
election held rs the result of a huge
petition signed by those who did not
believe in his administration OF the
states affairs.
Against Khan Candidate
In Texas Farmer Jim" Ferguson,
thrown out of office Of governor by
impeachment proceedings. has carried
his case to the people and won the
right to q place in the "run-otf pri-
mary. which will settle the democratic
senatorial nomination in the lone star
state. Farmer Jim is pitted against
Mayfield, the Ku klux Khan candidate.
While the latter would appear 10 be
a probable easy winner from the orl-
ginal primary figures, the toga does
not always go that way. Ihere is
no question but that anti-klan lnflu-
ences felt over the country will turn
to help defeat Mayfield and the only
means of encompassing that end will
be to nominate Ferguson.
The Texas drys are in something
of a dilemma. Farmer Jim is Il liberal
and somewhat damp, so the %IroDlbl-
tionists, in order to defeat him, VIII
have to vote for Mayfield.. It will be
a grand mixup. this run-off-in Texas,
and well worth going miles TO see.
But the point of this story IS that
the primary permits some great ONE
backs in places. Both Frazier md
Ferguson would not have been con
sidered by political bosses. Having
been recalled or ~impeached, they would
nave been regarded as having no hold
whatever upon the deer peepul' and
yet the primary balloting has shown
Just the contrary.
Tnouestionably one of the most ben
eficial sights in Washington these mid
summer evenings is the Lincoln mem
orial bathed in a white radiance from
a broadly focused searchlight. Won
dprfully impressive by day, the mem
orial, with its towering columns be
comes even more SO as night descends
and the ~floodlight brings it out white
and stately against the black back
ground of the surrounding darkness.
Intimacy About Memorial
BY day there is a sort of intimacy
about the memorial. The surroundings
are green and familiar. The Potomac
flows placidly for a few hundred yards
away behind a screen Of weeping vii
BY night all is changed and there
is a ghostly stiffness and Illusion. Driv-
ing toward the memorial through one
of the converging roads, the great mem
orial with the electric wilderness play
ing full upon It, seems to recede as
you draw nearer.
Visitors to Washington are astound-
ed when told that the night lighting
effect is not the work Of the govern
ment but the contribution OF a hotel
roof garden. They ask what is TO hap
pen to the memorial after the roof gar
den closes the season. Naturally the
will not be ~frequented during
the cold season as much as it is now,
but unquestionably there is q general
demand that the illumination be kept
The same roof garden sends 4 sec
ond shaft Of light each night to the
tip Of the Washington monument. The
capitol dome is illuminated each night
by the government. The capitol. the
monument and the Lincoln memorial
stands in a direct line and the view Of
the three these m evenings is as
inspiring as any in all the world.
And now comes the Honorable Jo-
seph Tumulty with an entirely new
philosophy of politics and patronage.
is an old saying that the only
good Indian is a dead Indian. Joe Tu-
nudity avows that the only good dem
ocrat is the democrat out Of a job.