The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1922-04-21
By GEORGE r. HOLMES
News Service Staf Cor
RESPONDENT.

YnternationaI News Service Staff Cor
respondent.
WASHINGTON, April 21-Sprlng tram
ing is not confined alone TO baseball.
1t exists also in that other great ma
tional pastime--politics.
The Spring crop of Senatorial re-
cfuits this year is especially promis-
ing 1t is made all the more SO be-
cause sprinkled here and there
through the ranks of the aspirants are
come fbattle-scarred veterans, attempt
Jug that most difficult of all tasks in
baseball or in politics. comeoack;
BY no stretch of imagination could
William Jennings Bryan be termed
n political rookie. Yet he may be-
come a pronounced Senatorial recruit
by trying for the Senate this year at
ter having tried unsuccessfully three
times to be President Of the United
States. The Commoner wants to sue
coed Park Trammell from Florida.
Political Bookmakers Busy.
The political bookmakers of the
"a pffal-and they even outnumber the
racing bookmakers are engaged
these languid Spring days in some
Interesting speculation regarding the
possible makeup of the next Senate
From present appearances it is going
10 be changed materially, and If even
Il third of the new blood gets in that
is asstduously engaged in trying to
get in it promises to be a 1iveher
senate in the Sixty-eighth Congress.
There are many Republicans. as
We'll as Democrats, IN washington
who would like to see William ].
Bryan enter the United States Sem
ate. They are the ones who mourn
the passing of the good old days"
leaders and orators instead of re-
tired 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 MAX
ing money"
Even the Republicans concede that
w. J. b. would Hven things up con-
sidera'o1y. He would at least draw
said for many Senators in these days,
outside OF Borah. Of fdaho.
Smith May 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
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 poll
tics.
Tammany Democrats in Washing
ton say that Smith can have the
Democratic nomination If he wants it
and that II he takes it he certainly
will be elected. Smith ran a million
votes ahead of his ticket in 1920,
which; considering the Repuolican
into the former Governors popularity
in New York state
Smith, too, could be counted upon
to Jazz" things up in the Senate.
The former Governor is a hard-hitting
speaker when on his feet His for
ensic forays at Albany. while he was
Democratic leader in the Legislature,
sometimes penetrated even to wash
ington.
The New. York summaries are not
held until late in the Summer, Sep
tember H. Between now and that
lime according to his friends here.
Ar Will decide whether he wants
to give up directing his profit
able 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 (Republican). of
Brooklyn. mp for denomination and
reelection
Beveridge a Candidate?
Another name being contured with
in q Senatorial way Is that of Albert
= severidge. the silveE3tonsued
out-and-out candidate. is now en-
gagged in a holly contested primary
race with Senator Harry S. 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 month
away-May 2. Seldom in Indiana's
checkered political history has a more
than is now going on in the Hoosier
State between the New and Beverage
factions.
From Michigan there is a new Sem
kelley. who is serving his nth term
in Congress. He is seeking to sue
coed Senetor Charles E. Townsend.