Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1924-12-02
HUNTS DAILY
LETTER

NhcAilANG WA newcomer 10 DUIl-
tics and to Washington is William B.
Pine of Okmulgee, Okla, who broke all
records for republican pluralities jim
that border state by piling up a total
of about las 1000 votes over former Gov
ernor Jack Walton in the race for the
senate seat vacated by the voluntary re-
tlrement Of Senator Owen.
A slight, rather youthful, dapper little
fellow is Pine, who ran down to Wash
lngton a couple weeks after election to
look things over, pay his respects at
the White House and get the lay of
the land"
Pine piled up a fortune running into
the millions by riding the crest of the
Oklahoma oil boom. He doesn't look
the part of a frontier oil wild-catter.
He doesn't brag and buster. He looks
more han alert, wideawake profess
sional man.; about five feet seven in
height, slender, smooth shaver, heavy
brown hair carefully parted and reach
ed neatly backward on the right side.
I'm not a lawyer" Pine says, land
! haven't any plans for solving the
country's problems with a lot of new
laws. | think we've got too many laws
now.
I've never held any public office
before, and there isn't any other public
office | ever wanted or would have.
The people Of my state surely were kind
to me, to pick for me the only office |
ever had any desire to hold"
Although glad to have been elected
to the Senate, Pine isn't in any hurry to
move to Washington.
II don't expect to hunt a home here
until next December" he said. Il don't
expect any special session of congress-.
Business doesn't need any. Anyway, we
can't legislate ourselves into pros
p~erity."
While on the subject of Oklahoma, it
might as well be pointed out that Pines
election by a record-breaking majority,
thereby giving the republicans both
| seats in the Senate from a state until
very lately considered solidly demo-
cratic, has heartened the G.. O.. p. down
there to the point where it is now de-
handing a seat at the cabinet table.
Give Oklahoma a place in the cabi-
net and thereby put it solidly in the re-
publican column" is the advice being
dinned into President Coolidge's ears.
The post at which Oklahoma is now
shooting is that of secretary OF agri-
culture. John Fields, ex-farmer, ex-
editor, now business man and banker Of
Oklahoma City, twice the republican
candidate for governor, is the man pro-
posed: Anything that can be done to
oil the way for Fields appointment,
Pine and his friends are ready to do.
The senate already is ~succumb.ng to
the influence of the Dawes dudeen, or
undressing pipe.
Senator John Harreld may even I'M
dertake to introduce the Dawes smoke
consumer into the Cherokee tribe of
Indians as the latest model pipe OF
peace.
Harreld is seeking some way to bring
about a settlement of a dispute among
the Cherokees of Oklahoma which will
permit the distribution Of some $50,
600, 900 in oil royalties, now locked ur
in Uncle Sans safe.
Before settling himself to the jot
of drafting a bill to authorize distri-
button of this cash, he bought himseli
a Dawes type of pipe and a can of the
blacklist tobacco on the market with
which to try out it's efficacy as a source
of inspiration.
Who says Uncle Sam doesn't know
the fitness of things? He even make
| names count in diplomacy.
He has Ulysses and Trojan to rep
f, resent us in the near east, where tn,
original Ulysses and Trojan won thei
campaigns. Ulysses Smith and Trojal
Kidding are, respectively, minister an
secretary at TRINA, capital of Albania