Evening star., 1924-11-09
Banker, Engineer and
TtUO Indusfrialists
Make Up Balance.
Judge S. &. Bratton, 80,
One of Youngest
EUer Elected.

Thirteen new members will enter
the United States Senate as the re-
suit of the election Tuesday, and the
legal profession again lived up to it's
reputation of furnishing the coun-
try's law makers. for OF the new ar
rivals all but four are barriSters. The
minority is composed of an engineer,
banker and two industrialists, and
the last named line Of activity also
has attracted the interest of two Of
the ten oncoming lawyer members.
The new group will be notable for
including in its ranks one of the
youngest men ever to sit in the upper
chambcr-Sam q. Bratton, who, at
the age Of Sc is leaving the Supreme
Sourt of New Mexico after five years
service there and on the district
bench
BrattOn, a Democrat, was really the
18th and last of the new Senators to
get in, all other senatorial races hav
ing been decided when returns We're
compiled in New Mexico, showing
Holm Q. Rursum, Republican, sue
cesSor to Albert b. Fall, beaten.
Two House Members Advance.
The election meant a logical ad-
vancement for two of the incoming
members-Frederick II. Gillett of
Massachusetts and Thomas u. Schall
of Minnesota, Republicans. both of
whom are coming over from the
House.
GilIett. Speaker for the last six
years. and the senior member of the
House, is transferring to the other
end of the Capitol after 81 years con-
tinuous service. Schall. the blind
Congressman" is making the step
upward after rounding out a decade
in the House.
Both men. though OF opposite types,
are noted for their forensic ability.
Follower of Roosevelt.
Schall. an original Bull Mooser."
who is advancing at the expense of
Ma@nus johnson. Farme aborite,
used as one of his vote-getting argu-
ments a speech he made attacking
the Sterling Graham sedition bill. an
effort. he declared, saved free speech"
in America.
Gillett is ous.ing David L Walsh,
Democrat.
The election shift also brings back
in the public prints Cole L. Blease
Democrat of South Carolina, who
few years ago as governor OF the
State gained prominence by pardon
inC approximately 1900 convicts in
four years. and evoked warm criti-
cism by his reputed defense Of
lynchinE.
Wins on Third Attempt.
Blease is coming to the Senate
after two unsuccessful attempts hav-
ing been beaten in 1914 by Senator
Ellison ID. Smith. whom he sought to
oust while completing his second
term as governor. and losing the
verdict in 1918 in the primary won
by Senator Nathaniel b. Dial. whom
he now succeeds.
From all reports. however, time has
changed Blease, and the quondam
fire-ea has become of quiet and
retiring demeanor.
Bleases victory was marked the
former governor finishing in a four
| cornered primary. which eliminated
Dial. as one of the two high men, and
then defeating Representative James
F. Byrnes. in the House since 1911, in
the run-Off
Two other gubernatorial gradu-
ates. in addition to Blease, are COM
| ing into the Senate as the result of
| Tuesdays ting-Charles S. De-
neen, Republican. Of Illinois. and W.
NJ MCMaster, Republican. of South
Dakota.
Noted in Gas War.
Deneen. who served two terms a s
chief executive of Illinois from 1905
to 1913, defeated Senator Medin Nc
Cormick in the primary. then tri-
umphed over Col. A. A. Sprague. his
Democratic opponent McMaster,
noted as the originator of the Nation
wide gas price war is coming d-
rectly from the governors mansion at
Pierre, where he is finishing his Sec
ond term-in all. four years service.
McMaSter, country banker. won
in the primary from Senator Thomas
Sterling. and in the general election
distanced field of eight.
The newly won senatorShip is vir-
tually the initial entry into the polit-
icaI field of two other Republicans
Fred NJ. Sackett of Louisville and w
Z. Pine of Okmulgee. Okla, though
each has served their Commonwealths
in posts where their services were in
great demand, but where the only
remuneration was in the glory
another name for hard work.
Four Not Lawyers.
Pine. like McMaster and Jesse H.
Metcalf, Republican, of Rhode Island,
and T. Coleman du Pont, senator from
Delaware, is coming to Washington
without an LII. B., and Sackett
though he is a law graduate, is like
wise heavily Interested in various
Kentucky industries.
The race in which Pine emerged
victor probably attracted more atten-
ton than any other of the thirty-odd
contests for the Senate. the million
aire oil man. who is the largest inde-
pendent producer in the country, be-
ing opposed by Jack Walton, ousted
governor and enemy of the Khan.
Pines margin was approximately
$4,000 in a year when Oklahoma
swung back to the Democratic side
and gave it's electoral vote to Davis.
Pines election gives his State two
Republican Senators, the seat to
which he succeeds being vacated by
Robert l.. owen, Democrat, who vol
unfairly retires after holding office
since 1907.
Sackett also made Kentcky 100 per
cent Republican in the Senate side,
defeating A. Owsley Stanley, Demo-
cratic incumbent.
Had Church support.
Sackett was supported by churches
oil hn hap yir,Sr