Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1925-12-17
RED HOT FIGHT in
SENATE OVER SEAT
ING CERALDP. NYE
IF YOUNG EDITOR LANDS IN
UPPER HOUSE HE WILL LIKE
LY BE THORN IN SIDE OF ADJ
MINISTRATION.
Written Specially for The Leader.
BY EDWARD PERCY HOWARD

Written Specially for The Leader:
By EDWARD PERCY HOWARD
Through Autocaster Service.
When Vice-President Dawes raps
his gavel calling the United States
Senate to order on December Z, MEM
bers look for hot battle quickly to
develop-not between Dawes and the
Senate, which may cause ruffle la
ter, but because at that time Gerald
P. Nye of North Dakota, will present
himself to take the oath of office.
Nye is 33 years old. He is news
paper editor and nephew of the ia
nous Bill Nye, known to his intimate
friends as Edgar Wilson Nye. He
goes to the Senate appointed by Gov
ernor Sorlie, of North Dakota, to fill
the vacancy caused by the death OF
Senator Edwin F. Laid.
There are two or three underlying
factors that make certain fight over
the seating of Nye, chief among
which is the fact that he is strong
Non Partisan leader, and if seated
may be counted on to wage continu-
Gus war on anything that smacks OF
standpatism. Nye is nothing if rad
ical. Another fact is that the sages
of Washington do not look with par
ticular fave" on the growing ten-
dency to send young men to the Sem
ate. Nye will be the youngest man in
that august body with the exception
of young La Fofollette, who is Incl
dentally with Borah, Johnson, Norris
and Blease of South Carolina may be
expected to stand FIRMLY back of the
new man from South Dakota.
The peg upon which the opposition
hopes to block the seating of Nye is
one of constitutionaity. 1t is con-
tended that Governor Sorlie has no
stitution. The seventeenth amend
ment provides that in the event Of a
vacancy in the Senate representation,
the Governor of a state shall issue
writes of election. but that if the leg
islature has provided by law for the
appointment of Senator to fill a
vacancy then the Governor may APP
point. The legislature of North Da-
kota has not enacted any law giving
the Governor the right of appoint
ment, and when this fact came to the
attention of Stnator Moses and Sem
ator Butler they raised the question
of authority and decided to contest
the seating of Nye.
Governor Sorlie insists he has the
right to appoint.
That Nye will receive scant con-
sideration from the Coolidge support
ers may be judged from his editorial
attacks on the President in the col
umns of his newspaper, "The Sem
tinel Courier" of Cooperstown, one
Of the leading Non Partisan weeklies
of the state.
This" wrote the editor short
time ago, "has been an age of bum
come, personified most materially
since the advent of Calvin Coolidge.
One has ground to assume that the
password to the inner councils of the
Coolidge administration is 'knub,
the word being derived by cautiously
spelling bunk backwards. But of
all the bunk this volunteering of good
behaviour by the Grand Exchange
crowd and the thanks expressed by
the Administration is bunk of the
tenth order"
Administration Senators are firm
ly of the belief that once Nye be seat
ed he will become a permanently an
noying fixture in the upper house.
They know he will run for election
when the time comes around, and
they frankly admit that his chances
of success at the polls would be
practically one hundred per cent,
despite the fact that he was defeat
ed as candidate for the House by
a Coolidge Republican Thomas Hall
when he ran as Non Partisan can
didate at the last election.