Evening star., 1926-06-11

UnQueStlOnaDly NeWDerryISm has
become q revived issue at Wash
ington III the wake OF the Pennsyl-
vania primary "slush fund" inquiry
now in progress before Senate
committee. When these observations
were written, the exact dimensions
of Representative Wares expenditure
had not yet been disclosed. But If
it was on any scale approximating
the Pepper and Pinchot budgets
there may be another full-fiedged
Newberry case if and when the
Philadelphia boss reaches the Sen
ate next March. Meantime. debonair
and smiling, Ware is an interested
but apparently not an anxious, OBJ
server of the revelations Senator
Jim Reeds committee is dragging
to light Patriots may well blush
in the face of some of them. They
are unfolding, in matter of-fact
way, the sordid story of how it is
possible for rich men, commanding
millions of dollars, to finance their
way into nomination and eventual
election to the United States SEN
ate There are many arguments
against the primary system. It's
difficult to think of better one than
the tragi-comedy now being enacted
on Capitol Hill.
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There's a real fighting type of
sailorman now at the head OF the
United States fleet in the person of
Admiral Charles Frederick Hughes.
They call him Freddie" Hughes in
the Navy, and, now and then, be-
cause of his homespun exterior ana
bluff vays. Farmer John" Hughes
commanded the American battleshlp
New York with the British grand
fleet in 1918 and, together with
Admiral Beatty, took the surrender
of the German high seas fleet in
November of that year. one OF the
things Freddie" Hughes is famed
for in the feet is his 1nslstence
upon wearing exactly the same KIND
Of shoes issued to enlisted sailors
He says they're vastly more com
Portable than the fancier sort. NO
| harder working man wears our
Navy's blue than the new command
| er-in-chief afloat. One of his &C.
centricities is a habit Of getting
| up early in the morning, sometimes
! to the discontinue Of junior offlcers
| who would prefer another kind OF
good example from 'the old man.
Admiral Hughes takes over the Meet
| with Admiral Sims approval-hes a
| Naval War College graduate, dis
| tinction Sims holds to be 1ndlspen-
sable in any officer entrusted with
! high responsibility.
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No recent development in politics
| has attracted wider attention than
| the decision of Atlee Pomerene TO re
aspire to the United States Senate
from Ohio as the Democratic oppo
nent Of Frank b. Willis. Pomerene
| left the Senate on March a, 1923, WIN
| the universal esteem Of men OF all
parties and Of the country at large
His friends always attributed his de
| feat for reelection to Pomerenes re
| fusal to do any eleventh-hour trim
ming in Ohio on prohibition and lapor
questions. The Ohio Democrat was
| in direct line for the presidential nom
ination in 1924 had he been returned
to the Senate. He probably thanks
his lucky stars that Fess beat him
| on that occasion, for '24 was not the
Democrats year. If Pomerene low
! ers the colors Of Willis in 1926, there
may be- a different national story tc
tell about him in 1928. Pomerene Is
one of the scholars of our polltlcS
He's a Princeton man, class OF "a.
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Prophets who predicted prohlbltlor
wouldn't be an issue in this year
congressional elections have taken tc
the woods. In four different States
four outstanding men now are IN the
race for the United States Senate as
out -and-out wets-Brennan and POM