Evening star., 1926-03-03
Politics at Large
BY G.. Could Lincoln

/ Department of Labor DECIDES 10 HIahO
a bid for Governor of PennsylVanld
and is successful, President Coohdge
may have a real job on ms hahus
finding a new Secretary of LABOR. II
! is reasonable to suppose that organ
| lied labor and labor generally VIII
urge strongly that a real labor man pe
named to head the department. From
the administrations point of view II
will be extremely desirable to ma an
outstanding figure in the labor Worlo
who is at the same time RepupilcaH'
and a supporter of President Coolldge
during the last campaign. The Repup-
lican national ticket at the last elec-
tion received the votes of large num-
ber of workers, members or IaDor
unions and members of no unions. II
is true, however, that very many OF
| the leading figures in American labor
supported Senator La Toilette, 10
whom the American Federation OF
Labor pledged it's support, the rail
| road brotherhoods and many other or
ganizations.
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Perhaps it is a little premature to
discuss a successor to Secretary Davis
when he has not yet announced his
candidacy for the gubernatorial nomi-
nation. Even if Secretary Davis
decides to enter the lists, it does not
necessarily follow that he will resign
at once the office of Secretary of
I Labor. Some of his friends think he
would be foolish to give up his present
| job until after he was nominated for
governor. A Republican nomination
| for governor in the keystone State is
regarded as tantamount to election
! just as the nomination of a Democrat
to be Governor of South Carolina is
regarded as equivalent to a final
choice by the voters Of the State.
Before the end of this month the
uncertainty now manifest in Pennsyl-
vania politics must have cleared up.
At present Senator Pepper is the only
avOwed candidate for the Republican
nomination for the Senate, and while
| there has been much talk of guber-
material candidates, none Of them have
actually reached the open campaigning
stage. Representative Thomas w.
Phillips, jr of Butler, Pa, however,
has received from Harrisburg the
blanks for filing for candidate for the
Republican nomination for governor
and 1t is expected he will soon start
circulating them. Another potential
candidate for governor Is Samuel T.
Lewis of York Pa, state treasurer
which Office he was drafted to become
treasurer Mr.. Phillips is serving his
second term in the House. His father
was member of Congress before
him. Outside of Congress he is en-
gagged in oil and gas production on
large scale and Is wealthy.
Senator Pepper is taking no part in
the selection of a gubernatorial candi-
date to run on the Republican ticket
with him, but it is understood that he
Will be consulted in the matter before
the choice is actually made by the
political powers of Pennsylvania.
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Representative Oldfeld of Arkan-
saS, chairman of the Democratic con-
gresSiOnal campaign committee. has
returned to Washington from Okla
homa. where he went TO attend Dem
ocratic meetings in Tulsa and Okla
homa City. The situation in Okla
homa. according to Mr. Oldfield. is
looking up for the Democrats. The
state is, in fact, really Democratic,
he insists. Notwithstanding the fact
that it is now represented in the SEN
ate by two RepublicanS-Senato
Harreld and Pine OklahOma'S first
electoral votes were cast for Bryan in
1908, and only once has il "gOne Re-
publican" in a presidential election
in 1920, when the late President Hard
ing carried it. It was the only State
outside the solid South which John
| w. Davis carried against President
| Coolidge In 1924. Senator Harreld.
| Republican, is up for reelection there
! this year. The Ku klux Klan has
been active in politics in Oklahoma in
recent years. and. as in many other
| States, the Klan has many Republi-
| cans among its leaders. Represent
| ative Elmer Thomas, Democrat, is
! prominently mentioned as the prob
able Democratic nominee against Sem
| ator Harreld
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Senator Oddie of Nevada is one of
those Republicans who will be called
| upon to defend their seats in the
| Senate against Democratic attack this
| coming Fall. Ray Baker former di-
| rector of the United States mint un-
der the Wilson administration Is re-
| garded here as a probable nominee of
| the Democrats against Senator Cd
| die. j. G.. Schrugham. the present
| Democratic governor of the State
| may also be a candidate for the SEN
atorial nomination. President Cool
| idge carried Nevada in 1924, though
| the combined vote for Davis and La
| Toilette was greater than that cast
! for President Coolidge. If Mr. Ba-
| ker gets into the race his fortunes
will be followed with no little interest
here. where he has many friends.
| Representative ]. N. Tincher of
| Kansas. Republican. will not be a
candidate to succeed himself He is
| serving his fourth term in the House
| After he leaves that body Mr.. Tincher
| proposes to devote himself to the
practice of law. The Representative
| of the seventh congressional district
| of Kansas has faith in the political
| future of Speaker Longworth of Ohio
and believes that the Speaker will be
| President one of these fine days
| When the time arrives Mr.. Tincher
will do his best to see that the Kan
sas delegation lines up for the
| Speaker.
! More and more often the name o.
Senator William e. Borah of Idaho /:
mentioned in connection with the Re
| publican presidential nomination IL
| 1928. Senator Borah himself is say
| Ing nothing about it. The politica
| pendulum must swing nightly to
| WaEd the progresSives, however, i
Senator .Borah is to be a serious con
tender for the nomination. The lates
report regarding his possible candi
dacy comes from Chicago. where it /.
said that some of the leaders wht
are opposing the denomination anC
reelection of Senator Mckinley OF
! the World Court and other issues arr
ready to swing the Illinois delegation
| to Senator Borah at the next nationa
1 Ion I4I
! the saddle. It is much the same ele
ment in Chicago which supported Sen
ator Hiram Johnson of California fol
the nomination in 1920.
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AS Spring approaches the talk o
| early adjournment of Congress il
| Tho U-ich