The Spokane woman. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1921-1935, 1926-10-28
Scott BuHiH
Makes Fighting
Race for Senate
BY ELIZABETH J. HARlNG.


Bullitt of Seattle as their candidate
for the United States senate, people
began to inquire:
''Who is this man Bullitt?"
Now-although it is but few weeks
since the primaries-the name Bull
lit" is heard almost as often as
Brown and much more often than
"Jones!"
Politically, A. Scott Bullitt has not
been active in this state, although he
has been a resident for nearly ten
years. He admits that a woman has
been the restraining influence which
has kept his natural tendencies curbed
for back in Kentucky they declare
that if he had stayed in his native
state he would have been governor or
United States senator before this.
81 promised my wife that the first
years of our married life would be free
from the element of politics-which
while fascinating is distracting to say
the least is the explanation Mr.. Bull
lit gives of a decade of abstinence
from things political 1t is possible
that his wife's political opinions had
some effect in keeping young Scott
Bullitt out of polities-for her father
is c. d. Stimson, president OF the
Metropolitan Building Corporation IN
Seattle and a prominent Republican
The democratic candidate for the
United States senate is young man
"a years of age. This is distinct
advantage, for he has the vision OF
his time. Yet he has a record OF ac-
complishments back of him. Lewis z.
Humphrey of the Louisville Herald
Post says: -,
"Kentuckians still talk of a sheriff IN
Huntsville who gave our city its flrst
honest election after years oil irauu anu
"That Young sheriff was A. Scott Bull
lit a member of one of Kentucky ola-
est and best known families, who az 40
years of age, is a candidate IN the state
of Washington for the United states
senate to succeed Hon. Wesley l.. Jones'
When appointed sheriff Mr.. Bullitt was
a promising young attorney just out OF
Princeton University, with all the dyna-
mic energy and enthusiasm which nave
since characterized his professional ana
political life. A city and county election
had been set aside by the Kentucky
Court of Appeals for fraud and violence.
The appointment of the new OFFICIALS 70
fill out the unexpired terms lay in the
hands of Governor J. C. w. Beckham, the
leader of the reform forces in kentucky
AT that time. At this crisis Governor
Beckham appointed A. Scott Bullitt as
sheriff OF jefferson County, at the IN
stance of Rev. Carter Helm Jones, then
a leading minister of Louisvflle-later OF
Seattle, Rev. John S. Lyons. Richard w
Knott, then editor and owner OF the
Louisville Post, and other leaders in the
civic life of Louisville.
After a strenuous six months as sher-
if Mr. Bullitt returned to the practice
of law with the commentator OF every
good government body in Louisville, Inc
Louisville Herald and the Louisville Post,
then separate papers. the former a morn
ing Republican paper, the latter an lnde-
pendent afternoon paper, and the Courier
Journal and the Times, Democratic pap
ers were all outspoken in their editorial
praise of Mr.. Bulltt's course in office.
He left behind him record in LOUISVILLE
like that which Grover Cleveland left
behind him as sheriff in Buffalo genera
ton before.
1.-TWO years later he was elected County
Attorney for Louisville and Jefferson
County for term of four years. He
was endorsed four years later by re-elec-
ton by large majority for another term.
"As a lawyer, as public officlal ana
subsequently as a major in the Military
Justice Division of the Judge Advocate
Generals Department A. Scott Built,
fulfilled his early promise of ability cour-
age, integrity and high ideals, combined
with the practical common sense so char
acteristic OF the Bullltt family in Ken
lucky and Philadelphia Added to this
was a gift of oratory and personal mag
netism and popularity with all classes
which made him the outstanding figure
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