The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1927-12-09
CLOSE-UPS IN THE
NATIONS CAPITAL
(By Stephen James)

One of the dark horses bein
groomed by friends for entry i
the presidential sweepstakes, i
the event Mr.. Coolidge is no
drafted, is former Senator Will
lam S. Kenyon, of Iowa, who is be
ing seriously discussed as a re
publican possibility.
Kenyon, while in the Senate
was the founder of the farm bloc
During the Harding administra
ton he resigned as Senator from
Iowa to accept appointment on the
bench of the Eighth United States
Circuit Court. Three times he
had been elected to the Senate
here, while listed as a republican
he frequently found his sympath
les with the progressive branch OF
that party. He vas assistant to
the Attorney General under the
Taft administration, where he
gained nationwide renown as a
trust buster. Earlier in his care
err Kenyon was identified with the
insurgent movement within his
party against the Payne-Aldrich
tariff.
Kenyon has not basked in the
national spotlight since he don
ned the judicial robes, except for
brief moments, especially his de
cision in one of the Fall oil cases.
However, during his tenure of of
flee in Washington he grew into
a position of leadership among the
liberal republicans, although he
was more of a party mar than
either LaFOllette, the elder, or
Norris, of Nebraska, with both of
whom he was friendly.
On the other hand talk of a
Kenyon boom may be pure camou-
f1age. Kenyon comes from the
heart of agricultural discomfort,
where Lowden also is counted
strongest. Possibly his name is
being put forward at this time by
astute political managers who are
seeking to nip a sector off the
Lowden territory. Certain obser-
vers have %professed to see such
tactics in the declaration of Kan
sas adherents for Senator Charles
Curtis, and in the announcement
by his friends that Senator Norris
will have the Nebraska delegation
voting solidly for him at the con
vention. If Iowa goes instructed
for Kenyon, Nebraska for Norris
and Kansas for Curtis, obviously
Lowden loses important strength.
Samuel G. Blythe, for years a
regular contributor of political ar
ticles to one of the leading weekly
periodicals, makes his home in
one of Washington's residential
hotels. Blythe has virtually pass
ed the pen, or more accurately
speaking, the typewriter, on to his
son, Stuart Blythe, who also rep
resents in Washington a compan-
ion magazine to that OF which
his father worked for so many
years.
A friend tells this story on
Blythe, the elder. Years ago while
visiting friends in the West, Sam
Blythe was persuaded by a rich
and influential cattleman to pur-
chase a ranch in one of the West
ern states. The outlay exhausted
for the moment the writer's ready
cash, and he deferred stocking his
ranch until his funds were replet-
ed.
Later on he sent his mentor in
the new business a check for ST.
900, with the request that the cat
tleman purchase for Blythe a nuc-
for the herd which he hoped
would relieve him from the
exacting duties of editorial life.
Within a few days Blythe re-
a telegram from his friend,
announcing the purchase
a bargain of a fine blooded
pull. price $3.50. The cattleman
requested further Instructions.
Blythe was stunned. He had ex-
at least twenty-five or
thirty head of cattle for his $1,000
md the idea of paying $3.50 for
animal, whatever it's ancestry,
vas too much.
Sadly he turned to the cumber-
some typewriter, vintage of the
ate nineties, on which he was &C
,ustomed to grind out his stuff
or the weekly, and this is the tel
gram he sent: ]