Evening star., 1927-05-04
Politics at Large
BY C.. Could Lincoln.

Illuminating campaigns as we'll as TO
me general election. One-tl1trd of the
Senate and the entire House must be
elected. as well as the President and
wee President and a large number of
governors of States. The election of
Senators, Representatives and gov.
ernors is closely bound in with the
rate OF the head of the party ticket.
Candidates for reelection or election
70 the Senate and House. therefore,
are much exercised over the selection
or the presidential and vice presi-
dental nominees of the respective
parties.
In the great State Of New York the
discussion of senatorial candidates for
the seat now held by Senator Cope
land, Democrat, is becoming more ac-
tive. Former Senator Calder Repub-
lican, defeated by Copeland in 1922,
has been in Washington recently, and
admits that he is Still interested in
politics, head of a Republican club,
and intimated that he would not be
averse to taking shot a: the Senate
again. He does not contemplate
seeking election to the House, as did
Theodore Burton of Ohio, who retired
voluntarily from the Senate a number
or years ago and then in a couple of
years had no trouble getting himself
elected to the House, where he had
served for years before going to the
Senate. With Mr.. Calder it Is the
Senate or nothing.
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Former Senator James W. Wads-
worth, Republican, who was defeated
by Judge Robert F. Wagner, a Tam
many Democrat, last Fall, is now on
his farm in the Genesee Valley. He
is not giving up his interest In public
affairs, however. Indeed, it would be
surprising if hH did not seek to stage
a comeback, although whether he will
undertake this in 1928 or wait until
1882 is still an open question. There
are those in New York who Dear that
If he made the race for the nomina-
tion and election to the Senate next
year he would split the party wide
open again over the wet and dry
issue, as he did in 1926. This would
not be so good in presidential year,
particularly if Gov. AL Smith is to be
the Democratic nominee for President
The impression in New York City
political circles is that Mr.. Wads-
worth will bide his time until 1882 if
he is to try for the Senate again. BY
that time the wet and dry issue may
have subsided considerably. In the
meantime. some Of his friends see the
former Senator as possible member
of the cabinet if Republican Presi-
dent is elected next year. They main
tain that he would make an ideal
Secretary of War. Others say that he
is good timber for the foreign service
as American ambassador to one of the
more important capitals.
Mr.. Calder is not the only Republi-
can in New York who would like to
have a try for the Senate against
Senator Copeland next year. Ogden
Mills might be drafted from the Treas
ury Department. Representative Ham
ilton Fish, young and ambitious men,
ber Of the House, sufficiently dry to
please the upstate Republicans, is an
other, and a lawyer in New Yor'' Citv
by the name of Ellenberg is said to
have senatorial ambitions.
Senator Copeland now looks to be
the choice Of the Democrats. particu-
larly if Gov. Smith should be nomi-
mated for President. He is Protest
ant and supporter of Smith. His
nomination would help to balance the
| ticket, it is held. If Gov. Smith is not
nominated for President, the Demo
cratic nomination for the Senate is
not likely to be worth much to any
man.
The possible retirement of Senator
| Frederic: ". Gillett of Massachusetts,,
| Republican, at the close of his present
| term Of office is being discussed in
the newspapers of Massachusetts,.
| Senator Gillett himself has authorized
no such announcement. Some of
| those who are close to him, however,
| take stock in the report that he may
not wish to succeed himself. Senator
Gillett has served in Congress continu-
ously since 1892, when he was first
| elected to the House. His present
| term as Senator ends March 4. 1881,
and he comes up for reelection in
| November, 1880. He will have had 3S
| years continuous service in House
| and Senate, part of the time serving
| as Speaker of the House. He will be
| 70 in October, 1880. Senator Gillett
| has recently recovered from a trying
! illness. He might easily be taken for
| man of so. He swings a wicked
| golf club, and can take into camp
| pretty nearly all the other members of
| Congress. House or Senate. If he
wishes to run again, there seems little
| doubt but what he could win the
nomination.
| Should Senator Gillett declare him
| self out Of the race, there are several
members of the House, including
Representatives Treadway, Underhill
and Andrew, who would like to make
bid for the Senate. Perhaps Mrs.
| Rogers, now member of the House
and popular in her district, might un-
dertake to be a candidate for the
| Senate. 1t is doubtful, however. that
woman could get the nomination in
| the old Bay State yet.
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So far as the senatorial election
next year is concerned, it appears that
Senator David |. Walsh, Democrat,
will seek to succeed himself, and the
| former Senator William NJ. Butler
Republican, will oppose him. Senator
Butler, as chairman of the Republican
national committee, is touring the
West at present in the interest of the
party organization. He has made no
announcement of his own plans for
next year. If he becomes a candi.
date for the Senate again, he may
give up the chairmanship of the ma
tional committee, though this is bv
no means certain, particularly if
President Coolidge is the nominee of
the Republican party.
Gov. Fuller of Massachusetts,, Re-
publican, at a recent Holy Cross
alumni dinner in Boston, again de-
clared that he would not be a candi-
date for the Senate next year, and he
added that he would never be a candi-
date for office against Senator David
T. Walsh. This was regarded as
quite a boost for the latter, whose
popularity in Massa sachusetts. however,
has been again and again demon
strated at the polls.
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The Republicans are figuring they
have a chance to win a Senate seat
now held by a Democrat. Senator Dill
of Washington, next year. Washing
ton is a Republican State, generally