Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-12
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Letter
Nv CHARLES r. STEWART

By CHARLES r.. STEWART
WASHINGTON, June l2.-How the
democratic managers can have over
looked Congressman George Huddle-
ston of Alabama a. n presidential
availability heats me.
AS a -non-partisan onlnoker, but
" lover az good sport, | tried 70
start a boom for George months ago.
Ii didn't take. | can't see why.
True, George II pretty far south
Still, Alabama's no nearer the Arctic
circle than Texas. In fact, at Bir-
mingham, Georges attitudes q de-
gree or two farther this side Of the
equator than Jesse H. Jones. az
Houston.
George Huddleston!-no national
reputation
Show me Congressman Ayres' ma
tional rcputation.-Ayrcs or Kansas.
or ex-Congressman George White,sl
Ohio. Or ex-senator Gilbert N.
Hitchcock'sl-of Nebraska. Why, !
used 10 work for Gilbert's Omaha
World-Horald myself
For that matter, show me Jesse
Jones' national reputation!-until ne
landed the democratic convention Tor
Houston. and. hastily consulting
who's Who" the average voter dis
covered he was the democratic ma
tional committees financial director
"a prominent man, all right-but "A
national character-poohl
They're ait presidential possibili-
ties" in good standing.
i
HuddIeston's got enough Of n ma
tional reputation 10 be referred to as
the best dehatrr in The house Of rep
| respntatives-t0 be known on Capitol
Hill as "the little giant from the
south"-to make every other con-
gresham hunt his hole, II he thinks
he's in danger Of being panned by
George. when the latter arises 70
make a few remarks.
Among other things, George Is a
bone dry-who opposed the Eight
eenth amendment and the Volstead
lava dry whom the stricRst prohi-
bitionist could vote for sonscien-
! tioHsly-but Nhom Capt. w. III. Stay
ton could supper. consistently.
III sounds impnssible-but his rec
ord proves IL.
No dirt farmer could kick on his
principles; ne fought the McNary-
| Haugen bill.
He's the only man ] know Of II
public life who dares 10 declare lot
| absolute free trade-and Birmingham
the industrial center Of the south
as rrntcctionistic Nv New England
sends him TO congress again and
again.
Po,t democrats are 80 scarce in
this generations that ! was having
trouble one day Ia think Of a sur
H., vivor-and Huddleston occurred 10
me-and I asked Col. Tilsoa, repub-
| Iican leader in the house Of represen-
| t~atives who has watched politics fot
three decades. If he believed George
filled the bill.
"I1l bet" said the colonel. you've
named the only one And he
meant IL.
George is rs conservative as
Grover Cleveland. but
"Huddleston!" exclaims Congress
man Berger. Milwaukee socialist,
There's n man who knows what
democracy actually means
The following, ] admit, strains
! ~crcdul1ty
Yet / swear-aS an open-mlnded
arnostic-no more religious prelu-
dice than a rahbit-brought up
Ncth0dist=for many years. through
marriage. a good friend Of the
! Church Of Rome-I swear it's So
Huddleston can translate Tom Hef'
Inns philosophy into language that
wouldn't offend the Vatican.
You'd think n character like that
would be pusillanimously innoc-
nous. wouldn't you? .
Well, George IL as aggressive as All
git-out.
What 7 claim is-though it's ne
funeral ar minc-that it's n pity *
waste a chance like that. when hunt
ing a compromise candidate.