Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-02-12
WRITER Sees
LIVE INTEREST
INFOURRACES
Presidential Nominee
To Be Delegated to
Background After
May ~, Wade Says
b. c. ID. Wade
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Especial 10 The Herald)
AUSTIN. Texas, Feb. 11--~1nterest
IN Texas politics this year will GEN.
ter around four offices. Three of
these are state. The other, Of course.
is the democratic nomination for
president which will be settled al
most by the time the local primaries
begin to get rot.
From now until May p there
probably will be as much interest
taken by voters in the presidency as
in any of the state races. After that
date Texas voters will have delegat-
ed their rights to the hands and con-
troll Of some 40 eitizens, and while
interest will not wane until after
June %, the date Of the Houston
convention, the attitude of the Texas
40 NAV be we'll determined at the
state convention TO be held May q.
We will repeat here a sort Of po-
liticsl calendar, much printed OF
late. The voters will hold their
precinct conventions on Saturday,
delegates to the county conventions,
TO be held the following Tuesday,
and give these delegates instructions
IL they see fit. The county onyen
tions will select delegates to the
state convention, TO be held two
weeks later, on May %. That con-
vention will select the 10 delegates
70 the Houston convention and may
or may. not instruct them.
Senate Race To BE Hot.
After that date the interest Of
TEXANS in the presidential situation
must be more or less passive, for
their individual votes viii have been
cast, until the general election IN
November. So, after May % IL can
be safely assumed that Texas will
turn with increasing interest to its
state races. Having become thor
ourhly imbued and saturated with
the politics in the atmosphere, even
the lieutenant governors race viii
be much in the limelight.
Until the first primary 1t looks
now like the race for lieutenant gov
ernor is going to be a more or less
one-sided affair, but in the runoff
there will be all kinds 4 chances for
some fast politics. It looks 10 this
writer that one man, q shrevd one,
is going to have the inside track in
the early going. 80.
Possibly the hottest state race will
be that for United States senator,
and even the governors race usually
overshsdows the race for lieutenant
governor. but this year there will be
some cclcrful campaigning for the
latter office.
A whole bevy of candidates al
ready has announced for the nomi-
nation.
There is Thomas B. Love Of Dali
las, present state senator; Lee Sat-
terwhite of Panhandle, former
speaker and now a member of the
house; J. d. Parnell of Wichita
Falls, former state senator; H. L.
Darwin Of Paris, former member Of
the state senate from two different
districts: r. VI. Johnson of Pales-
tine, q member of the lower house:
W. A. Smith Of San Saba, newspaper
editor, and j. II. Let's, Houston at
torney.
Lows to Lend
The ma who will make the race
one-sided until after the first pri-
mary. in the opinion of this writer,
is Senator Tom Love. 1t will be
Love against the field in the first
race. But in the second there is
likely to be a lot of getting-together
in an effort to beat the Dallas man.
S~atterwhite. Parnell and Darwin
stand the best chance of being the
second man in the race, with little TO
choose between the two first named.
Darwin has been out of state politics
so long that he is not as well known
over the country as Satterwhite and
Parnell. especially the former,
Johnston is not known over the state
mt all. nor are Smith and Let's.
Smith, a former president Of the
Texas Press association, and known
intimately to most Of the editors as
Billy probably expects these edi-
tors TO help him get before the peo-
PIE. and doubtless they will. but he
has q hard row TO hoe in trying TO
overcome the lead Of men like Sat-
tervhite.
Miller Not Interested.
The prediction of Tom Loves
leadership IN the first race is based
on the fact that Love 10 running as
hn avowed enemy of Al Smith. Two
years ago, when running for the
senate, he told the people of Dallas
county that if Mrs. Ferguson were
the party nominee he would not vote
Il her in the general election. That
kind Of talk made Q hit in his county
and he was nominated and elected.
Doubtless Love figures that Texas
is opposed to the things that Smith
stands for, and he will get thousands
Of votes on the basis of his anti
smith attitude. But IL Smith should
be nominated at Houston. then
Toms private limb will have been
shopped off clean and smooth.
Due to the several prominent posi-
tnons Love has held he is the best
tnovn of the candidates. How.
ever, he's particularly unpopular
with the anti-klan element because
the khan brought about his election
Is state senator. and doubtless ev-
cry effort will be made 10 CONSOLE
Gate the votes of the defeated can
hidates 70 beat him in the runoff.
There - q remote chance that Bar
w Miller may be induced 70 u for
third term Is o means Of beating
Love, but Miller is not interested
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