Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-28
The Political Mill
BY C. Could Lincoln.

unopposed for reelection TO the Sen
ate The Democrats of the State APP
parently have determined that 1t Is 8
hopeless task to place a candidate In
the field against Senator Borah-and
Il is. Furthermore, the activities Of the
senior Senator from Idaho have been BY
no means distasteful to many Of the
Democrats In Idaho and out Of It
Since the Hoover administration came
into office the distinguished chairman
of the Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee has been In opposition to tbs
administration on q number OF major
questions that have come before the
Senate, including farm relief and the
tariff, not to mention the nominations
Of Chief Justice Hughes and OF Judge
John j. Parker of North Carolina q
the Supreme Court. Senator Borah's
support Of the London naval limitation
treaty, negotiated by President Hoover
and the American delegation to the
conference, held In London, was not the
warmest, though he did support the
treaty.
There are q lot Of Democrats who
would have been well pleased II the
Democrats Of Nebraska had been will
ing to indorse the nomination of Sen
ator George Norris this year and let II
20 at that. Norris is another Of the
Progressive group in the Senate which
has played ball with the Democratic
minority rather than with the admin
istration forces. Norris, however, In
1928 came out fat for the election OF
for President, and sought TO swing his
state for Smith. Borah, on the Other
hand, was one Of the most effective OF
all the Republican campaignerS for the
election of President Hoover.
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1t is % years since Senator Borat
was first elected to the United States
Senate. He has three times been re-
elected and he is now nominated fol
his fifth term of six years.
In all the time he has been in the
Senate he has been identified generally
with the Progressive group. But he mas
been q law unto himself, sometimes
failing to go along with the other Pro-
gressives. He has become an 1nStitu-
lion in the Senate. It Is impossible to
think of the Senate without thinking Of
Borah. He is one Of the outstanding
orators of a body which over its entire
history has been famous for orators
He speaks rarely, but when he does he
is the more effective because OF his
longer silences. AS chairman Of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Borah occupies position OF great Inn
portance in the dealings OF this coun-
try with other nations Ixe y con-
stantly. consulted, not only by the ON
Gals of the State Department, but also
by private American citizens who have
business abroad and by representative
of other countries. To Senator Borah
perhaps more than to any other
member Of the Senate belongs the VIC
tory of the "irreconcilableS" over Wood
row Wilson and the supporters OF the
treaty Of Versailles and the Covenant
of the League of Nations when those
pacts, intertwined as they were, were
before the Senate. Reed Of Missouri
the late Senator La Toilette of WiScon-
sin, johnson of California and others
played also important parts In thai
fight. But 1t was the arguments Of
Senator Borah and his presentation Of
the case against the entry OF the United
States into the League that made the
deep impression on country which al
first had been ready to accept the treaty
and the League.
The Senate for years has. held one
or more firebrandS from the South
Picturesque, demagogic, but always
Virile, Senator Cole Blease Of South
Carolina has the reputation Of being
one of the fierfeSt of the lot. And nov
his tenure of ONCE IL threatened. He
has been fighting for his political life
for weeks and apparently must con-
tinue the fight another two weeks. In
q -cornered primary Blease has
finished first, but without enough votes
to give him majority, His opponent
In the rln-off two weeks hence will be
former Representative James F. Byrnes
who served in the House for IL years
If all the anti-BleaSe voters cast theiI
votes for Byrnes, 1t may go hard fol
the sitting Senator. The campaign
which has been waged in South Caro-
lima this Summer has been one of ex-
treme bitterness. Should Blease and
Senator Tom" Helm of Alabama be
eliminated the line of firebrands which
has been maintained for many years
would be broken, unless Gov. Huey Ions
of Louisiana should win over Senator
RansdeIl "Pitchfork" Ben Tillman OF
South Carolina, Jeft Davis of Arkansas
Tom Watson of Georgia-al have
passed.
New Hampshire Is staging an active
primary campaign this Summer, with
the Republican nomination for Gov
ernor as the prize. Senator KeyeS, Re-
publican, who comes up for reelection
this year, is without opposition and his
nomination is considered equivalent Ia
election in New Hampshire, but the
regular organization and the standpat-
tiers have been challenged by the entry
Gov. John G.. Winant. Winant Is the
choice of the Progressive wing Of the
party, of which former Gov Bass Is
also a leader. Running against him Is
Arthur P. Morrill,, who has the backing
of Senator George Moses and the So
called regulars. Winant also has to
face the handicap Of tradition in New
Hampshire that man should serve but
q single term as Governor of the State
For half q century this tradition has
continued unbroken. Winant was Cow
ernor q few years ago and sought re-
nomination and reelection, but failed
Now he is seeking to stage q come
back. If he is successful, he is likely
to be candidate for the senatorial
nomination two years hence against
Moses.
Winant became Governor in 1925 and
served two years. He is only 40 years
old now, but q millionaire, with q for
tune made in oil since the World War
In that war Capt Winant served with
distinction, enliSting first in the French
Army and then in the American Army
after this country got into the struggle
In his campaign for the nomination
he Is urging closer regulation Of the
public utilities. There is a third candi-
date for the Republican nomination for
Goyernor-Dr. Hugh X. Moore, q SCI
enlist and a chemist. II Winant wins
the nomination, it will mean q Jolt for
the leadership Of Senator Moses I'm
New Hampshire. Winant's greatest OBJ
stacle in his race for nomination ap-
pears to be the one-term tradition. The
Democrats In New Hampshire are apa-
thetic, feeling, it is said, that they have
little chance anyway, One of the can
didates for the gubernatorial nomina-
ton is Albert iii" Noone, and the
other iS TTAd r. av,na1I