Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-14
BY WILLIAM HARD.

Complaints from North Carolina
and Tennessee and Louisiana indi-
Gated at this week end that the
special Senate Committee on Cam
paign Expenditures and Other Cam
paign Methods and Influences, head
ed by Senator Gerald p. Nye of
North Dakota, would soon turn its at
tention to the Southland. This will be
the first occasion, 1t is said, on which
senatorial campaign inquiries in recent
days have penetrated into the region
souCh of the Mason and Dixon line with
the vigor frequently exhibited to the
north of 1t.
Agents of Senator Nye's committee
have already responded to the COM
plants from North Carolina and Ten
nessee and have explored those States
in search Of election incidents or cleo
ton habits, which would guide the Sem
ate toward knowing whether or not the
gentlemen to be elected to the Senate
from those States In November are wor-
thy to be admitted to the Senate MEM
bership. These agents are in addition
to the agents who have been engaged in
explorations In New Jersey and Illinois
and Pennsylvania and other States In
the North and in the Northern West.
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That similar agents have made their
way into Louisiana is limited here,
though not asserted. That detective
work has been done for the committee
in North Carolina and in Tennessee Is
abundantly known. The complaints
from North Carolina are grounded on
the allegation that large sums of money
were imported into the State from New
York City in order to compass the recent
defeat Of Senator Furnifold M. Sim
mons for the Democratic nomination as
Senator to succeed himself and in order
to achieve the victory gained over Mr..
Simmons by Mr.. Josiah Bailey.
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1t is thought here that fuel has been
heaped on this FIRE Of suspicion and
of investigation In North Carolina by
friends of Mr.. George M. Pritchard,
the North Carolina Republican nominee
for the Senate against Mr.. Bailey. The
leaders of the Republican national or
ganization have entertained hopes of
defeating Mr.. Bailey with Mr. Pritchard
and Of providing the country with the
spectacle Of Republican Senator from
the solid South. They have dwelt upon
the fact that four years ago the Re-
publican candidate for the Senate from
North Carolina received 40 per cent
OF the total vote cast. They have cal.
culated that possibly q resentment in
North Carolina against the alleged in
vasion of the State by Tammany in
f1uence and TAmmany money, in the
Democratic primary election in which
Senator Simmons was cast aside for
refusing to support Alfred Emanuel
Smith for the presidency, might give
Mr.. Pritchard this year a chance to
run the Republican percentage of the
North Carolina electorate up from 20
to beyond so
They we're annoyed by noting, or, at
any rate, by hearing, that the first
investigator sent by the Nye commit
tee into North Carolina was a Demo-
cratic ex-secretary OF q Southern
Democratic statesman. They felt that
a more unflinching inquiry would be
made by Republicans such as Senator
Porter H. Dale of Vermont and Sen
ator Roscoe C. Patterson of Missouri,
who are members Of the Nye commit
tee. Calls to those Senators for help have
been forwarded to Washington from
North Carolina by groups comprising
both Pritchard Republicans and Sim
mons Democrats. The question in
volved is not at all the character of
MIR. Bailey, but the outside money
alleged to have been brought into the
State on behalf Of his candidacy.
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In Tennessee there is similarly no
question Of the character OF Mr.. Cordell
Hull, the Democratic nominee for the
Senate, who Is admitted to be one of
the most sensitively scrupulous men in
American public life. The allegations
In Tennessee are with regard TO cleo
tion-day Irregularities in which It is
not thought that Mr. Hull had the
slightest completely and In which the
perpetrators are thought TO have been
pursuing only their own subordinate
local purposes. That such irregularities
occurred on large scale In certain
parts Of the State Is the burden Of cries
which have been carried here by agents
who have investigated on the spot.
The case of Mr.. Huey p. Long. Demo.
cratic nominee for the Senate from
Louisiana, is in category again diff.
ferent. The charges against Mr.. Long
are that his personal habits and
methods render him unfit to occupy q
Senate seat. He is accused of escapades
in the underworld and of wearing in
sufficient clothing in the course of the
discharge of his duties in the upper Of
flcial world. He is also accused of ter
rorizing people and of kidnapping them
and of aligning the forces of crime
against the forces of decency through
out MS term as Governor. In Mr..
Longs case an appeal Is being made by
] outraged Louisiana citizens to section
of the Federal Constitution which was
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