The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-14
buckley, new
OHIO SENATOR,
NOT HIGH HAT
He's silk Stocking by Birth
But You Can't Tell 1t;
Drives Own Car.

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WASHINGTON, Nov. IAN
other millionaire who drives his own
car will join Couzens Of Michigan
and Reed of Pennsylvania when Bob
Buckley, newly elected senator from
Ohio, takes his oath next month.
Like Couzens and Reed. Buckley
owns several cars, and he has a
chauffeur, too, but he prefers his
open roadster and he likes to drive
it at fifty miles or better when
traffic conditions justify this speed.
In the recent campaign in Ohio,
Buckley drove his car throughout
the state, making six or seven
speeches a day.
Unlike most Ohio senators IN re-
cent wears, Buckley is not OF the
plain people, but there the resem-
blance stops. He is silk stocking
bv birth, Harvard by education, ana
social-elect by environment and
travel. But in his habits and IN his
slant on life he is one of the masses.
His clothes are impressed and his
manner is modest and unassuming.
Has Big Law Practice
One talking to Buckley never
wouId get the impression that on
Tuclid avenue in Cleveland there
stands a substantial office building
known as the Buckley Building,
or that he lives in one of Cleve-
lands most exclusive residential
sections, or that his law practice is
one Of the finest in Cleveland.
He is the best equipped man
Ohio has sent to the Senate in
many years." Newton D. Baker says.
The Ohio farmer and the Ohio
laborer did not know Buckley six
months ago. Most of them never
had heard of him. For that mat
ter, most of the politicians had for
gotten him. Buckley served in con-
gress from a Cleveland district be-
tween 1910 and 1914. He helped to
write the federal reserve law. After
that he retired to his law Office.
Last summer a group of Cleveland
ers, Democrats and Republicans,
we're grieving, during their lunch
con, because the prospective crop of
senatorial candidates was so poor.
None of the Democrats offered a
chance of beating Senator McCul-
loch.
What about Bob Bulkley?" a
Democrat suggested. Thereupon
Bulkley's boom was launched.
Refused 10 Show Interest
Buckley himself at first refused
TO show any interest. He was out
of politics and his law business was
exacting. In the meantime, Buckley
wentto Europe. He got back last
June to find the Buckley boom
stronger than ever. He protested
again and logically pointed out the
objections to his candidacy. chief
among them being the fact that he
then was comparatively unknown
10 the mass of Ohioans.
He overlooked the fact, however,
that most OhioanS were tired of
Anti Saloon League domination of
Ohio politics and disguised at the
failure of the prohibition law to
prohibit.
Bulkley then reluctantly let d
newspaper friend persuade him to
become a candidate.
His election from that moment
became a triumphant procession.
He campaigned against four sea-
Soned politicians. who promised
stricter enforcement of prohibition,
for repeal of the prohibition law.
He championed the theory of state
control and he won the nomination
by substantial majority.
When the election campaign be-
gan, Democratic politicians sought
TO persuade him to pussyfoot on
prohibition. Instead he urged the
repeal of prohibition in'every speech.