Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-30
The Political Mill
By C. Could LinooIn.


A new presidential boom Is to be
launched at an early date, accordine
| to advices reaching here. Melvin Alvah
Traylor, head Of the First National
Bank OF Chicago, IL TO be put forward
for the Democratic nomination, and the
launching of the boom Is to take place
not in Illinois but In Texas. Traylor
O native Of Kentucky, went to Texas
he been that he is now regarded as one
Of the financial luminarieS Of Chicago
and the United States. The TrayloI
boom Is to have its official launching
at a monster picnic in HillSboro, Tex,
where Traylor went as young man
married and moved on to success, first
as a member Of the bar and then as q
banker Traylor has been a close friend
and admirer of owen D. Young, and II
has been intimated that he tried TO
get Young to make the run for the
presidential nomination. but without
apparent success.
Now these Texas Democrats, who
think a great deal Of Mr.. Traylor, see
no reason why he should not be the
more. some of them believe that. the
adoption of Mr.. Traylor as the Texas
candidate for the nomination may give
| them q way out Of their fractional
| strife, which has been vigorous ever
since the 1928 campaign, when the
Democrats split wide open in the Lone
| Star State over the Smith candidacy
and the State cast its electoral votes
| for President Hoover. And II the
Illinois banker could become an effec-
tive candidate ct the Democratic Ma
tional Convention next year, particularly
II Roosevelt, Baker and Robinson and
others should tie up the convention
the Texans feel. that they might
succeed in getting him nominated
What Mr.. Traylor himself thinks about
the boom has not yet developed.
4 \ \
Cutting OF the nose to spite the face
is not the way politicians play the
game. Politicians have quite sensitive
noses. And so the threat OF Senator
George H. Moses Of New Hampshire
to defeat for chairmanships Of i'm
portant standing committees of the
Senate any Republican progreSsives OF
all progTeSsiVes, II any or all OF them
undertake to stop his reelection a.
president pro tempore Of the Senate
may be peculiarly effective. Some OF
the progressives do not like the New
Hampshire Senator q little bit. They
consider that he - not sufficiently in
terested in the reelection Of progress.
sive Republicans, when he happens to
be chairman of the Republican Sena-
torial Campaign Committee. They re-
member that he referred to them as
Sons of the Wild Jackass" in an
after-dinner speech Q year or so ago
And some of them have been limiting
that they intended to do Mr.. Moses
in when the opportunity arose.
With the Senate divided forty eight
Republicans to forty-seven Democrats
and one 'Farmer-Labor Senator, 1t has
been the thought of some of the
progressives that by casting a vote OF
! two with the Democrats for president
pro tempore Mr.. Moses might be
downed. Now he. on his part, asserts
| that II anything like that happens he
will vote for the Democratic candidates
FOR chairmen Of standing committees
instead of the progressives who seek
reelection to those chairmanships
Nye of North Dakota, for exampl, Is
chairman of the Public Lands Com
mittees; Norris of Nebraska is chair
man Of the Judiciary Committee. La
Toilette Of Wisconsin is chairman of the
Manufacturers Committee, and there
are half q dozen other members OF the
ships under the present order.
4
Senator Moses himself Is up for re.
election to the Senate next year. Wher
q Senator has a battle of his own or
his hands 1t Is the custom to excuse
| him from the Craftsmanship or mem.
bership in q senatorial campaign con.
mittee. So it may be expected thai
some other Republican than the New
Hampshire Senator will head the party.
Senatorial Committee next year. o
course, the New Hampshire Senator
might insist upon retaining the job
But there Is opposition to such q cours,
from regular Republican sources. as vel
as from progressive. 1t is quite nat
| ural that Senator Moses should inSis
that he should not be sidetracked il
the election Of a president pro tempore
! OF the Senate. however. If he wer,
turned down, it might have some effec
| on his fight for denomination and re-
election to the Senate in New Hanp
| shire. There have been plenty of sug
! gestions that he will have a fight or
his hands in the Republican primary
| anyway, with the present Governor
Winant, who belongs to the progressive
wing OF the party in the White Noun
tain State, eager to run. Winant bea
l eAAS As4OoNES NuAlhAAdkC 1OI NNOVSIIlOI
the last election. But beating Mr.
Moses is another matter. The senio
Senator from New Hampshire is strong
| ly intrenched in his own State. How
ever, If Winant should get into the rae
| for the nomination there would be
hot campaign.
X y II
Senator Caraway of Arkansas. chair
man OF the Senate Lobby" Committee
has agreed to 60 ahead at an early dat,
| with the inquiry into the charge
Senator received 100000 in securitie!
or money from a corporation interested
in the sugar tariff during the considera
ton OF the Hawley-Smoot tariff law b,
Congress. When the charge was pub
Lsned in the newspapers last Spring
Senator James j. Davis CT Pennsyivani,
issued statement denying that he hat
ever received any bride from anybody
and asked to appear before the Lobb,
Committee. He did, and made a state
ment making q nat denial. The com
] mittee, it was said, was not prepared Il
| go ahead with the inquiry at that time
put wished to look up records of stool
transactions, particularly with the Cello
tex Co. Now Senator Davis has urget
Mr.. Caraway to go ahead and get tn,
investigation out OF the way withou
Davis, Chairman Caraway has agreeS
to hold . hearing as soon as prac.
ticable, depending on whether the com
mittee investigator has completed his job
\ y
Quite naturally Senator Davis wishe
to have this matter cleared up and bacl
OF him. He, too, has to run for re-
nomination and reelection In Penn
Sylvania next year. Already there ar,
two potential candidates and possibl,
a third and q fourth who might ente
the lists against Davis In the primary
Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, U. S
Marine Corps. who is to retire this Fall
, has already indicated he might seek tn,
senatorial nomination. Chairman Fetch
er Of the United States Tariff Commits
/ sion Is reSigning that ONCE in Sentem