The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-26
ALL ARKANSAS
SOLIDLY BEHIND
MRS. CARAWAY
Fighting Senator's Widow
May Hold Real Power in
Upper House.
BY EWING JOHNSON
NEA Service Writer

JONESBORO, Ark, Nov. 26.-Thc
mild-mannered wife of 'the fight
INCEST senator in Arkansas history
whose life never even was touched
by the binding rays of publicity
that played so fiercely upon her
famous husband for twenty years,
is the new senator from Arkansas.
A country girl whose upward path
in life paralleled that of her hus-
band who began as cotton picker
nd sawmill laborer and worked
his way through law school to con-
gresS and the United States Senate,
Mrs. Hattie Caraway is going to
Washington soon to take her seat
as a member Of that body-a seat
like the one that Mrs. Ruth Hanna
McCormick's millions failed to win
for her in Illinois few years ago.
Appointed by Governor Parnell to
succeed her husband, who died re-
Gently, Mrs. Caraway becomes the
! first woman senator in the nations
history except for the aged Mrs.
Rebecca L. FELTON, of Georgia who,
as a complimentary gesture, was
appointed to serve one day some
years ago.
Reelection Not Unlikely
But Mrs. Caraway's appointment
is no complimentary one-day ges-
ture. She has been appointed to
serve until a special election can be
held on Jan. II, and just now it
seems very likely that she will be
! duly elected to succeed herself.
With the Democratic and Repub-
lican count in the senate so close,
she may exercise really important
power there.
The public knows little about her;
she never took any prominent part
in politics, clubs or society, but
carefully tended her own home and
reared family of three husky boys.
Two have chosen army careers; the
third is of prep school age.
Mother taught us all to drive"
says Lieutenant Paul Caraway, who
looks a lot like his father. But
now"-he srniles-"she hangs on
tight in the back seat while we
drive"
| Never On The Stump
Eyes" puts in 15-year-old Bobbie.
"and she's a good cook, too-and
she can play golf"
Golf?
well, I made a hole in one,
once" smiles the mother. MY score
for nine holes, I guess, is about 1907
During Congress session, Mrs.
Caraway lived with her husband in
Washington, but the rest of the
time they spent here. They have a
pretty old southern home with
flowers all around it, even this late
in the season. She likes to tend
those flowers.
She never has made a political
speech in her life or taken much
part in politics, except to assist at
her husbands campaign headquar-
tiers. But if a neighbor is sick, she
likes to go over with some hot bis
cults and broth and help things
along.
COunseled Her Husband
But behind this reticent, retiring
little woman whom the public never
saw there is something deepsr-far
deeper.
She was her husbands counselor.
Each evening at home they talked
over measures that the senator was
considering, helped him prepare his
speeches for the next day.
Perhaps she knew as much about
his job as he debut he was the
senator, not she. She preferred to
remain in obscurity.
Now Hattie Caraway is the sena-
tor and her chance has come. Ar
kansas is confident that she will
now display to the world the silent
ability that she has possessed all
along-in fact, Jonesboro is certain
of it,