Evening star., 1932-08-15

allegation that security prices started
their upward climb at the moment
when election betting odds in Wall
Street veered around to Roosevelt. The
fact remains that so far little money
has been wagered on the outcome in
November. 'Tis said that money talks,
but as yet election Sstting is talking
hardly above whisper.
Mrs. Hattie w. Caraway in running
away with the senatorial nomination i'll
Arkansas last week set up a new record
for women in politics, for it was tee
first time an American woman has won
a seat in the Upper House of Congress
in real contest. Ruth Hanna NC
Cormiek won a hard-fodght senatorial
primary contest in Illinois two years
ago, but was showed under on election
day. In Arkansas the primary cortest
was in reality the election fight. The
November voting is a mere formality.
Mrs. Caraways six rivals included Mai.
o. L. Bodenhamer, former national
commander of the American Legion.
She polled almost as many votes as all
the other six put together. Organized
labor backed her to the limit and Sem
ator Huey Long, the Louisiana King
Fish" in stumping the State with her,
shares the glory of her triumph and
has earned her everlasting gratitude.
Reports from Connecticut are to the
effect that Senator Hiram Bingham,
wet air enthusiast, will do his campaign
transforming in an auto giro. alighting,
of course, at the proper times and
places to talk and to shake hands.
First the radio, now air travel, next
television will complete the matamor-
phosis of political campaigning. Mr..
Hoover has no intention of travelling
by airplane this year, for a hop" to
mains to be seen whether Gov Roose-
velt will duplicate his Albany-to-Chi-
cago croSs-country flying feat. Pos
Sibly the country has not yet quite
adjusted itself to having its President
or would-be President off of terra flrma
flying through the clouds. But all other
candidates will resort to air travel, and
If not this year certainly four years
hence presidential nominees, too. And
what happy solution that will be for
the problems which arise when the
nominee travels by train and has to
pass through a city or State where
rival factions make a stop embarrassing
and where not to stop is fatal. Such
problems heretofore have played hid
den part in deciding whether to cross
the continent or to remain on the front
porch. s
Photographs OF Gov. Roosevelt
splashing in the swimming pool which
Is an adjunct OF his private estate at
Hyde Park, New York and engaging
in exciting and exhilarating games OF
water BALI are just now being widely
published. Pictorially the Democratic
nominee is the most ardent presiden-
tial sportsman since Teddy Roosevelt.
The country has viewed him as an
aviation enthusiast and as a yachtsmsn
at the helm of his sailing craft. as
nautical in dress as Skipper" Charles
Francis Adams, present Secretary OF
the Navy. One of the Roosevelt cam
psign biographies carries full-psee
photo of the nominee astridc his hcr =
at Warm Springs. Ga. The b1thlng
pictures prompt the thought that IL
Franklin D. Roosevelt moves into thcl
presidential mansion next March, VIII al
House recreational facilities ought t1,
be expanded to include an cpcn ciri
swimming pool "T. r" butt a tanni Il
court there; Taft and Wilson were
motorists; Harding a golfer; Coolidge,
the mechanical horse; Hoover. hand
Dali rTdIlhiIIl u. ttOO@G|Sll. NdIeI DdIi, Z
that seems to oe the sequence. 3
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Gamers Goat of Texas" the dog
gerel verse composed and recited in the
House during the Underwood Democra 4
cratic tariff debate back in 1918 byi
Mayor j. Hampton Moore of Philadsl-
phia, then a House member. in satirical
eulogy of Gamers success in securing
high tariff protection for mohair,
though wool went on the free list, Is
now going the rounds again. The poem.
reputed to have really gotten Texas
Jacks goat" will be heard at many a
Republican rally. A less famous but
equally scorching bon mot" was the
retort to Garner of Secretary of Treas7'
ury Ogden Mills, then member Of tho
House during a passage at arms in the
tariff debate in 1925. Said Mr.. Mills:
My good friend from Texas tells me
that while I am a good economist
am probably the worst politician in the
House. That certainly cannot be said
Of the gentleman from Texas, because
he never allows the economic tail to wag
his political dog" Incidentally Gamers
two-hour tariff speech, which had
evoked the Mills reply. was never print
ed in the Congressional Record,
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