The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-30
SENATE POWER
OF DEMOCRATS
MAY INCREASE
Little Arthur Robinson Has
Something to Worry
About.

BIZ scripps-Hooard Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON, Jan. 80. - Al
though il is generally expected that
the Republicans will pick up al least
fifty house Of representatives seats
in the November election. it is
probable that the complexion Of the
senate next session viii be even
more Democratic.
The situation in the senate. where
almost all Of the Democrats whose
terms are expiring are from party
strongholds while many Republicans
are from doubtful bailiwicks. is due
to the fact that six years ago when
the men whose terms expire now
were elected the country was over
whelmingly Republican. Any Demo-
crat who was elected in 1923 had 70
be a good vote-getter. The lush
Hoover tide washed on to the Re-
publican side Of the senate cham
Der several members Of the type
referred to here as "one-termers."
Typical of this group are:
Senator Phillips Lee Goldsborough
of Maryland, who is now worrying
over whether il is worth while to
wade through a bitter party fight in
the primaries just for the empty
honor Of facing defeat at the hands
Of a Democrat; perhaps no less a
Democrat than popular Governor
Albert c. Richie.
Senator Hamilton F. Kean of New
Jersey, who is marked for certain
slaughter by the powerful Demo-
cratic machine of his prospective
opponent, Governor Harry Moore.
Senator Henry D. Hatfield of
West Virginia, a country doctor who
has but one prescription for the ma
tons ill-higher tariffs. His once
m ore Democratic constituency
thinks the SmOot-Hawley act was
an overdose.
Senator Roscoe c. Patterson of
Missouri. who caught the tail-end of
the Anti-Saloon League kite. and
now wishes he had a parachute to
let him down easy as he reads in
the newspapers that Jim Reed wants
TO bring his new bride back to
Washington.
Some other first-term Republicans
who have enough ability and polit-
icaI strength not TO be classified as
"one-termers.' must also face the
rising tide of distrust for the con-
sentative thought they represent.
They include Senators John @.
Townsend Jr. of Delaware. Frederic
- rrror--t4 - Tsorror+ic,tf a,,d Elo1iy
Hebert of Rhode Island. who earned
the enduring enmity of labor by his
attempt to sabotage the Wagner I'M
employment insurance bill.
Another worried figure in this
years political picture is Senator
Arthur r. Robinson, the living proof
that the Ku-Klux Khan was once
omnipotent in Hoosierland. He is
liked by neither the conservative
nor1 the progressive elements OF
his party, but he has so completely
sewed up such minority groups as
the veterans and the drys that no
one dares deny him the nomination.
If the favorable political winds
that are now blowing into the full
sails Of the new deal continue, the
Democrats may also pick up seat
in Ohio. Senator Simeon D. FeSS,
Republican whip. is believed to be
in danger. Relic of the days of
Wayne B. Wheeler and Calvin
Coolidge, Senator Fess does not fit
well in the senate of today. The
man who was for so long the
spokesman for the White House
may not even get the nomination.
Ex-Attorney- General Gilbert Bett-
man is out to take it away from
him.
There is even a remote poSsibil-
ity that the Democrats may get
seat in Pennsylvania should Sen
ator David A. Reed be renominated
by the Republicans.
Progressive Republicans up for
reelection this year who have
serious primary problems because
they bolted to Roosevelt in 1882,
are Senators Hiram Johnson OF
California. Bronson Cutting Of New
Mexico and Robert NJ. La Toilette
of Wisconsin.