The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-08-15

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WashIngton.-Down In South Caro-
Ina. where cotton benefit payments
abound and which is so regular In It's
Democracy that even the Bishop Can
non movement did not AFFECT IL III
1923. there are said to be rumoiihss
against the New Deal.
There are enough rumblings TO de-
eide Col. William c. Harllee. retired
of the Marine corps to throw MS ma.
In the ring for the senate. Ana
against none other than Senator
James F. Byrnes. generally regarded
as the closest follower President
Roosevelt has In the senate. II not
In congress. So close. in fact. that
until Joe Robinson simply turned MIN
self Into a White House rubber stamp
there was very serious talk OF max
Ing Byrnes leader In his place.
Colonel Harllee, who IS graduate oil
West Point but chose the marines
Instead of the army and has seen serv-
vice In nearly every martial theater
In which the devil dogs burned pow
der. thinks Byrnes Is too New Deal
ish to suit the South Carolina folks
And Judging from some newspaper
clippings which have come to WASH
Ington there are ut least Few eul-
tors In the Palmetto state who agree.
Professor Tugwel seems to be the
- IT,
coloners chief target, sHAf ~he insists
that he Is not a John raskob Dem
ocrat either-just a plain, old-fash-
Toned, Jeffersonian. nnllliicationlst
pro- Calhoun and anti-Jackson, states
rights. low tariff, Democrat
In fact, he Is not for any tariff at
all. sticking strongly by the old NULL
fcationist doctrine. when South caro-
lima held that the federal government
at Washington had no right to rear
tariff barriers which would keep Tor
eign goods out Of her ports.
Some very shrewd observers thinf
that Colonel Harllee just might make
lot of trouble for the administra
| tons faIr-haired senator. They sa.
that the people who put the money VI
for Byrnes' campaigns In the pas
are very disappointed In him. Par
tlcularly on his sticking by the ad
minIstration ON the processing taxes
and on his fight for the death sen
tence In the public utility holding bill
Now They Doubt
It lust so happens that many 0
the interests that supported Byrne
In his several races were OF the COZ
servattve variety. They liked Byrne'
all right, but what they we're reall
anxious to do was to defeat Col
Blease. Now some Of them are VOL
dering If Blease would not have vote
more often In their interests, as the
see them.
aWhat do you think OF Senator
Byrd and Glass OF Virginia." tt
writer asked Colonel Harllee. e
pecIally of the way they have Q
/
OF important measures"
II wish you would tell your rea
ers that I Will out-Byrd Harry al
out-Glass Carter" grlnned the colon
"A great many OF our people a
getting tired Of this relief thing. TIL
want to get people to work, and fl
them on relief. buying cheap NJ
cars on time with the relief none
and Just stepping on the gas. thl
Washington Is going to be surprls
at some of the primaries and electio
to come. II the feeling In South Ca
lima Is any Indication
1t promises to be rather warm
South Carolina next spring and su
mer!
The Ethiopian Mess
Italy will have no difficulty In
feating the Abyssinlans In whate
battles may occur In the approach
war. In the opinion Of high millt
experts both In our own War dept
ment and in various embassies h'
The trouble Will come after that, I
believe. as they fully expect tn
will be constant guerrilla warf
- for years during Italian efforts
80 colonization.
Hence 1t Is expected that the L
oman mess. which the rest OF
: world Is so anxious to avert, but L
1s so determined to push, will pr
highly costly to the italian treas
for many long day to come.
merits here figure that Italy will b
TO garrison the country. 50 to sp
with strong forces at strategic noi
and this, of course, will prove ex
sive.
Confldentially, for no officer d
& sneak on such a situation for pl
cation. our army officers are com
ING the situation to that which
,stad for time after the Spar
~ American war In the Philip
They expect italy to have more
| Bile than the United States did
several reasons.
4 For example, some or them sa
! ,s not likely that any Abyssinian
4 a. would walk into any such ira
\ CLAIMED Aguinaldo In American
"a, Incidentally there Is no /