Evening star., 1935-06-16
BY ROBERT CRAWFORD.

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Next Wednesday will be the day
Of days for the plucky boy Senator
elect from West Virginia, for on that
day Senator Henry Hatfield, his Re
publican opponent whom he defeated
in the last election, will contest his
right to the seat In the Senate on
the grounds that Mr.. Holt did not
meet the age requirement at the start
OF the term for which he was elected.
The Constitution recites that mo
person shall be a Senator who shall
not have attained to the age of 80
years and been nine years citizen
of the United States, and who shall,
when elected, be an inhabitant OF that
State for which he shall be chosen" !"
Well, the young Senator-elect says
Henry Clay was only 20 when seated
and Andrew Jackson had just reached
80 when he took his seat. Mr.. Holt
is very proud of the fact that he re-
ceived $4,000 more majority than did
President Roosevelt in 1882.
In passing: If one wishes to see
the boy Senator -elect he will have to
pick his way down to the neither
regions of the handsome Senate Once
Building to find him, for his suite is
In the basement, where the view from
the windows Is Just high embank-
ment, with a little ray of daylight
coming over the top.
Now, please understand that Mr..
Holt was not sent down there because
he was bad boy and presumed to be
elected to that august body, the United
States Senate, before he was old
enough to be sworn in, for he really
chose the basement suite because he
liked it. Senator James John Davis,
the Welshman from Pennsylvania,
had occupied the rooms before him,
but for personal reasons had pro-
gressed higher up.
Neither Is the Senator -elect trying
10 hide from his constituents, for
they come by the score and receive
right hearty welcome. Judging from
the West Virginia papers, they are
awfully proud of their choice-and he
has been able to help out a bit, too,
for among the things he can do before
being seated is to sign post office ap-
pointments. And he brought all his
ofice force from home-they are
hand picked. He can pay them, draw
his salary and has all the emolu-
fnents of the Office Of Senator
except he cannot ride on the railroad
at the expense Of the taxpayers.
Good health. energy and good cheer
pervade the room as the athletic figure
rises from his chair and gives q
hearty handshake-regular foot ball
grip. Mr.. Holt was foot ball and
basket ball coach at college and can
twirl a base ball with pretty curve.
His success In politics and at college
reveals strong social instinct,
although he says he is not fond of
society in the oficial or social register
acceptance Of the term. He likes his
fellow-mer and believes in them;
while he observes all the social ameni-
ties of polite society, he thinks a man
should be judged by his usefulness to
society-his intrinsic worth; 'the gold
Is but the guinea stamp" and he is
inclined to think fashionable society
looks a bit too much at q mans bank
account.
Mr.. Holt, doubtless. agrees with
Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's
outlook on the future: The other day
she told the graduating class of the
University of North Carolina that
success in the future would be gauged
by the individuals service to his
community and not by financial sue
cess.
The baby Senator -elect-he's as
husky looking as the Dionne quin-
tuplets-began early to carve out a
career for himself and, believing with
the old South, that young men should
20 into politics, he ran for the State
Legislature, was elected and took his
seat when he was %. At college he
majored in history and later occu-
pied the chair of history. It's still
his favorite study and when he does
not read that he reads largely books
on economics-with now and then
novel.
A bachelor and a dancing man is
always welcome in Capital society.
and Mr. Holt is both-besides having
0 taking way with the ladies.
Mrs. William Fitch Kelley, presi-
dent of the League of Republican
Women, went out to Springfield, Ill,
to pluck a few blades of grass andA
lend her support to the grass rooters'
convention. Is there not a poem
about the grass that never grows so
green as where some Sainted hero
lies? OF words to that effect? Well,
those old-time political heroes seem
to have fallen by the dozens out there
regardless of their past services and
desire to help out. The Republican
young bloods sent out word in the
beginning that this was to be their
party and they were going to have
their fling. The 5000 delegates. how
ever, were named from party organi-
cations of all Sorts and while former
candidates and prospective candidates
were politely asked to remain away,
their friends and sympathetic OBJ
servers we're present. The speakers
ate up the Constitution and States
fights-both are glorious subjects.
But not to steal the show from Mrs
Kelley-she is small and very dainty,
cosmopolite of the charming kind,
but, oh, my, she can say a mouthful
when it comes to Grating good old
fashioned Republican doctrine. The
unfortunate thing for her opponent
Is she Is so polite and convincing that
one has to be careful that she does
not proselytize before one Is aware
President Harding had his nor
f1alcy," President Hoover his yard
stick" and President Roosevelt has his
"horse and buggy age" but the young
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