Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-28
News Behind the News
What Politics Has To DO With II -.
The Opponents Don't Run Soon
1910 Too Far Array

WASHINGTON.-Mo of the Democratic
senator's who have declared themselves opposed
to the Presidents judiciary plan VIII not come
up for denomination and re-elecCon until l9fo'
Without making any generalizations as 10 tne
possible significance of the present nneup, II Is
easy to point out that the votes OF lndlVldual
senators are likely to figure as issues IN the con-
gretional elections of 1888 In that year the sup
port of Roosevelt presumably Will be more OF d
campaign asset than it will be in l94O. ana III
the presidential year of 1910 there are hKey
to be other ISSUES which Will dwarf the quea-
ton of what was done about the Supreme Court
in 1897
One of the more recent polls of the Senate
shows 81 members for the administration pro-
gram 35 against and "a noncommittal. AS among
Democratic senators the poll shows: 50 III favor,
10 against and % undecided.
Eleven of the opposition Democrats are up 1or
reelection in l940 The 1910 group also includes
eight in favor and five undecided.
Only six of 81 Democratic senators who must
face the voters in 1888 have thus far declared
against the Roosevelt plan. They are Clark OF
Missouri, George of Georgia, Gillette Of Iowa.
Smith of South Carolina, Tydings OF Maryland
and Van Nuys of Indiana. OF the others, y
have announced their support of the President
and nine are still listed as undecided
Only two of the "a Democratic senators
elected in the Roosevelt landslide OF 1896 nave
declared against the proposal, Bailey of North
Carolina and Glass of Virginia Since both men
come from southern states where Democratic
success is customary neither can be said 10 nave
ridden into office on the Roosevelt wagon. But
this same group of newly elected or newly re-
elected senators includes Is who have said they
favored the Roosevelt plan and an undecided
group of mine The "a will not be up for re-
election again until 1912.
To the student OF politics it is at least equally
interesting to observe how relatively few are
the states whose two senator's agree on the Su-
preme Court issue.
There are 33 states whose senators are ooth
Democrats. But in only one instance nave Two
Democrats from the same state both declared
against the Roosevelt PLAN Senator's Carter
Glass and Harry F. Byrd, arch-conservatives
from Virginia who never quarrel politically, are
the exceptional pair.
In six cases both senators agree in favor OF
the plan But 26 other states will note that
their senators thus far have been unable to get
together on mutual position.
Senators from 10 states are split for and
against the plan-and it's in this group you find
the bitterest feuds There are Minton and Van
Nuys of Indiana Truman and Clark of Mis-
souri,, Smathers and Moore of New Jersey, Rey-
nolds and Bailey of North Carolina, Bukley
and Donahey of Ohio Green and Gerry of Rhode
Island, Byrnes and Smith of South Carolina
Sheppard and Connally of Texas Thomas and
King of Utah. Nicely and Holt of West virginia
the aforementioned senators being IN favor.
In eight states one Democratic senator is in
favor and the other undecided. And five states
where one senator is against and the other un-
decided.