Evening star., 1937-04-11
BACKER Of COURT
EXPANSION PLAN
WINNER IN TEXAS
Johnson Beats Nearest On.
p0nent for House Seat
by Two to One.
ROOSEVELT PROPOSAL
OPPONENTS TRAIL
Former Youth Administration
Head in State to Succeed Late
Representative Buchanan.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
AUSTIN, Tex, April l0.-Youthfu
Lyndon B. johnson, who shouted hi.
advocacy OF President Roosevelt.
court reorganization all over the tenth
Iexas district, was elected today tc
the seat in Congress the late Jane.
+. Buchanan held "a years.
From a hospital bed where he was
operated on for appendicitis two day,
ago, he happily received reports of ar
emphatic victory over seven opponents
and said he considered the result q
vote OF confidence in Mr.. Roosevelt
and his program
Two opponents, Polk Shelton and
c. N. Avery, both of Austin, where
johnson was given large lead, con.
ceded the victory after an unofficia
tabulation showed johnson would no,
be headed
Opponents of Court Plan.
Shelton campaigned on the court
issue. calling the people to beware Of
the move to pack the Supreme
Court State Senator Houghton w
Brownlee OF Austin, who ran far be.
hind, also opposed the court plan.
Other entrants in the race were
County Judge Sam V. Stone of George.
town, Merton l.. Harris, former as
sistant State attorney general; Ayre;
K. Ross, Townsend plan advocate
and Edwin Waller.
All are Democrats and all except
Shelton and Brownlee had spoken
Tor the court reorganization.
With an estimated 80 per cent oi
the total vote reported, the tabulatior
gave Johnson, 7,187; Stone, 1850;
Avery, 3,443; Shelton, 1858; Harris
3,317; Brownlee, 2,586; Ross, 942, ano
Waller, Is.
Avery for years was campaign man.
ager for Buchanan, chairman Of the
House Appropriations Committee.
johnson was given a large lead in
Travis County, site Of the State Capt.
tai, where he had been located several
years as head of the National Youth
Administration for Texas. He resigned
that position to make the campaign
Ioi hsCIly ScTfcu f1cTc.
His home county OF Blanco gave
him three times as many votes as the
combined total for his opponents.
johnson served from 1882 to 1896 as
secretary to Representative Richard
M. Kleberg of Corpus Christi, Tex,
and was elected president of the Little
Congress, an organization of secre-
taries OF Senators and Representa-
tives
Fair weather helped to attract size
able crowds to the polls in the dis
trict, but early voting indicated the
total number of ballots cast would
lall short OF the maximum strength of
approximately $4,000
Today's was the first congressional
election in which the court question
was at issue
Shelton campaigned vigorously
against stacking the court" and in
last-minute statement said the
question to be settled was his plat
form against the change in the court
and my opponents blanket approval
OF the change without the submits
sion of an amendment"
Brownlee OF Austin, State Sen
ator, recently voted for a Senate res
olutlon sharply criticizing the Presi-
dents proposition, but in the cam
paign did not emphasize the matter.
Neither the State or the national
Democratic administrations took a
hand in the campaign. Gov. James
V. Alfred stated several times he
had no official preference. On a visit
to Austin, Postmaster General James
A. Farley said his concern only was
that Democrat be elected. Elliott
Roosevelt, son of the President. ex-
pressed hope, however, that johnson
would win.