The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-25

or ms good friend, Jim Farle from. Wyoming.
 The Senator, Joseph Christopher OMahoney, owes @ large slice of his recent political success to Jim Farley, and according to Jim's Tammany-bred ethics there is no greater sin among the political ten commandments than ingratitude.
 JOE OrMAHONEY WAS NOT GRATEFUL.
 Joe and Jim got to know each other back in 1882 when Farley, suitcase in hand, was trekking across the continent skipping backs, spilling reanns of green ink, and lining up local leaders for Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
 Joseph 0. o'MahOney was one of those. In fact, he was one of Farley's chief advisers for the vast area west of the MisSis- sippi river. The two men be- came very close, and immedi- ately after the election, Farley made O'Mahoney his first as- sistant postmaster general, the No. 2 job in the Post Office Department.
 O'Mahoney ran the department while Farley was away, did an ex- cellent job in reorganizing 1t. No two men in the New Deal were better friends, had more confi- dences than Jim and Joe.
 Then in the late fall of 1883, Senator Kendrick of Wyoming suddenly died, and the governor appointed Joe OMahoney, Ken dricks former secretary. Jim Farley, returning from Europe, said: ...
 q hate to lose Joe as my chief assistant, but I know he will be 3 great senator for Wyoming and the nation"
 Jim really meant that. But just a brief year later he was rue- fully regretting the fact that he had elevated O'Mahoney to pub- lie life. For Joe became one of the most effective leaders of the fight against Roosevelt's reform of the Supreme Court.
 Luck and Politics
 Joe OMahoney was born, not In Wyoming, but in a Boston su- burb, of poor Irish parents and with nothing In life save unfail- ing courage, a good brain and plenty of luck.
 Luck has played an extremely important part In the life of Joe O'MahOney. If 1t hadn't been for Q sick brother who needed the dryer climate of the West, Joe might be completely unheard of still in Boston. As jt was, he arrived with his broth- CT in Denver just 30 years ago with SIS in his pocket.
 He got Q job with The Boulder, Colo, Daily Hearld, and Q few years later decided to migrate to another newspaper job In Texas. Again luck intervened. Joe ac- actually had packed his suitcase and gone to the station, when suddenly he played a hunch--and went to Cheyenne, Wyo., instead.
 Here he got Q job as city edi- tor of The Cheyenne State Lead CT, owned by John B. Kendrick, then governor of the state. o. Mahoney became his secretary when Kendrick was elected to the Senate, and later succeeded to the same suite of offices when Kendrick died.
 Had OMahoney gone on to Texas, he would have edited the newspaper owned by Albert B. Fall, later secretary of the interior during the Teapot Dome scandal. Good Record |
 Whether you are for the Ad- ministration or against 1t, there is no escaping the fact that O'Ma- honey has been an able senator. He has been in ofilce less than four years, but already he has made a name for himself. HI seffective- ness comes in part from his love of a good fight, part from the fact that when he arrived, he knew Washington as few other senators do.
 Long years as secretary to Sena- tor Kendrick had taught him all the tricks of the trade--ar1d there are lot of tricks.
 One of these is to go slow on forensic exhibitions, save your breath for committee hear ings. O'Mahoney Is . member of seven different committees and he Is Q hard worker on all of them.
 It was his effectiveness on the Judiciary Committee which helped materially in defeating Roose- velts Supreme Court bill. Joe drafted the famous compromise