The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1938-06-30

nm without knowing tlio Ac Haof
or caring. They were voting
against Lewis.
France came to the senate, for
one term, but long enough to
plague Woodrow Wilson on the
League of Nations-he promptly
Joined the irreconcilables when that
battalion of death organized to fight
the Versailles treaty. Also long
enough to acquire high ambitions,
He has been a constant candidate
for President ever since, though
never able 70 get any delegates
from his own state.
Bar Berry's Path
A city boss who can deliver
majority of 10000 in Democratic
primary for any candidate he
chooses-even if he delays his deci-
sion until the day before election
and a United States senator who
has been doing favors for voters up
and down his state for rs years,
stand in the way of the continuance
of Senator George L. Berry Of Ten
nessee in the upper house.
The city boss is Ed Crump of
Memphis. The senator is Kenneth
Mcclellan. They have decided that
Tom Stewart shall be the "other
senator from Tennessee. There
are other candidates besides Berry
and Stewart. One. is Ridley Mitch
ell of Cookeville, who, some think,
will get more votes than Berry. An
other is E. w. Carmack of Muir
freesboro. son of the famous sena-
tor. There are also DR. John R.
Neal of Knoxville and c. L. Powell
of Sumner county.
But Crump and Mcclellan seldom
lose a fight when they are together.
Actually the most important phase,
to them, is the governorship and
not the senatorship. Two years ago
they backed sthe present governor,
Gordon Browning, and won handily.
7 Mcclellan was for another candidate
! at first, but yielded to Crump. What
disturbed Mcclellan is that he al
ways looks long ways ahead. He
: knew that if Browning should serve
: two terms as governor, and make
t lot of friends, he might be q
! strong opponent in 1870, when Nc
I Kellar comes up for reelection.
I Tennessee has the same sort Of
! unwritten law about its senators
t which North Carolina, Vermont anc
! many other states have. One must
: be from the western part of the
r state, the other from the eastern
So Mcclellan doesn't like the idea
> of senatorial aspirants from his
{ own. the western, section Of Ten
| nessee.
J It's Politics
, Governor Browning, although sup
) ported two years ago by Grump
| apparently did not trust him. A
( any rate he proposed count,
unit system of nominations ant
} forced it through the Legislature
: This would have crippled Crump'
q power in statewide primaries, TO
!. it would have reduced Shelby cour
n ty (Memphis) to a few votes of tn
!? electoral variety, somewhat simila
to the Georgia plan. To max
Crump all the madden, the bi
g. which Browning forced throug
g would have placed maximum 6
ID the number of votes in each count,
$. This would have strengthened II
IN smaller counties, cut down til
O. power not only of Memphis, but ,
lie Nashville, Chattanooga and Kno.
Mt vile.
i'll Unfortunately for Browning, tn
if proposed law was knocked out
to the courts, which held that the la
disfranchised voters, SO tn
a. Crump's ire was aroused witho
ng his claws being cut.
in Browning had appointed Berry
til the senate after the death
st Nathan Bachman, though Crun
of was for another man. The undt
" standing ia Washington is tn
al Browning did this at the urge
solicitation of President Rooseve
,ss who wanted a sure New Deal w
hn in the upper house. In Tenness
err they say Charles West convinc
tor Browning of this and that Roosev
had no part in it. In fact,
he Tennessee the story is told Il
MT this is really what happened to w
Try Roosevelt stood by and let Hart
lur l.. Ickes kick him around.
DIS At any rate Browning is now s.
Of porting Berry, and Crump and 4
nit Kellar have marked both for
hat slaughter. Which makes it m
inopportune, politically, for Da
xed Z. Lilienthal to join DR.. Arthur
sful Morgan in the public branding
re- Berry as a would-be profteer
lou submerged marble lands.
ats, & Bel Syndicate. -WNu Service.