The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-04

against Senator John Milton oi New Jersey, confidential henchmar of Boss Frank Hague, are backed by evidence indicating that Milton Is perhaps the only man who under stands how Hague has been able to buy hundreds of thousands ot dollars of real estate on an $8,OOC salary.
 Milton has been counsel, brains and financial agent for Mayor Hague, who operates from Jersey City what is sometimes called the most corrupt big political machine in the country.
 Appointed to the Senate by Hague's Governor Harry Moore after Hague himself had refused the job. Milton took his seat in the face of charges of fraud in the election of Moore and of "all the known devices of violating election laws"
 Although the Senate is likely to be complacent about Milton's back ground and refuse to oust him, the air is becoming surcharged with epigrams. Not the least startling statement is that made by Senator William H. King of Utah, Demo- cratic chairman of the subcommit- tee appointed to consider the charges, before he had familiarized himself with the evidence.
 'T am the law!" said Hague re- gently.
 "I ain't never been arreSted!" said Milton after his appointment.
 "As chairman of this subcom- mittee, cannot perjudge the case," said Senator King to 8 cor respondent. But Mir. Milton is here and he is going to stay!" Mysterious Tugwell
 No one will admit it, but Brain Truster Rexford G. Tugwell prob ably was present at the White house conference at which John Lewis, Owen D. Young, Tom Lamont, Phil Murray Charlie TauSsig and A. A. Berle publicly called on Roosevelt.
 Shortly beforehand, Tugwell as gured a friend that he would be et the conference and that no one would know it afterward. If he really was present, he was no more successful in covering up the fact than in his cOncealment of other recent visits to Wash ington. You hear about Tugwell being in town, but you don't see him and it's logical to suspect that he has taken to wearing disguise.
 In seeking a better understand ing between Roosevelt and business Tugwell especially cultivated Young believing that Young was the most liberal and sympathetic as well as the politically most realistic of big business leaders.
 WoOing Negro Vote
 The Republican senators, all ot whom with the exception of Arthur Capper of Kansas voted against the cloture which would have forced a vote on the anti-lynching bill. did so largely because they didn't want Democrats to get credit for an anti lynching vote among Negro voters.
 Even more conspicuous, if any one looked twice at the roll call, was the fact that none of the G. o. P. senators had any substan- tial cOlored constituency to worry about. States with large Negro populations haven't been electing Republican senators in recent years and so there just aren't any Republican senators from those states today except Jim Davis of Pennsylvania This is just one more evidence that the mass of the Negro vote has swung from the Republicans to the Democrats.
 Any Republican who had to think of the colored vote presumably would have voted for cloture. Davis was paired in favor. Other Repub- lican senators come from New Eng land, Idaho, California, Oregan, Delaware. North Dakota and Michi- gan.
 The only senator among the 37 anti-cloture Democrats who comes from a state where the Negro vote is important was Senator J. Ham Lewis of Illinois. The others went down the line for Walter White and his anti-lynching bill lobby.
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