The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-07

At present Senators Homer T. Bone and Lewis B. Schwellenbach, both Democrats, both New Dealers, both strong men, would almost prefer to see the party lose out in 1940 rather than settle their personal differences.
 Actually there has been little difference in political philosophy between them. There has been jealousy over who shall be that states chief political prima donna, but this is nothing compared with a gentleman in the woodpile who has emerged as the Mark Hanna of western Washington.
 He is Saul Haas, astute cole lectOr of customs at Seattle, and the closest chambermaid in the Bone household. Saul Haas is the chief cause of the -Schwellenbach row.
 Saul began his political career covering the State Capitol at Olympia for a labor paper, when Homer Bone was Fafmer-La- bor member of the Legislature Then kicked around and criticized Bone looked to Haas like a man of promise.
 And when Bone ran for the Senate in 1882, Haas hooked everything he had to finance the campaign, steered it to a suc- cessful conclusion. Today Sena- tor Bone, intensely loyal, would give Haas his left arm. The two are inseparable. They work to- gether, vacation together, think together.
 Schwellenbach vs Haas
 Saul Haas also worked with Lew Schwellenbach, contributed ma- terially toward his election. One contribution was a loan of $1 ,000.
 That loan has now become the subject of bitter back-biting. Haas goes around exhibiting a letter from Schwellenbach &C., knowledging the loan and prom ising to pay it. But, adds Haas, once Schwellenbach was safely elected, he declined to pay.
 The senator, however, says the opposite. The loan has been paid in full, he says, though he had to repay on the installment plan.
 Haas now admits this but coun- ters with the statement that Schwellenbach deducted from the loan the cost of an extra bed in Schwellenbach's hotel room which Haas occupied while visiting the senator in Washington, D. c. At that time, he was helping put out a special issue of the magazine Labor" to aid the senator.
 Would you charge me if I came to see you and spent a few weeks as your guest?" asks Saul, in an aggrieved tone. Lew and I were like brothers.
 Furthermore, called him up once to get him to do some thing for me and what do you think he said? He said: You'll have to speak to my secretary about that, Saul. I'm senator nOw'."
 TwO-Bit Politics
 Upon the outcome of such petty personal peeves rests the future of Washington State Democracy. Republican and Democratic con- servatives are -chortling joyfully on the sidelines. For if the feud continues there is no question that Washington. one of the few states above the Mason-Dixon line to return a complete Democratic delegation in 1888, will go Re- publican in 1940.
 Already Schwellenbach's ene- mics in the Haas camp have start ed digging into his career as a laundryman in order to smear him if he is Roosevelt's choice for the Supreme Court.
 Real fact is that Schwellen- bach needs Haas, and Haas Schwellenbach. The senator has become one of Roosevelt's  most fortnight and effective defenders in congress. He is one of the few senators the President can always rely upon. In the Capital his rating is AA plus.
 In his own state his rating with labor is equally high, but the swing away from the New Deal has hurt him with the farmers. And 'he is anathema to business. He has just led a drive against the anti-picketing bill, for the de- feat of which he personally was largely responsible.
 But with the swing of the pen dulum away from the Democrats, Schwellenbach cannot afford op- position to his own reelection in