Evening star., 1939-11-01
Possible 1910 Rivals
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Stork and CLARK Grew
Up on Neiehborins
Plantations in Missouri
~ the Associated Press,

. ~ the Associated Press.
Those fine old Pike County (MoD
friends. Bennett Champ Clark and
Lloyd G. Stark. have wound up on
opposite sides OF the arms embargo
question.
Senator Clark was one of the
leaders in the fight against repeal
OF the embargo. Gov. Stark has in
. dorsed the administration stand and
Is urging support for the foreign
policy of President Roosevelt and
: Secretary Hull.
The two have been spoken of as
potential rivals for Missouri delega-
; ton to the 1910 Democratic Nation
al Convention. How much truth
. turks in that talk is not clear.
. The Governor says that he and
Senator Clark always have been
good friends and intend to keep on
. being that way. Gov. Stark is run
ming for the Senate seat of Harry
s. Truman. But he also is making
: speeches outside Missouri, in places
like New York, where few Missouri
: votes might be expected to lurk.
Clark's Vote Imposing.
= The general situation grows large
: ~ out OF last years election in Mis-
: souri, and the sensational sweep of
: developments since then.
!: Senator Clark was reelected to the
Senate with such an imposing vote.
that his friends began to mention
his name in the same breath with
such mind-filling words as "presi-
. Dental nomination" and "White
House" The vote rolled up by
BOSS" Tom Pendergasts organiza-
. ton In Kansas City swelled his
total. Though Senator Clark was
from the other side of the State
and had never been a part of the
Pendergast organization.
. In that same campaign Gov.
Stark was battling the Pendergast
organization, not for himself, but
: to elect James M. Douglas to the
: State Supreme Court. He said that
: the Pendergast organization wanted
, to control the court. Gov. Stark
licked the machine, and Mr. Douglas
went on the bench.
Subsequent developments led to
. the conviction of Pendergast on
income tax charges, with Gov. Stark
. supporting Maurice Milligan, the
hard-flghtlng district attorney at
Kansas City.
More Than a Galahad.
. None of these deyelopmentS is
calculated to have shaken Gov
Stark's hold on the Missouri voters.
The attendant publicity put him
. before the country in the guise of a
Galahad at time when the Nation
liked Galahads.
But Gov. Stark is much too prac-
tical and his background is too va
|, rled Tor him to be just Galahad.
He has been a Navy officer, fought
, as captain in the Army in the
World War because he could not
get back into the Navy quickly
enough, has been successful
. planter and businessman. His
trends began to talk about him for
the White House, too. -
But obviously two Pike County
men could not sit in the White
House at the same time. Gov. Stark
ana Senator Clark had grown up on
nelghboring plantations in the rich
: farming country of Northeast Mis-
, souri,. Benefits father had taught
{. Lloyd's father in school. Later. as
/: Speaker of the House, it was Champ
4. Clark who gave Lloyd Stark an ap-
: pointment to Annapolis.
: Bricker Gives Taft Free Road.
. The Missouri Democratic problem
! IS similar in some ways to the Ohio
{ Republican one. In Ohio, Gov,
Bricker has pulled aside to give a
Tree road to Senator Taft in the
, race for the presidential nomination
. In Missouri, Gov. Stark is likelv to
DO the same thing for Senator Clark.
Yet, in neither case does it mean
. that the two Governors are to be
scratched off the list of picket possi-
bilities for 1910.
In the meantime, Gov. Stark is
concentrating on his campaign
against Mr.. Truman. The latter was
backed by Pendergast for election
last time. Now the Pendergast in
1uence as Statewide factor has
been virtually wiped out of Missouri.
Many are beginning to doubt that
the Kansas City organization will
pick slate for next years primary.
Four years ago it backed every win