Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-09-04

Fight Draft
Senate Opposition In.
cluded All Outstand-
ing Old-Time Liberal
Faction.
BY CHARLES p. STEWART
Central :>..psS CoIumpist

Washington, Sept. t.--The 81 sen
! atorS who voted. in a minority by
2l-bal'Ot margin against the RirI;c-
! WadSWurlh con&cription bill Included
all the outstanding old-tine liberals
in the upper congressional chamber
The New Dealers. to lie .lIrc. gen
orally were on cun@criptiun's side.
and the New Deal USUALLY is
considered very liberal indeed. How
cvcr> I'm trying tn distinguish be-
tween this comparatively modern
New Deal element al~, the little
group who already Vcrc fignlnm for
liberal principles in the d2vG long
before the New Deal was invented
and conservatism was in the saddle
in Washington.
The conScriptiOnistS lost the votes
OF 4 few. senators vino ordinarily are
pro-NeW Deal, like Senators LaFol-
lctte Of Wisconsin and Norris OF Ne
braska. They also scored the votes OF
several SOlOnS who normally are anti
New Deal conservatives, such as
Glass Of Virginia and Tydings of
Maryland. ConScription's opponents
weren't exclusively old-faShioned
liberals. either. For instance, they
included Senators Clark Of Missouri
anC Smith of South Carolina. I'd call
them rather conservative.
The Old-time liberals | have in
mind as anti-conScriptioniSts were
Senators Capper of Kansas, Johnson
of California, LaFollette of Wiscon-
sin, Nye of North Dakota. Norris of
Nebraska, Llmdeen and Shipstead of
Minnesota and Wheeler Of Montana
Senator Frazier of North Dakota
wasn't present when the vote was
taken, but, as another chronic liberal,
he was paired against the bill
Senator Wagner of New York was
for it, and there's no denying that
he's liberal all right, but not of as
ancient 4 senatorial vintage as the
others. excepting Lundeen.
All Parties Represented.
Senators Johnson. Capper, Nye and
Frazier are Republicans. At least
Capper. Nye and Frazier are. John
son was elected as one, too, but he's
running for reelection this year on
a Repubican-Democr Progressive
ticket President Roosevelt is on rec
ord as saying that he's neither a
liberal nor Il progressive" but his
somewhat liberal state seems to think
he is. for it renOminated him almost
2-l against all opposition.
In point Of service Arthur Capper
is the oldest Republican liberal in
the senate, next after Johnson. l
Il 10
charge that he isn't liberal. Nye's
another veteran. He broke into
Washington as baby senator" half
4 generation ago. He isn't old yet,
but he's always been rated us near
radical. Frazier was beaten for re-
nomination awhile back, but he's I'LL
tra-adVanCed also.
Norris is senior Of the whole lib
eral aggregation. He's the sole sur
Vivor OF the bunch who voted against
going into the last World war. He
used to be a Republican, but he's an
Independent now.
Lundecn's Il Farmer Laborite.
ShipStead was elected on the same
ticket, but is after reelection in No
vember as 4 Republican and Will
kieite.
LaFollette's Progressive, by him.
self and by heredity.
Whceler'S party label is Demo-
cratic. Nevertheless he's fought lot
of New DealerishneSs. He not only
is liberal; he used to be called down.
right radical. He was enough so to
bolt Democracy and run in second
place on the elder Senator LaFol-
!ette's Progressive presidential ticket
a decade and 4 half back. Then he
gravitated into Democracy again.
Shipstead and Walsh.
1t was rather curious to see Chair
man Sheppard (TeXas) of the SEN
ate's military affairs committee Vot-
ing for the CONSUMPTION bill, and
Chairman Walsh Massachusetts, Of
its naval affairs committee voting
against it.
OF course they're both Democrats.
Up until the c.. O. P. lost national
control Senator Hale of Maine used
to be navy chairman. He voted for
CONSUMPTION this time. That was odd
likewise Even supposing that the
army and navy are Jealous Of one an
other, why weren't Walsh and Hale
Jealous the same way?
Incidentally, Senator Sheppard
formerly was known as prohibitions
foremost prOponent. To-day he's just
as prominent as an army man as he
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