Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-21
PegIer
Won't Run
For Senate
Too Many DifficuItiesx
He Discovers y
BY wEsTBROOK PEGLER

thing wasn't serious about
that proposition Of running for
the United States Senate in New
York for the sole purpose OF
knocking Bob Wagner into the
creek on the issue of the Labor
Act.
In the first place, he doesn't
go to bat again until 1915, by
which time, if something drastic
hasn't been done. the unions and
the government will have swal-
lowed each other and we will
live under an arrangement some
thing like Hitler's with a squad
Of union goons in each neighbor-
hood and little town TO enforce
discipline informally on the
citizens.
You may remember that 1 Just
happened TO ask in an offhand
way what you have TO do TO run
for the Senate.
Well, / found out. "A lawyer
told me. free. His name is Finkel
and he has an office in Brooklyn.
First, he says l. have TO be
over 30, which is already at
tepded to, although on that point
his advice is worth just what he
I asks for il, because Rush Holt
got elected from West Virginia
when he was under age. y
Then, he says, i have TO be a
citizen of New York and that
has been taken care Of. too.
although my post Office address
|. is New Canaan. Conn. because
that is the nearest town. .
A lot of Wall Street men an,
prosperous Communist writer's,
and radio pundits actually live
in Connecticut TO save money on
their New York state income
tax. but l am a citizen of very
high type. so l never moved
over, although the state line is
only drive and a pitch away.
So far, Ok hut from that
point on. there isn't much snow
on the slide.
EINKEL says / would have 10
L get on the ballot by petit
ton. because il would be futile
TO run in the Republican, Demo-
cratic or American Labor Party
primary, and, of course, he IS
right.
That means that I have got 10
get $1,000 signatures, including
at least 80 from each Of tie 81
counties and this. Finkel says. is
bad.
"YOu really need $4,000 sigma
lures" Finkel says. because Mt
least half of your signers would
he no good for any one Of
dozen reasons that we experts
know about. Now this n plenty
bad. You have To send your can
vassers touring the sticks tn get
the names. What they'll do 10
YOU on their swindle sheets
only a reporter can know"
Yes, I know.
Well" Finkel says. "this IL
where they can knife you. They
will take some county where
you have a mere hundred names
and visit the signers. Pretty
soon they'll have 81 or moro
affidavits from those people
claiming ,theyp we're defrauded
and eoerced by your brutal can
vassers. The first thing you
know. you'll be In special term,
then the appellate division, thePz
the court Of appeals and thea
maybe, In jail.
"a uni Ing though that
I righteousness prevails you're on
the ballot. As for cards, buttons.
etc, suit yourself. There's lot
eore. such as not hiring moro
than three carriages To city
election district to transport
workers to the polls. In the
country you can use six to q
district.
II should remind you, too, to
pick good vote-getting name
as emblem for your party. You
must select one, because. other
wise. the secretary Of state picks
name and eInbIem for you and
that may he bad for yOar can
didacy. There are 1000 other
details that I could mention. but
we can let them ride until"
IVES, we can let them ride.
Il Those are enough details for
now, although l am at loss for
"a party name and emblem.
I would just call il The Throw
Bob Wagner Out of There Party
and my emblem would be a
recognizable photograph of him
with an upper-case X drawn
across his features, meaning
Cancelled"
Anyway. if party with an
ass for an emblem can elect A
President three times, what have
1 TO fear from any device?
But this is all too much
bother. thought IL would be
something like this. although.
like most Americans who are
really very naive about govern
ment and politics. / did have A
haunting idea that all you had
TO do was get the most votes.
Another thing that discour-
ages me is that here / offer to
give the people very superior
service in the Senate and give.