Detroit evening times., 1943-01-15
Are Senators
BIushine for
Boss Flynn!
Nomination a Parallel (
to Affair Of Ware
By GEO. ROTHWELL BROWN

Weli-knOWn munlclpdl pOlltlCal
boss.
II so happens that some Of the
votes cast in the previous case
may prove highly embarrassing
TO senators-especially Demo-
cratic senators-when they come
10 decide the fitness of Boss
Dear Eddie" Flynn of the
Bronx to be Americas rowing
ambassador in the southwest Pa
cific. and United States minister
TO Australia.
The municipal boss on whom
the Senate turned thumbs down
IS years ago was William S.
Ware. the Republican boss Of
Philadelphia. and TO lesser ex-
tent of the state of Pennsylvania.
Ware had been a member of
the House. In the campaign
of 1926 he was elected 10 the
Senate.
On Dec. Q. 1927. the Senate
voted 56 10 30 10 deny Ware his
seat and he was not seated. The
charge was fraud and corruption
in the expenditure of sum eX-
ceeding $685. 900 in the prima-
rieS.
TT SO happens that OF the 56
Il senators who voted not 10
admit Boss Ware to their sacred
company, is till are in the
Senate.
These arc Barkley of Ken
lucky. Capper OF Kansas, Gerry
of Rhode Island. Glass OF Vir-
ginia, Hayden of Arizona. John
son Of California. La Toilette OF
Wisconsin. Mcclellan Of Tennes-
see. McNary Of Oregon. Nye Of
North Dakota. Shipshead of
Minnesota, Thomas Of Idaho.
Tydngs of Maryland, Wagner of
New York. Walsh of MaSsachu-
settS. and Wheeler of Montana.
Interestingly enough, eight Of
the l6 are members today Of The
foreign relations committee.
which now must pass upon the
nomination of Boss Flynn TO the
high diplomatic post to which
President Roosevelt has ep-
pointed him.
This list is headed by Senator
Barkley, now the Democratic
leader Of the Senate, by virtue
Of which position he probably
must, as a party measure, de-
fend the nomination.
The other foreign relations
m g m bers are Wagner, from
Flynn's home state, and Carter
Glass. president pro tempore of
the Senate. Democrats: johnson
of California. Capper, Shipstead
and Nye, Republicans, and La
Toilette, Progressive.
DARKLEY as party leader
~ finds himself much in the
position of Jim Watson OF In
diana. who was Republican
! c d er when Boss Ware was
turned down. Watson voted TO
seat him.
On thi roll call George Of
Georgia, another member Of to-
days foreign relations commit
tee, was absent and not voting.
I Cotton Ed Smith of South
/ Carolina is the only one OF the
80 voting TO seat Ware who still
is in the Senate.
The parallel between the two
municipal bosses is of course not
an entirely exact one. Boss
Flynn is not accused OF corrupt
election practices.
He is under attack, however.
in connection with the we'll
known Belgian paving block in
cident.
There is a movement now in
| New York 10 reopen that smelly
case, and the Senate committee
which first sits in judgment on
the Boss of the Bronx-one of
/ the little group of municipal
bosses who put over the third
term nomination at Chicago in
1910 - probably will go into il
rather thoroughly.
A NJ + RICAN ambassadors
"A should be Of unbIemiShed
reputation and standing. and the
! foreign relations committee will
want 10 be pretty we'll satisfied
on this point in the case of Boss
! Flynn.
1t is probable that II he had
been nominated merely 10 he .
minister to Australia, Boss
Flynn would be turned down by
the Senate as hard as Boss Ware
was Is years ago.
In his Dear Eddie" letter 10
Boss Flynn, President Roosevelt
said:
II am appointing YOU my per-
sOnal representative with the
rank of ambassador"
This. makes the appointment
an exceedingly personal one. In
time Of war, when the Senate
cannot know all the motives
that actuate the President, that
body may be reluctant 10 DENY
TO the President a highly inti- 4
mate relationship such as is here
involved.
This may save Boss Flynn.
But If the Senate confirms
him, it will do it holding its
nose.
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