The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-05

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 From Thaddeus's tongue, vitriol dripped on Republican brows with the regularity of water of of a stalactite. His colleagues feared him-even the equally tough Hiram Johnson, with whom Thad- deus once rowed so bitterly over a beveled mirror that the two men never spoke from that day until Thaddeus died in 1881.
 After his death. honey Hattie Caraway. his wife, suddenly found herself elevated by the apprecia- tive people of Arkansas into the senate seat Of her husband. And surprisingly, there she stayed. Other women, after being given honorary, interim appointments to the Senate, stayed for only a few weeks or days.
 But hard-working hom e b ody Hattie Caraway stuck to her Senate knitting. took care of her constituents, kept her mouth shut, voted for every Roosevelt measure straight across the board, and has succeeded in remaining in the United States Senate for thirteen long and stormy years.
 Unobstrusiye, participating in no debates. Hattie caraway never theless was a respected, reyered member of the Senate. In that turbulent, trouble-ridden cham ber. where a persons good points or bad quickly shine through the gloss. she held her own
 Then, the other day, in a
 bOtIy contested Arkansas pri-
 mary. she was defeated.
 MONEY SPENT BY
 OPPONENTS
 Hattie Caraway's Senate col- leagues knew little about that de- feat-except that she ran last until George Shillito, investigator for the Senate Campaign EX- penditures Committee, took a train from Arkansas back to Washing ton.
 Appearing the other day before Rhode Islands Democratic Sena- tor Theodore Green, Delaware's Democratic Senator James TlIn- nell, and Michigan's Rpublican Senator Homer Ferguson. inyesti- gator Shillito unfolded the Ark ansas election story.
 Perhaps more money has
 been spent tO secure MFs. Car" Rway's coveted seat ip the United States Senate than Her. bert H0eveH permitted for the relief ef the Arkansas OEaTks at the time Amadeus CaTaway gauged t out Of him.
 Colonel T, V, Barton, wealthy oil man, toured the State with Q 40-person opera company from Station W6M, Nashville, reported to have cost him a thousand dollars a night, Tn addition, rO0t- in'-to0tin' "Uncle Mack" James McKrell toured the State with the Bible Lovers Revival" most popular radio feature tn Little Rock. All of these people were on the colonel's payroll. Some estt- mates have 1t that he spent around a quarter of million, Investigator Hhillito told the 6ep' ate committee that he probably spent around e200,000, ,, ., ,,,,.,
 Next highest campaign spepder was brilliant Rhodes scholar C0H- gTessmaH Bill FwIbFigbt, wealthy In his own right and married to a wealthy wife. He paid clerks and workers in his headquarters up to one hundred dollars a week, plus expenses; told investigator Shillito that his friends also had spent money from ttleir own p0ekv cts for newspaper ads, Pullv brtght's expenses were estimated at around sl0O, ,000, far oyer the s25,000 limit fixed by the State,
 Also over s2s. .00e, according to Shillit0, were the campaign eEs pepses Of Governor Homer Ads klis,
 Trailing faH behind, came MFs,
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 CaERway spent the lowest iaag& e sse la,D - ssSss lges aaa \ AUNT JEMMY's IMm < ? tV0eStisk Ha, OHe Pare WeleetfE M Street tlws
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