Makings of the 72nd (Cont.)

Makings of the 72nd (Cont.)

Developments of the week in the makings of the 72nd Congress:

Wyoming. To succeed Senator Patrick J. Sullivan, Republicans in their primary nominated Robert Davis Carey, 52, onetime (1919-23) governor, over three rivals. Nominee Carey, son of Wyoming's first Senator (1890), attended The Hill School, was graduated from Yale in 1900. In the November election he will be opposed by Democratic Senatorial Nominee Harry H. Schwartz, Casper oil man. Renominated by the G. O. P. were Governor Frank Collins Emerson, Representative Vincent Carter.

Alabama. Republicans in convention voted to put up no party nominees for Senator or Governor, tacitly decided to throw their 50,000 votes to the independent candidacies of Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin for re-election and Hugh A. Locke for Governor. Republicans hoped less to elect these men than to break still further the state Democracy.

Montana. Hiram Wesley Evans, Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, opportunistically appeared as a campaigner against Senator Thomas James Walsh, Dry Roman Catholic, Democratic nominee for reelection. Wizard Evans was inferentially supporting Wet Catholic Albert John Galen, Republican Senatorial nominee. His explanation: Senator Walsh is much abler and more experienced than Nominee Galen, more capable politically.

Nebraska. Most spectacular turnover in last fortnight's Repu/blican primary was the defeat for renomination in the 2nd (Omaha) Congressional District of Representative Willis Gratz Sears, 70, by Howard Malcolm ("Mac") Baldrige, 36. Congressman Sears ran as an Uncompromising Dry, a supporter of Grundy tariff rates. Nominee Baldrige campaigned for repeal of the 18th Amendment and against an exorbitant tariff. Turned out of public office for the first time in 36 years, out of the House after eight years Congressman Sears took his defeat bitterly.

Nominee Baldrige, scion of a good old Nebraska family, went to Yale, was graduated with the Class of 1918. Tall (6 ft. 2 in.), husky (236 Ib.) he won the intercollegiate wrestling championship, played tackle on the football team. A steady, dogged, democratic young man, he made and held many a good and potent friend at New Haven. After two years at the Yale Law School, he returned to Omaha, married Regina Connell, who bore him two sons and a daughter, got his law degree at the University of Nebraska, was admitted to the bar in 1922. The genial contacts of politics attracted him. He served a year as a deputy county attorney, went to the Nebraska legislature for a term. His Omaha friends groomed him for Mayor, then decided to wait and run him for the House. They believe that with his western background and eastern connections he is just the sort of young politician who can be built up into a national figure. It was to those same friends last week that "Mac" Baldrige gave all credit for his nomination as an auspicious start on a large political career.

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