Springville Herald | 1938-08-11 | Page 2 | Barkley Seen 1940 Choice

BARKLEY SEEN 1940 CHOICE WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (U.R) Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky was assured of renomination to the senate today and his victory may lead to his nomination for president of 1940. President Roosevelt staked his prestige on Barkley's renomin-tion. renomin-tion. Speaking thrice in Kentucky last month, Mr. Roosevelt urged the state to keep Barkley in the senate. Now Barkley is considered by many observers a likely New Deal heir if President Roosevelt does not stand for renomination. The senator emerged from relative obscurity last August when Mr. Roosevelt picked him to succeed the late Joe T. Robinson, of Arkansas, Ar-kansas, as senate Democratic leader lead-er and put on reluctant Democrats sufficient pressure to force Bark-ley's Bark-ley's election by a one vote margin over Sen. Pat Harrison, D., Miss. That single vote may prove to have been the turning point in the Kentuckian's path toward the White House. If so, there will be a chapter or. two in the story as strange as any fiction.