Show Liberal Solons Offer Problems To GOP Heads By KIRKE KIEKE SIMPSON Associated Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON Oct 26 26 SurveyIng Survey Survey- Ing tho the attitude in this presidential campaign of ot the senators seated on the Republican side of the chamber but generally referred to as liberals when not being called hard names by party old guardsmen guardsmen one one finds find an unparalleled situation At 10 of the 48 senators sena sena- tors on that side of the center aisle are either openly hostile to the thena national na ticket or still silent They represent more than a R fifth filth of total party strength in the senate Their states cast an aggregate of more than 90 electoral votes HARDLY lIAR HARMONY There is no record In modern times times times' certainly of another such senatorial cleavage during a presidential presidential presidential year ear The degree of ot disaffection varies from the outright campaigning program program pro pro- gram of Norris of Nebraska for the thel Democratic ticket through the range of flirting with the Democrats by Johnson of and Cutting o of New Mexico to the declaration o of Frazier of North Dakota against both presidential candidates and finally to the prolonged silence of ot Couzens o of Michigan Somewhere in between are La Follette Follette Fol Fol- lette and Blaine Blame of Wisconsin Brookhart Brook hart of Iowa Borah of ot Idaho and the lone senate Farmer Laborite Ship stead of Minnesota No man reaches the senate these days without an important following in his state No man serves six years in the senate without having Influence upon the votes of a substantial number number num ber of his hI constituents What share the attitude of ot these senators is to have in determining the outcome of I the election It would be hard to calculate late In advance YEARS AGO 1 t L IF The senatorial situation suggests the thought however that had the Roosevelt Johnson Bull Moose ticket if f 1912 been benefited by anything like the amount of active or negative assistance the 1932 Democratic candidates candi candi- dates lates appear to be deriving from the liberal Republicans of at the senate the whole course of American political j hIstory of ot the last two decades might have been different I I 1 President Wilson that year In a nl al I way three battle carried many state j jay by ay margins so narrow that it would not have tak tak-n tak n much to have given Theodore Roosevelt those electoral votes Democratic disaffection to the extent ex cx- tent of from to v votes tes in any anyone one of a number of states would have lave thrown them into Theodore Roosevelt's column Most senate liberals of today on the Republican side were Theodore Roosevelt men then None but Borah was in the senate and he did not follow fol fol- fol low ow Roosevelt out of the Republican convention The house was wa the scene of the sharpest breaking of old lIn lines on the Republican side in 1912 1012 with Norris then hen a representative as a leader A man who takes his life In his hands going Into a strange house at night Is Js earning his money much more than han a millionaire who rigs the stock market Clarence Clarence Darrow Chicago attorney And nd he that wages and fruit unto life eternal that both he that and that ho that may rejoice to to- gether St St. John |