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Show NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS I ( 4 Written for The Telegram By Ray Tucker J WASHINGTON Sarcastic pro-Roosevelt pro-Roosevelt colleagues have dubbed Senator-Doctor Copeland "the ancient an-cient mariner" sine he used Senator Sen-ator Robinson's death aa theme for a warning that congress should adjourn pronto. They're scared the legislators might follow the medico's advice. Fellow senators might be glad to learn that Doctor Copeland has always been a prophet of gout and ' babies to starve almost killed his ' mother. "I owe you a lot, Charley," Char-ley," sobbed Al. "but not a debt like that! By God. no!" Hearst and Hylan were furious, and Doctor Doc-tor Copeland waa nominated for the aenate to placate them. But when it was suggested to a Hearst aid that hia boas ought to be pleased, he snapped: "What does Copeland mean to Hearst?" It was advanced timidly that the doctor wrote for the Hearst papers. pa-pers. "Yes," retorted the Hearst man. "and so does Bugs Baer!" That waa the senator's haphazard and difficult birth into the world of politics. Dark, handsome, spread-eagling Sherman Mint on of Indiana is the youngest man in the biggest hurry hur-ry the senate chamber has housed since Arthur Vandenberg fomented foment-ed the famous "flaming youth" rebellion against the Curtis-Wat-aon leadership across the aisle in the middle twenties. A first-termer, the Hoosiertt has become leader of the White House "freshman bloc" and acted aa manager for Senator Berkley In the leadership fight He haa pinned all hia political aspirations aspira-tions to the presidential lapel or coattails and he will reap hia reward if his dreams come true. It'a whispered that he aima at a seat on the supreme court, an appointment to a circuit court or a vice presidential nomination in 1940. Of course, he wouldn't turn down a presidential nomination, but two other Hoosier boys want that Paul McNutt and Governor M. Clifford Townsend. Mr. Minton is an opportunist believes in himself, has done well ao far. In the war he made a fine record, but he shook Indiana dust from his feet to get rich In the Florida boom. When that fiiwered the first one he trekked back home, entered a politically entrenched law firm, piled aboard the McNutt bandwagonand band-wagonand here he is again! He'a well worth watching if his luck holds. Almost overnight the state of New Mexico has become a political politi-cal Klondike for millionaire who Would like to spend their decliningor declin-ingor reclining yeans in public office. Washington politics in both parties are scratching their ' ' heada over the phenomenon. Ex-secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley has recently bought a home there, and, is understood to be planning to shift his political residence from Oklahoma. Pat would like to be a senator. Oscar Stauffer, Alf Landon's close friend, haa bought the Santa Fe newspaper once owned by ex-Senator ex-Senator Branson Cutting, while Cyrus McCormick of the harvester family owns the Spanish edition of the same newspaper. Welcoming Welcom-ing the new arrivals at the border perhaps were Mr. and Mrs. Albert Al-bert Stroma. She waa ex-Representative Ruth Henna McCormick. McCor-mick. who set private "dicks" en the Nye committee in the 1930 campaign Investigation. The newest Immigrant is John J. Raakob, Al Smith's chairman of the Democratic national committee. com-mittee. New deal wags, pussled by the political convocation in the southwestern state, auggest that the newseomere contemplate a secession move and a union with Vermont, Maine and Nantucket Anyway, "Pat" would make a handsome commander-in-chief of their army! Reports trickling back to the capital picture Chief Justice Hughes as behaving In a manner to explode the presidential theory that a TO-year-older is too decrepit mentally and physically to aerve on the supreme court Mr. Hughee frequently appears In pablie, and In stride and speech he seems determined to impress everybody near-by with his vigor. Although always athletic in his movements, certain travelers who crossed his path got the distinct feeling he felt himself to be on parade and probation. At a Brown '. university reunion he chatted intimately with a email circle, and his most emphatic, impressive im-pressive statement during several hours of conversation was: "Gentlemen, "Gen-tlemen, I have not missed a single hour on that bench since I was appointed seven years ago!" Mr. Hughes, Ironically, is vacationing vaca-tioning not far from "the old stone face." If you've forgotten that legend of youth grown old but majestic, ma-jestic, read It! There's a copy in the White House library, ao they say. Copyright, 1937, for The Telegram of New York City after the World war, he was forever warning the populace against foreign and fancy fan-cy diseases. When regular news was dull he craves publicity it was his habit to summon City Hall reporters around him, and tip them off that either the bubonic or typhus plague would land from ths near east on the next ship, j Somehow they never came. In politics, too. Doctor Copeland has capitalized Use human tendency tenden-cy toward hypochondria. In a deep, lugubrious voice he opens his orations with an "O-o-o-oh, my friends, if you only knew how 111 this nation is tonight" and then he proceeds to announce that the good old family doctor knowa the right remedy reelect Copeland. Cope-land. His patented prescription and his bedside manner have worked three times 1921, 1S28, 1934 and probably will again. Deep political Irony underlies the Copeland-Smith alliance against Franklin D. Roosevelt in the New York mayoralty scrap. In lining up with the man in the brown derby against Al's ancient pal, the medicine man is simply repaying Smith for giving him a start in politics. Turn the political page back to 1923. William Randolph Hearst, with the backing of the late Mayor Hylan, sought to browbeat the Democratic state convention at Syracuse into nominating him for the United State senate. Tammany Tam-many Boss "Charley" Murphy waa willing in order to avoid a break with the politico-publisher. But at a midnight conference "Al" rasped out that he'd quit Tammany before be-fore running en the same ticket with Hearst Teara streaming down hia ruddy rud-dy face and choking his voice. Al told how Hearst's charges that, while governor, he had permitted |