Show F i laws r Defeat in Georgia a Big Surprise in Washington 1 CHARLES P. P STEWART U NEA EA Service Writer Oct 7 7 Plenty 7 Plenty fg Is s years year's aIs primaries have had political significance ance than the ther r 1 the c choice of a a. Democratic ate for fOl the house of leple Ives ivos from the fifth Georgia Georgiat t but by reason of the un- un p personality of ot the defeated debated nt for fOl a a r there particular one had quite a aar aar aar ar interest William Davidw David w tv is the Individual the national lawmakers lore ore than seven years now i f Upshaw pshaw has hns been fry r ry symbol of prohibition just justn John Philip Hill n Maryland rYland symbolizes a antithesis je o are o other hel members of conI conas conas con- con I as wet as Hill and as dry J shaw shave In the former column ample are Senators Ed- Ed 1 Edge and Bruce and live GallIvan and n r LaGuardia 11 ll p tam tam in the latter Senators r 3rd Wllis and Capper and tl Representatives Blanton Kvale anu anu Cramton But none of these or any others have concentrated quite so on wetness as lUll hilt or on dryness as Upshaw Whenever Hill nm got up to make a speech the house of ot representatives tives has tal taken en it for tor granted that it would be a wet one ono Whenever Upshaw took tool the floor it has been assumed he was about to proclaim the virtues of prohibition If It either one chanced to g get t or off his p t subject subject subject sub sub- everybody has been astonIshed astonished aston- aston lItH loks lols the part of a wet and I Upshaw of a a. dry The former is ig big jovial fond fond fond- from flom all appearances appearances ot of good cheer and high living The latter is a little wisp of ot a man with a very thin deeply lined ascetic face Cace and anel an air all of ot having put everything of ot this world behind him Some drys look 1001 wet and some wets look 1001 dry and anel some ire are inde inde- terminate But nobody ever could make malce a mistake a about out Representatives tives Hill and Upshaw Ushaw's defeat was not cs- cs a setback for tor prohibition i Leslie J. J Steele who beat him is also pledged to its enforcement though there some sometimes limes is a dif dlf- difference r ference between a politician who Is for prohibition and one who sImply simply simply sim sIm- ply is for its enforcement so un ong as it is in the statute book The result was a surprise in Washington The Georgians Georgian's views are so pronounced and have been so widely advertised advertise that not a man woman or child in his district could possibly have failed to know his position The natural conclusion from the fact that his constituents constituents constituents sent him four times to the capital seemed to be that they in indorsed indorsed indorsed in- in it In the main Upshaw probably was a victim of Senator Jim Reeds Reed's committee of ot inquiry into campaign expenditures Reed Heed not only extracted from General Counsel Wayne Vayne B B. Wheeler of the Anti Antl league the in information information in- in formation that the Georgia Georia representative representative representative was one of the lawmakers to whom the league had paid money for making speeches but tout also de developed developed developed de- de the detail that some of ot hIsch his ch charges rS-es rS were heavy enough to tomake tomake make male the organizations organization's management management manage manage- ment groan in spirit Steele appears to have used manage manage-j this information with telling effect In In A I his primary campaign which is de described described de- de scribed as having been an exceedingly exceedingly exceed exceed- In ly bitter one That it would be so goes without without without with with- out saying considering the out out- come Nobody defeats Willie Upshaw Upshaw Upshaw Up Up- shaw without knowing he has been In a fight l Whatever else may be said about him hm hes he's a n. scrapper He lie will be missed in the house of representatives as a character who could always be depended on onto onto onto to stir up the animals about every so 80 often Copyright 1926 1920 NEA Service Inc |