Show Stew o WASHINGTON p I V HE REPRESENTATIVE E E UPSHAW I lLY D WASHINGTON TEl L EH En ny By r P STEWART EnI I XEA Na Ser Ce Writer WASHINGTON Sept 21 Plenty of o this years year's ears prImarIes 1 have o had more significance than the one for tho the choice of or a a Demo Demo- Democratic Democratic cratic candidate for tor tho the or of orI I Representatives from the firth fifth Georgia district but by reason I Ithe fhe j the unusual personality of the do- do de defeated tented i aspirant for a tion there hat that particular one had quito quite a 0 peculiar interest Representative William Davil Upshaw Is the tho Individual Among Amon the national lawmakers for more than seven years yeas now Representative Upshaw has been the very symbol of ot prohIbition just as Representative John Phil Phil- PhilIp Phil Phil- Philip PhilIp ip Hill Hili of Maryland prohibitions prohibition's antithesis S S There are other members or of orI Congress as wet as us Hill Hili and as I dry as Upshaw In the former column for tor example the Ben Sen- Sen I Edwards Edge and Bruce Brue and Representative LaGuardia Gallivan van and Tinkham In the lat lat- latI latter lator lat latter I ter or Senators Sheppard Willis and andI I Capper and Representatives Representative Than Than- lon Blan-lon ton Kvale and Cramton But Dut none of these or any ethers s I havo concentrated quite so ex- ex ox on wetness as Hill or on dryness as Upshaw Whenever got to make malte a speech the House of Represent Representatives I has hu taken It for tor granted It would be bo a wet one cv hen hen- ev cv Upshaw took the floor It ha been assumed ho tie was a- a aut atut ut to proclaim prohibition the tha virtues of tion ion If It either cither one chanced to ct ret cry c off oft his pet subject e cry body has been astonished Hill Hili look looks the tho ho part of a wet and Upshaw of ot a dr dry Tho former is big jovial fond from from all appearances of appearances of goo good 1 cheer and high living The lat lat- latter latter lat latter ter is II a little wisp of a man wIth a very thin lined deeply deeply ascetic face and an air tr of havIng put everything of ot this world be- be behind be behind hind him S S S Upshaw's defeat was not no- no necessarily ne necessarily prohibition a setback for tor tion Leslie J Steele who beat V him Is also pledged to Its enforcement en- en time times Is D a difference difference bet between a politician who's for tor prohibition and one who simply I is for tor Its enforcement so 80 long as Its It's In ln the statute book The result was a surprise In Washington The Tho Georgians Georgian's views are aro so 80 pronounced and have been so wIdely advertised that not a 0 man woman or child In his distrIct could possibly have failed to know leno his position The natural conclusion from the tact fact that his constituents tent Lent him four tour times timeto to tho the capital seemed to tie be that they Indorsed It it S S S SIn In the main Upshaw probably was a II victim of o Senator Jim Reeds needs committee of ot Inquiry Into campaign expenditures Reed not only extracted from General Counsel Wayne Vayne B D Wheel Wheel- Wheeler Wheeler or er of the Saloon Anti-Saloon League Leacue the information that the tho ho Georgia representative wa was one of ot tho the law law- lawmakers ma ers to whom the lea league ue had l ha paid money for tor making speecher speech speech- or er but also developed the detail that some of his charges were heavy enough to make the tho or- or organization's organisation's management groan In spirit Steele appears to have havo used I this information with telling of- of effect In his primary campaign whIch Is 11 described as having I been an e exceedingly bitter one ono That It would be bo so goes goos with without with with- without without out saying considering the out out- outcome outcome out outcome come Nobody defeat defeats Willie Upshaw without knowing he hos ho's I been boen In la 11 a tight fight Whatever Cl else eli may be said about him he hes he's II a scrapper Hell He'll be missed In the tho Rouse House of Representatives as a character who could always be depended on to stir up the animals about every so BO often otten Copyright 1 1926 26 NEA Service Inc 00 00 |