Show WAS linn GIVES CRES G C 0 O P PLENTY y TO Unity AND J ABOUT HK liE HF H HASN'T XI YET LOST HIS I FUR A SENATE ATE SEAT SEAl By ny I NEA Service Sil Writer WASHINGTON Feb Feo There H-There 11 c i la is reason nason to believe that a n none too husky gent from Illinois has grable grabiel 1 a great big elephant by the th bythe byth taU tall and ID is threatening nina to swing It around his biB bi head and toss It t into Inta In Ina a II cement wall as one might hurl hurla hu hua a II full tull of ot mud The Tho Illinois gent Is Frank L L Smith senator elect and the cle eta eta- pliant Is the animal you see fee in the cartoons carthons with lIh the letters lotters G 0 U 0 i iP 1 P embroidered d on ott his hide There Is ie I also reason to believe belie ye that despite the bellowing of bo both Republican ond Democratic leaders about the tIme principle of ot the thing tho time whole holo Smith issue Is now ami a thoroughly wrapped up In politics as a n delirium patient In In his It is Just Juit as a difficult to believe belle e that most Republican senator ate a e deeply concerned with the sovereign 80 right richt of a stale stal to to send any SOl sort so of a person lerson to the senate cenate as It tt Is la to believe o that most Democrats a ate arc filled with n a a holy conviction con that i only men mon of honor an 1 I common n decency should Lie Je allowed to i sit tn In this alleged sell great bOdy ot of statesmen Tou You may recall that only as far tl r back as a the holidays holiday It Jl was wa rath rath- rather rat er Cr positively stated toted that only nine nil of o ten senators would vote to seat sei the gent ent who took a OO campaign gift from Dad Dad- Dai 1 Daddy Daidy dy Sam Insull Insult while he Ir WitS was regu- regu regulating Inline lating the th states state's public utilities When the vote came Smith was w by nearly four times that thi many miny votes vote That It la Is I rather to be ASsumed wa was wall after iatter tb th tbt gent ent from Illinois it had grabbed the tho great bl big elephant by the tall tail Senator Jim Wat Watson atlOn on of Indiana I earnest converse with smith In Chicago urging him to keep out ot of Washington to avi avoid gumming up the lh works work What dId tell Senior Sentor Jim It la is an I excellent bet that he told him he I was going to raise merry Ned and i that thai It if any old elephants got cot ot in road they had better beller look 1001 out for I forthe the Illinois bearcat Watson may have been remind remind- reminded id- id ed of ot threat to harp upon ion large lale sums rums sum of ot Coolidge campaign beneficiaries money contributed by tariff bene- bene Smith may even have hae premised to open up the tho whole hole oil question of ot campaign Contributions n and to try to make mako all hands hand prove pro that any such uch contribution was ever given by anyone who didn't did expect to gel something or other In return The second bl big twist which Smith undoubtedly Is I a B threat to maintain his hi position po lt as a x senator-elect senator In tn the th next con boo tre gre gress 8 It I IS not Incumbent ui upon him to resign re lm merely m because lie he Is refused Illinois admission Time The state tato of Il- Il II Is officially behind hint him to the th last ditch And It If Smith stays tays t Inand home next winter unable to get ct In and refusing to ret get completely out o othe the thin Republican majority 0 of one senator vm 1 11 be lost lot Smith chances of being seated ea and kept In by the seventieth con c gre gres gre's s are even slimmer than than his chances with the lh sixty ninth It may be b he that the regular I fie Re It- It publicans feel that If it they can show Smith that they havo have made m the hardest possible fight for Ifor hi hint him they can convince him that ho Ito be good fellow enough to listen stubborn to reason and not ba ho it stub stub- born enough to nullify the party's parly's tys ty's control of The latest late threat of Smiths Smith's friends however Is I to carry the case cal to tho the supreme court And If It you OU want a third sugg- sugg ug res- res tion for Smiths Smith's Smith means mean to twist the elephants elephant's tall you may m- m ber that Illinois Republicans Republican have li GO 60 votes vote In th the next national con con con- convention and that Just now Illinois Republicans seem eem eem considerably het up over the treatment now b being ban ed hero here to the boy from homo home me no 00 |