U.S. PRESIDENCY

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 22, 27 January 1928, Page 7

U.S. PRESIDENCY

DEMOCRATIC PARTY

ANOTHER CANDIDATE SENATOR REED, MO. (United Press Association. —Copyright.) WASHINGTON, 25th January. The first evidence that the usual practice in American politics of letting/the strongest contenders for Presidential honours negate- each other is seen in the announcement that Senator Beed, of Missouri, is a candidate for the Democratic nomination. His friends, interestingly enough, stressed the point that he is in the contest "to a finish." Strong intimations have been given out that Senator Beed, who is the first important figure to contest Governor Al Smith's prominent position in the Democratic Party, will make it a "knockdown and a dragout" fight. Senator Beed will begin a speaking campaign throughout the United State on 12th February, and observers already are beginning to see strong possibilities that the Democrats will be compelled to select a compromise figure, since the most prominent aspirants are likely, to stalemato each other. Senator James Beed, of Missouri, was recently called by an English publicist "one of the. best and least scrupulous minds in the Senate." He has also been characterised as the best hater Congress. Senator Beed has an inveterate suspicion of all schemes for uplift, and is quick to see the political motives behind ostensibly disinterested proposals for the public good. He has an extensive vocabulary of invectives, and does not hesitate to use it to express his dislikes, which are numerous. He is one of the few members of Congress to come through recent sessions with enhanced prestige. Senator Beed was admitted to the Bar in 1885, and first practised at Cedar Bapida, removing to Kansas City, Missouri, in 1887, where he become actively associated with local and State democratic politics. He was Mayor of Kansas City for two terms—in 1900-1904, and he has been a Senator since 1911.