Also Running

Last week, in 34 States, candidates also ran for the U. S. Senate. Only a miracle in miraculous 1940 could turn the Democratic majority (69 out of 96) into a Republican majority. Voters therefore had the simple fun of looking at their and other people's Senatorial aspirants, judging them without many qualms about history-in-the-making. For instance:

> North Dakota's 54-year-old Republican William Langer has survived diabetes, two terms as Governor, three trials for political conspiracy and perjury (he was finally acquitted). Out against him for the Senate are a negligible Democrat and one formidable opponent: Congressman William ("the farmer's friend") Lemke. who ran for President on a Coughlin-Townsend ticket in 1936.

> On the general premise that a very rich man can also be the poor man's (and Roosevelt's) friend, James Henry Roberts Cromwell stumped New Jersey against G. O. P.'s Incumbent W. Warren Barbour. Mr. Cromwell wangled a good-luck statement from the White House last week, paid no public attention to rumors that his cynical sponsor, Boss Frank Hague, had ditched him in a trade with Republican Barbour.

>An up-&-coming lawyer, onetime (1938-39) American Legion commander, and a woowoo campaigner is Washington's Stephen Fowler Chadwick, 46. Last week Campaigner Chadwick ably carried the ball both for himself and for Wendell Willkie (who mistakenly said "Phil" for "Steve" last month). His opponent: 49-year-old Congressman Monrad C. Wallgren, a retail jeweler, who has Washington's big Scandinavian vote in his pocket.

> If Minnesota's Farmer-Laborite (running on the Republican ticket) Henrik Shipstead is defeated (by Democratic Attorney John E. Regan, or by onetime Governor Elmer Austin Benson), the Senate loses one of its handsomest nonentities.

> A Democratic ornament of the old, plundergarten school is Senator Joseph F. (for Finch) Guffey of Pennsylvania. Joe Guffey, whose word used to be political law in Pennsylvania, by last week had reached such a pass that he was rated a considerable asset to the Republicans (including his opponent, Philadelphia's rich Jay Cooke).

> Raymond Eugene Willis, 65, was one of nine children of an Indiana country editor, since 1907 has edited the Steuben Republican. Chubby-handed. chubby-chinned Editor Willis' hobby is helping crippled children (his wife is an invalid). His formidable 1940 task: to unhorse Democrat Sherman ("Shay") Minton.

> Loud, persuasive Charles Wayland ("Curly") Brooks, 43, first made a name as an Assistant State's prosecutor in Chicago. He has been on every G. O. P. ticket in Illinois since he convicted Gangster Leo Brothers of murdering Chicago Tribune Reporter Jake Lingle, thus won that potent paper's support. He has never won. Now he hopes to beat Democratic Lawyer James M. Slattery, 62, who has had many an appointive job, never before run for office.

> A millionaire businessman-for-Senator is Wisconsin's Frederick Harold Clausen, 65, board chairman of Holeproof Hosiery. Sober, hardheaded Fred Clausen campaigned last week on a frankly conservative, anti-New Deal, pro-defense platform, while Progressive Bob La Follette and Democrat James Edward Finnegan got in each other's and Franklin Roosevelt's hair.

> Connecticut Republicans had up the man who streamlined their State party in 1938: Paul Lincoln Cornell, 43, who made a pleasant fortune in the advertising business, retired to run Romford (preparatory) School at Washington, Conn. Cornell last week devoted his promotional talents to turning out Democratic Incumbent Francis Thomas Maloney.

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