Monday, Dec. 09, 1929
Morrow for Edge
New Jersey's best and biggest Republican wigs gathered last week at Atlantic City for a farewell feast to Walter Evans Edge, once their U. S. Senator, now U. S. Ambassador to France. Most memorable remark of the evening: Senator George Higgins Moses' reference to the Senate as ''that contenated order of glorified errand boys." The evening's news: announcement by Governor Morgan Foster Larson that he would appoint Dwight Whitney Morrow, U. S. Ambassador to Mexico, to fill Ambassador Edge's seat in the Senate when Mr. Morrow returns from next month's London Naval Conference.
Mr. Morrow, it was announced, had declared his willingness to run for the office when the term ends next autumn. New Jersey Republicans smiled with satisfaction at this exchange of Ambassadors and Senators, felt they were making a fine bargain. They spoke appreciatively of David Baird Jr., the man appointed last fortnight to be Senator ad interim (TIME, Dec. 2), who will step down for Mr. Morrow as his father before him once stepped down for Mr. Edge.
National Republicans viewed as something of a milestone the news that quizzical. popular Dwight Whitney Morrow, onetime Morgan partner, was going to continue in public life, was going to proceed from the appointive to the elective field of politics.
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