Pension Senator

Florida has more than its fair share of aged, penurious Yankees, of shiftless, malarial "Crackers." Hence of all States in the Union Florida is one of the most rabidly Townsendite. In its regular Democratic primary this year to select five Representatives, three of them turned out to be Townsendites. Nominated without opposition for the seat of the late Senator Duncan U. Fletcher was young, aggressive Claude Pepper, charter member of Townsend Club No. 1 of Tallahassee.

Last week Florida Democrats held a special primary to pick a successor to its other lately deceased Senator, Park Trammell. The choice was between onetime Governor Doyle Elam Carlton of Tampa, claiming the support of Florida's labor vote, and Charles Oscar Andrews, a onetime circuit judge, who had never made a State-wide campaign before and whose chances of victory were ridiculed by the Press. But Democrat Andrews not only had the endorsement of Florida's Convention of Townsend Clubs, but led all other candidates in his devotion to Townsendism. When the votes were counted, Townsendite Andrews had a neat majority of 4,500. Since nomination is tantamount to election, he became the first man to win a place in the U. S. Senate in a campaign where he depended mainly on the California doctor's $200-per-month pension plan for oldsters as an issue.

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