"THE REPUBLICANS HAVE FALLEN DOWN BADLY"

MISSISSIPPI SENATOR PREDICTS DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY FOR NEXT CONGRESS

Wilmington, North Carolina (JFK+50) On May 31, 1922, Senator Pat Harrison* (D-Mississippi), speaking at a Chamber of Commerce luncheon in Wilmington, "predicted that the next Congress will have a democratic majority and that President (Warren G.) Harding will be succeeded by a democrat..."

The popular Southern legislator, known as "the Gadfly of the Senate," asserted that the Republican Party "is without a leader...(and) has failed to keep its promises made in the last presidential election."

To sum it all up, in Senator Harrison's view...

"The republicans have fallen down badly." 

JFK+50 NOTE

Senator Harrison's predictions proved to be incorrect although Republicans lost seats in both houses of Congress in the mid-term elections of 1922, they retained majorities in both houses & President Harding would be succeeded by Republican Calvin Coolidge.

*Byron Patton "Pat" Harrison (1881-1941) was born in Crystal Springs, Mississippi & attended Ole Miss & L.S.U. where he studied under a baseball scholarship.  Before passing the bar, he was a teacher & principal. BPH served in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1911-1919, & U.S. Senate 1919-1941.  

SOURCE

"Harrison Predicts Republican Rout," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., May 31, 1922, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/ 

 

 

Pat Harrison

(D-Mississippi)

Harris & Ewing Photo (1918)

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"AS A BIG ARMY & BIG NAVY MAN"

SENATOR HARRISON CALLS ON SENATOR LODGE TO CHANGE HIS PAST VIEWS

Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) On August 17, 1921, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts told the Senate that "he would do everything in his power to bring about an agreement" at the international disarmament conference "for a general reduction of armaments."

The Senator specifies he favors "a general reduction" as opposed to a reduction by the United States only.

Senator Pat Harrison* of Mississippi called upon Senator Lodge to "change his past views...as a big army and big navy man" in his service in behalf of the United States at the disarmament conference. 

*Senator Byron Patton "Pat" Harrison (1881-1941) was born in Crystal Springs, Mississippi & served in the U.S. House of Representatives 1911-1919 & the U.S. Senate 1919-1941.  BPH , known as "Gadfly of the Senate," was chairman of the Senate Finance Committee 1933-1941.

SOURCE

"Lodge Insists All Nations Limit Arms," The New York Tribune, August 18, 1921, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/ 

 

 

Pat Harrison

(D-Mississippi)

Harris & Ewing Photo

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