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...primary-as-good-as-an-election next week. Unlike South Carolina's Senator Byrnes, however, Mississippi's Senator Pat Harrison was up against the hardest fight in his long Democratic career. On the ballot Senator Harrison's opponent is onetime (1932-36) Governor Martin Sennett ("Mike") Conner; on the stump his real adversary was his Senate colleague, squat, little Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo...
...fact that Senator Harrison got Bilbo a $6,000 job in Washington when that undersized politician was down & out of office, and in spite of favors he did Bilbo after his election to the Senate in 1934, "The Man" Bilbo renounced Mississippi's senior Senator to back Conner for Harrison's seat. Last week when President Roosevelt suddenly summoned Chairman Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee to Washington for a conference on taxes, the Mississippi campaign temporarily became a battle of governors: onetime Governor Conner and onetime Governor Bilbo v. Governor Hugh White and onetime Acting Governor Dennis...
...delivered it. Boomed Lawyer Broom: ''I am a professor in the Bilbo school of politics; I can read his shorthand notes; I know his tactics. I am a Bilbo man and have always supported him, and when he is a candidate for re-election in 1940 and Conner is his opponent-and he will be as sure as there is a hound dog in Georgia- I will be found supporting Bilbo again...
...Bilbo is hedging his bets. He can't lose. If he can lead Conner off into the middle of the stream and drown him politically, then he won't be back on his neck when he comes up for reelection...
...other hand, Conner should be elected, he couldn't get in the back door of the White House because he opposed the nomination of the President in the first instance, and Bilbo would be senior Senator and sitting pretty. But the trouble is Bilbo has miscalculated the situation this time...