My mother always introduced her only son, Carl as the senator. My brother
Carl Hayden was the first anglo american child born in Tempe which was
known then as Hayden's Ferry. I remember him as we grew up together and he
was a most normal and yet unusual boy. He preached funeral services for
the chickens and pets that died. He learned to swim in the Salt River near
the butte and very early he showed an interest and national and world
affairs
which would one day make him a senator. That is Miss Sally Hayden of Tempe
, sister of Senator Carl Hayden, who is now dean of the United States
Senate. Carl Hayden is an alumnus of Arizona State at Tempe. A graduate of
the class of 1896 and our alumni who listened to this program, the Arizona
statesman. I'm sure we'll be interested along with all our other listeners
in the intimate details of Sally Hayden's life with her famous brother,
which we will have in just a moment. Miss Sally Hayden, before we ask you
about some of those intimate details of your childhood life with Carl your
brother, I'd like to get your reaction to a statement that appeared in the
U. S. News and world report just recently, namely that Carl Hayden is the
most powerful man in the United States. What do you think about that?
If he is so considered?
I think it is because his interest is not only in the state to which he
has devoted his life but to the nation as soon as you're asking his
support on an issue. That's the answer I look into it. It's good. He votes
for it. He considers everyone his friend
though they may differ politically, so I have never known him to knock an
opponent.
Miss Hayden. I think that's a good answer and I think I want to tell our
listeners that the reason the U. S. News and World Report believes Carl
Hayden is the most powerful man in the United States is that as we all
know, Senator Hayden is now dean of the United States Senate in point of
service, chairman of the all important appropriations committee and likely
to be elected president pro temporary of the Senate, Which would put him
4th in line for the presidency of the United States. However, his
preeminence is largely derived from the fact that he holds this great
position in a Congress which is democratically controlled. And then I
think that is the way harper's bases its opinion. Now I'd like to ask you
one other thing or tell you one other thing I read this week, Miss Hayden
uh in harper's magazine William S White in an article called who really
runs the U. S. Senate says that the most important thing in the Senate is
what he calls the Inner Club. And this is what he says about your brother
Carl Carl Hayden could very nearly be president of that Inner Club. If
only it had officers. I think that should be very pleasing to you, Miss
sally. It certainly is. Well, Miss Hayden, we are all interested in Karl's
fabulous political career. I'm sure it has not been equaled in the West
and perhaps not even in United States history. Could you briefly tell us
about the details of that career? Why? Jimmy? I think you've answered that
question. And the alumni bulletin,
you put a picture of my brother
on the front page.
First In 1872, he was elected as attempting town council, then he was
sheriff
of Maricopa county
and treasurer. Mhm 1912.
He was a baby states 1st Congressman. Mhm. And now Is Dean of the Senate
in 1956.
Well, he served in the United States Congress until 1926, didn't he? 14
years and then was elected to the Senate and has just now been reelected
To his 6th term. Well, another question. MS Hayden, we know that Tempe
used to be called Hayden's Ferry. How did this come to be?
Well, jimmy, I think I can answer that best in my brothers own words. And
the Arizona statesman.
I was born here because my father was the first settler in what is now
Tempe. And I would like to tell you something about why he happened to
come here. My father, like many Connecticut Yankees went west and on his
way, taught school in rock school houses in Kentucky and indiana. He
finished out the term of a school near ST louis Missouri where the teacher
had resigned after a fistfight with one of the big boys in the school. The
big boy sized up the new teacher and decided not to take him on. In 1848,
my father embarked on a trading expedition from independence Missouri
across the plains with fake teams to santa fe and down the rio grande
chihuahua in old Mexico. He maintained his headquarters in santa fe until
after the Gadison purchase then figured your stock of goods to Tucson In
1858 where he remained in business for the next 14 years. By that time,
what Isabelle had been established at the mouth of the Colorado River so
that he could buy goods in san Francisco have them sent by sailing vessels
down the pacific and up the gulf of California from ports Isabel, they
came up the colorado river and flat bottom stern wheel steamboats to humor
his freak teams. Then hauled the goods on the over land route south of the
village to sand. He used his Newell teams to haul his own goods, but also
contracted to haul supplies to various army posts. In Arizona. The troops
at that time were engaged in fighting the Apache indians, which was a
tough tribe to conquer and confined to their reservations.
In the late 1860, the Arizona military headquarters was moved from Tucson
to cripple barracks in their Prescott and in order to submit bids on
freaking contracts. He had to go there. He had never been north of the
healer. And at Florence, they told him that the best crossing on the Salt
River, with less danger of quicksand, was between two buttes on the south
bank of the river.