Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-07-02 | Page 4 | Mr. Roosevelt

MR lUR ROOSEVELT WITHOUT 7 doubt the nomination of Governor Governor Governor Gov Gov- Roosevelt lt of New York will be popular among the rank and file fHe of Demo Demo- He lIe certainly was the popular choice of pf 01 the Chicago convention which winds up today after a picturesque if brief battle Always from the moment the convention opened there was the threat that Mr Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt would be stopped and for three ballots I he was Then began the e enactment of atense a atense tense drama entitled Out Where the West Ends or the Revenge of Bill McAdoo I For eight years Mr McAdoo had nursed the ambition to repay Al AI Smith for what Garden when happened in Madison Square the wartime secretary of the treasury was thwarted in his ambition to become th the presIdential presidential pres pres- nominee of his party How he repaid Mr Smith forms the basis I of Df what happened on the fourth ballot which made Governor Roosevelt the overwhelming nominee ee Of course Mr McAdoo had to change his residence from New York to California California Cali Call fornia lornia in that eight years before he could accomplish th that revenge He turned the tide of the convention broke what appeared tobe tobe to tobe be a deadlock and squared his account with I Mr Smith The candidacy of Mr Roosevelt probably assures the Democrats of carrying New York Although Mr Smith lost his own state to Mr Hoover in 1928 Mr Roosevelt w was an easy winner of the governorship However his candidacy will be largely affected by the re repeal repeal repeal re- re peal plank in the Democratic platform Instates in instates states labeled as dry for although the Republican Re Re- publican pronouncement upon prohibition Ismore ismor is ismore more mor equivocal it may be at the same time more satisfactory to the dry elements Just why the liquor question should have so 59 important a bearing earing upon the presidential contest in these times when economic reforms seem paramount is one of the mysteries of politics Yet it is undoubtedly true that it i. i will greatly affect the vote and probably alter al al- t ter r partisan alignments In most of the states