Show I JL Inside 7 IV j I ul e t Stuff II I By PAUL MALLON I BOSTON J Jan n. n 25 A 25 A rumor has as wept this section that Al AI Smith will ease ease his punches in his Liberty league e speech Saturday night It seems to be a top tip in upper New NewYork York Vork state and Massachusetts i clos- clos 4 One of ot Als Al's mith to Burn Born est friends here nIt says of off the rec- rec ord Advance public- public toy on the speech has been over over- played It cannot possibly live Jive up expectations But Al has pulled Very ry few punches punch s in his life His speech will burn his Roose- Roose Nelt tv elt bridges behind him with him with gaso- gaso You i can mar mark It ft do down in n your that that the Republican delegation from from Massachusetts will wilI be un- un pledged The most eminent author- author pities Sties JUes hero here have passed word down downie the ie line to that effect There seems be no disagreement 1 But th this s is one spot where an un- un d delegation will not be overtly covertly for Hoover The boys have that em emphatically h als also Behind tb these se Republican I lican can prospects you will find the th sent sent-mi ll weakness of the th Republicans which I is not confined New England It i is that there Is no outstanding personality offering a pular focal rallying point E The rue leaders leader's around here like Gonor Gov- Gov arnor nor Landon of Kansas but there theren n is little or no leadership lead lend publican functioning Leaders tUdela Lack for him on the In I 1 Claimed side It was all aU t fixed i x e a so some om m e othi ago for Ted Clark Clar il adviser o of President Cool- Cool Jd e to come into New England tad arid d set net up a Landon bandwagon for tie th boys to climb on Clark died if t he ho could do It Colonel nel Knox is also relished Ho He Is a New Englander ty y- y birth and experience and bly wm will have a fair bulk of ot the from this section Mr tr r. r Hoover is personally personally- admired the party loaders leaders but generally Considered Impossible as a candi- candi its ate opposition to the new deal dealand 4 irn rm and widespread it just can- can ff F. F on P page c Two Too f Sa at Inside tuff Stuff fr from tone m V JI t Ort not g get t around to congealing into enthusiasm behind any anyone one opposition opposition opposition tion man They say that DemocratIc BOM oss Corley was a. a speaking more morer or Jess ks humorously when he be hinted himself as candidate for the tho senate ent nex next yeAr against Senator C CoolIdge I He will wID probably wind windup up by hy running for 01 governor instead Car CutleY ley f. f playing a It wise wi game m He 1 list lets lilt his associates fates talk ardently against the th new deal but hd he personally per sort ny Always speaks wen wail df of President dent Roosevelt Thu Thus Mr Cutt Curley is very likely to tob tob tobe b be found on t tot top of 0 the 01 heap no matter who winds wind up upon on em the bottom Retired Assistant Treasury Secretary Secretary Secretary Secre Secre- tary is just justas as talkative as asa s sa a ft certain former forma president by the th same sarno name One of ot his Boston Banking associates had dinner with him a few nights before beto his res nation and arId heard nothing about it Not only that Uta b but feut t Mr C Coolidge aTh also neglected to offer otter any vehement criticism of ot th the new deal deaf Those Wb who are re closest f to him Say a the Washington stories ire are correct corret It was not A It s 's specific incident which caused hi his r an accumulation ac u bf of spending policies with which he ho could not go go along Incidentally the rell resignation was wu presented long before it was wu an an- H J t Mr MI n Roosevelt hold it up and fix the time Whether Af At Smith has hu lost weight in his lila old New England stronghold is A 5 matter df of dispute Some SOM say y hi his row with Fa- Fa Smith ther J last jt Strength year has hurt him Uncertain It is generally agreed that Coughlin has hu fallen off oU lit hI th these se sepa pa parts but out probably not as much asin ns as in the rest of the country are on pa the up The Them m movement Is eom comparatively ir new Iii frt th these se regions and still h has tb the advantage ad ad- vantage of 01 fresh appeal Such an educational tIon l 1 le leader d cJ t r a as the assistant superintendent of or schools chool in Boston Dr Vr Frederick Jc GUlls GUlis came out for tor forthe th the plan plen A II few w days ago although he doubted Its hi feasibility his I w word word word-SC at the Ore present time The Th fact filet H seems to be that the tho will b a. a surging political political po po- po influence in the tho developing presidential l campaign but not a dominant one The ne most thoroughly retired of all an reU retiring Bostonians i is It probably the e em m most ft Influential one ond Professor Frankfurter His HII advisory relation relation- relationship ship Ip with the tho president nt Is confidential confident confident- and h hIS lives his life HIS accordingly He h handles his cla classes es daily dally at atthe atthe t the Harvard university law Jaw sch school OJ Ups slips off to Washington occasionally occasional ly Iy getting In and Professor out of t the White Is Very House with without 0 u t Retiring publicity There are aro also alao telephones telephones telephones tele tele- phones available to be used With Villi it an al all b he hi lives Jives in ID the cloistered se- se elusion m of the tb confidences of his hi clique of friends here in New York and Washington tI all tho the young lawyers law law- yell yu he has bat helped along He He- does doe not talk unc freely treely with newsmen news news- mend men l Jf-l even to two of his good friends friend friendson on oft Best Boston Bost tS nt papers Concerning po pa- economic subjects he hs lets leb his hI b books speak fak for him and and they speak loudly enough He is highly respected locally even by his political po po- po- po adversaries No national political character has bas been so since Colonel Hones Home functioned in a somewhat similar r but hut m more r. r official way waz for tor Woodrow Wilson The lb new flEW dealers wrote New England Eng En land off elt- u as a total fetal t ul loss ts last November Novem Novena I bet ber The Xh Literary LUnary Digest poll pon show showed d roughly 70 IG per pa cent of this populous section against Even Evenso so this do does not close dose the book hook as asfar asfar astar far tar a as next Novembers November's personalities personal personal- lUe are art concerned A recount will willbe be bd necessary before then alter after such unknown Wn factors factor as Curley Cutley A ASmith Al Smith and the P Republican rand eandi date are at developed m more n clearly Copyright 1936 for The Telegram |