Show 11 I I N SID S IL I l D E F L S T I U F FF F The B By News New elJ PAUL RAUL Bend Behind MALLON Lt the News 1 WASHINGTON Oct 27 27 Preal President dent Roosevelt's lt final final speaking peaking trip more commonly known as whirlwind drive was supposed to whirl drive him out into Ohio and Indiana again He had half half- planned to make a speech at Fort Wayne Vayne and a stop at Toledo You m may y have noticed that be he is whirling only through the east and driving no farther west wet than Harrisburg Thereby hangs a tale which involves Involve more than travel The way insiders here tell teU It Indiana's Governor McNutt did not want much help from Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington early in the campaign He even disassociated his state ticket as far as possible from the presidential presidential presidential slate and consequently In about two twenty counties the Hoosier Homier voters will be provided with separate ballots one for Mr McNutt's ticket and the other for presidential electors But since then the polls which measure the blood pressure of voters weekly up and down for Mr Roosevelt have reported In- In teasing popularity for the pres president den dent and less Jes for Mr McNutt's McNutt s state ticket For that reason or others other Mr McNutt's friends be besought besought besought be- be sought the White House for as- as While Thile Mr Roosevelt was makIng making mak mak- ing up up his latest itinerary the stack of Indiana telegrams on his secretary's desk duk one morning reached an altitude of three inches As Mr McNutt Is being mentioned as the possible heir apparent for 1940 as the probable next secretary of war and in fact for every federal job now open it was assumed the president president dent would certainly comply Yet he did not and countless thousands of Mr Roosevelt's Roosevelt friends are asking why why why The gentleman In the woodpile I is s not an Ethiopian but apparently apparently only Chairman Sunny Jim Farley Farey Those who should know say uy that Mr Farley Fancy advised the president not to go galloping westward just to help Mr Air McNutt's Mc oc- oc Nutts Nutt's state ticket For one thing the thought it would look bad They thought such strenuous activity at the last Jast minute would indicate lack of confidence on the part of the president Where that leaves leave the heir apparent apparent ap ap- ap- ap parent is not apparent but Governor Governor Gov Coy McNutt certainly is not in the same spot he ho once occupied That is the way it goes In poll poll- tics up one minute down the tho next here today and gone tomor tomor- row Today's Feedbox Gleanings The surveys Indicate ate a much smaller majority for Mr or Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt In Maryland than generally expected possibly no more than Delaware is doubtful and not only because the Republican elector elec dec tars tors are split Roosevelt's majority majority ma ma- Is bein figured by some authorities at kt a al bare are which means only that the total Republican Republican lican and Democratic vote is very closely balanced Maine will give Landon a ma- ma of about Idaho will go for Roosevelt by about Perplexity Among the many promises which Mr Roosevelt has not made In this campaign is one about silver sliver A story comes from on high that he will seek modification tion of ot the silver liver purchase act at the next session if reelected The only thing he has said on the subject was at Denver There he took credit for or the silver sliver purchase purchase purchase pur pur- pur- pur chase program which everyone around here had believed was put over on him by the silver allver sena sena- tors against his judgment and wishes The official text of ot his Denver speech likewise records his mention mention mention men men- tion of our great bullion re reserves reserves re- re reserves serves now In the United States treasury But it does not re record record re- re record cord that he significantly ad Jibbed to his silver minded anti- anti gold audience and and you In Denver Denver Denver Den Den- ver know something about them This has left the silver authorities author author- ties tie around here knee knee-d knee deep ep In quandary but their best judgment is that the president plans to do nothing about silver one way or another The experts expert who have formulated his policy say they are quite content to leave things as they are without modification or extension Conversation Another development which has complicated silver allver expectations is the switch of James Jame P. P Off Oft Again On Again Warburg back to Roosevelt Mr Warburg has been for and against the president so often that statisticians statisticians statis statis- have lost JOt count but at the time this was written he was still stilt sticking to an announcement that I he was for Roosevelt The announcement did not mention It It but Mr Warburg has hasa a silver record He once wrote a book The Money oney Muddle In tn which he caustically analyzed the monetary policy exhausting every angle of It except silver sliver In 1932 he advised the house coinage committee committee com corn to put silver in the monetary monetary mone mone- tary reserves His business connections connection are likewise highly regarded professional professional professional Speculation has naturally re re- re suIted in the question of whether the return of the strayed official-strayed silver allver prodigal involves any changes in silver sliver policy polley The consensus con con- is that it does doe not Copyright 1936 for r The Tele- Tele ram gram |