Show Round Merry-Go-Round By Dy DREW PEARSON and ROBERT RODERT S. S ALLEN hand band the brass brus ting ring good for one free ride on the Washington Round Merry to James lames Aloysius Farley Fancy WASHINGTON WASHINGTON This This campaign will wUl be the thelast thelast thelast last appearance of Big Jim Farley Fancy in big top public office for some time to come Jim is getting out lie He is not resigning as Democratic national chairman But otherwise he heIs heis heis Is definitely going g back to private life And behind that lies a story It is a story in its earlier stages of ot a youngster youngster young young- ster whose saloon-keeper saloon father was killed by bya a horse when Farley was 11 who managed to get geta a little schooling while working in his mothers mother's grocery store in a brickyard and a shipyard and who pulled himself himsel up from an itinerant of gypsum to the chief supplier of buildIng build build- Ing lug materials in New York City ity And in its iu later stages with stages with which we are primarily concerned concerned it it is a story of Mr Roosevelt's Roosevelt's Roose Roose- velt's volts postmaster general Whether you like Jim or not you cant can't get away from the fact that as a campaign manager he is good He has taken more on the chin squawked less and stood up better in the clinches than almost any other othero o of his ex-cabinet ex colleagues Huey's Hueys Charges There was a time when it looked as If U Jim Jinx Farleys Farley's political life would not last lat the night Few Pew people knew kne how near the brink he was It happened when Huey Long was airing his charges in 1935 Huey Buey was then at the crest of his popularity Jim was at the bottom of his Roosevelt let Big Jim fight his own battles stew in his own juice Jim always loyal to his chief chiet worried plenty said nothing But Dut like any wife Bess Farley Fancy was enraged She blamed Jim for ever working for a man like that She pointed out that he had spent all his savings on politics that they could not afford a car that she and the children chil dren had to ride in taxis While you she stormed while YOU spend your time making political speeches speeches' Jim Farley Fancy is a avery very patient man He said nothing to his wife and he said nothing to Franklin Roosevelt t. t But he put up a defense to Huey Longs Long's senate committee which cleared him completely completely and and the committee contained some hard-boiled hard customers Trigger-Man Trigger The truth Is Js Jim has had to take the rap on a lot Jot of stuff for which he was not ble Jim is a machine politician politician and and would bethe be bethe bethe the last to deny or apologize for forIt it But certain rancid deeds credited to him are not of his doing In machine politics like the army you take orders and keep your mouth shut This is not always easy for Jim Under his appearance of rhinoceros hide he has the cuticle of a new-born new babe And the dead cats hurled at his bald dome in retaliation for boners which were not his hurt him grievously No newsman ever was berated by Big Jim for anything written about him Jim may re remark re ne- mark pleasantly That was wu a low ball you pitched me fell fella a. a But on the surface his attitude is Just so you mention me me boys and spell the name right It is this shrewd friendliness that accounts for the fact that Farleys Farley's press conferences next to those of the president are the most heavily attended of 01 any in Washington Personal Triumph The rhe campaign now closing has been a great personal triumph for Jim From the role of whipping-boy whipping of the new deal he has eme emerged ed edas as the undisputed ruler of 01 the national commit committee tee and the campaign Here he has been right in his clement Jims Jim's original handicap was that he didn't know the United States existed west of the Hudson river When it came to making speeches out in the prairie states state he was what his name in the old English indicates ferley ferley a n strange sight I But at machine politics he is superb He 4 knows the bosses of every state and municipal I Democratic machine in the United States and furthermore he knows just how far he can depend depend de de- de pend on them At political organization Jim Isa is isa isa a genius Exit Farley Fancy Naturally Jim is proud of his work and success There was a time a year or so ago when h he hankered to be governor of New York with visions of eventually going soing to the senate in place of Senator Royal S. S Copeland whom he secretly dislikes just as much as Copeland dislikes him Jim Jinxi still harbors those ambitions But being a realist he knows that his chances are pretty thin Right now he Is interested only in two things First a landslide reelection of the president president president dent second a money big-money job after alter the first of the year Being a cabinet member put Jim inthe in inthe inthe the hole Forty eight years old and with a family fam farn- il ily Uy of growing children children to to say nothing of Mrs Farley he Farley-he he is concerned about their welfare Note Friends of Farley Fancy say liquor interests have approached him with a proposition to become become become be be- come the Judge Landis of their industry He may also succeed Will Hays as czar of the movie business J ra rista Z tc 1 |