| Show Round Merry By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. S ALLEN I WASHINGTON WASHINGTON-It It is now an open secret that Robert H. H Jackson fighting assistant attorney general who has so aroused the ire of big business business business busi busi- ness is the pr presidents president's ident's candidate to be governor of New York next November This was taken up in an inner council meeting meeting meeting meet meet- ing last week and d definitely finitely decided That meeting however took a long time and quite a little maneuvering before it came to pass Reason was the presidents president's loyalty to Jim Farley Farley Farley Far Far- ley his big bald the line postmaster general Jim long has nursed private ambitions to be governor of New York As a boy he played baseball along the shores of the Hudson became political boss of his town has wanted to round out his career by sitting in the governors governor's mansion mansion mansion man man- sion farther up the Hudson Unfortunately Jim has certain political handicaps handicaps handicaps han han- on on of them being his religion the other being hi former association with Tammany Tammany Tammany-an an organization which of late does not sit so sq well with New York voters All AU of this this' deterred the president from throwing his influence one way or the other in the New York situation Kill That Tiger Meanwhile his New York friends especially the La were urging him to take a stand They pointed out that Governor Lehman's Lehmans Lehmans Lehman's Lehmans Lehman's Leh Leh- mans man's banker law in had his eye on Albany that Tammany was trying to rise up out of its ashes and that if he acted quickly Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt had a chance to build up a new progressive Democratic organization in New York But the president delayed out of deference to Jim Farley Parley The governorship of New York is isone isone isone one of the most important springboards to the presidency and Roosevelt did not want to commit commit com corn mit himself The issue finally came to a head last week with Bob Jacksons Jackson's two fighting speeches and the publication of an editorial in the Washington Times urging the president to come out in the open regarding the governorship At a meeting of two or three Roosevelt advisers advisers advis advis- ers era immediately afterward this editorial was brought up Turning to Farley the president said What do you think about it Jim Bob Jacksons Jackson's our best candidate wa was the immediate reply from the man who had wanted to be governor Note There Note There was good reason behind the ve vehement vehement ye- ye kick-backs kick of Senator Copeland and Representative John OConnor O'Connor against the Bob Jackson speeches Good Tammany Democrats both knew that the nomination of Jackson a Progressive-Democrat Progressive meant a further blow to 1 the already feeble Tiger Tiger and and to them Virgin Governor Here is the latest story told on Secretary of the Interior Ickes Lawrence Cramer youthful unimpressive- unimpressive looking governor of the Virgin islands came to call on Ickes gave his name to the doorman merely as Cramer sat down to wait Thirty minutes passed pas then forty The young gover governor or concluded that he had hadnot hadnot hadnot not made his name and position clear So he approached the doorman and explained that he was governor of the Virgin islands Flustered the doorman picked up the tele tele- phone Mr Secretary he be said theres a virgin here from Governors Governor's island Notes on the Message A terrific battle was conducted on the floor by Mary Nortons Norton's bouquet of pink orchids on her wine-red wine dress Representative May of Kentucky was one of half a dozen members bringing children to the floor he brought his grandson Secretary Wallace was the o only ly cabinet cabinet cab cab- inet met absentee Senator Rush D. D Holt though applauding reluctantly when appeared maintained a bored sneer on his face throughout the presidents president's address Mrs James Roosevelt Sr was in the galleries but not Wife Eleanor Senator Glass retained his customary scowl throughout the speech Fanny Perkins followed the presidents president's words with a mimeographed copy of his speech the only copy on the floor She was the only official female to wear a hat women women women wo wo- wo- wo men representatives wearing none Speaker Bankhead and Vice President Garner who presided pre pre- presided pre pre- presided sided jointly proceeded by means means' of typewritten instructions on the desk before them Round after round of applause which h constantly in interrupted interrupted interrupted in- in the presidents president's address was led in almost every instance bya by a group gr p of northern new dealers seated together The group included ed Healey Mass McKeough Ill Gavagan N. N Y and Sacks Pa Minority Leader Bert Snell only once was moved to action When the president mentioned an unbalanced budget again in 1939 Snell hauled a pencil out of his pocket and made a brief note Senator Bert Wheeler yawned constantly throughout the address Secretary of War Woodring and Cotton Ed Smith listened to most of the speech with their eyes closed Copyright 1933 for fot The Telegram hG |
