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Every "Yes Yes " , . , but " Democrat wins winsWASHINGTON winsWASHINGTONPresident WASHINGTONPresident WASHINGTON-President WASHINGTON President WASHINGTON President -President - Roose Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelts velt s declaration that election of ofRepubllcan ofRepublican ofRepublican Republlcan Republican ' liberals 'hberals hberals will not dls dis dlstress distress distress tress him hnn was the first public state statement statement statement ment to this effect but for nearly a aweek aweek aweek week before that there had beengrave been beengrave beengrave grave concern down at the depart department departmeat department ment meat of agriculture agnculture and among amongKansas amongKansas amongKansas Kansas Democrats over a much muchmore muchmore . more pointed pomted statement of the same samegenerahty samegenerality samegenerality samegeneralitySeveral generahty generality generahtySe generalitySeveral Se Several erallmportant important New Deal am offi amclals officials offlcials clals cials were talking talkmg with the Presi President President President dent about the Kansas situation Mr MrRoosevelt MrRoosevelt MrRoosevelt Roosevelt " , was as told that the bellef belief bellefof beliefof beliefof of his callers was that the Demo Democrats Democrats Democrats crats would elect a governor but butthat butthat butthat that they were very much afraid ' a t tt tt 1 t 4 . . . t . .i i . # * * ' 4 - ; h hr l f r SENATOR McGILL l'tlcGILL ltlcGILL McGILLClyde ' McGILLClyde Clyde Cyde M Reed former gO\ gO got gOernor governorand \ ernor ernorand ernorand and editor would defeat SetsGeorge Sell Sets SellGeorge SenGeorge George McGilL McGilLThat . . That . will v.ill vill be all right nght with me mesaId mesaid mesaid saId the President cheerfullyBut cheerfullyBut cheerfully cheerfullyBut But Mr President this man manReed manReed Reed has criticized cntlcued almost every everyfarm everyfarm everyfarm farm policy pollcy this administration adminlstrahon has hasattempted hasattempted hasattempted attempted protested one of the thevisitors thevisitors thevisitors visitors whereas Senator McGill McGillhas McGillhas McGilIhas has voted for every agncultural agricultural agnculturalmeasure agriculturalmeasure agriculturalmeasure measure the administration admmlstrahon has sup supported supported supported supportedNevertheless ported portedNevertheless Nevertheless the President re replied replied replied plied Clyde Reed is an aggresslVe aggressive aggresslVeprogressive aggressiveprogressive aggressiveprogressive aggressiveprogressiveNot progressive progressiveNot Not anxious to provoke troublebut trouble troublebut troublebut but hop ng to get the President m in mline inline inline line one v \ ' ay or another the call callers callers callers ers left len Talking Talkmg together afterwards afterwardsthey afterwardsthey afterwardsthey they canvassed the McGill situat sltuat on onWhat onWhat onWhat What had he done to offend the thePresident thePresidentv thePresident9 thePresident9President President Presidentv ? PresidentvPresidents President Presrdent Presidents s Attitude Attrtude onSenator on onSenator onSenator Senator VcGill UcGdl McGill PuzzlesNone PuzzlesNone Puzzles PuzzlesNone None of them could figure then thenor thenor thenor or since So the v . word ord drifted around aroundconfident aroundconfident aroundconfident confident ally of course until if ifthere ifthere ifthere there is anybody in m the department departmentof of agriculture agnculture or in m high DemocratIc DemocratIccIrcles Democraticcircles Democraticcircles cIrcles in ID Washington Wash1l1gton who has not notheard notheard notheard heard it he hI . ' or she is pretty nearly nearlygoss nearlygoss nearlygoss goss p proofFor proof proofFor For the amazing amazrng tact fact is that thatGeorge thatGeorge thatGeorge George McGill is as nearly a 100 100per 100per 100per per cent administration admlmstratIon supporter as ass ass ass s ts 15 is in m the upper house Much more morethan morethan morethan than Robert F Wagner of New NewYork NewYork NewYork York for example Wagner voted votedagamst votedagainst votedagainst agamst against the reorganization reorgamzahon b bill l one nnp Roosevelt s pets He Hevoted Hevoted Hevoted voted agamst against ratification of the St StLawrence StLawrence StLawrence Lawrence seaway which Roosevelt Rooseveltis IS seeking seekmg to revIveMuch reviveMuch revive reviveMuch Much more mOi"e mOie " than William GibbsMcAdoo Gibbs GibbsMcAdoo GibbsMcAdoo McAdoo byRoosevelt so cordially endorsed by b bRoosevelt > ) Roosevelt m in his disastrous prunary primary primaryMcAdoo prunaryMcAdoo McAdoo opposed the President on onthl"o onthe ontha thl"o thlo the " , " florid "arid arid torld { court issue In fact Mc McGill McGill MeRill Gill n IS one of the very few Democrahc Democratic Demo | cratic crahc senators with not a smgle single singleblack smgleblack black mark against agamst his record so far faras faras taras as blind obedience toVl1ite to \ White \Vl1ite Vl1ite House Housewishes Housewishes Housewishes wishes is concerned He is a yes yesman yesman yesman man plusWhereas plusWhereas plus plusWhereas Whereas Clyde Reed as every 1m im 1mport important 1mportant port portant ant bureau chiet cluef chief in m the depart department departmeat department ment meat of agriculture knows has been beena a thorn in m Secretary Henry A Wal Wallace Wallace Wallace lace s side He is very critical cntIcal of both ofboth past and present performances performancesof of the Roosevelt Wallace farm rellef relief rellefprogram reliefprogram reliefprogram program Presumably Preswnably he would wouldote wouldvote would\ote would ote \ote ote vote \ with the critics of WaUace Wallace If Ifhe ifhe ithe he comes to the senateThe senateThe senate senateThe The only answer ansv.er ansver . anyone has been beena beenable beenable a able ble to figure as to the President s slog slog slog log c is that Clyde Reed although a aRepubl aRepubl aRepubl Republ can and a former fOlII1er ; governor governorwas governorwas governorwas was almost openly for Roosevelt in 111 1936 1936A A New Purge Is Started StartedTo StartedTo StartedTo To Sidetraci Srdetrac1 Stdetrael Garner Garna GarnerA GarnaA A new purge is now under way UndIsmayed wayUndismayed by crush ng defeats m in inSouth mSouth inSouth South Carolina and Idaho and de defeats defeats defeats feats to come indicated by polls and andmformat andinformat andinformal mformat informat on in Maryland and Geor Georgla Georgia Georgia gla gia the New Deal is planning plannmg tostnp tostrip to totnp stnp strip tnp all recalcitrants recaleitrants of their pa tronage patronage . , , and build up new ne\l ne l nei \ machmes machines machinesIn machmesin in Maryland Georgia South Caro CaroIma Carolina Carolina Ima lina and other states where the or orgamzatlons organuations orgamzations gamzatlons ganuations at present are controlled controlledby controlledby controlledby by men . who v.ho vho might not see eye to toeye totic eye ) e \ with llh President Roosevelt when the next Deir Democratic Dell'4-cratlc Dell'4 Dell4 cratlc ' - cratic . national nahonal convention c"n cn con c"nventlon convention " ventlon vention Is called to orderThe orderThe order orderThe The whole object obJcct is to make sure surethat surethat surethat that the convention comentlon does not noml nomi nomlnate nominate normnate nate 1man a 1\ 1 \ man of the type of Vice VicePresident VicePresident VicePresident President John Nance Garner or orJesse orJesse orJessc Jesse H Jones or Harry Flood FloodByrd FloodByrd FloodByrd Byrd What is wanted of course Is Isa isa isa a convention which will nomrnate nominate nomrnatesome nominatesome nominatesome some 100 per cent New DealerLeaving DealerLeaving Dealer DealerLeaving Leaving out California Cahforma where nei neither neither nelther ther of the leadmg leading Democratic Democrahc can candldates candidates candidates dldates didates for senatorwas senator p - - 'l l ; : ' 'lwas was anti antlNew New Dealand Deal jand . "J J "JBnd " Bnd and the paramountissue paramount ] . " issue was the $30 30 $30a $ $ S S'M / 'M M 'M.a ' " .a a . a week pension t < ' < .lS lS . sscheme , scheme opposed by 1 . ' Y " 4e 4eSen ' " * . \ , Sen William Gibbs 1'F 1F ' 5 ' a aMcAdoo < > 'McAdoo McAdoo ' McAdoo and the thePresident 4 4President \ President the box boxscore boxscore ' $ \ i iscore score to date Is not notvery notvery notvery very comforting comfortrng to tothe tothe tothe the New DealThe Deal i iThe t 1 1k 1The k The lame ducksso ducks - . , WilliamGeorge ducksGeorge George GeMS6LDietench ? . ? , , L Lso jso so far William are WilliamBerry , BerryDieterich DImolsBerry Berry BerryGeorge DieterIch of DlinoisGeorge Illinois DImols Dlinois George L Berry Bcrry of Tennessee TennesseeJames TennesseeJames TennesseeJames James Pope of Idaho and McAdoo McAdooall McAdooall McAdooall all 100 per centers Senators of theyes theyes the theyes yes but variety who have beenrenommated been beenrenommated beenrenominated renommated renominated are Alva B Adams of ofColorado ofColorado ofColorado Colorado ( not actually nommated nominated nommatedbut nominatedbut nominatedbut but with no opposition candidate candidatewhose candidatewhose candidatewhose whose name can be printed prmted on the theballots theballots theballots ballots ) Bennett C dark Clark of MIS MISsouri Missour Missourl souri sour ' Guy M Gillette of Iowa Elli Eli Ellison Elison EUison son D Smith of South Carolina Carolrna and andFrederIck andFrederick andFrederick FrederIck Van Nuys of Indiana ' I } Ies es But IJut ' Democrats Are AreSuccessful AreSuccessful AreSuccessful Successful Successfulm Successfulin in m Every Cvery Case Curiously Curiousl CurlOusl } ) enough many commen eommen commentators eommentators commontators tators spoke of the South Carolma Carolina Carolmaresult Carolinaresult Carolinaresult result as the first test of the purgeIt purge purgeIt purgeIt It is true that President Roosevelt Roosevelthimself Roosevelthimself Roosevelthimself himself never asked for Senator G 1 1lette 1lette 1lette lette s s defeat in m Iowa but the fact factthat factthat tactthat that James Roosevelt did plus the thefact thefact thetact fact that not only Harry L Hop Hopkms Hopkins Hopkins kms kins injected mJected himself but that the thePresident thePresident thePresident President approved Hopk ns action actionled actionled actionled led to the Iowa result being classl classi classlfied classifled classified fied fled as a purge tha that t failedSlttmg failedSitting failed failedSitting Sitting Slttmg senatorsho senators \ who \\ho ho are 100 per percent percent percent cent New Dealers and who have havebeen havebeen havebeen been renommated renominated include mclude Alben W WBarkley WBarkley WBarkley Barkley of Kentucky Claude Pep Pepper Pepper Pepper per of Florida Lister Hill of Ala Alabama Alabama Alabama bama George McGill of Kansas Kansasand Kansasand Kansasand and Robert R Reynolds of North NorthCarolma NorthCarolina NorthCarolina Carolma Carolina Of these McGill is gen generally generally generally erally conceded to be the only one onewho onewho onewho who faces any dangerMeanwlule dangerMeanwhile danger dangerMeanwhile Meanwhile Meanwlule two Republican Republ1can slttmg sitting slttmgsenators sittingsenators sittingsenators senators James J Davis of Penn Pennsylvama Pennsylvania Pennsylvania sylvama sylvania and Gerald P Nye of ofNorth ofNorth otNorth North Dakota were renommated renominated renommatedover renominatedover renommatedover over opposition in m primaries al although although although though they had opposed certain certainNew certainNew certainNew New Deal measuresSo measuresSo measures measuresSo So far every Yes but Democrat Democratfacmg Democratfacing Democratfacing facmg facing a renomination renommatlon fight has won wonwhIle wonwhile wonwhile whIle the score of the 100 per cent centers centers centers ers is no better than 50 per centMaritime cent centMaritime Maritime Manhme CommissionIs CommustOnIs CommustOn Commission Is Worried Worned Over McAdoo McAdooAt At the maritime mantlme commission there thereIS thereis IS more than a little httle distress over overthe overthe overthe the defeat of Sen William GIbbs GIbbsMcAdoo GibbsMcAdoo GibbsMcAdoo McAdoo in m California Cahforma for renomination renomma renomina renommatlon renommation tlon tion The fear is not based to any anynoticeable anynoticeable anynoticeable noticeable degree on affection for forthe forthe . the senator Quite the contrary It Itis Itis : IS based on the possibility POSSlbll1ty as the themantlme themaritime themaritime mantlme maritime commission crowd views viewsthe viewsthe viewsthe the situation that President Roosevelt Roose Roosevelt Roosevelt velt may appoint appomt Mr McAdoo to the theeXlstmg theexisting theexisting eXlstmg existing vacancy on the marItime marItimecommissIOn maritimecommission maritimecommission maritimecommissionAll commissIOn commissIOnAll All of . which v.hlch vhlch is perplexing perplexmg to those thosev.ho thosewho thosewho v.ho vho who . have the pleasure of knowmg knowing knowmgMr knowingMr knowingMr Mr McAdoo personally for few fewmen fewmen fewmen men m in public pubhc life in the last 30 30years 30years 30years years have had more charm or orwere orwere orwere were easier to get along with Mr MrMcAdoo MrMcAdoo MrMcAdoo McAdoo was on good terms v . whenhe when hen henhe Ihe he was secretary of the treasurydurrng treasuryduring treasury 1during durrng during the entire first Wilson ad admmlstrat administrat admmistrat mmlstrat ministrat on and all through the war wardays wardays wardays days with almost everyone who hadto had hadto hadto to do with his department or with withany withany withany any of the many additional acl1vI active acl1vIties activeties activities ties mclud melud ng the railroads whIch whIchv whichwere whichwere v . were ere entrusted to him hun by W WilsonThe Wilson WilsonThe son sonThe The only real row he ever had hadWith hadwith hadwith With a newspaper man was over a astory astory astory story intimat ml1mat ng that there was a ab ab ab b g profit for Mr McAdoo person personally personally personally ally it If the sh shp p purchase bill then thenbe thenbe thenbe be ng filibustered to death shouldpass shouldpass should pass A short t me later the same news newspaperthe newspaperthe newspaper paper-the paper the - the old New York Herald- Herald Heraldprrnted Heraldprinted Herald-printed Herald printed - - prrnted printed a story that Wilson and ColEdward Col ColEdward ColEdward Edward M House had broken It Itwas Itwas Itwas was premature by a couple of o1 o1years ofyears ofyears years and Wilson was enraged He Hewrote Hewrote Hewrote wrote the editor that he understood understoodthp understoodthe understoodth thp the ' ' story had been written by the thesame thesame thesame same reporter . who v.ho vho recently so m in mexcusably inexcusably inexcusably excusably libeled Secretary Mc McAdoo McAdoo MeAdoo MeAdooA Adoo Adoo1lever I\ever I ever 1lever A \ ever lIar Harbored Ilarbored bored Malice |