Show Bru charts washington digest roosevelt bandwagon Is rolling and party foes really fear it steam holler drive Is on for third term nomination and only president himself Is in position to apply brakes by WILLIAM BRUCKART service national press washington D 0 washington some of the anu anti roosevelt democrats have begun to got get frightened it la Is no joke to say any that they tear fear they may get run over by the roosevelt bandwagon on its way to the third term there Is a real drive under way to give the democratic nomination to mr roosevelt again and anybody who laughs it off of la is just foolish I 1 am not saying in this dispatch that mr roosevelt la Is sure to be nominated I 1 am not even convinced yet that ho he will run at all tho the story this week deals on the contrary with the gigantic steam roll or er type of effort that la Is being put forward by mr Roosevel ts supporters who are with him or wrong the subject la is discus NA again only because thero there Is nr quite as live here tn n the national capital as the roosevelt third torm term movement mr roosevelt Is the only person in a position to put on an the brakes of this bandwagon ile he has not done so more mora than that we tire are informed from hyde park where ho he was spending a weekend week end at that Vs 11 1 f r steam roller bandwagon time that he would announce his decision in his own time and not at a time to be determined by editors editor of newspapers ile he was peevish keevis h about questions from reporters as to when an announcement would come he was irked to the point where he declined even to wisecrack about it and that means he was much irked in the meantime many of the roosevelt backers are in a tough spot some of his leaders around the halls of congress would like very much to have something to guide them but they have had nothing and their feelings are rather drooping one of the problems that Is confronting democrats in the senate particularly has to do with votes they cast 12 or 13 years ago it will be recalled how bow senator lafollette the wisconsin progress progressive lv conducted a scourge of president calvin coolidge As I 1 remember mr coolidge had announced that 1 I do not choose to run but talk of drafting him tor for another term was continuing at a great pace mr coolidge stood by his decision that he regarded his tenure as having been two terms and was through LaFollett es resolution on presidential third terms under these circumstances young senator lafollette who did not like mr coolidge Coolid gc any way brought in a resolution expressing the sense of the senate as in opposition to the third term tor for any president Preside nL I 1 believe I 1 will print that text it ought to be valuable reading matter the resolution read res resolved alved that it Is the sense of the senate that the precedent established by washington and other presidents dents of the united states in retiring from the presidential President 14 office after their second term has become by universal concurrence a part of the republican system of government and that any departure from this time honored custom would bo be unwise unpatriotic ond and fraught with peril to our institutions the chief reason why the resolution so bitterly debated in 1928 Is recalled is that there are about 20 senators who voted tor for the resola tion who still are members of the senate today some of them are among the main shouters for or a roosevelt third term and it strikes me that the laugh Is on them this time some of the number however can show chow a most consistent record as a result of the vote they cast 12 years ago tydings of maryland smith of south carolina har rason of mississippi or king ot of utah glass of virginia or wheeler of mon tana each of these can properly oppose a third term for mr roosevelt because they voted against another term for mr coolidge backers of 1928 R resolution are now on the spot but just where will the boys land who voted against a third term in the 1028 1928 resolution and now are shout far or clr roosevelt among these Is senator barkley of kentucky the democratic leader and roosevelt spokesman in the senate wagner of new york who has ii pushed more of the roosevelt social sen barkley legislation through congress than any other man and has been a roosevelt right or wrong supporter and there Is the great popper otter offer senator mckellar of tennessee senator pittman of N nevada evada president pro tempore of the senate the roosevelt leader in foreign policy surely will not find it easy to explain his bis support of mr roosevelt that Is it will be more difficult for him to stick by the president on a third term issue than it will be for sen walter george of georgia to oppose a third term senator george was among those to be purged in the 1038 1938 elec eions it willbe will be recalled in connection with thy the heavy artillery that Is blasting away to bring about a third term nomination for the president there Is much talk in washington that links his bis current peace offensive with politics I 1 do not regard this as sound it may not be denied that a strong effort towards establishment of pence in europe if successful or only partially successful would produce support in undreamed of character for mr roosevelt presidents peace efforts seems devoid of politics at the moment however I 1 repeat I 1 do not place too much faith in the talk that the president is doing these things purely for political purpose he has named myron C taylor former united states steel corporation president as his personal representative to the vatican mr taylor will work with the pope myron C ln in whatever way Is taylor possible in promotion of peace next after that came the appointment of sumner welles undersecretary of state to go a misson to england france italy and germany the nature of mr welles mission has not been clarified beyond the fact that he is to gather information wherever he can find it with respect to methods of an approach to peace among the belligerents it one couples the dizzy activity of the roosevelt third in a dozen states with the peace offensive and combine the two with the vast machine built up by patronage and billions of federal ex expenditures if one thinks of the scene in that light it Is not difficult to recognize why some of the old timers are tearful fearful of being hurt by the roosevelt bandwagon there Is against that proposition however the known determination of many important leaders to oppose a third term to the limit of physical endurance many times of course washington is the worst place in the world from which to appraise public sentiment but bui when astute warhorses war borses horses fellous fel loVs who have battled for votes time after time on tho the hustings say that a third term tor for mr roosevelt will destroy the democratic party definitely and finally you have something that approximates the fervor of religious warfare those fellows will not take their licking lying down it ought to be recalled here however that only one of all of the democratic aspirants has had the courage to announce his candidacy without any reference to what mr Roosevel ts decision may be that Is vice president garner he and his supporters are going after delegates wherever one can be found and they are operating earnestly mr garner gamer Is no tyro as a politician I 1 suppose ho he has made bad guesses during his 40 years in politics but I 1 suspect he figures the third term bugaboo is just the new deal era squeals in the political woods wood |