Show digest ars iden identa t I 1 s supporters catch 11 i rtin runt t of opposition ariti criticism casill i I 1 elt it personally U under direct fire of enemies I 1 ily ly twice interference in state primaries 11 pow now subject of bitter controversy by WILLIAM BRUCKART service national press washington D 0 it has been a I 1 B frequent reau ent reference among 11 E how sow president ident awo or subordinates or ES porters him have caught the rl for or opposition opposition criticism mr has been un personally I 1 enemies direct fire of his occasions alons lie played occa two ai ical cards so that when L n blow blew up it was some fate ate or supporter whose found out too far the s found himself it t of course target arget W when hen he proposed court wa with th six the e supreme ai I 1 justices justice of hs his own choos when hen he sought governa government ent but general ie e ing the roose veit prestige ded damage until now h brings us to tho the bitter presidential in in ersy over ovel ice i in state primaries and nd md stage mr Roosevel Roosevel ts tion that hat it was teas a viola vs ON public morality jor for kens to enter a democratic y this cont controvert is tho the sated and has the broad li callons of any of tho the a which the storm cen bout ut mr Roosevel ts own t is s likely to be the most hing bins in its result the ell it prestige is bound to aged whether lie he wins or wal hen e n the score finally I 1 is is a and n d as lar far as can bo be et lv he to will not be able to ember aber having written when aident made his in ji the dual capacity of 0 nd head of tho the democratic that it appeared difficult to late clate th the e t two we capacities I 1 ed d at that time two months at t there we were re germs of trou brou uch ich an attempt it was not fore ore the germs were grow r Roosevel ts pat on the or senator bulkley of ohio bold command to the demo voters oters of kentucky to send fiend ear alben barkley back to 1 ate te brought a shower of ripe eggs ggs onto the head of either resident or the head of the batic itic party I 1 did not know personality erson allty was naming the e democratic candidate in the les s then nor do I 1 yet know all 11 of the information from tales lies since I 1 gather that the in i the primaries did not know r they were voting to sup e i president of the united or the head of the democrat ty 1 t dack back for Al mcadoo cAdoo lap up for 0 oconnor connor on to the middle west and ar west the pat on the back tor mcadoo who has appo for r the democratic senatorial aaion ion in california and next agla la where mr roosevelt ute the now famous god bless her alter but youre no liberal ator or george to be followed direct red endorsement of law camp imp tor for the senatorial nom n against mr george later 00 sevelt gave a vicious ap ln in the face to rep john nor r in new york and at senator benator tydings in maryland ying ig that representative i da ewis Is ought to have the demo nomination llalon addition t to 0 these direct inter ats in state primaries mr belts its subordinates men like f administrator hopkins and tary y Ickes horned into prima iowa wa oregon idaho and else 0 they were well licked in and d idaho and it was the re in the latter state that has ht up the second stage of the aversy ersy s senator pope used to say if any cons constituent wanted to 10 9 this s position n on a bilven g alven ques W t W was a necessary only to inether whether the president was tor for again t it apparently the vot orrt 1 aado he d did adnot not like that th they ey da a senator e ator to vote their effs ral abher h er t than h an one who consist voted oled the presidents view r a rt they ey n nominated represent cl ark I 1 in their democratic democrat I 1 c Y he had something in ex of 1500 more votes thin than mr I 1 e kleving kang administered to sen fope pe did net taste well to the s de 1 l t or the coterie of new deal r S senator ter pope obviously not like 1 ke it elt cither her and he be did the aish thing of e emitting a loud and squawk t that hat the nomination taken ien from him by republic 3 li e said a I 1 d they went into the socratic ac primary and gave hep ve clark their votes in sut nt number aber t to 0 override the will bority of the democrats in late senator or pope went to i T NY to weep P out his I 1 on the wl shoulders of mr roose but uler it has riot not been ma made de clear it was the shoulders shou cera of the of the united states or ot of I 1 I 1 I 1 1 the head of the democratic party anyway there was weeping at hyde park takes important second sap st cp in controversy and after that meeting and when the tears were wiped away so there would be no sniffling mr roosevelt took the important second step in the controversy ile he denounced the republicans a ai having violated public morals by voting tor for mr dark clark in a democratic primary although if the ballots were secret as the law requires I 1 have been unable to figure out how either mr roosevelt or mr pope know that it was the republicans public ans and not the democrats who brought about mr popes defeat anyway mr roosevelt el ther as president of the united states or as head of the democratic party condemned such terrible things as republican votes in a democratic primary such a course of action the president or the head of the democratic party said constituted an attempt to destroy the direct primary system it apparently did not matter to the dent or the head of the democratic party that mr dark clark had earn cam as a democrat while senator popo pope was sounding off as a per cent new dealer I 1 have been wondering since the hyde park condemnation of the republicans public ans how mr Roosevel ts position in the two phases of his course can be reconciled it never has seemed to me to be so terrible tor for the president or the head of tho the democratic party or the head of the republican party if the president be a republican to state his views about candidates probably the presidential office ought not to be used that way but I 1 can not get ge t so BO excited about it as some writers and some newspapers and some politicians ItI itic ians clans have done I 1 am inclined to regard such action as the purest of politics and politics is a game and tho the voters have to recognize that it Is a game there has been a lot of meaningless gushing going on about mr Roosevel ts course that just falls to impress me at all but on the other hand there Is an old old quotation consistency thou art a jewel in remembering and applying that thought it appears to me that mr roosevelt has gone off tile the deep end of the pool without an inflated rubber tube for an arm rest indeed it a ra rather h silly thing an utterly stupid piece of business to claim the right to interfere on his own part and tell the common ordinary garden variety of voter that he can not take a bostion because he once played on the other team Is Roosevel ts Forg ettery working well these days further I 1 am wondering whether mr Roosevel ts forg ettery works so well that he falls to recall his appeal in 1932 and again in 1936 for republicans to follow him elect him as the savior of the country it seems to me if it Is sauce for the goose the old gander can eat the same food further there Is a bit of logic about the whole thing that ought to be examined take the state of georgia for example where the democratic nomination means election A republican in georgia would be sunk without a trace as far as selection of someone to represent him la in congress Is concerned it if he wanted to have his real choice recorded his only course it if he preferred one democratic candidate to another would be to enter the D democratic L primary and vote for on one e ol of those candidates assume that the republican voter lives in idaho if that voter felt that neither odthe candidates for the republican nomination for the senate measured up to his ideas why should he not be allowed to vote in the democratic primary in order to express his preference it might well be that a republican voter in idaho would feel that the democratic nominee had a better chance of being elected in november than did the republican nominee if he felt that way it appears to me that he would be showing good sense common horse sense to express his preference on that side of the fence I 1 believe mr Roosevel ts record would look very much better at this point it if he had extended his congratulations to representative clark in idaho ida bo and promised him the support of he democratic national committee in the forthcoming election as was done by national democratic chairman parley farley surely that would have been sportsmanship and the attitude of a good loser it may be however and this is an implication arm the Indic indications indication atio 3 of the day that mr roosevelt la 3 trying deliberately to force a r realignment i of voters throughout the country he may be seeking to drive radicals into his camp in case ol of a third term urge and the consert con atiles into another camp OWea 0 watern tern N goaper No aper union bunjon I 1 I 1 |