Show 6 NA NATIONAL AFFAIRS Reviewed by CARTER FIELD FJELD It 1 is iJ generally accepted in Washington that hat James A A. A Farley is J out ou for the he Democratic Demos Demo cratic erotic nomination for himself himself him liim- self Factors that hat lead to 0 the popular underestimation ton lion of 01 the he importance of 0 his candidacy Dr Drive tc for lor forthe forthe the thc investigation of 01 the he assassination assassination as m- of 01 Senator Hucy Long brings out a mass of 0 contradictory and a few cir circumstantial circumstantial cir cir- stories that are arc icing being circulated in Louisiana Louisi Louisi- ana ami and in Washington W W WASHINGTON Anyone Anyone who discounts dis- dis counts Mr James A. A Farley In picking picking pick pick- ing the next Democratic nominee nomine for the presidency is leaving out i ivery a ai avery i very Important factor Indeed Big DIg Jim is out for the nomination himself It Is entirely within the thi realm of possibility that he may get it It the experience o othe of the party in nomi Alfred E ESmith E. E 4 Smith to the contrary con con- s f l' l ing lag Cut But an element clemen r of this s sl situation tua tion which has not re reo the attention J it deserves is that 01 of FaVl AI aU U the who J J. J A. A A Fancy Farley T y men have been mentioned men men- for the nomination Including President Roosevelt himself thenis there then is no one who will have more Influence influence Influence ence in controlling where his delegates delegates delegates dele dele- gates go if it and when they leave him than Jim Farley Politicians of course are human They are pretty much like everybody every every- body else They look out for No 1 first and the double cross Is no nomore nomore more a rarity in politics than it liin is li in business bushiest on the stage or wherever wherever wherever ever else human buman interests run into conflict But Dut there is one feature of poli poll politics tics which is just a little different In the nature of things there cannot be binding written contracts in poll polio tics There is no means of making a livelihood where so much reliance has to be placed on promises promises and and andon on verbal promises for the shrewd politician does not put into writing the sort of promises that are important important important tant here Farley lias has Reputation For Keeping His llis Promises It so happens that besides a genius gens gen ius fus for organization as he proved when he lined up the delegates for Roosevelt in 1932 1032 Jim Farley has hasan hasan hasan an enviable reputation for keeping his promises Sometimes he has hai been prevented from delivering delivering delivering-by by White House Intervention intervention but but there e have been no reports of any Important tant Cant political leader thinking that Jim double-crossed double him When Farley could not deliver i iwas it t was always alway a glaring case of th the e Wh White ite House refusing to come com e across It was never another friend ed d of Farley who got the job Meanwhile in the seven years year s that have passed Farle Farley has kept t up his contacts He III has not forgotten forgot ten an any politicians politician's first name no nor r his problems problem nor his friends and perhaps more Important than all al l his enemies No one catches Farley Farley Far Far- ley handing out pie to some the chap p who happens to be the bitter opponent nent vent of anyone anone who has been going g down the line for Farley Farle It may be remembered that Farley FarIe Farley Far Far- Ie ley did not sympathize with U the ii e purge except perhaps in the on one e case of Sen Millard E. E Tydings an and d that be he took no part in it whatever It was the Brain Drain the Cor Cor- and Cohens and who stumped their toes in Iowa t in n Virginia in Georgia and South Car olina There may be something that Farley Far Farley ley has baa done to irritate the rc regular lar r organization leaders In some state but reports about it have no not t reached Washington And never forget forget for get that in virtually every everyone one of the th states it will be the regular organization organ I ution leaders primary or no pr i mary who will pick the delegates delegate g and who will be the leaders of the their r state delegations at the convention Importance of Parleys Farley's Candidacy Underestimated Popular underestimation of lb the e Importance of James A. A Farleys Farley's s candidacy Is due to two factors 1 Belief Dellel that the defeat of Alfred Alfre d E. E Smith in 1928 proved that n no o Catholic can be elected President of ot the United States 2 Lack of appreciation of Farley Farley's s political shrewdness and dem demonstrated demonstrated demon demon- on strafed loyalty to his friends an anc and ond d c the dividends these two assets mig miga might ht a pa pay As A. to the first argument is futile e Nobody knows It might be point pointed I I i out in passing however that Al A d Smith was weighed down by oth other er lY elements element than the prejudice which whit h 1 l existed against his church In gaining galling gainIng gain gall ing a fo foothold in the White House Ilous e For one thing 1928 marked theat the erg high tide of prohibition Up to 10 th that at I time the argument that prohibition on was largely responsible for the extraordinary e ex prosperity which existed existed exist exist- t ed In this Ibis country under Coolidge ge t fi j n r l' l had not b been en dissipated by its collapse col lapse under Hoover At that time also most people In this country assumed assumed assumed as as- as- as that prohibition was here t to stay that all agitation about it was futile and that the thing to do was to try to get along under It it itAl Al AI Smith was also tarred with the Tammany brush and few New Yorkers will ever realize Just how wicked and corrupt most of the folks folk out in the country thought the TIger Tiger Tiger Ti ger was Hoover had a perfect arm army of al almost almost almost al- al most fanatical admirers scattered in eve every sta state te in the Union Business men thought he could expand expand expand ex ex- the Coolidge 4 j prosperity for which they already gave him some credit because because be be- cause he had been secretary of ot corn com corny commerce y merce during It Engineers Engineers En En- thrilled at atthe atthe atthe the Idea of one of their number Herbert jj the White Hoover Herbert house and thought he would produce such efficiency In government as had never been seen leen before For these and other reasons the cards were stacked against Smith Perhaps he would have been beaten anyhow just because of the religious religious reli rell Issue Southern Forgotten Mm Mn of Politics But Dut those who led the In the South are the forgotten men men of politics There Is not one of them In Important political place today save Frank R. R and he flourishes not because he bolted Smith but because he agrees with Roosevelt and most of the liberals on the public power Issue This Is Important now In view of Farleys Farley's candidacy because everyone everyone every every- one In the South knows all about It No one Is going to take lake the place played by Bishop Cannon In 1928 even If It Northern suckers hoping for cabinet jobs and diplomatic posts could be found again to finance such sucha a movement No Horace Mann Is ii going to play the man of mystery In another presidential campaign Not until an entirely new crop of Southern politicians is la reared a generation generation generation gen gen- which does not remember what happened to the men who won the war and lost the peace treaty under Hoover If It Farley should be nominated for President he will have to be beaten if U he is beaten at all aU in the North and West The significance of this is that the Southern leaders will not be as much disturbed as they were In 1932 by fear of a repetition of 1928 Fear of AI Al Smith drove them to Roosevelt in 1932 at the convention They may prefer various other candidates to Farley but there will be no stampede stampede stam slam pede to any candidate based on tear fear of the consequences of Farleys Farley's nomina nomination Start Drive for Inquiry Into Murder o of f Long Apparently a drive has been started started start start- ed for an investigation of the assassination assas assas- of Sen Huey P. P P Long It may not materialize but if It It does doese it certainly will spoil a lot of stories which are now being told In Louisiana Louisi ana and ana and Washington The writer spent pent two days in New Orleans recently and listened to quite a few circumstantial stories of the killing of the Kingfish Some of the curious conflicts in stories told with the utmost positives positive positive- ness nesa are That the bullet fired by Dr Weiss never struck Huey at all aU the gun i being knocked up by Huey himself just before Weiss could pull the trigger trig trig- ger That Huey was actually killed by a s bullet fired by one of his body guards Against this the writer was told just as positively that Dr Weiss held his gun within a few inches of Huey's Hueys chest cheat and that Huey knocked It downward And that there was no other wound save that caused by Weiss' Weiss bullet That the bullet which killed Huey was extracted by the surgeon who operated and that it was a 44 H That the bullet which resulted In death passed through the senator and was never nf found That the bullet In question was a 32 the 32 the caliber of the pistol Dr Ur Weiss used Conflicting Stories About Dr rr Weiss reins du Alleged Assassin That Dr Weiss was almost decapitated decapitated de des by the rain of bullets poured Into him and died instantly That Dr Weiss lived for five live minutes minutes min min- utes after the shooting stopped topped most of the wounds being in his arms and legs That the pistol of Dr Weiss was wasa wass a cheap make That the pistol of Dr Weiss was a modern an expensive Browning Drowning That Dr Weiss obtained the gun because he decided to kUl kill Huey That Dr Weiss always carried a gun usually leaving it In his auto auto- mobile That If It Huey had been operated on right away he would not have died That he was suffering chiefly from troP shock hock and hence the operation should not have bave been performed right away That he was suffering from loss of blood and the delay was responsible Bible sible for his death That it was by the im impatient patient command commend that the doctor operated operated op op- crated instead of waiting walling for his own surgeons supposed to be en- en route Just what good an investigation would do is fa questionable IB U Syndicate te |