Show washington gion digest ahr three ee times in row presidents purge attempts prove futile roosevelt unable to transmit personal popularity to ilis followers political prestige suffers irreparable damage forced realignment seen complete flop by WILLIAM BRUCKART service national press bid washington D 0 WASHING washington TOM there was quite a sermon for me in the telegram of congratulations that virginias great leader sen carter glass class sent to senator george upon the occasion of senator georges victory in the attempted new dual doal purge in georgia I 1 dont know why that telegram was not mora widely printed but it was typically like carter glass so cryptic so full of meaning that I 1 am going to reprint it here senator walter F george atlanta ga god bless you walter lilie likewise the sovereign state of georgia signed carter glass to get its true meaning one has to recall that senator george was the third democratic senator in a row who was openly opposed by president roosevelt the third marked to be purged from the democratic party and the third in a row to be victorious over the presidents ill advised attempt to dominate voters of a state and in due course the congress of the united states by person ally picking the democratic party nominees next mr george had been subjected to perhaps the strongest New Now deal slap by the president of any of the nine senators whom the president originally described as men behind the times it will be recalled how mr roosevelt with senator george on the platform spoke his blessing of united states attorney camp at barnesville Barnes ville ga and announced his conclusion that mr george represented the past not the future it was on that occasion too that Mr roosevelt uttered the now famous god bless blass you walter I 1 hops hope we will always befriends be friends tho the third feature to bo be remembered benedis be redis is that mr george won that former governor talmadge was second and that the new deal candidate didace was third in the race and that mr georges victory was so overwhelming that there was no need for a runoff run ru off no primary the tho method in the solid democratic states of choosing between the two highest candidates from the primary vote this means that a majority of the voter smore more than 50 per cent voted for mr george Preside presidents prestige has suffered heavy damage couple those these facts with senator tydings victory over rep david J lewis for the senatorial nomination in maryland I 1 and sen sch cotton ed smiths substantial margin over governor johnston johnsto n in south carolina and it appears to me that several conclusions are proper and justifiable mr roosevelt went into south carolina in halt half ot of governor arnor John johnston and a acht ito into maryland to promise emst ruction of several huge chesapeake bay bridges and to point to the good qualities of representative lewis yet tho the presidents wishes were well ignored the conclusions I 1 lave have reached and X I 1 belleme they will stand the most critical test te arc l mr roosevelt Roost welt Is unable to 1 transmit to his followers the same personal popularity that lie he has en joyed since entering the white 2 ills his prestige as n political lead or cr which undoubtedly was slipping 9 to some extent before has now suffered irreparable damage 3 the congress that will bo be elect ed cd in november will bo be the j most independent indeed probably the a roost 04 obstreperous that teat the president hiis has faced and that thai spells trouble ble in a big way 4 there can be no discounting the liu linco that victories for the conservatives serva tives like those won by td ings smith and geor george ge will have hav e on the I 1 yest of the country in the it Is on an hon est cst statement I 1 believe that the there re tire arc numerous voters rho havo wa wavering cring between the new deal and the conservative school of thought and a large percenta perc percenta Nta of them thern will turn to conservative when they have a chance y they will be influenced strongly and hd that fact worries the new deal thinkers thinkers tP inkers at the moment purge but step in plan pt political realignment but there la Is yet another thought inthis connection I 1 refer to the presidents program ifor for a realign ment of political groups in this country lie he has called tor for itt it of that there Is no obvious doubt the purge ot of the senators marked for political destruction was one ot of the early steps so it is signiA significant cant that mr Roosevel ts early caily maneuver in the direction of a forced realignment has succeeded to the extent of a complete flop the thing that stu started raid out to tc be a beautiful swan like alko dive became a 4 velly belly buster much to the thel chagrin of the great thinkers who surround the president and give him such poor political advice there will be a condition in the next congress that will be worthy of watching surely no one will a ox hect tydings and smith and george and dark clark of missouri and six or eight other senators to go out of their way to support a roosevelt Boo sevelt program in which they may not believe there Is the nucleus there were already 20 or more senators of that mind with those reelected elected re after overcoming the purge it seems reasonable to suppose that as little political credit as possible will be given to the president house members nearly always keep in close touch with the sena tors of their respective states particularly ticul arly it they are of the same political faith they will take encouragement from the forthrightness of their seniors and quite naturally will bo be bolder and more outspoken it will be much more difficult tor for democratic leader rayburn to hold his majority together in the house of representatives because of this newfound new found courage and in some cases resentment all of which leads into a third phase few presidents have been able to withstand bushwhacking from capitol hill it confronts mr roosevelt to an unparalleled degree because of the purge thus a further analysis seems to offer evidence at least a hint that mr Roosevel ts control of the demo cratic party may be broken if it is not now an accomplished fact I 1 see no reason to expect that the president can control the democratic national convention of 1910 1940 that after all is one of the things at i stake in the presidents ill starred purge attempts some heads may fall new spokesmen appear in consequence of these things I 1 have an idea that there will be many many moves made during the next session and in the session just before the 1940 convention designed to take the democratic party out of the hands of the roosevelt advisers I 1 thick you will see delegates being cang groomed here and there 18 months before they are arc to be formally chosen I 1 believe also that state political bosses will become quite active next summer as they watch which way the wind blows some will guess wrong some right some political heads will fall and new spokesmen will appear on the scene all of these things Up I 1 predict will happen barring bno thing that one thing Is war it if there is 4 a general E european european war on the horizon then we may expect a different course of political events in the united staica states what I 1 am about to say now is not said in discredit of the president it Is merely voicing a fact in politics if there bo be a general war abroad and moro more particularly if american relations become involved in it then ihen mr roosevelt unquestionably will appeal for solidarity of public opinion for unanimous support for the government of the nation ills his spokesmen and henchmen will bo be busy as bees showing him to bs be the only man for th the eJob job the only man capable of oti saving the na tion that happened happ enedin in woodrow wilsons Wil sons time and it has happened in every other war and it will happen pen again political destruction of roosevelt threatened threat ened I 1 know that mr roosevelt 1 I 1 is no no more anxious to have the united states become iny involved 0 alved in war tai than a n you or oc 1 I ile he realizes its cost in blood as aswell well as tho iho disarrange ment of world economics that fol lows and it if war comes he naturally 1 will want a united nation back of wm him but coldly and abstractly war conditions are the only letof circumstances that I 1 see nw which ich maj may prevent a thoroughgoing movement on capitol hill for the political destruction of mr 11 roosevelt oo sevelt when I 1 say po political lotical destruction st I 1 do not mean to imply or to hint that opponents of the president within his own party want to send him to oblivion they will seek they are seeking now to dethrone him in every way except as titular head of the party they want the guidance to come from old democratic leaders and they want adherence to old democratic ples pies that Is to say the longtime long time oracles of the democratic party have witnessed stupidity sheer dumbness on the part of the young squirts who have crowded close clo se to the president and they wan want to send those quacks back to the oblivion from which they came further the old line democrats want to avoid 6 a wide in their party un less that can bo be done in 1940 there will be a republican victory followed by exactly the same condl conditions that wrecked the republicans after the purge that the voters gave the G 0 P in 1932 and 1938 1930 6 0 union caper |