Show Bruc Bru karts charts washington Waihing ion digest see less favorable reaction to remarks than formerly once labeled superman it Is now realized president Is human and can make mistakes his will no longer completely dominant by WILLIAM BRUCKART service national press washington D 0 WASHINGTON There has hag been much conversation around here lately concerning the changed deception given president Roosevel ts acts or statements it can not be doubted that there has been an absence oi of that buoyancy which characterized his shots of earlier days in the white house but lately it if one may judge from tho the observations of many persons he has been missing the target as often as he has been hitting the result obviously Is that a good many persons have noted less favorable reaction to mr Roosevel ts remarks than formerly was the case it Is hardly necessary to recall how through somo some five or six years the presidents remarks made his opposition wriggle and squirm ills statements seemed to have that necessary punch which quelled outbursts from those vo disagreed with him the press corps of washington or abarge a large percentage of its membership always hankele d for a fresh Roosevelt lan volley it was good co copy py in a news way having noted the changed condition myself I 1 sought a canvass of others nearly all of them eventually came to the conclusion that the lack of fire now often displayed in mr Roosevel ts remarks and their failure to arouse the same fervor among his followers are a natural result of events ile he has been found by many people to be lust just human like his predecessor in the white house mr hoover president roosevelt was overbuilt or oversold by his ardent admirers ile he was la belled as superman and thatis that is one of the worst things that can happen to a politician it Is ii the worst thing that can happen to a president because no noman man cabbe can be president unless he is a politician in saying that the roosevelt circle ballyhoo ballyhooed cd ed their man too much il 1 hope I 1 am not detracting from the good qualities the point of this story etory is after all that millions of persons were wera led to believe that president roosevelt could not make mistakes mistakes were out his ken but the lob job of president of the united states has a way of disclose disc lost ing the true fiber buildup build up gave roosevelt false idea of hi his s powers I 1 believe it a fair statement that the success which met mr roose belts every turn during the period of his tenure until perhaps 18 months ago was due to this illusion that had been created to repeat his publicity backers seized on a col erful figure and built up that th atman man to the point where more ws vais ax expected act of him than should be expected from any human being it is entirely possible that mr roosebelt Roose suffered personally from tho the intense fervor of the admiration that th t was given him I 1 do not say of course course that he felt that he was a superman yet the combination ot of G a willing congress and tho the overwhelming wh elming support he had from the country possibly gave him a false idea of the power vested in him in any event he used that power up to the hilt 1111 then come came signs of trouble ills his advisors and possibly the president as well felt that congress could be made to do his bidding republican opposition and the chiding of mem bers of congress that they were rub her ber stamps began to have en an effect A test was coming and most politicians realized it through the session of congress last year and that ahl which ach only recently ended mr roosevelt followed the same tactics as before but the change had come and the course was blocked it was no longer a period in which the will of the president was wholly and completely dominant AU ali of which brings to mind the real facts in the case insofar as the causes of the presidents current ln in effectiveness are concerned it Is the old story any ball team looks good when it is in tho the lead when it ls la winning any race horse is a 0 wonder only so long as it continues to win it can be said therefore that having slipped considerably both in political prestige inside his own party and outside of it and having allowed some of the wide public endorsement to got get away from him mr roosevelt Is now being regarded as a human being who can c an make mistakes any mistakes that he may have made while he remained the winner were discounted or ok ignored it seems likely horev er that all of them will be dug from their graves now and he must answer for them alikes makes had bad break in in digging up supreme court skeleton nor is mr roosevelt willing to let some of die unnoticed for instance everyone recalls the heat that was engendered by the presidents attempt to get congressional approval of his bis own pet government reorganization bill ills terrific fight for or a reorganization of the supreme ti f S Y fy court with the new appointments that would come to him is easily recalled but the president dug up the court skeleton the other day it struck me as terribly foolish because the country had forgotten much about that mistake mr roosevelt recalled it in all of its fury however by issuing a statement almost without notice saying that he had obtained his court fight objectives with enactment finally of a minor bill that sets up a 0 c ourt court administrator in the same statement mr roosevelt made a bad break he announced that besides the passage of the administrator bill the last session of congress had created five additional judge judgeships ships in district court which he wanted well it happened that the senate passed the judgeship bill but the house never did and mr roosevelt was incorrectly informed the result was the same it made the president look rather sour for the moment along with mr Roosevel ts statement about argentine canned beet beef being of a better quality than our own beef I 1 think wi we ought to rank the presidents statement about the refusal of congress to pass the spending lending bill and the housing bill it struck me as being very bad politics for the president to atoo climb pway way out on a limb and say that the congress gambled with the welfare of people when it failed to enact the ad administrations mints It trat ions neutrality bill it gambled with the welfare of when it refused to pass the ahe lending bill and the housing bill ile he implied of course that refusal of congress to accept the presidents judgment on the neutrality measure would cast the world into war and that the action on the lending and housing bills would mean there could be no economic recovery president sincere about spending and Wot housing tsing bills so evidently the two or three defeats that were clustered together made the president appear differently than when he had been on the winni winning fig side there were even some of the presidents enemies charging him with qualities of a poor loser I 1 do not believe that Is the case there Is evidence that the president sincerely believed his lending measure and the housing program would do the job of restoring a prosperous condition to the country ile he has played the game of politics too long riot not to know how to lose on the other hand there have been many harsh statements concerning the presidents accusations that congress was gambling F from rom among democrats who voted against him on the major bills I 1 heard declarations of belief belie that their judgment was as good as that possessed by the chief executive those democrats saw no reason to concede a monopoly of brain power to mr roosevelt when lie he fired at them he obviously invited back talk of the worst order he has received it too take another incident only a 4 week ago the president sent a letter to the young democrats of america meeting in pittsburgh to the effect that unless the democratic party nominates his kind of a liberal he will take no active part in electing that nominee in other words he be said actually that he would bolt the party immediately he got a reaction to that statement that just did hilno him no good at all now it is one thing to lead the party which Is united it is quite another horse to be led when the part Is split and the democratic party is split the declaration to the young democrats therefore was received by a good many democrats as an open invitation tor for warfare attempted purge of senators complete and decided flop one has to consider the statement to the young democrats in the light of some earlier mistakes every one recalls how the president attempted to purge the democratic party of senators george of georgia smith of south carolina and of maryland last year that purge attempt flopped in a way that beggars description each of those three were reelected re elected to the senate and when they won their fights fight they asserted their own judgment in preference to mr roose belts there is also the surge that has come building up cactus jack garner for the democratic nomination next year now vice president garner Is a conservative ile he has had nearly 40 years of public service obviously he has a follow ing and it appears to be getting big ger mr Roosevel ts d declaration C cl that he may bolt the party if someone not his kind of a liberal Is nominated Is a statement almost certain lo 10 to strengthen the garner forces by western nev newspaper shaper union |