Show GENERAL JOHNSON J S. S sm ROOSEVELT'S nOOSE THIRD TERM I believe that Mr Roosevelt w will willbe willbe be nominated and elected for a third term I have said this more than once here and elsewhere Every time I say it publicly I get geta a lot of indignant fan letters from people who agree with me me-at me at least in being very much opposed to a third term for any man The complaint complaint com com- plaint is that this is defeatism almost treason In the first place to be either a defeatist or a traitor you have to owe somebody an allegiance for which you are fighting I shall fight as hard as I can against a third term for Mr Roosevelt but I believe believe be be- lieve that a column that tries tries tries- sometimes not very successfully to to 51 il r I I and and we wc thought he didn't talk much Cartoon by Durck Burck in Chicago Times be a fair comment on events and actions in general general hasn't hasn't any business business business busi busi- ness tying up with any favorite to the exclusion of any contrary comment comment comment com com- ment at least until the issues are drawn and there is no other thing to say except yea or nay In this view it is neither defeatism defeatism defeatism defeat ism nor treason to say that I believe Mr Roosevelt will be our next President President-if if that is my opinion ion which ion which it is As to his nomination nomination does does a majority of the Democratic party desire it Decidedly not In Dixie there are curses not loud but deep Southern democracy has been the stepchild of the New Deal It threatens white political acy It has taken the South's two- two third rule away from the nomina nomina- tion Its farm policy is ruining the foreign foreign foreign for for- eign market for cotton The South has received the lowest per capita handout for recovery and relief relie They are now only a minority without a veto in the convention They must get on any band wagon that really starts to roll or read themselves into the outer dark In he election the South will vote Democratic as usual What do politicos like Frank Hague in New Jersey and Chicago's Boss Nash care about Mr Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt and his New Deal They care principally for its handouts hand hand- outs outs but but that is enough Less powerful politicians are somewhat in the same category You could count the really convinced convinced con con- vinced and zealous New Dealers in inthe inthe inthe the senate on the fingers of one hand If you were Siamese twins you could count all there are in n both houses of congress on your fingers and toes But here again the vast New Deal political and patronage machine machine ma ma- chine controls political attitudes if not political thinking These are the gents who decide on the delegates and pick men of their own type Whether or not he raises a finger or even permits his name to be used most of these men will not vote against Mr Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt Some boy orator will arise at sometime in the convention with a across across across I cross of gold and a crown of thorns speech and it will be all aU over except the shouting which shouting which will last for two hours W WASHINGTON'S AS INGTON'S TI TIMES IES Washington is increasingly being appealed to as an authority Yet somebody said recently that his times were nearer to Julius Caesars Caesar's Caesars Caesar's Caesars Caesar's Cae Cae- sars sar's than to Franklin This referred of course to the tremendous increase in human knowledge and conveniences since our beginnings compared with the whole of history before This kind of statement is usually a preface to toan toan toan an argument that since conditions are so different the leaders of our earliest days cant can't be too much relied relied relied re re- re- re lied upon now To the extent that modern government government government gov gov- and laws must conform to modern conditions that is undoubtedly undoubtedly undoubtedly edly true Nobody more clearly recognized that than Washington That was the way he got his big start and changed the whole system system system tem of law and government to a ariew now 1 w one by revolution But the principal reason for his unmatched success was that he always always al ale al- al ways kept his feet on the ground His was not the quarterback theory of government |