Show tes t es 0 national topics interpreted by william bruckart national press building washington D C washington I 1 believe the trend of recent developments begins 0 indicate rather definitely that party backs president roosevelt roosevelt la Is eos going to be able to hold a rather united democratic party behind him in his next campaign the chances of a split in his ranks are very small indeed and barring changes of which there are at present no hints at all the new deal will encompass the democratic party which nom bated and elected mr roosevelt Foo sevelt as president by those statements it Is not meant that no defections will take place there always are some disgruntled and dissatisfied party men who break reak away they have done it with republicans and democrats with equal abandon there will be some in the 1036 1936 cam laign but not very iery many these statements are made by way of d offs offshoots boots of consequence under radical leadership and offshoots of equal con sequence behind old line conservative democratic leadership it is of course just possible that william randolph Kan dolph hearst the publisher and bainbridge colby secretary of state under wood row wilson may succeed in develop ment of a conservative alignment with major support but the situation Is not one likely to cause the new deal lead ers any particular embar embarrassment ras likewise the death of senator huey P long removes what might 0 possibly have been a radical party wedge the late louisiana senator was making some progress in development of a rad rad caal party but with him removed from the scene cene there Is no longer any pos sivility sibl lity of that group attaining a place of importance in the political ture lure they are fighting among them selves and it Is apparent now that the group will be split into a score of fac eions none which will have any capac ity fly to accomplish the purposes which senator long had outlined judged impartially the death of sen ator long ought to enhance the demo cratic prospects in longs death 1930 this certainly helps Is true unless the ad ministration between now and the next election decides to court the conservative vote in the coun try and in doing so offends the sive segment 0 of f voters to which mr roosevelt largely owes his 1932 elec elee tion to reiterate it is possible of course that mr roosevelt or his party advisers may make mistakes which will throw the whole party machine out of gear but they are not now in evidence the reason the passing of huey long Is important from the political stand print Is pictured most reliably in the history of third party movements labile it Is obvious that senator long could never have been elected dent and I 1 believe he was too smart a politician to think that he could have been successful there was the danger from the roosevelt standpoint that he could alienate some part of the vote which elected mr roosevelt in 1932 1032 if he had been able to do this it Is tain that can chances would have been enhanced because the re pub can vote would have remained solidly behind the republican bandt date some years ago robert 31 la fol lette then a senator from wisconsin ran for the pres dency on a third party all et he polled about five million votes this happened at a tip UP e vl en the country was reasonably prop prosperous erous surely the economic cond eions were of a character that bred less d scon tent than those of this depression era so astute political observers tell me anat it tabes tales I 1 atle stretch of the im agitation agi nation to conceive of a radical party led by a man of the dynamic characteristics of huey long be no ng ride to poll as miny as ten million voles votes throughout the county count y despite file he ts that aldass face the organization of a new political party whatever criticism may have been or may be voiced of the late senator from louisiana everywhere one goes among pol leaders he oata ns the same expression of opinion respecting the senator senators s abil ty he ile had a sn art mind one that grasped situations par ticul arly in politics with great speed and he was always ready at a mo ments ment s notice to capital ze on those eit nations thus if mr long had live tl it Is ea y to im agine what he aou d have done in case the new deal lead ers made mistakes he would have hopped on those mistakes with the avidity of a cat eat on a mouse he woul I 1 have magnified them in his speeches to his hig following and by these acts he would have aided and abetted the re pt alican opposition so while the national capital was startled by senator long longs a death and appalled at the manner of his going it Is not riot a violation of any confidence to say that new deal pol are rest ing aas er they enjoyed huey the man but they recognized in him an ad decidedly dangerous to their cause now as to other factors involved factors that might withdraw support from mr roosevelt other I 1 said above that the factors hearst colby movement Is doomed to defeat the real effect and probably the only effect that movement will have will be to force the roosevelt leaders to realign their strength in some states mr hearst with the great power of his string of newspapers be hind him has yet to succeed in ere acing a potent political group lie he at tempted it when the late warren hard ing of ohio was sas the Pe republican publIcan nom inee and james M cox of the same state was put forward by the demo brats it was my good fortune to be assigned as a correspondent to the convention of mr hearses s new party it nas evident then as it later was proved by the votes that the en enthus las tic delegates to that convention represented a following so small as to be utterly negligible even with the as tute advice of bainbridge colby little more will come out of the current movement then those who have their eyes on the facts instead of on the ballyhoo will promptly discount the talk about democratic defection when they stop to consider some other things that are taking place for example there have been no more bitter dissents from new deal policies than senator carter glass of virginia and senator thomas P gore of oklahoma have voiced mr glass lately has engaged in rites of burying the hatchet to the extent that he Is not going to run tor for re election reelection in virginia as anything but a democrat out in oklahoma senator gore has been making speeches that sound strangely as though he be Is almost friendly with the administration he has been telling his audiences that he has stood with the president on many votes in the senate sometimes when his vote was badly needed though it t becomes apparent that while neither senator glass nor senator gore Is en thus lastic about new deal policies neither of them Is going to desert the democratic party and so it Is in any number of other cases they may not speak glowingly of president roosevelt in their own campaigns for re election reelection but as can dilates they are not going to fight him openly 0 big jim parley the master new deal politician successfully avoided an out and out test avoids new of new deal issues deal test in obio ohio when gov arnor davey of that state announced recently that V there would be no special election to chu choose a representative at large to fill a va cancy the ohio governor said it would cost too much money to hold t a special election his announcement be ing made at the white house just aft er president roosevelt had agreed to allot 20 in public works funds for ohio use but the astute mr parley Is not go ing to be able to avoid a test on new deal issues in kentucky the situa tion in that state Is that a democrat of president roosevelt Roosevel ts s choice ana who Is supporting the new deal from start to finish Is running for governor against a hard boiled and conservative republican the election will be the first week in november and thus a statewide state wide vote can be expected to measure the roosevelt strength be ca cause use of this all of the maneuvers are being closely watched and the battle of those ballots obviously will be bitter the Nezi kentucky test takes on addition al significance and importance because of something that happened in choosing the democratic nominee the ken ti cl y fight Is to determine whether gov A B chandler the dem or former representative king swope the republican will run ake the state governor laffoon apparently wanted to have the democratic nominee select ed by the old convention method but the roosevelt supporters preferred a primary consequently senator bark ley of Ren kentucky tucky a devout roosevelt follower in the senate was sent into his home state to see that ti 11 e primary plan was made operative the demo ciagle state committee which was em lowered to choose the method of cd selecting the candidate was vias determined to have a convention and it was after this determination became known that mr roosevelt participated in dictating the course the party should follow senator barkley arrived in his home slate state bearing a letter signed franklin D roosevelt urging the primary and while governor laffoon was out of the state attempting to convince national leaders that his candidate for the dem socratic nomination was the right one lieutenant governor chandler called a special session of the state legisla ture and put through a law compelling the selection of the candidate bv tie t ie primary mr chandler won the nom illation in the run off altho although uh thomas S rhea had polled more votes in the original primary than did mr air chandler so it Is apparent beyond a doubt that mr roosevelt recognizes the necessity for electing a democrat and new deal supporters supporter s in kentucky say that he Is prepared to battle to the last ditch to accomplish it nevertheless the fur will fly in ken tucky in november it cannot be avoid ed if the administration wins undoubtedly new deal stock will be en in value but if the republican lican nominee should win the Len kentucky tuCky 3 test the whole new deal must be pre pared to wear an unusual black ey eye 0 western newspaper Newe union |