Show washington news N aws by mcd washington correspondent for tile park record washington D C july ath naturally there is mole moie or less uneasiness pervading republican circles with respect to what may happen on november 8 1932 but no good republican and there are good republicans Is suffering irom from Inso insomnia mill a over what may happen just one year from now when several hundred coatless and ifan tan equipped delegates will perfunctorily pick a rep republican u alican standard bearer and a j S substitute u for the battle or of 1932 and I 1 ra raid ld a secondhand second hand lumber yard for ax re planed and well seasoned I 1 senator simeon D hess fess of ohio Is to continue as chairman of the republican national committee unless a miracle comes to pass it will require but one ballot to nominate herbert hoover to succeed himself it if he wants the job undoubtedly charles curtis will be renamed tor for second place on the ticket and even it if the kansan declines to run there will be no deadlock over the selection ot of another vice presidential candidate A few gentlemen ot of moist persuasion may attempt to stall the water wagon but efforts in that are foredoomed fore doomed to failure it will be a gesture nothing more As a matter 0 of fact no good reason can be seen tor for going to the expense of holding a national republican convention next year even the lack of political significance in the appearance of that bugaboo we call depression has been threshed out everybody knows all about it and nobody wants to be further bored by explanations exculpations or promises 0 0 ilow how different conditions in the democratic campi nobody has the slightest idea about what anybody else Is going to do much less about what Is going to happen at the 1932 democratic convention either as to candidates or platform of course just at t the present moment governor IFT franklin anklin D roosevelt of new york Is leading the field woodrow wll wil sons seas grand vizier colonel edward mandell house tried to inject a little sugar into the roosevelt porridge but if h he e had discovered a fly in the Roosevelt lan potpourri he did not tell us about it nor did he suggest how it might be ensured ensnared and decapitated the fly Is there all right its name Is alfred emanuel smith observers here are very de cidely 0 of f the opinion that al smith would 11 like ke to have another t try ry tor for the presidency having received the largest popular vote ever accorded to a democratic de socratic candidate there Is none to conscientiously criticize such an ambition it Is evident that he doe snot propose to t throw brow his influence to the support of roosevelt young youn g davis or ritchie so long as there remains the possibility of 0 another chance tor for smith and the prospects tor for democratic success continue bright just what smith will do in the long run with respect to the roosevelt candidacy continues to be one of the mos most t interesting questions in connection with the democratic situation and in all probability babi lity will remain so up to the time of the convention granting the political ethics of his desire for another chance mr smiths purpose Is still a p puzzle azle doubtless it Is true that ho he does docs not know himself what he intends to do but it has become evident that something has taken tile the edge off the cordial personal relations between mr smith and the governor and the p politicians closest to smi smith th are openly hostile to the roosevelt candidacy there Is no doubt that conditions prevent smith florn becoming an active candidate tor for the nomination at this time his position as a private citizen does not put him forward as did the governorship he can do little beyond giving the democratic party in its convention every chance to draft him hill and an d to 0 o make the drafting as easy as possible e by y conniving in it who does not know that anybody who Is dratted drafted tor for executive office has had bad to connive in it it is eald eaid that tile the candidacy cand dacy of owen D young hangs upon the decision smith may make in connection with his entrance into the 1932 race it has b been pointed out that the situation als Is not unlike that of charles E dawes and ex et I 1 governor frank 0 lowden in the re 1 publican U contest ot of 1928 young and smith are ara friends just as dawes slid and I 1 lawden were friends the former largely appeal to the same element in the democratic party just as dawes and lowden appealed to the same element in the republican party in 1928 mr dawes maintained an attitude ot of indifference to the nomination just as mr young appears to do now there has been no formal announcement ot of the candidacy ot of governor roosevelt but the activities ot of his friends and of the governor himself long since made it clear that he Is very much in the running As a matter of tact fact his friends confidently assert that he is far far in the lead and an analysis of the present situation would certainly seem to confirm this apparently the group of advisors who believe in driving ahead with the roosevelt Boo sevelt boom have received the governors approval early in the coming year they hope to have him in a position where he cannot be outdistanced in the race whether this strategy is wise or unwise one thing may be taken for granted until former governor smith reveals his attitude it wll will be impossible to say who will be the democratic nominee it Is thought that it if smith enters the race without too much delay he probably will be able to at least deadlock fhe convention just as he did in 1924 he has just as many friends in the democratic party as he had in the year of the long co convention riven tion in madison square garden it if he should succeed in merely deadlocking the convention presumably ills his 6 strength would go to owen D you young ng when he got ready to release his delegates and that would be one way in which mr young would stand a good chance of being nominated i 7 I 1 and then as it if the situation were not a already complicated enough to make con contusion worse confounded comes information which Is current here among prominent dry leaders that william 0 mcadoo former secretary of the treasury and co dead locker with smith in the 1524 1924 convention is a receptive candidate tor for the democratic nomination but will make no active affolt in that direction mr mcadoo according to leading drys who it Is understood have been in touch with avith him does docs not purpose to make a car campaign laign for the nomination and does not expect to get it however in case of a deadlock in tile the national convention he would be receptive and his friends would in all probability make an effort to name him ho he would be satisfactory to the dry democrats generally and would have trong strong s support from the labor element in t the he i 0 the recent aloofness dippl displayed ayed by mr mcadoo toward jouett shouse shou se when the latter was on oil the pacific coast met the approbation of dry city leaders who aro ara hostile to john J raskob national chair man mail and who look upon mr shouse us as a raskob lieutenant I 1 |