Show washington letter by med washington correspondent of 0 the park record washington washington D C feb A few weeks ngo ago stargazer star gazer william randolph hearst announced the discovery of a new comet little attention was paid to the announcement by either professional or political astronomers possibly because the sky searching william throughout hl his man many 11 years of public ille had so otter often discovered covered dlE comets which simply would not stay dl pred 0 I 1 mr hearses Hc He arsts latest firmamental discovery was john N garner of the lone star state slate true there were a lev few a abo ho con elved the possibility of 0 the existence of this politico celestial luminary but when the hearst announcement came they concluded that they must have been wrong Ilo however wever now that the garner comet la is to the naked eye all are convinced not only that there Is such a body but that it Is rapidly advancing along a well defined course in spite ot of the th handicap of assistance from mr hearst born unexpectedly and without other than the uninspiring encomiums ot of the hearst publications the garner boom oom came smashing out as a national drive a deex we or so BO ago although the sturdy texan stuck to his job as speaker of the house refusing to take any part in the movement that seeks to put him in the white house it assumed national proportions when the two senators tom from texas sheppard and connally formally presented the speaker as a democratic presidential candidate not as a favorite son but ss as a statesman supremely up qualified in national affairs even in his home state it was not realized that its own jack garner was a national figure until he became speak er ot of the house it Is true that as democratic minority leader he was looked upon as possessing more than ordinary ability otherwise he would not have been chosen by the party in congress for that responsible position only recently was waa it discovered that he has the qualities of national leadership and that his record Is unsullied politically and otherwise but it Is maintained by his bis texas friends and supporters that the lateness of this discovery Is nothing to his bis discredit credit it may seem strange that john N garner should have been in the house tor for thirty years and yet should have been lit little to known to the country generally until he became speaker about three months ago but that Is tar far from being hard to understand when you know the the man the last thing he thinks about it if he ever has thought about it at all Is advertising himself he never poses and has never been in the habit of thinking of his acts in terms of the publicity they would command or of the popular reaction to them his hie district was always sure so EO there was no necessity for him to attract attention to himself to hold his seat in congress he has never gone about bis or any other state making speeches being always sure that he could be reelected elected re without campaigning no political observer doubts that speaker garner gamer has come into a texas popularity that Is genuine in its expressions pres pres rions vocal and written possibly my the 11 most amazing of the developments of the past few weeks Is the tact fact that in the lineup line ine up of the men and women or of the sarty party who are behind the movement to send to the democratic national convention a delegation instructed as a unit to support mr garner for the presidential nomination are f factional Wt ional leaders w who h 0 have been the of political enemies tor for years former governor james ferguson former governor dan moody governor ross S sterling and former state senator thomas B love a leader of the democrats who supported president hoover in 1928 are among the many who long have been on widely divergent sides in texas politics who have burled their factional differences and united in their efforts to send forty six delegates to the convention pledged to support mr garner the garner boom spreading noisily j from washington to texas with many an intermediate stop broke into the roose j velt preempted pre empted state of georgia through the proxy filing of judge G 11 howard I 1 of atlanta who announced that if victor I 1 lous he would deliver the states convention votes to the speaker of the house however no sooner had this announcement no been made than representative sam rayburn democrat of texas came out with a flat statement that mr garner Is not a candidate for the presidential nomination and would not file in any state primary rayburn Kay burn chosen I 1 leader of the texans advocates at a rally in san antonio telegraphed judge howard asking him to withdraw from the georgia primary as a proxy for garner far from taken taking him I 1 out of the race this move Is expected here to help th the e speaker in the first place he had no possible chance to wrest georgias 28 delegates from roosevelt through a proxy for years roosevelt has been going to warm springs georgia there to combat the effects of infantile paralysis there fore the campaign c in 1 georgia garner has avoided a direct clash between himself and roosevelt the rayburn statement Is interpreted as meaning that the texans friends are quite serious about his candidacy and are determined that it shall not become entangled with factional disputes in the party chie chiefly f ly centering around the so called stop roosevelt movement they do not want him to clash with roosevelt in any of the states his big chance to win the democratic nomination in chicago as they see it lies in a deadlock convention it if roosevelt Is blocked they bellev believe e that garner will inherit many of the roosevelt delegates 4 however there Is a fly possibly an oversized over sized horsefly in the garner dint ointment he may be satisfactory to the wets and acceptable to the drys barring the fanatics and professionals on both sides t thereby hereby mi minimizing n the inevitable on prohibit prohibition ion ile he may have stamina and all the qualities of statesmanship and leadership but will he be acceptable to the democratic voters in the great industrial du states of the east and north without the votes of the delegates fro from in at least a substantial number 0 these thes states it Is hard to figure out where that necessary two thirds Is coming from in the final analysis of course the democrats will try to fix upon a candidate who they believe will be strong in all elections of the country of what avail the nomination of a man wh who 0 can run well only la in the less populous a states of the west or a man who can hold the solid south but who cannot cann ot win in the north and east while roosevelt against the field has hasi been the picture presented in the race tor for the democratic presidential nomona tion and the new york governor has been making all the running and setting the pace present indications would seem to be that the field is closing in on him seeking to take away from him the big bloc of delegates which were ere promised to him by many leaders of the party speaker garner Is undoubtedly threatening the roosevelt lines and in addition i to that out in the west and southwest estl alfalfa bill murray of oklahoma another democratic governor Is campaigning I desperately for delegates gov alberti albert C ritchie of maryland and former governor alfred E smith of new york are slashing into the roosevelt forces 1 in the north a and nd east ohio in the middle west Is held at least temporarily by gov george white and senator james jamer hamilton lewis may have the big delegation from illinois I 1 there are those wo who claim to have discovered nother another insect in the garner salve the speaker would seem to have taken too much to heart the oratory 0 certain lincoln day speakers because I 1 some republicans have ventured to commend president hoover tor for the constructive economic program that he has set bet in motion mr garner says that the democratic boys boya wont play with them any more they are tired of letting herbert hoover be it all the time As long as the democrats democrat do not permit their irritability rit to get the better of their common sense and do not attempt to sidetrack legislation because a few over zeal ous republicans proclaim that to president hoover exclusively Is due the credit tor for the instigation thereof although it Is necessary essaU legislation the public will probably pay little attention to democratic clamors and mr garners call for the termination of a political truce which in reality never existed but it if they begin throwing monkey wrenches into the machinery just because the republicans are seeking to direct the operations they are likely to lose caste with the country and mr garner who comes nearer to telling the democratic house what to do than any other democrat in years not a little ot of his present popularity in the meantime the republicans are marking time president hoover has let the illinois primary go by refusing tor for a time to enter into contest with joseph L I 1 france ot of maryland who Is the only candidate entered in that state hoover likewise stayed out of noh dakota preferential primary in tact fact the tea birst open battle move of president hoovers campaign sounded last week with assurance irom from the white house that he will enter the ohio primaries this decision was made known by postmaster genered general brown being groomed as the th campaign manager OS of the republican national committee just returned from a 0 survey of conditions in ohio hla bla home state mr brown reported political pointers favorable to ur mr hoovers filing not displeasing to the republicans vas aa a statement by representative blanton in the house ot of the garner gamer rally in texas which brought an assertion from representative senta renta tive shafer republican ot of wisconsin that the same forces are at wort work in the democratic party now that turned the madison square garden convention ot of 1924 into a mad house |