| Show dispelling THE FOG by charles mi michelson it if we nominate con conservative or lip service candi Pla platform tOrm dates on a said president roosevelt in his recent letter to the young damo brats convention 1 I personally for my own self respect and because ot my long service to wail and n ci b belief e lief in liberal democracy will 1 fi find n d it impossible to have any active part in such an unfortunate suicide ol 01 oi the 0 old id democratic party that sounds like what we used use d to describe in grammar school as a simple declarative sentence but the republicans are arc reading into it all sorts of hidden meanings and implications there is nothing startling about it the president announced three months ago that the party courted deleat defeat it if it attempted to give the coun country try a conservative administration IS i a republican administration under a democratic label in season and out of seas season on he has proclaimed the same principle principles how then could he actively support candidates and a platform that took precisely the opposite course from that to which he is committed what sort of speeches could he make what manner 0 of f appeal could he address to his fellow democrats to do exactly what he had always warned them against doing I 1 wonder if any of the republicans expected franklin roosevelt to proclaim that he would positively support a reactionary C candidate on a pussyfooting pussy footing platforms platform 7 9 the bond of the ithe texan in the newspapers on the day this is written sam rayburn democratic leader in the house of representatives announces his enthusiasm thusia sm for the nomination of vice president garner and that is hailed as widening a deep rift jn in democratic ranks As if anybody expected sam rayburn to desert his fellow texan who was his colleague for sixteen years in the house As if anything else were possible for the texan who served loyally during mr garners terms as minority leaded and as speaker and who managed ithe the garner pre convention presidential I 1 campaign in 1932 who could find fault with his standing by his old associate or attach any deep political significance to the incident it is about as exciting as the I 1 coming out of the indiana congressmen for paul mcnutt or of gf the likelihood of the tennessee del cration coming to the 1940 convention for cordell hull not having the slightest idea ol of what nominees will issue from the democratic convention of 1940 this observer views with perfect equanimity the progress of all the apparent or prospective candidates the more strength developed fox foi any or all of them before the nomination is made the bigger will be the force behind whoever is selected by the convention naturally the republicans are hailing every development as further evidence of diff differences cr in the majority party they are speaking today in terms of at as great confidence as they did when governor landon was their stand ard bearer then it will be remembered mem berea chairman john ham ilton gravely kansan would announced th that t the h north of the ohio carry and eve every ry state tat mississippi mi and perhaps fast east 0 f th ag the west alost ct the inference from two n the chief of tho the G 0 op p bureau kropa 1 ganda came perilously asly to saying something cloe in i an an the other day f for or after after r a lisue to th the e republican tribute toha conar w what t they had accomplished for in 4 direction of jet jettisoning jettison tSO ning ing the pres pr tl dents program he added alt it good indication of what the Is 18 A en try can expect in the coun way tive reforms when the of reou con en I 1 laicans assume cont control rol of the ped F A tal ral government in january 1941 that is the nearest thing to a de d cl of republican pol policy ICY that anybody has been able to extract extra so far I 1 the basis for the Republic hopes as outlined all 0 by on one e of their co columnists is that dewey D ewey cam 0 within votes of bei being elec 61 led governor govern or of new york a an nd that the rep republican publican mayor mayora mayoralty alt candidate in chicago in the lazi la election did not do quite so well wel the logic of the contention th if f new york would not take the th J I 1 prosecuting attorney as governo it would be more likely to tak tail him for president may not be ap ai parent and the circumstance tha th a democratic mayor Pre prevailed i chicago would hardly be deem or as conclusive evidence that the e 0 P will win illinois in the no nex election but that is what the have togo to go on after all it may be as tenable hypothesis as that the cincu circum stance that a fraction of the de den S strength in the house vo vote with aith A ith the republicans on a part p t eular cular bill and thereby defeat t the will of the democrats atho ho v vi iad two to one in favor of the b bil means that congress is going 9 nf oe de republican bye and bye VC |
