Show roosevelt will tour country democrats admit theres hard fight ahead but expect sweeping victory by EARL GODWIN ASHINGTON well the W washington democratic high command has quit fooling and admits there is a tough fight ahead to defeat landon my mir old friend jim parley farley democratic national corrm committeeman who has been claiming the entire 48 states tor for roosevelt now privately gives landon as many as eight states the time has come too to tell exactly what is going on politically these things I 1 now report are facts which have been given privately to the president by his close advisers the private opinion of those on the inside is that president preside nt roosevelt is not going to have a walk over in the campaign they feel sure of the new deals victory but they know there must be fighting every inch of the way lest such things as their hoped for majority in new york state for instance may be turned I 1 nto into a defeat of the same size for this reason the president himself seems to be counted on to bear the brunt of the fight and as I 1 see it now he will start out in mid september for a red hot campaign which will encircle the country he will make a trip as far west as the pacific coast and will probably retrace the course of the victory march of 1932 there can be no doubt about the vote from the solid south those electoral votes are as safe for roosevelt as anything can be safe politically all the yipping and yam mering by the plush lined democrats who have tried to discredit roosevelt among the masses of southern people have been ineffective if there could be any dissatisfaction in the south it would be in florida and that would not occur had it not been for the dissension over the trans florida ship canal Roosevel ts chances in ohio are none too promising but they their seem to be getting better that state is the strongest of the father coughlin outposts illinois looks safe tor for roosevelt odd as that statement may sound to a lot of republicans however the internal democratic fight between mayor kelly of chicago and governor horner is is apparently patently ly settled amicably and the lemke third party in illinois esgo is to split the republicans rather than the democrats I 1 would not however depend too strongly on any promises made between kelly and homer so illinois might be classed as merely fair to but likely to be good for F D R indiana I 1 think is in Roosevel ts bag right now I 1 disagree with my democratic friends who say that iowa is a hundred per cent for roosevelt my reports indicate it is doubtful enough to warrant same good hard work wisconsin and minnesota are reported OK for the president and while there should be a special chapter on the tremendous state of new york all there is to say is that the democrats claim it by half a million if the empire state goes for landon then these democratic predictions are frightfully wrong michigan interests me I 1 think it doubtful but republican senator couzens attitude is helpful to roosevelt couzens richest man in the senate and a republican endorses and will work for roosevelt hicl michigan agan old time republican state went for roosevelt in 1932 and swung back republican to senator two years ago it should provide a terrific battle pennsylvania would be a hard state for the republicans to lose but there is a good chance they will lose it it has been a hard boiled republican state for years dominated for half a century by such bosses as boise penrose but the republican bosses have died physically or politically politic aUy and a new machine is set up operated by democratic governor earle and democratic senator joe guffey a machine of deadly accuracy democrats are better organized in pennsylvania than ever before democrats also make strong claims about new jersey new england by rights should go republican but massachusetts rhode island a and n d connecticut are giving the republicans lots of trouble vermont seems to be the one ro rock ck ribbed republican state in the union those vermonters Ver are so anti new deal they even resent the work the boys have done for vermont roads and forests and they hate to see them riding to work in government trucks if vermont had its way be no federal aid for anybody and wherever there was federal aid vermont would maae em work like slaves and walk to work even if the job was twenty miles away se senator george norris influence in nebraska will turn that state to roosevelt and the pacific coast states are arc I 1 believe per cent roosevelt on the basis of present trends then roosevelt should get more than electoral votes out of he can do this without new york too which is more than landon can do |