| Show IN THE CARDS it was recently pointed out that this is one of the extremely few general election years since the civil war in which the public I 1 had a pretty sound idea of who the presidential candidates would be generally the country has known long in advance who was wa I 1 going to be battling for the white house the nominations of hoover wilson hughes franklin roosevelt al AI smith etc were practically dead certainties many months before the conventions were called to order single recent exception to this rule was when dark horses cox and harding opposed each other the rumor always goes around about this time that some v vague ag ue and immensely powerful political I 1 bosses have the key to the puzzle and will put their candidates over with ease and dispatch when the 1 time comes but if that is so every political observer in the country has been fooled both parties are divided within themselves to an abnormal degree an and d the ranks of both are alive wit wilh h self starters favorite sons and others who are simply itching to take the oath of office from chief justice hughes next year starting out with the party in in power everything hinges on wh what at the president will do if he wants the he nomination it is hard to see how he can keep from getting it despite the growing disaffection of many prominent democrats in public office working on the as which many do that tho the president does not plan to run again and is keeping silent only because lie he wants to keep his party under control the outlook for the democrats producing a solidly backed candidate is not bright the mcnutt candidacy seems to have blown up tip garner could carry the solid south and would get considerable conservative support but he is not warmly regarded by the strong new dealers there was considerable talk about the possibility of running robert jackson some time back but he does docs not seem to have attracted any considerable public following frank murphy who used to be talked about also is on the supreme court and out of active politics secretary hull would probably have the best chance of cementing together the warring wings of the party but due to his job he has had noth 1 ling to do with domestic questions ir eight years and his stand on many ma ny big issues of the day is not known at the moment however hull and garner seem to have the inside track on the republican side tom dewey has started his campaign in in earnest it has long been said at f him that noone knew much about his views save in the mat ter of criminal law enforcement and he is offsetting this by making a ser series ies of major speeches covering our principal problems strongly in his favor is his voice and radio personality against him is the fact that men high in republican councils would prefer some one older and with a longer and more varied record in public office is out for f or the nomination and he has the advantage of a long and capable accor record I 1 in in the senate plus an established machine but he like senator taft lacks color which in this day of the radio has become one ot 01 the must most important political assets at the moment these three m mn jsn n are in the lead with the other prospects far behind in the race but as in the case of the democrats anything can happen there 1 is s an off chance that a deadlock might result in the republican convention and lead to the nomination of some extremely dark horse rarely has it been so difficult to forecast whether the next administration will be republican or democratic |
