Show Bruc Bru karts charts washington digest democratic poli political ti cal pot now at boiling point 7 but lull Is due D 1 p attack on president by C 1 I 0 lewis Is followed by exaggerated claims for roosevelt delegates in florida and ohio its all part of the game by WILLIAM BRUCKART service national press washington D C washington the democratic political pot has come to the boiling point high political temperatures have prevailed now for several weeks the condition probably will continue for several weeks more before there is a lull but a lull will come political strategists presidential aspirants and wheel horses will not be able to maintain the current pace until convention time it if they attempt it there is only one end possible the democratic party will be split beyond any hope of repairing the damage there is one thing to be noted even now new dealers near new dealers and new deal pay rollers nave have put on one of the really great drives to insure the of president roosevelt for a third term they have hit in every direction some blows appear to have been effective the pay rollers hope all of their efforts have brought favorable results but that seems improbable in the period under discussion there likewise has been a terrific attack upon the present new deal leadership this came originally from john L lewis and his C 1 I 0 labor organization it dragged with it some others who might or might not have become so active at the moment sen burton wheeler of montana for instance lewis lewi s support like A kiss of death the lewis attack was as important solely because it represented the fhe final stage staga of a break between him self and mr roosevelt I 1 have heard many persons parsons say it was ii a break of luck for the president M mr lewis rate so much any more that is his affirmative support is something like a kiss of death it will be recalled how mr lewis called vice president garner a po ker playing whiskey whisked drinking evil old man last summer that attack by mr lewis surely did more to boost the garner presidential candidacy than any other one thing that has happened it convinced hundreds of thousands of voters that mr garner must be be a pretty good guy jf if he disagreed with sit down strikes and attempted dictatorship of the government by the C 1 I 0 the evidence is that mr lewis gave paul mcnutt a boost too by his espousal of a declaration that the democratic party had not kept faith with organized labor mr mcnutt former governor of indiana and present federal security administrator is sticking right close by the new deal so close indeed that he is not going to seek the democratic nomination unless mr roosevelt gets out of the way it is held therefore that when mr lewis tried to pin back the roosevelt ears he inferentially helped mr mcnutt tor for the reason that only a few political students here believe mr roosevelt was damaged by desertion of the lewis following from the new deal to which they gave half a million dollars in the 1936 campaign As regards the garner candidacy observers seem to feel that tho the lewis outburst was another feather in their cap mr garner of course has said he wants the nomination and wants to be elected and he made no mention at all of the possibility that mr roosevelt may want to run tor for a third term thus when mr lewis said the democratic party had broken faith with labor he hc r they part company wo no third term thunders CIO lewis obviously meant with his own faction of organized labor he could not have hit mr garner as much as the out and out new dealers mr garner certainly is not of that stripe strange that wheeler should encourage it I 1 the demonstration of the united mine workers in favor of senator wheeler at their columbus ohio convention obviously was staged conceived and promoted by lewis the C 1 I 0 boss has been getting closer and closer to senator wheeler he has given every indication of wanting to endorse the montana senator openly I 1 cannot help wondering why senator wheeler encourages it it strikes me that senator wheeler must know how a C 1 I 0 endorsement will be taken tak en out arf in the country the small towns and among the farmers moreover there is a growing ellef belief lotical students that thal M mr r lewis can not pull the antl entire ire labor vote or even a strong majority of it for anybody I 1 per personally have believed for a long time that political catering to the labor vote wis was simply catering to a myth but there have been other things happening along the democratic front in florida and in ohio the pot boiled over we were treated in each instance to some of the usual political bunk bura senator pepper who frequently announces his importance as a democratic leader in in his native state of florida came into washington and announced that the florida delegation to the democratic national convention would be for mr roosevelt for a third term that sounded d all right closer investigation however seemed to indicate that senator pepper was talking through his headgear if my information is correct and it came from a trustworthy soured source the facts are that every move to direct the florida vote towards mr roosevelt was badly licked indeed the word that came to me from florida was that senator pepper was spanked by his home folks he tried to steer the roosevelt ship and had the rudder taken out of his hands bands by the state convention by the rather lopsided vote of 72 to 37 and the important yet un publicized phase of the meeting was that the boys who wielded the paddle upon the loquacious senator pepper are known to be for mr garner in ohio state chairman arthur linback apparently tried to do the same thing as senator pepper did in florida he made a lot of announcements noun cements about where the ohio delegation would go again upon my own information the ohio delegation appears likely to go in a different direction from any of those pointed out by the state chairman those making clamor are mostly on payroll mr linback obviously wants to curry favor with the new dealers but ohio sources political observers mainly advise me that there is small chance of mr linback controlling the delegation to the demo cratic national convention in the first place there has been no slate of delegates made up and the primary is quite a way in the future so it is made to appear that mr linback like senator pepper was wa doing a bit of popping off in the hopes that he could start a bandwagon movement with him in the drivers seat from mississippi some days ago there came word of an effort to get a resolution through the state legislature that would have praised the I 1 new deal administration and new Deal policies it tell fell flat these states that I 1 have mentioned however give some indication of the scope of the drive by the new dealers obviously they want mr roosevelt and reelected elected re for in that direction lies their political future they are unlikely to get anywhere to hold their jobs unless mr roosevelt leads I 1 doubt that paul mcnutt would keep the bulk of them in office if gewere to be elected it isabro is absolutely c ertain certain that mr garner would get rid of them another thing the last few weeks has shown the same group in the van of the demand for a roosevelt third term men like secretaries wallace and ickes senator guffey of pennsylvania ambassador joseph P kennedy ambassador davies are making the original arp noun cements the lesser lights pick up the song and sing it it would be interesting to know what the total payroll is of the men now heading the roosevelt third term drive |