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THE JIM HOGG COUNTY ENTERPRISE
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY ROGER SHAW
Campaign of ‘Peace Rumors’
Precedes Britain ‘Blitzkrieg’;
F. D. and Willkie Set for Battle
(EDITOR’S NOTE—When opinion* are nprntrd in lhn« column*, they
are (hose of the new* analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.)
Rolo.iaoH hs Woatarn Nau/ananar VTnlnn
Seeking John Buir» Eye.
THE CAMPAIGN:
Chicagoings-on
This was the Democratic conven-
tion’s lead-off message: “I (Senator
Barkley) and other close friends of
the President, have long known that
he has no wish to be a candidate
again. We know, too, that in no
way whatsoever has he exerted any
influence in the selection of the del-
egates, or upon the opinions of del-
egates in this convention.
“Tonight, at the specific request
and authorization of the President,
I am making this simple fact
clear to this convention. The Presi-
dent has never had, and has not to-
day, any desire or purpose to con-
tinue in the office of President, to
be a candidate for that office, or to
be nominated by the convention for
that office. He wishes in all ear-
nestness and sincerity, to make it
clear that all of the delegates to this
convention are free to vote for any
candidate. That is the message I
deliver to you tonight from the Pres-
ident of the United States, by author-
ity of his word.”
Some 22,500 men and women,
packed into the Chicago stadium,
heard the presidential message. It
was a turning point, probably, in
American history. For the conven-
tion the next day nominated Presi-
dent Roosevelt for a third term. No
man had ever before received this
honor. A day later, Henry Wallace,
secretary of agriculture, was nomi-
nated vice president virtually at the
request of the President. The con-
vention indicated the issues would
be foreign affairs and the utilities,
principally.
Wendell Willkie in the meantime
warned the Democrats. He said he
didn’t want to hear any more about
the Insull scandal, and indicated
that he was tired of wisecracks
about public utilities. It was true
that some Democrats had been whis-
pering at a great rate along those
lines. Willkie was a bad man to
try and smear, for he is peppy, pep-
pery, and given to rough, biting in-
vective. But Willkie did agree with
the Democrat Bankhead, in con-
demning the speculative orgies of
the 1920s. Willkie said, too, that he
liked to protect the investments of
the people against the assaults of
their governments. This all emanat-
ed from Willkie's vacation haunt at
Colorado Springs, as did a state-
ment that he welcomed the third
term issue presented by Roosevelt.
What price “party"? Wendell
N A M E S
. . . in the news
King Zog of Albania, his tiny
crown prince Skander, and his half-
American Queen Geraldine, plus
Zog's sisters three, were planning to
come to the United States, that new
“St Helena."
Allyn Jennings, general superin-
tendent of New York city’s parks
since 1936, became the new general
director of New York's famous
Bronx zoo.
Pope Pius instructed his official
nuncio to France, Valerio Valeri,
to give every aid and support to
Marshal Henri Petain’s new fascist
government. Generals Petain and
Weygand, two of the triumvirate,
arc devoutly clerical. Dark-faced,
white-tied Laval, the third member.
Is not.
Oswald Lewis. Tory member of
parliament, suggested that England
sell America at least one of the West
Indian islands for use as an air and
naval base. This, said Mr. Lewis,
would cancel that “eternal" war
debt question.
FDR-Wallace
Ticket Choice
Of Democrats
Third Term Tradition Is
Broken by Delegates
At Convention.
Willkie, Republican candidate for
President, was a registered Demo-
crat until two years ago. Henry A.
Wallace, Democratic candidate for
vice president, was a registered Re-
publican until four years ago.
That Willkie would prefer to make
the campaign on domestic issues
and that President Roosevelt would
keep it on the foreign issue if possi-
ble seemed indicated in the early
days of the campaign.
But wise William Allen White, who
in the capacity of journalist at-
tended both conventions, declared
that neither Willkie nor Roosevelt
would determine the results of the
final election in November. It would
be Hitler, he stated. He meant,
no doubt, that the repercussions of
a complete Hitler victory, or vice
versa, would weigh more with the
American voters than the oratory of
both Willkie and Roosevelt.
One thing seems conclusive. The
Old Guard in both the Republican
and the Democratic parties were not
at first satisfied with the final
choices. Much may depend on how
they ultimately accept the decision
of their conventions.
II GERMAN WAR:
Rumorings
There were twin rumors going the
usual rounds in the usual rialtos.
One of these rumors predicted a huge
moss offensive by the Germans
against England. The other rumor
was of peace. Hitler’s “blitzkrieg"
against Britain had been “set" by
various “authorities" on several
days. These were wrong guesses
time and again as were the “peace"
guesses.
‘NO BASIS’:
Byoir No Nazi
Not everyone who is called a
“communist" is one, and not every-
one who is called a “Nazi" agent is
one. Carl Byoir, New York publi-
cist, is no "Nazi" representative,
says the Federal Bureau of Investi-
gation. The FBI investigated on By- |
oir’s request because Rep. Wright
Patman one day got up in the house i
and sounded off against Byoir. The
enmity between the two is really
over another matter. Patman’s
“chain-store tax" bill is the source
of their feud. Byoir has been di- ;
recting publicity against the Pat- j
man bill. So, among other things,
Patman called Byoir a Nazi tool.
There was “no basis" to the charge,
reported the FBI.
CUBA LIBRE:
Elections
Col. Fulgencio Batista, Cuban dic-
tator for seven long years, boat Dr.
Grau San Martin in the Cuban pres-
idential election. Also, six provin-
cial governorships, most of the may-
orships, and 24 senatorial seats were
scheduled for Batista candidates.
Batista had, supporting him, parties
of the right, left and center. San
Martin had, supporting him, more
parties of the right, left and center.
The communists plumped for Ba-
tista. but so did some of the Cuban-
ero Tories.
Meanwhile, Generals Camacho
(government candidate) and Alma-
zan (opposition candidate) continued
to fuss and argue about the net re-
sults of the Mexican presidential
election. Both appealed to the fair
and tolerant President Cardenas,
the "honest broker." Just the same,
Camacho had it in the bag.
Rome Wants Return
The University of Rome demand-
ed that France give back, pronto,
all the art treasures that Napoleon
carted out of Italy, and aet up in
Paris
By GEORGE A. BARCLAY
A TRADITION of 152 years
JA standing was shattered
when President Franklin De-
lano Roosevelt was nominated
for a third term by the Demo-
cratic convention in Chicago.
It was the first time in his-
tory that such an event has
occurred.
From start to finish at the
convention it was evident he would
be nominated. Even when speak-
ers proposed the names of other
candidates, it was apparent that
when the vote was finally taken.
President Roosevelt would be draft-
ed. A surprise to many convention
attendants was the fact that when
the nominations started, Alabama
did not yield to New York, but gave
its junior senator. Lister Hill, the
honor of nominating the President.
Greatest speculation centered
around the nomination of a vice
president. It became kn«wn on the
final day that President Roosevelt’s
choice was Henry A. Wallace, secre-
tary of agriculture. As in the case
of the renomination of the Presi-
dent, the delegates knew for whom
they were to vote before entering
the hall. But it was only after a
neck-and-neck race with Speaker
William B. Bankhead and a noisy
demonstration by groups of dele-
gates and spectators who shouted
objections when Paul V. McNutt,
federal security administrator,
asked withdrawal of his own name,
that Mr. Wallace was nominated.
His selection is expected to appeal
to agriculture and to act as an off-
set to the same appeal of Sen.
Charles McNary, Republican vice-
presidential nominee.
Acceptance Speech.
In accepting the nomination for a
third term, Mr. Roosevelt showed
himself once more a tradition
smasher.
In a radio address broadcast from
the White House to the delegates he
said that he accepted the nomina-
tion only after deep conflict between
his personal desire to retire and the
urgings of his conscience. But now,
he said, the European war had cre-
ated a public danger in the United
States.
“In the face of that danger,” he
told the delegates, “all those who
can be of service to the republic
have no other choice but to offer
themselves for service in those ca-
pacities for which they are best
fitted.”
It was an apparently united party
that made the ballot unanimous for
Roosevelt after the vote of the state
delegations had given the President
946 13/30 of the 1,100 votes in the
convention and the other candidates
a combined total of 149 2/30. These
candidates included Postmaster
General Farley, Vice President Gar-
ner and Senator Millard Tydings.
Secretary of State Hull, although not
a candidate, had received 5% votes.
One after another the names were
withdrawn and finally Mr. Farley,
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
spearhead of the opposition to the
third term, moved the nomination
of the President by acclamation.
Aside from the balloting and the
reading of the planks in the plat-
form, three things stood out in sharp
relief in an otherwise unemotion-
al and unexciting convention. One
was the candidacy of James A. Far-
ley and the speculation over his
future role in the party. The other
was the reading by Permanent
Chairman Alben W. Barkley of Ken-
tucky of a statement summarizing
President Roosevelt's views on the
nomination the night before the bal-
loting in which he said he had no
desire or purpose to continue in of-
fice and released all delegates
pledged to him. The third was the
dramatic appearance of 82-year-old
Senator Carter Glass of Virginia
from a sick bed to inveigh against
breaking the third term tradition
as he nominated Mr. Farley.
Roosevelt vs. Farley.
The approaching dissolution of the
partnership between Mr. Farley and
President Roosevelt was evident as
the chairman of the Democratic Na-
tional committee raised his gavel on
Monday noon, calling the convention
to order. Those who remembered
the situation in 1932 and 1936 when
Farley was the organizing genius
felt the contrast. No longer was
Jim Farley the general-in-chief di-
recting the strategy that would re-
nominate his chief. He was in an-
other role—that of a candidate for
the presidency himself and an
avowed opponent of the third-term
idea.
For months it had been apparent
to political observers that the Pres-
ident and Mr. Farley no longer saw
eye-to-eye. The President’s silence
on the third-term question and Far-
ley’s known opposition to it in-
creased the difficulties. Their his-
toric conference at Hyde Park,
N. Y., a week before the conven-
tion at which Mr. Roosevelt made
known his views and pledged Far-
ley to secrecy, pushed the question
of their future relationship further
into the limelight. To many, it
seemed virtual confirmation of the
long-standing rumor that Mr. Farley
would resign his national committee
and cabinet posts after the conven-
tion to take over the majority stock
of the New York Yankees’ ball club.
Complimentary references to Jim
Farley by President Roosevelt in
his radioed acceptance speech and
by Mrs. Roosevelt who appeared
personally to speak on the closing
night were interpreted as a gesture
of friendship to Mr. Farley.
Democratic Women Gain Voice
In Party’s Platform Council
By HOWARD JARVIS
A NOTHER tradition was broken
** by the Democratic party when
it gave women delegates an equal
voice with men on the party plat-
form committee for the first time
In American political history.
This action was taken at the fourth
session of the convention. More than
2,000 women delegates had decided
to put up a united front to demand
; this equality.
The women didn't hesitate to use
their new-found power. They intro-
duced several amendments to the
party platform, and those amend-
ments were passed. Foreign policy
and women's rights received partic-
ular attention.
At the insistence of Mrs. Arthur
Condon of Washington, D. C., the
plank on foreign policy which had
already been accepted by the com-
mittee was changed to provide a
warning to foreign dictators. Five
words, "except in case of attack"
were added to the pledge not to send
troops to fight in foreign lands.
The new committeewomen put
through a plank which had been re-
jected by the all-men members of
the Republican platform committee.
This was a statement which pro-
vided that a woman’s marital status
should not interfere with her right
to hold a job. The plank was de-
sired because 26 states at different
times have had bills proposed to dis-
criminate against married women.
Another victory for the women re-
sulted when the Democratic party
was pledged to promote equal op-
portunity for women through the ef-
forts of Congresswoman Mary T.
Norton of New Jersey. It pledged
the Democrats to work for "equality
of opportunity for men and women
without impairing the social legisla-
tion which promotes true equality by
safeguarding the health and eco-
nomic welfare of women workers."
Women delegates concerned them-
selves primarily with the business
of the convention and forgot their
social activities, according to Mrs.
Elizabeth A. Conkey, national com-
mitteewoman from Illinois. As con-
vention hostess, she pointed out that
most of the social activities had been
concluded before the convention got
down to its serious work.
Random Notes of the Convention
€. More women delegates cast their
votes in the various state delega-
tions than ever before in the history
of conventions. One state delega-
tion—Utah—had more women than
men, the ladies outnumbering the
gentlemen nine to seven. In the
Florida delegation the representa-
tion of the sexes was equal. The
New Jersey delegation had Rep.
Mary Norton as its chairman.
C. One-eyed Connolly, perennial
gate-crasher, failed to crash but at-
tended the convention wearing the
badge of an assistant sergeant of
arms. He assisted Andy Frain, in
charge of ushers.
C Hollywood was represented by
screen star Melvin Douglas and his
wife, Helen Gahagan. He was a
California delegate, she his alter-
nate.
Henry A. Wallace
With evidence mounting that
Roosevelt would be drafted when it
came time to ballot later in the
week, there was little opportunity
for suspense or excitement the open-
ing day. The keynote speech of Tem-
porary Chairman William B. Bank-
head on opening night warned both
political parties that the American
people are in no mood for petty
politics in the forthcoming race,
that the major objectives of both
parties must be unity and solidarity
of purpose in preserving the struc-
ture of our government and the per-
petuation of the people’s freedom.
Fire at Republicans.
Heavy guns were turned on the
Republican party in the speech of
Permanent Chairman Barkley, the
following night. Senator Barkley
held their platform up to scorn, de-
nounced Wendell L. Willkie, at-
tacked statements of Herbert Hoover
at the Republican convention and
pointed to the record of Republican
congressional voting on various pre-
paredness bills. One mention of
President Roosevelt’s name brought
a demonstration lasting 22 minutes.
The statement from President
Roosevelt which Mr. Barkley read
at the conclusion of his speech, had
no effect in halting the draft-Roose-
velt movement, although Mr. Bark-
ley had said “The President has
never had and has not today any de-
sire or purpose to continue the office
of President, or to be nominated,
by the convention for that office.
He wishes in all earnestness and
sincerity to make it clear that all of
the delegates to this convention are
free to vote for any candidate."
A demonstration lasting an hour
followed the statement and it was a
foregone conclusion that nothing
could stop the delegates demand for
Roosevelt when balloting took place.
This was abundantly clear on Wed-
nesday night, as state after state
seconded the nomination speech.
Glass Gets Ovation, i
Dramatic was the appearance of
Senator Glass on behalf of Post-
master General Farley. Rising
from a sickbed and attending what
may well be his last convention, the
Virginia statesman was eloquent in
his praise of Farley and won for
himself a personal ovation. "Farley,"
he said, "is a man who never broke
a pledge once given, who believes
in the unwritten law as advocated
by Democrats ever since the days
of Thomas Jefferson, who less than
three years before his death ap-
pealed to his party never to nomi-
nate a man for a third term.”
But while the delegates cheered
Senator Glass, it was a personal
tribute only. Their minds were
made up. Tradition or no tradition
they wanted President Roosevelt for
a third term.
With the nominations out of the
way, the Democrats faced their
campaign opponents from a plat-
form built on a strong defense of
the New Deal against the Republi-
cans and of the Western hemisphere
against all aggressors. In its planks
on foreign wars, defense and aid
to the allies the platform was a close
approximation of similar planks
adopted by the Republican conven-
tion at Philadelphia recently.
Concerning foreign wars, the plat-
form stated: “We will not partici-
pate in foreign wars and will not
send our army, naval or air forces
to fight in foreign lands outside of
the Americas, except in case of at-
tack.”
Concerning defense the platform
pledged to "enforce and defend the
Monroe doctrine," "provide Ameri-
ca with an invincible air force, a
navy strong enough to protect all
our seacoasts and a fully equipped
and mechanized army."
The platform is pledged to safe-
guard the farmer’s foreign markets,
expand his domestic markets for all
domestic crops, to promote farmer-
owned co - operatives, marketing
agreements, extend crop insurance
and safeguard the family-size farm.
In other planks, the party pledged
extension of the Social Security act
to "millions of persons not now pro-
tected," but without specifying them.
A provision calling for "early reali-
zation" of a minimum pension for
the aged was considered an appeal
for votes of the Townsendites.
The party devoted considerable
space to its declaration for continu-
ation of public hydro-electric projects
and condemning the "Power Mo-
nopoly" In one paragraph mention-
ing indirectly Wendell L. Willkie’s
long duel with the Tennessee Valley
authority.
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