Evening Star Newspaper, January 14, 1929, Page 14

DEMOCRATS SHOWN IN MILITANT MooD Questionnaire Blame Trick- ery for G. 0. P. Victory. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. ALBANY, January 14—Gov. Roose- | velt and his predecessor in office, Alfred E. Smith, had a conterence last evening the Executive Mansion which is believed to have embraced State politics and the rehabilitation of the *Dem- ocratic party nationally. o Former Gov. Smith said that his trip | D clearing house for the exchange of ideas by party leaders. Ninety-eight per cent of those who replied to Ietter, said Gov. Roosevelt, concurred in this view of the proper sphere of a national committee. Fight on Raskob Persists. The hostility to Mr. Raskob, who will be here this week for a conference with Mr. Roosevelt, as national chairman evinced by Southern leaders because | of his antipathy to prohibition is far Roosevelt Declares Replies to| from dead, according to information received by the governor. He has been informed that organizations in the South which bolted the party last Fall are being kept alive with a view to opposing the nomination of another wet or Tammany candidate. Many Southern leaders are said to be opposed to Mr. Raskob’s plan for maintaining the national committee on an active basis in non-campaign years because it is Mr. Raskob’s plan and | because he is head of the committee. The Southern drys are said to have told Gov. Roosevelt that his own poli- tical future would be endangered by alliance with anti-prohibition or Tam- many men. was inspired by the desire to sce his granddaughter, Mary A. Warner, daugh- | ter of the superintendent of State po-| lice, before his departure for Florida for a six-week vacation. In view of the fact that he is to deliever a widespread radio address Wednesday evening, how- ever, it is thought that the opportunity | for a talk with Gov. Roosevelt also had | something to do with his trip. | 3,000 Chairmen Reply. In its national aspect, it is believed | that the conference centered upon the | replies received by Gov. Roosevelt from about 3,000 Democratic county chair-| men to whom he wrote after election for their views concerning steps to be taken to strengthen the party. In general, according to Gov. Roose- velt, county leaders indicated in their letters that they thought closer alliance among county, State and national or- ganizations, unremitting publicity for Democratic policies and principies, and increased and continued activity by the Democratic national committee were vital measures. Most of the writers, the governor said, mentioned the party’s $1,500,000 campaign deficit and pointed out that it was inconsequential, amounting to only a few cents per capita. “The feeling in the party,” said Gov. Roosevelt, “can only be compared to that which followed the theft.of the Presidency in the case of Mr, Tilden. Bigotry, ignorance of Democratic prin- ciples, the spread by unspeakable and un-American methods of the most atrocious falsehoods, unfair and im- ‘proper pressure brought to bear upon ‘workers in specially favored Republican industries, false claims for the pros- perity of the country and kindred propaganda cheated, so my correspond- ents feel, our party out of the Presi- dency.” The county leaders, said Mr. Roose- velt, urged immediate concentrations upon the congressional elections of 1930 to prevent a repetition of “such a dubiously earned victory.” In making public the tenor of the replies he had received, Gov. Roose- velt said that they would be turned over to John J. Raskob, chairman of the Democratic national committee, and expressed the hope that the national committee would be maintained at a high point of efficiency as a central Gov. Roosevelt is believed to have addressed his letter to county leaders this year rather than to State chair- men, as he did four years ago, in the hope of finding support for Mr.' Ras- kob’s plan of continued activity on the part of the national committee. The governor’s suggestion for a conference of national leaders of the party in Washington on the subject is said to have met with slight response. “As the analysis of these replies will take some time.” Mr. Roosevelt said, “I want not only to cheer at the earliest possible moment any discouraged Demo- crat, if there are such, by the know THE EVENING edge of the militant spirit of the rank and file of the Democracy of the Na- tion, but also to express at this time to the thousands of nts my appreciation of their letter and my assurance that eventually they will re- ceive, not only an acknowledgment of their communication, but an analysis of all the other replies received. “One of the structural faults of our national Democratic organization in the past, which has resulted from our pre- vious practice of laying the national committee carefully away in cotton wool after each election, to be taken out and dusted off just before the next presi- dential election, has been the lack of any central clearing house for exchange of ideas among the leaders, great and small, of our party. “This has resulted in local organiza- tions working in entire ignorance of | what the organizations of other States, | and even of other organizations ia their own State, are doing.” “As was to be expected, an over- whelming majority of State leaders were enthusiastically in favor of continued national activity,” the statement added, Militant Spirit Aroused. “It can be stated as a fact, based on these actual answers of county leaders, that never before in the history of the Democratic party, at least dur- there been Oculists’ Prescriptions Filled CLAFLIN 922 14th St. “A friend vecommended REM when I had a cough and it certainly lived up to his recommendation. 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W. : STAR, WASHINGTON, shown so clearly a militant, aroused and ive determination to con- tinue actively to fight not only with a view to the national election four years from now, but for the coming congressional elections in 1930 as well, and to begin now unceasing and con- stant effort to place the Democratic party in control of all branches of the Government at Washington. “This clearly expressed feeling can only be compared to that which fol- lowed the theft of the presidency in the case of Mr. Tilden. Bigotry, igno- rance of Democratic principles, the spread of unspeakable and un-American methods of the most atrocious false- hoods, unfair and improper pressure brought to bear upon workers in spe- cially favored Republican industries, false claims for the prosperity of the country and kindred propaganda. cheat- ed, so my correspondents feel, our party out of the presidency. “It is not mere enthusiasm for the Democratic cause which is clearly ex- Short? charge. pressed in these letters,” Mr. Roosevelt continued. “It is a deep sense of anger and resentment at the methods em- ployed against our candidate in the last campaign, which has stirred our party from top to bottom, as I think it has never been strred before, to set about and set about immediately to make a repetition of such a dubiously earned victory impossible four years from now.” One unanimous opinion that can be drawn from the replies, he added, is that “the crying need is publicity—pub- licity—publicity: that Democratic papers must be encouraged and i creased in number; that the independ- ent press of the country must be fur- nished with information and argu- ments as to the attitude of the Demo- cratic party on questions which are rightfully party questions and on issucs which are founded on fundamental be- liefs as to the best course for our Nation.” “Perhaps the most encouraging thing What kind of a man are you? 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