Evening Star Newspaper, March 8, 1931, Page 3

RODSEVELT IS SEEN AS HOOVER'S FOE Governor Will Be Regarded as Wet and President as Dry Candidate. (Continued From First Page.) same time, they believe he can carry the wet States of the North and East largely because he is for modification of the prohibition laws. Wets May Force Issue. Within the next 15 months it may be ; possible for the extreme wet Democrats, Raskob and Smith and others, to force Roosevelt's hand on this wet issue. But it is likely that Roosevelt will continue to cling to economic issues as the main '];Bn of his platform for the nomina- jon. Democratic leaders in Congress, espe- cially Senator Robinson of Arkansas, Democratic leader of the Senate, and Senator-elect Cordell Hull, have been particularly aroused by. the discussion of economic issues made by Mr. Raskob at the National Committee meeting. They insist he is reactionary and that he is striving to make the Democratic party the party of big business. The congressional Democrats almost to a man are against Raskob's plan of hav- ing the Democratic platform contain a recommendation that the Constitution be amended so as to permit any State to have a liquor law of its own making. Raskob, therefore, is under fire from two angles. Thomas B. Love, former Democratic national committeeman from Texas, who attended the National Committee meeting here last week as proxy of the Oregon national committeeman, issued a statement last night attacking Raskob and his plan for amending the Consti- tution. Love left the Democratic ticket in 1928 and supported Hoover against Smith. The veteran Texas politician said, in part: Says Hoover Will Defeat Repealer. “Mr. Raskob requested suggestions other than his own for the next Demo- cratic national platform. I want to suggest a plank for that platform on which every Democrat can stand and behind which every Democrat can fight for party success, viz.: “‘The Democratic party stands, even as Andrew Jackson stood, against nulli- fication and for the Union, the Consti- tution and the enforcement of the law.’ “A Democrat who stands by precept and example, for this simple declara- tion, if nominated by the Democratic National Convention in 1932, can defeat Herbert Hoover and be elected Presi- dent of the United States. Hoover has declared his position as against the re- peal of the eighteenth amendment and I Makes Politics Business THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., RASKOB REPORTED MARCH _8, velt for the tial nomination, according to bellef of some New York Democrats, will within a short while bring a determination of whether Mr. Smith will continue to allow him- self to be considered as a possibility for renomination or will come out defi- RASKOB THOUGHT QUIET BUT BOLD. in favor of its enforcement. The only way to get the liquor question out of politics is to nominate a Democrat whose position is precisely the same as his on this controversial question. Hoover will defeat any repealer or nulli- fier who might be nominated in 1932 and his majority would be nearer 10,- 000,000 than the 7,000,000 by which he won in 1928, while any acceptable pro- gressive Democratic nominee who is against répeal and nullification will be overwhelmingly elected. “But this is purely academic. The result of the National Committee meet- ing certainly presages that no man who stands for repeal or nuuification of the eighteenth amendment will be nomi- nated ‘at the Democratic national con- vention of 1932. It presages a great progressive Democratic victory in 1932 —— TRISH BANQUET PLANNED | Musical Play to Feature Meeting of Sons of St. Patrick. An Irish musical play presented by members of the organization will fea- ture the third annual banquet of the ‘Washington Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, Mayflower Hotel, March 17. 17. Speakers for the occasion have not been announced as yet by Joseph P. ‘Tumulty, chairman of the Executive Committee. Members of the Banquet Committee include Daniel J. O'Brien, Thomas W. Brahany, Andrew Cummings, William P. McNally, Matt Horne, Fred East, Jack Bowie, E. J. Walsh and William Raymond. SPECIAL NOTICES. THE_ANNUAL MEE "AND ELECTION of Prospect Hill Cemetery Association be held cn Tuesday, March 10, 1931, 8 p.m. 8t the Cemete: ice, North Capitol ‘and e, W sts. By order of the board of trustees. HERMANN G. WINKLEI cre BY WILLIAM HARD. R. JOHN J. RASKOB, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, is_most certainly no orator. He proved it abundantly at Thursday’s meeting of the Democratic National Committee here in Washington. Carter Glass, United States Senator from Vir- ginia and vigorous foe of many of Mr. Raskob's ideas, was so soothed and lulled by Mr. Raskob's somniferous presentation of them that in his chair in the front row of Thursday’s meeting he closed his eyes, dropped his chin, and clearly seemed to b?dPHYS“‘nE his own thoughts in the world of dreams. Life One Long Research. Mr. Raskob is no orator in power of phrase. He is no orator in vibrancy of voice. He is no orator in attractiveness of gesture, He is no orator in any qual- ity of performance or in any quality of temperament. It is perfectly apparent | that life to him is not a material or | drama, but a material of researches, reports, resolutions and results. | His one stroke of humor during Thurs- day's proceedings was an entirely unin- tended one. Senator Cameron Morrison of North Carolina was in course of speaking and in course also of getting tumultuously jeered and even hissed. Mr. Raskob intervened. “Don’t interrupt him,” said he, “It only makes his speech longer.” Mr. Raskob then flushed with bewilderment at the laughter his re- mark occasioned. Mr. Raskob is prosaic, very. Through- out Thursday he was utterly uncon- scious of the humor which pervaded his whole position and his whole ac- tivity. He was addressing his party’s most veteran practitioners of politics. Many of them had been engaged in public affairs since their early twenties. Mr. Raskob, less than three years ago, when he took charge of the Democratic National Committee's efforts, stated: “I am not a politician and never have been affiliated with any party either nationally or locally.” That was the ex- tent of his political experience and the full volume of his political education in July of 1928. Talked to Veterans. Thursday he stood up before men like Senator Claude Swanson of Vir- ginia and Senator Tom Connally of Texas and Senator David I. Walsh of Massachusetts, who knew everything about ballot boxes when he knew noth- ing about anything but double-entry ledgers, and told them how to be victo- rious at the ballot boxes and how to arrive at that high end through a method completely original to himself— namely, the intrusion of th: Democratic National Committee into the platform- making labors of the Democratic Na- tional Convention. This revolutionary proposal, hurled at political professionals by a political novice, would have required (one might have thought) an author with a chin of steel and a brow of brass. At that point, though, the humor of the situ- ation was both heightened and soft- ened. Mr. Raskob is very mild. In- deed, he is in countenance and in de- meanor almost meek. At any rate, he is at the very opposite pole fr trucu- lence or even assertiveness; he’is gentle; he is shy; he is manifestly extremely sensitive. He nevertheless, though shy, is not shrinking and, though sensitive, is not timid. He behaves like a man in whom an impulse of ambition or a e of duty or an instinct of endeavor and of action can be said successfully to have overcome a temperament given other- wise happily to serenity and quiet ob- scurity. He sets forth his intentions modestly, amiably, sweetly. He then carries them on relentlessly, implaca- bly, unswervingly. He stops at an ob- stacle if he must. He, in fact, stopped at one last Thursday. He clearly, how- ever, at the end of the day had a full determination to go straight over the | obstacle at his next chance. This man has the strength of a firm man who is not a bully. He does not waste his energy in swashbuckling. He does not multiply his enemies by inso- lence. He simply marks out a line and walks it without rant and without fa- tigue and without pause. The opposi- tion to him in the Democratic party has on its hands a consolidated com- pendium of the reasons why “the meek” have been called “terrible. Drawn Into Politics. He was brought into politics, it is well known, through two circumstances. One was his personal conviction about prohibition. ‘The other was his per- sonal devotion to Alfred Emmanuel Smith. He is a man of strong views and of strong friendships. It is perhaps correct to say that in politics he has no ambition beyond those friendships and those views. 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While Mr. Smith has done nor said nothing against the candidacy of the man who fought for him through three Democratic National Conventions, he has not indicated that he is now will- Debts. 1931—PART ON Warned Raskob PROGRESSIVES BAN POLITICS AT PARLEY OPENING THIS WEEK (Continued From First Page.) telligent support of all liberal-minded citizens.” Senator La Follette charged President Hoover with failure to exhlblmoper leadership, with sanctioning * ead- ing statements of economic conditions™ and with “preventing the prompt enact- ment of remedial legisiation.” Indus- trialists also have shown lack of leader- ship in the business crisis, he declared. “This failure of leadership on the and the Chief Executive,” he sald, “has thrown an increased burden . the men who are the section of today’s Star. ROOSEVELT WILL NOT ATTEND. | NEW YORK, March 7 (#.—1In a | telegram declining an invitation to st- :rnd th: Norrh’ - La ”l'nmw;fiwww ogressive conference next week, Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt expressed himself as “much interested” |in"the purpose of JOHN J. RASKOB. simply of giving to the Democratic party a “business organization” which will enable it, as he thinks, to carry the country on behalf qf the views which he believes the party should adopt. This is, in itself, it might truly be said, a tremendous and a sufficient am- bition. Mr. Raskob is out to give to the Democratic party both a new ma- chinery and a new philosophy. On the point of machinery he has al- ready galvanized the Democratic Na- tional ~ Committee headquarters at Washington into being the most ener- getic and the most influential headquar- ters that his party has ever had here.. On the point of philosophy he now pro- poses two things. One is that his party should take the unprecedented step— unprecedented for either party—of making the merits of the eighteenth amendment a political issue. The other is, essentially, that his party, instead of being a critic of contemporary capi- talism, should be & co-operator with it. Bold, But Great Man. ‘When one reflects that Thomas Jef- ferson was so skeptical of all industry that he regarded it as nothing better than a disagreeable appendage to agri- cultuge, it would seem that Mr. Ras- kob has undertaken to give to the Democratic party the equivalent almost formation of investment trusts through which wage earners can become bene- ficlaries of increased stock market val- ues in the securities of the corpora- tions by which they are employed. Thomas_Jefferson would have made everybody into a farmer. Mr. Raskob would make everybody into a capital- ist, large or small. He wishes to re- model the Democratic party into a party that will help him at it. He is a big bold man, this little quiet man, Mr. Raskob. (Copyright, BUTLER PREDICTS SPLIT IN BOTH MAJOR PARTIES By the Associated Press. 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NEW YORK, March 7.--The com- bined victory of the Roosevelt Demo- crats of New York and the Southern and Western members of the Demo- cratic National Committee on the pro- hibition issue at its meeting in Wash- ington last week was so complete that on the night before the committees met, Chafrman John J. Raskob in- dicated his readiness to resign the helm of the party, the Herald-Tribune says today. According to reports brought back from Washington by friends of Gov. Roosevelt, Mr. Raskob apparently was fully determined to bring the question of State cantrol of the liquor traffic to a vote in the National Committee until it was demonstrated to him in a con- ference that he not only did not have the votes to win, but that he would be defeated in a manner which would strongly accentuate® the antipathy which has been shown toward his leadership particularly in the South. The situation was made completely | clear to Mr. Raskob, it is said, on the night before the committee met in| the Mayflower Hotel, by former Goy. Harry F. Byrd of Virginia, in clgse alliance with Senator Cameron Mor- rison of North Carolina. The confer- ence is said to have brought to some- | thing of a climex the opposition to the Raskob leadership which has frequently | })ecél attacked by Southern Democratic eaders. Urged to Hold On. ‘When Mr. Raskob announced that he not only would not seek to press his views to an unsuccessful issue in the committee but if the Southern and other insurgent leaders felt it would be of benefit to the party he would be willing to offer his resignation. Byrd is said not only to have disuaded | the chairman from that course but to have insisted that since he had led the party to defeat and a deficit of $1,500,- 000, some of which still remains, it/ was his duty to retain his post as chair- | man until the obligations which his | leadership had incurred had been liqui- | dated. That statement of the situation, | is understood to have left Mr. Raskob with the impression that no other satis- factory course was open to him. The forthright action of the New York State Democratic Committee in opposing Mr. Raskob's plan to put the | National Committee on record on pro- | hibition as a catechism to the Demo- cratic National Convention held an ap- peal to the politically dry sectors, which | is believed to have strengthened the | presidential aspirations of Gov. Rocse- velt materially. In view of the fact that former Gov. Alfred E. Smith, Democratic presidential candidate of 1928, is aligned with Mr. Raskob and has not indicated where he stood with regard to the supporters of Gov. Roove- Gov. for Mr. step out of party control when the deficit is wiped out. the Roosevelt forces are foregathering for the 1932 drive, and one of their ing to step aside for his old champion, Roosevelt. Without bitterness toward Mr. Smith, some of Gov. Roose- velt's friends feel that he and the pub- lic are entitled to know where Mr. Smith Roosevelt's chances. stands with regard to Gov. In that connection the action of the National Committee in approving a plan for a professional public and money-raising organization to survey the fleld to liquidate the party debt was looked upon as paving the way| Smith's ally, Mr. Raskob, to In other words, first endeavors will be to ascertain defi- nitely whether the Smith-Raskob com- bination is to be for or against them. Assured of Support, Gov. Roosevelt's friends at the National Committee meeting received assurances, both from the South, which Gov. Smith lost, and from the Rocky Mountain States, which voluntarily fought for him, that the New York governor is in great and growing favor. number of National Committeemen, A particularly from Western States, have called upon Gov. Roosevelt on their way home from the National Committee meeting. weller Scott Bullitt of Washington State. The | governor has also been assured of sup- port from New England States. They include Isadore Dock- of California and _Alexander Gov. Roosevelt is said to be under no illusions that he can run as a dry, nor are his supporters from the politically dry provinces. i Roosevelt’s friends that, if the Demo- They have told Mr. cratic party must go wet, they would rather follow it with Gov. 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