Evening Star Newspaper, June 24, 1932, Page 5

RODSEVELT FIGHTS THO-THRD RLE Defeat of Governor Seen in Losing Majority Nomina- tion Battle. (Continued From First Page.) delegates would support abolition of the | two-thirds rule because the rule and because they favored the nomination and election of Gov. Roose- velt Parley said that Roosevelt’s mnd was “absolutely open on the question of a vice presidential candidate.” Interpreted Variously. The action was variously interpreted By some of the Democratic leaders it was reckoned a bold stroke. But by others—hostile to Roosevelt—it was hailed as indication of weakness, a fear that Roosevelt cannot be nominated under the two-thirds rule. The Roosevelt Democrats, however, have made up their minds that they they opposed | will rule the roost: that they will not| permit obstructive tactics by a minority of the convention, preventing a nomi- nation of their candidate In addition to determining eourse on the two-thircs rule, the Roosevelt leaders appointed at their meeting Senator Wheeler of Montana to head a committee which will make the fight for Senator Thomas J. Walsh, also of Montana, for permanent chair- man of the national convention place of Jouett Shouse, Democratic e: ecutive chairman, whom the Roosevelt people have accused of being hostile to the Roosevelt nomination. This Walsh-Shouse fight will be the first showdown of strength in the con- ‘vention. Hague Statement Resented. Whether the determination of the Roosevelt leaders to run the steam roller over the opposition was in- fluenced by a statement attacking Roosevelt 1issued by Mayor Frank their Hague of Jersey City, Democratic boSs | e nominated under the two-thirds rule | est opportunity in its history. of Jersey and floor manager of the Smith campaign, is a question. Mr. Farley denied that it had anything to do with the decision. However, the Hague statement, declaring Roosevelt has no chance of winning the election if nominated, was deeply Tesented by | They insisted that | ® anti- | Roosevelt followers. it showed how desperate the Roosevelt forces had become in face ©of coming victory for Roosevelt. Party Is Split. Democratie ranks were torn asunder today by the decision of Roosevelt lead- ers to abolish the two-thirds rule. Gen- | anti-Roosevelt | erally speaking, the ILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN (left) of Califcrnia, scn of the “Great Commoner.” came in with the Democratic tidal wave that swept Chicago for the convention. With him is Maurice J. McCarthy, advocate of prohibition repeal snd Democratic candidate for ihe United States Senate in California. thirds rule and said that he favored ried a single large city which clearly such sbolifion and the establishment | indicates that the people in the popu- of maiority rule. | lous centers do not regard him as the Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, chair- | right man to lead. In the State of man of the Resolutions Committee in California with the entire oranization its temporary form and a supporter of 'znd the Democratic machinery with Roosevelt, indicated that he thought him he failed to carry the large centers the proposal to do away with the two- | three to one and was overwhelmingly thirds rule had been a tactical mis- | defeated. Massachuselts told an even take on the part of the Roosevelt | more disastrous story. forces. He said that Roosevelt could | -The Democratic party has the great- ow and that the proposal to do away with | the time for the leaders representing the aged rule would stir up opposition. | the various delegations at present sup- |~ Roosevejt opponents were inclined to | porting Roosevelt to snalyze what I | believe, they said, that the Roosevelt|Say and see for themselves that their | forces had undertaken to wage the | candidate cannot be victorious. It is battle along a line that was less favor- | Very apparent that any man who can ble to Roosevelt. not carry New York. New Jersey, Mas- If Roosevelt loses the fight to abol- | sachusetts, Rhode Island, Conneeticut ish the two-thirds rule, they contend, |and the other New England States to- he will have lost & great deal of prestige | 8ether with the Middle West and very in the convention, {few States in the far West, 1; not the | " Senator Cordell Hull of Tennessee, /Tan for the party leaders to choose in | formerly chairman of the Democratic |this crisis. | National Committee. a Roosevelt sup-| “There is no doubt that much mis- Dorter, said today that he believed the |representation was made to leaders two-thirds rule should be abrogated. | thtoughout this country as to’ Roose- “That rule,” said Senator Hull, “has | velt’s strength throughout the country Democrats declared themselves Strongly | peen wsed in Tecent years to wreck the and as to the individuals and elements opposed to this proposal. fighting to kill this two-thirds rule, Some of them said they were doubtful of the advisability of bringing up the fight at the start of the convention, but ’!hll they intended to go through with t. | Al Smith this morning declared he would have something to say at 5 p.m. . Tt is understood, how ever, that he believes the effort to abol- ish the two-thirds rule will Jead to & hard fight and that he realizes there is a strong sentiment among the dele- gates for such abolition. Willam Gibbs McAdoo, heading ghe Garner _delegation from California, said: “The California delegates voted three weeks ago that the two-thirds rule should be maintained in this na- tional convention, but that the con- vention should recommend the aboli- tion of the rule and the establishment of majority rule, to come up in the 1936 convention. The idea-of the dele- gates was that the rules should not be changed in the middle of the game. It was further believed that it would be wise to put the delegates to the 1936 convention on notice, at the time they were being elected that this matter of | the abolition of the two-thirds rule would come before them.” Hit by Senmator Glass. Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, supporting the candidacy of former Gov. Harry Flood Byrd for the presi- dential nomination, said: T wouldn't support anybody who takes a short cut or makes a snap play in_the middle of the game.” Mr. Byrd himself would not comment | but indicated he would ! at this time, say something later. Isidore Dockweiler, Democratic na- tional committeeman from California, a supporter of Roosevelt, said: “I am oppised to the two-thirds rule, I think the decision of the Roosevelt forces to bring about its abolishment was a fine thing. Furthermore it will be done. Mr. McAdoo wanted to break the two- thirds rule in 1924 at the Madison Square Gardep convention. I was with him at the time. He did not have the votes then. Mr. McAdoo has con- tinued to declare his opposition to the two-thirds rile.” Quotes McAdoo. Mr. Dockweiler pulled from his pockst & copy of a California news- paper published last vear in which Mr. McAdoo was quoted at length as be- ing in favor of the abolition of the two-thirds rule of nominating candi- dates in the Democratic National Con- ventions A._Mitchell Palmer. delegate from the District of Columbia and Attorney General in the Wilson cabinet, who is supporting Roosevelt, sald There is_an enormous sentiment among the Democrats in this conven- tion and elsewhere against a repitition f Madison Square Garden dis- row. These Democrats are prayirg that they will rot have such a contest and I believe their prayers will be answered.” ie seld he favored the abolition of hrids rule and establishment rity rule Favorable fo Abolition. Senator Cohen of Georgia, Demo- national committeeman, pointed at the Democratic State Conven- tion in Georgia had voted unanimously in favor of the abolition of the two- it Roosevelt | supporters announced their intention of | | “Any change sattempted in the cen- [ should be Democratic party, preventing the op-|In the party that were supposedly back- eration of a will of the majority. There Ing him. "Even though some of the have been signs here in Chicago that leaders have blindly elimbed aboard the it was the purpose of certain groups|Roosevelt band wagon with no other | to make use of this rule again to wreck thought in mind but patronage, disre- the party.” | garding what the future may hold for Senators Dill of Washington and |the party itself and never seriously con- |'Wheeler of Montana both gave their fsidering the type of candidate that the approval to the plan to junk the|country needs. These leaders should ancient rule. ® ‘remgnmthl:e rm:émth:t after the con- | | vention their candidate must stand the | Reed Sces Danger. {acid test of the electorate, as well as Former Senator “Jim” Reed of Mis- | the critical eyes of the press of this | souri, favorite-son candidate, said of country. the proposal to abolish the two-thirds A liade Hld A rule: | } “Gov: Roosevelt. has utterly failed in friry-ald @uieet Hémindting Democratic | it 1t two efforts to sell himeelf to candidates is fraught with danger. What was good enough for Andrew Jacksom good enough for us. press of the country. The editorial | comment of all the leading dailies has [been " most ~unfavorable. 'If that ls Gov. “Alfalfs Bill" Murray of Okla- | et &fitude prior to the convention, homa said: “It is commonly known that Repub- ‘We must apologize to the shade of |)joan Jeaders are hoping that Gov. old Champ Clark if we change this| Roosevelt will be nominated, and some rule now.” | have publicly expressed themselves that From Texas quarters came velled hints that if the RooSevelt forces shou fidlly of Rocscwil: Beeciwing the | persist in this effort to abolish the two- | Pandidate. Pescatee thirds rule and should nominate Roose- | “I am genuinely interested because velt by a majority vote, there would be | the tendency of the people of New Jer- a “bolt” from the convention. Sam |sey has been to support the Republi- Reyburn. campaign manager for Gar- |can national ticket in° presidential ner, issues & statement, saying: | years. It is only fair, as the leader of “Americans have been bred to believe | the party in New Jersey arid having its it unfair to change the rules in the |interests at heart, to predict that if middle of the game. If Mr. Farley | Gov. Roosevelt is nominated our State wants his candidate to command the | will be in the Republican column, miss- respect of the party, and of the Nation. |ing an opportunity. If the right man he cannot seriously mean that he wili |is nominated, we will carry a Repub- undertake, after his campaign of three |lican State which has given 300,000 years for the Democratic nomination | majority to Republican candidates for for Mr. Roosevelt by the century old two-thirds rule, to now admit failure and change the rules to suit his con- venience.” Supported In South. | Many of the Roosevelt Jeaders who ' last night voted for the abolition of | the two-thirds rule were from the South, the section of the country which has been supposed in the past to be strong for the two-thirds rule They said, however, they had seen enough of party wrecking by a_minority group from the North and East and they did not intend to stand for it further The Hague statement, issued after a long conference with Mr. Smith him- self, was a direct, defeatist attack on Roosevelt. It sought to line up all the favorite sons back of the anti-Roose- velt movement. Hague has been the moving force in this anti-Roosevelt movement for months. His statement wes as unprecedented as was the de- cision of the Roosevelt leaders to do away with the two-thirds rule. Hague said in part “I deem it my duty as the vice chair- man of the Democratic National Com- mittee and the leader of the Democracy of the State of New Jersey to call to the attention of the delegates and the leaders of Democracy in the different States and counties of the country who are gathering here in Chicago, that Gov. Pranklin D. Roosevelt, if nom- inated, has no chance of winning at the election in November. I have felt out public sentiment not alone here, but in practically every State in the Union particularly those States east of the Mississippi and 1 am brought to the conclusion that he cannot carry a single State east of the Mississippi and very few in the far West.” “It has been demonstrated in the contested primaries in which Roosevelt was a candidate that he has never car- cost so little... only HURRY! YOU CAN STILL SAVE THE TAX! HURRY! Ordered Sold! Two Carloads of High-Grade, Brand-New TIRES AND TUBES At American Storage Co. 2801 Georgia Ave. N.W. CAR DEALERS CONSUMERS TIRE DEALERS ing ‘breeze, from a genuine TO BE LIQUIDATED size, style and price. Open Sundays, 8 AM. to 1 P.M. No Phone Orders—No Deliveries Te Come in Any Time. Open 8 A M. to 8 P.M. 28x5.25 | 29x5.25 | 5 31x5.25 ) 28x5.25 29x5.50 | 30x6. 31 $4. 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The rules of the House alone | were adopted, with an added provision that no celegate might address the con- vention more than 30 minutes in de- | bate except by unanimous consent. Despite this 1920 omission, however. | Gov. Cox was not declared nominated | that year until he attained a two-thirds majority on the forty-fourth ballot. ‘Cox reached a majority the preceding | ballot, but no point of order as to the | rules 'was raised, and the convention | manual, later prepared. held that the | two-thirds rule had applied thit year { by “immemorial custom.” In 1924, to offset this 1920 technical lapse, the rules of the last convention, “including the two-thirds rule for can- idates for President and Vice Presi- dent,” and the rules of the House of that year, so far as applicable, were adopted, and this procedure again was followed at Houston in 1928. To eliminate the two-thirds rule the | Rules Committee would probably re- turn to the 1930 form, adopting merely | the rules of the House of the Seventy- second Congress, with such debate limi- tation as desired. That committee re- ports, by Democratic practice, after the | installation of the permanent chsir- | man, and it requires only a majority of | & quorum present and voting to adopt. | Roosevelt supporters contend. Once | the ruies are adopted, however, the rule of the House requiring & two-thirds majority to suspend the rules comes into force. In the 1924 Smith-McAdoo deadlock | Bruce Kremer of Montana, now a Roosevelt leader, but then floor man- ager for McAdoo, moved during the balloting to. suspend the rules and in- struct #he Rules Committee to bring in a special rule designed to break the deadlock. | Senator Walsh of Montana, perma- nent chairman that year and Roosevelt | candidate for the same office now, ruled | that a two-thirds vote would be nec | essary to carry the motion, although a | majority would be sufficient to_adopt the special Tule when brought in by the committee under instruction of the con- vention, ’ President and turn it into a Democratic majority of at least 150,000 at the com- ing election. When I speak of New | Jersey I know what I am talking about | because I have made & careful analysis | of the sentiment which prevails against | the nomination of Gov. Roosevelt. If he is named, we will lose a victory for | which we have been waiting for the | | past 12 years. | "It is generally known that I have al- ways been an admirer and advocate of | former Gov. Smith. Entirely aside from | my personal desire to see this man, who is |8 leader and statesman closer to the peo- | | ple and their needs than any man in | America, be given the leadership at a | time when he is s0 badly needed, I want to call attention to the fact that there is a wealth of material before the con- vention—Gov. Ritchie, Melvin A. Tray- | lor, John N. Garner, Newton D. Baker, | | Gov. White, Gov. Murray, Senator Reed, | | Gov. Byrd and Senator Lewis—any one | of whom meets the present situation better than the Governor of New York.” | " Farley, Roosevelt manager, replied to | this as follows: | “Gov. Roosevelt’s friends have not | come to Chicago to cry down, criticize | or defame any Democrat from any part of the Union. 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Police sald Mrs. Ferguson was found lying in the yard of her home by her husband, Samuel Ferguson, and that a pisiol was Iying nearby. Mrs. Ferguson had been ill for some months, _authorities said. Medical referce, Dr. W. R. Garland of Ply- mouth, gave & verdict of suicide. FIGHT ON GOVERNOR MAY CONPEL TRP Convention Presence Likely to Be Required to Assuage Opponents. By the Associated Press. ALBANY, N. Y. June 24-—Gov. Roosevelt may appear before the Demo- cratic National Convention after all. He may go to Chicago if he is nomi- nated, and his advisers feel that he should personally seek to assuage what- ever wounds the battle for the presi- dential nomination had left on his opponents. Also, he might go. should the convention become deadlocked over the nomination. Guided by Developments. This was learned yesterdav. almost on the heels of the most recent denial by the Governor that he would go to Chicago. It is believed that under ordinary circumstances the Governor will remain in Albany, “doing routine.” as he expressed it recently. However. should unexpected develcoments have to be faced the plans of the Roose- velt group call for the Governor's presence. Mr. Roosevelt is sticking fo his re- solve to refrain from comment on party developments on the eve of the con- vention, and had nofhine to sav last night on the statement cf Frank Hague, New Jersev leader and a strong sup- porter of Alfred E. Smith. that Roose- velt could not be elected if nominated Stands for Repeal. He answered newspaper men's ques- tions ss to which of the prohibition proposals advanced for consideration by the partv convention he favored by ving “his position had been well known” for two years, since he had campalgned for Governor in 1930 on & Tepeal plank. At that time he pro- posed substitution of an amendment giving the States control over intoxi- | cants for the eighteenth amendment He said recently he was confident the party platform would clearlv- indicate the method of changing the liquor laws. GILLILAN I.S SPEAKER Strickland Gillllan, writer, was (\lesi! speaker at a ladles’ day luncheon of the Washington Kiwanis Club in the Raleigh Hotel yesterday. He was in- | troduced by Claude W. Owen, chairman of the Program Committee. Ladies of Kiwanis were welcomed by John J. Boobar and 21 special guests at | the speakers' table were introduced by | Edwin F. Hill, president of the club, | Rev. John Palmer pronounced the in- voca.ion. HAGUE STATEMENT STIRS SPECULATION Hint Smith Might Quit Race It Roosevelt Drops [ Out. ‘ By the Associated Press CHICAGO, June 24.—A sudden anti- Roosevell pronouncement of Mayor Prank Hague of Jersey City today caused Democratic chieftains to won- der whether Hague meant Alfred E. Smith would quit the presidential race | if Gov. Pranklin D. Roosevelt would. Hague, convention floor manager of Smith and vice chairman of the Dem- ocratic National Committee, declared in his statement last night Roosevelt “has no chanée of winning” if nomi- nated by the convention, predicted he would not carry “a single State east of the Mississippi” and asserted before the convention were names of several men who were better fitted for the nomination than Roosevelt. ‘The Roosevelt camp greeted the dec- laration without any outward show of concern. Its only answer was this statement of James A. Farley. manager of the New York Governor’s cam- gn -~ “Gov. Roosevelt's friends have not come to Chicago to cry down or de- fame any Democrat from any part of the Union, This, I believe, is suficient answer to Mayor Hague's statement.” Speculatign Rife. But elsewhere there was a flood of speculation as to whether Hague meant to imply Smith would readily retire in favor of some candidate should Roose- velt do likewise. But there were some who believed the statement might have hastened the decision of the “friends” of Roosevelt to declare wa: on the two- thirds rule, It s generally known some party leaders would look askance at Smith's renomination by the convention in view of his defeat by President Hoover in the 1928 campaign. Hence, they are looking for a new leader with greater chanees ‘of retaining the backing of the “Solid South” and States whose solidity “cracked” in '2: Smith himself conferred with Hague while the ‘latter was drafting the state- ment and this added fuel to the fire of speculation. As candidates ‘“better fitted,” in addition to Smith, Hague named the outstanding contenders for the nomination and some favorite sons, | declaring any one of them would meet “the present situation better than the Governor of New York.” Names Presidential Hopes. ‘Those he mentioned were Gov. Ritchie of Maryland, Melvin A. Traylor of Chi- cago. Speaker John N. Garner. Newton D. Baker, Gov. White of Ohio, Gov. Murray of Oklahoma, former Senator Reed of Missouri, former Gov. Byrd of Virginia and Senator Lewis of Ilinois. The various anti-Roosevelt force. have been uniting here to combat nomi- nation of Roosevelt on the first ball~ in the belief they could defeat him i- this manner. And so far, Smith hs not answered directly any questions » to whether he would support the 1932 nominee. 22 Hard Work for 50 Cents. MODESTO, Calif. (#)—Climbing through a skylight and wrecking a $150 cash register, a burglar. was rewarded with 50 cents in pennies as loot. 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