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STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C., JUNE 26, 1932—PART O RITCHIE URGES PLAN TO PREVENT UNBALANCED FEDERAL BUDGET COVERNOR CITES MARYLAND CREDIT Candidate for Nomination Tells at Chicago of His State’s System. BY J. A. O'LEARY, Btaft Correspondent of The Star. CHICAGO, June 25.—Pointing to the success Maryland has achieved in keep- | ing expenses well within income, Gov. | Albert C. Ritchie, a candidate for the | Democratic presidential nomination, to- | day favored adoption of a system lhkli would prevent an unbalanced national budget in future. The Maryland Govegnor, whose | chances for the nomination are ex- | pected to grow if the leading contender, | Gov. Roosevelt of New York, fails to win on an early ballot and the two- thirds rule is adhered to, continued to| be one of the leading attractions around Democratic headquarters yes-| terday. | An admiring crowd trailed behind him during the afternoon as he made a series of courtesy calls at the head- quarters of all the other presidential candidates, accompanied by Mayor How- ard W. Jackson of Baltimore and other Maryland leaders. Assignments Completed. ®arlier in the afterncon the Mary- land delegation met in the spacious headquarters assigned to the Ritchie | forces along ‘“presidential row” and completed its list of assignments to the various committees of the national con- vention. The following appointments were_announced: | Rules Committee, State Senato «m- “brose J. Kennedy of Baltimore; tUbm- | mittee on Permanent Organization, W. | Preston Lane, attorney general of Maryland; Credentials Committee, Gil- bert A. Dailey of Baltimore; Commit- | tee to Notify the Presidential Nom- | inee, Herbert R. O'Conor, State's at- torney of Baltimore; Committee to Notify the Vice Presidential Nominee, Mrs. George Heller. Maj. E. Brooke Lee of Silver Spring had prermusly", been sppointed Maryland's member of the Resolutions Committee, which is working on the party platform. i Gov. Ritchie i‘f{ ch;kll’(nsnn :: tlhe delegation, and Mr. Jackson vice | haifman. When the convention be- gins balloting for candidates carly m% the coming week, Gov. Ritchie’s name will be placed before the ceavention | by Senator Tydings of Maryand, and | will be seconded by Richard F. Cleve- land of Baltimore, son & Grover Cleveland. In urging, during & press anference this afternoon, that steps taken to ent an unbalanced Federal budget uture, Gov. Ritchie explained how the Maryland system operates. The State budget, he said. is prepared by the Governor and submitted to the lature, which may eliminate or ice items, but cannot increase them nor add new items. The Legisiature is free to make other appropriations after the budget has been adopted, but such appropriations must carry with them | provision for raising the required reve- nue. The Governor pointed out that, as a result, Maryland’s credit rating is perfect. Advocating Dry Rejeal. Gov. Ritchie is advocating here his ‘well-known position for repeal of the eighteenth amendment, retufning the whole subject of liquor control to_the States, and, ?uld repeal, liberaliza- tion of the ebw’x act to allow light wines and beer. Asked yesterday for his views on the | question of Federal emergency loans, | he said he did not think such loans should be made except for self-liquidat- ing projects and those of a public character. He said any public works needed by the Government ought to be provided for. Questioned regarding the plank on | national representation being urged by the District delegation at the conven- | tion, the Governor sald he was leaving that to Ma). Lee, who made known sev- | eral days ago that he favored giving| the District of Columbia representation in_Congress. | . ‘There is no more enthusiastic group at the convention than the Maryland- | ers, who came here aboard a special train to support Gov. Ritchie and to tell | the world how highly they regard him. | They came armed not only with banners | and pamphlets recounting his record, | but they also brought songs composed | for the occasion, to be sung when his | name is placed before the convention. | In his toor of headquarters this| afternoon Gov. Ritchie stopped at the | Roosevelt camp, where he exchanged | greetings with James A. Farley, in charge of the preconvention campaign of the New York Governor. Mr. Farley previously had called on Mr. Ritchie. | The Maryland Governor then visited | the headquarters of Speaker Garner of ‘Texas, former Gov. Byrd of Virginia, former Senator Reed of Missouri, for- mer Gov. Smith of New York, Gov. William H. Murray of Oklahoma and | Melvin A. Traylor. Gov. Ritchie's popularity in this city, which was strikingly demonstrated by the reception accorded him Friday, when a parade in his honor was saged, is also indicated by the number of Ritchie badges being worn by passersby. The woman members of the Maryland delegation have arranged a tea for 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the Illi- nols Women's Athletic Club, at which Gov. Ritchie will be guestwof hanor. ‘The woman delegates from Maryland are Miss Lavinia Engle of Silver Spring, Mrs. David C. Winbrenner of Frederick, Mrs. C. Baker Clotworthy of Baltimore and Mrs. Charles E. Roach of Bethesda, Mrs. Joseph F. O'Donnell and Mrs. A Abram Moss are among the alternate delegates from Maryland. PROHIBITION LEADERS WEAKEN IN ARKANSAS No Longer }'lghling ‘Vigorously” Against Resubmission—State Long One of Dryest. |ity for the purpose of his nomination | but not a_mafority for the purpose of | | most undegstend the psychology of a| |of the game. PHILIPPINES PORTO RICO CANAL ZONE VIRGIN ISLANDS GRAND TOTAL 54 NEEDED TONOMINATE 770 TITANIG BATILE SEEN AT CHCAGD Smith and Roosevelt Held Closely Matched for Con- vention. | Speclal Dispatch to The Star. | CHICAGO, June 25—This is & titanic battle. Let no one doubt that. By a week from today it will have more | dramatic quality than Schmeling and | Sharkey, and hardly short of as much popular interest as the battle of the Marne. If the reader is to follow it intelligently, he should bear in mind a | small number of fundamental figures | and facts. The total number of delegates is 1,154. A majority is 578. The number neces- sary to nominate the presidential can- didate is two-thirds, or 770. The number that can block a presidential nomination | is one-third, or 385. | Remember next that the presidential nomination is the only thing affected by the two-thirds rule. Every other action, the adoption of rules, the ques- tion of prohibition, the election of chair- men, and all that sort of thing, is decided by a simple majority vote. Aside from the presidential nomination alone, forget about the two-thirds rule. Bear in mind finally one peculiar | condition. The two-thirds rule itself can be abolished by a majority vote. | ‘This fact is going to be vital. If Roose- | velt actually has a majority, and if it | is a dependable majority, which will do | anything needed in his interest, it can, subject to a qualification about to be stated, abolish the two-thirds rule and nominate Roosevelt out of hand. This | latter statement, however, is subject to a qualification. A delegate may be a Roosevelt delegate, sincerely loyal to Roosevelt and yet hesitate to abolish the two-thirds rule. Held Safeguard in South. ‘The two-thirds rule has a hundred years of sentiment, tradition behind it. Some delegates who want Roosevelt to be President might nevertheless balk at the idea of voting to abolish the two- thirds rule. This is a delicate point and will weigh much. The South, where many of Roosevelt's delegates come from, has long regarded the two- thirds rule as an indispensable safe- guard to them. It gives them the pow- er, with a one-third strength, to veto and block a nominee who might, they fear, interfere with the Southern Dem- ocratic election customs designed to guarantee white dominance. A South- ern delegate might be sincerely loyal to Roosevelt, but yet might hesitate to vote to abolish the two-thirds rule in Roose- velt’s interest. They might fear to es- tablish a precedent. The next fundamental question is, how many delegates has Roosevelt? I have said that he has a majority and I am, confident he has at this stage more than a majority. A majority would be | 578. Even Smith partisans admit | Roosevelt has 570, which would be only eight short of a majority. A majority, however, is of no vital use to Roosevelt except in the one respect of getting rid of the two-thirds rule. As I have ex- plained, Roosevelt might have a major- changing the two-thirds rule. Let us now examine what Bismarck called the “imponderables.” Here the Smith faction has rather the better of it. The ablest of the working politicians are on Smith’s side. The men who | convention floor and how to get results | out of it are on Smith’s side. Smith’s | floor manager is Frank Hague, the New Jersey boss. Knows Every Maneuver. Frank Hague knows every maneuver Hague’s assistant floor | managers will include most though not all of the old-time, hard-boiled, sea- soned, salted veterans who have pulled | results out of conventions in 1928, 1924 and 1920. Smith’s managers include | men who know how to manipulate the psychology of delegates into doing | things they never intended. Roosevelt’s floor manager is Arthur Mullen of Nebraska. Mullen is a strong man with just as much experience as the Smith leaders. Mullen in past con- ventions has been a Smith leader. He is an able, dependable person. Mulien, however, is a lawyer of the sure-footed type who likes to think before he acts. That is a fine quality in nearly all sit- | uations in life, but in the turmoil of |a convention floor calling for instan- | taneous decisions, Mullen's sure-footed | BY FLETCHER CHENAULT. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star LITTLE ROCK, Ark., June 25.—Pub- lcity given the Lindbergh kidnaping case and continued racketeering atroci- ties are believed by political leaders to have been instrumental in bringing about a sudden change of sentiment here on the national prohibition laws. Many local prohibition leaders, follow- ing the example of John D. Rockefeller, jr., and William G. McAdoo, have ad- | mitted reluctantly that the ‘noble ex- periment” has not been satisfactory. The elections in South Carclina and Florida reflect the changed attitude in Arkansas, which has been one of the dryest States of a dry South. In view of this evidence of changed sentiment it 1s not likely that Arkansas delegates to the convention will offer much cb- jection to the East's demand for resub- mission. It is certain they will resist, however, any effort to commit the party to repeal of the eighteenth amend- ‘ment. ——— Card Party Is Postponed. A car scheduled to be held d TTuesdsy night in the garden at the headquarters «f tne National Women's by the Government of the party, has bee | quality may be overcome by the quick | psychic hunches of the other type of leader. There is one other imponderable, the relative weight of personality as be- tween Smith and Roosevelt. In this respect Smith has the better of it. Smith has one of the most dynamic, forceful and forthright personalities that has been on the American stage in this generation. To express it in| terms of physics, in a clash between Smith’s momentum and Roosevelt's in- | ertia, or the other way round, Smith | should prevail. There need be hardly| a doubt that Smith is perfectly con- fident that wherever the personalities clash, he will triumph. Between Smith as the irresistible force and Roosevelt es the immovable static, Smith should ordinarily prevail. The Smith managers and partisans, one feels sure, look upon Roosevelt and his partisans and managers as having a little the quality of Boy Scouts or, let us say, of the National Guard as compared with the Regular Army. M. 8. | Traces of Ancient City Found. | A swvey for an airplane service from Berlin to China revealed the { et crkers’ | ancient .city of Hachentse, or Black|and Lawrence, who fou den-lcuy. built 2,000 years ago and now | of 1812, half-| in sand, | tomorrow _ night, Candidates Lead Bands, Play Golf And Swap Stories Murray and McAdoo Take ? Charge of Musicians, | Derby Given Smith, By the Associated Press CHICAGO, June 25.— Democratic candidates and campaign managers found relief from the {)rr‘(‘on\rn!inn strain today in methods all their own— | leading bands, playing golf, swapping | stories. There was a lot of heavy conferring along candidates’ Tow in the Congress Hotel, but some of it turned out to be an exchange of the latest jokes. Sev- eral of the candidates made the rounds to renew acquaintances and pay Te- spects to their friendly rivals. Al Smith was presented with a new derby—gold colored and about half the size of the old brown one. Then he| went out to play golf. Asked how many strokes handicap he was giving his op- ponents, he said, “I get; never give.” Ritchie Poses With Murray. | Gov. Ritchie was asked if he, too, was going to take time off to get in a round | of golf. He replied that de didn't play golf, didn't take any exercise and hadn't for_years. The Maryland Governor, in making | the rounds of the headquarters, stopped in to see the chief executive of Okla- homa—“Alfalfa Bill' Murray. Photog- raphers had them pose shaking hands. “All right,” said Murray, “but re-| member we're only pretending.” “I mean it sincerely,” sald Ritchie. Gov. Murray left the Resolutions Committee hearing to stand on Michi- | an boulevard in the hot sun and wait or the Kiltie Band that came up from | Oklahoma City to ald his campaign Another amateur band leader was Wil- liam G. McAdoo. | Byrd, “Running, Not Flying.” | Gov. Byrd visited the headquarters of all the other candidates. A woman stopped him as he walked up the cor- i dor. “Are you the fiyer?” she asked ex- citedly. “No, that's my brother,” Gov. Byrd answered. | “Oh, I see,” she said. “You're just running, not fiying.” Former Senator Reed went down to | the railroad station to escort the Mis- | souri delegation to its headquarters. ! James A, Farley had a busy day as chief marshal of the Roosevelt forces. He had conferences with several favorite sons and campaign manegers, but said they were only talking about “conven- tion tickets. ROOSEVELT CUTS TRIPTO GET NEWS Goes Back to Albany From Hyde Park for Tiding From Convention. By the Assoclated Press. ALBANY, N. Y., June 25—Cancel- | ing midway a week end holiday at his | Hyde Park home, Gov. Franklin D. | Roosevelt hurried back to Albany to- | night to resume his post at the eastern | end of a private telephone wire, bring- | ing him tidings of his battle at Chicago | for the Democratic presidential nomina- tion. The New York executive had reached his home, 75 miles south of Albany, intending 'to remain there quietly until when he suddenly changed his mind and decided to re- turn to the executive mansion where | the special telephone circuit recently ' was installed. 1 Lack of Facilities. Mr. Roosevelt explained he believed telephone facilities at Hyde Park were | insufficient for his needs. Arriving at the mansion at dinner hour, the Gov- ernor was in contact with his| strategists at Chicago within five minutes after entering his study. | The arrival of the-Governor back at Albany placed him in position to advise directly and immediately with James A. | Farley, leader of the Roosevelt forces n the fleld, on all developments in the | ‘no compromise” fight of the Roose- | velt camp for abrogation of the two- thirds unit rule. | Reports from the convention city that | Farley was pushing ahead, apparently | confident of downing the opposition of Alfred E, Smith to the abrcgation ef- | Tort, produced from the New York Gov- ernor a tightening of the lips, a look of determination—and no public comment The fact that Roosevelt has abided by Farley's decision to toss the rhallengy‘ to the Smith forces at the very outset of the convention was viewed at Albany as reflecting, on the part of the Gov- ernor himself, confidence of a successful outcome. Mr. Roosevelt left Albany this morn- | ing, motored to Hyde Park and re-| mained there for two hours before set- | ting out for Newburgh | | * At Newburgh the Governor dedicated | |a_municipal swimming pool, made pos- | | sible through the endowment of the late | Mrs. Anna Delano Hitch, his aunt. | 2 | HEROES’ NA MES CHOSEN i ‘Thirteen of Pennsylvania’s counties are named for American heroes. | They. are: Montgomery, _Greene, Wayne, Armstrong, Butler, Crawford, Mercer, Warren, Potter, Pike, Perry, | | Sullivan and Lawrence. g With the exception of Pike, Perry | in the War | The others namod ook part in Revolution. | struck and seriously LOUISIANA CONTEST MAY 60 T0 FLOOR Foes of Long Intend to Fight on if They Lose in Committee. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 25—The clamorous floor of the Democratic convention will | probably decide which Louisiana dele- gation shall be seated there. The group headed by Senator Huey Long triumphed temporarily before the Democratic National Committee. Indi- cations tonight were that an appeal would be taken beyond the Credentials Committee, which passes on it next, to the court of last resort—the delegates in convention assembled. Outwardly the issue is between a delegation led by Long, Senator and former Governor, and another by Jared Y. Sanders, also a former Governor. But some Democratic leaders said the question was deeper than that and re- volved on the issue of convention-elected delegates against State Central Com- mittee selected delegates and that the party should decide it. ‘The case could be of the Credentials Committee, which Monday night will take up the Lousiana contest along with others from Min- nesota, Puerto Rico and one district in_Pennsylvania. ‘The Sanders delegation lraders were determined to go to the f-or if they lost before the Credentials Committee as they did before the Democratic Na- ticnal Committee. It entered the Long Central Committee selected delegates on the temporary roll of the conven- tion. . The strength of the Roosevelt or- ganization was thrown behind the Long delegates, but the Sanders forces were working hard to gain some of this | support. Some Indiana and Florida Roosevelt delegates were reported ready to desert the Long ranks for reasons that had no bearing on the presidential nomination. | In the contests from Minnesota, Puerto Rico and the Pennsylvania dis- | trict, it was a clear-cut issue between Roosevelt and anti-Roosevelt delegates. In Louisiana the Sanders delegates | were uninstructed and have not ex pressed a presidential preference. The Long delegates also were uninstructed, but he said they were 100 per cent for Roosevelt. Under the cry of “Stop Huey Long.” | the 50 members of the Sanders Louisi- ana delegation met in caucus tonight and agreed to carry the fight to the convention if they should lose before the Credentials Committee. P R RS DRIVER IS JAILED Bill F. Carson, 23, colored, 700 block of Gresham place, was arrested by sec- ond precinct police on a drunken driv- ing charge last night after his taxicab injured Curtis Heath, 34, also colored, at Seventh and P streets. Heath, who lives in the 100 block of Reeves street, was treated for severe head injuries at Freedmen's Hospital. Carson’s cab, police said, grazed another colored man, slightly hurting him. called up on the | convention floor on & minority report | VRGNS OPPOSE ABOLTIONOF RULE | Delegation Leaders Are Out- spoken Against Dropping Two-Thirds Vote. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, June 25.—Virginia head- quarters at the Democrat National Con- | vention tonight buzzed with discussions | of the proposed abolition of the two- | thirds rule, opposed in statements from delegation leader: “If T am any prophet Virginia will most_ certainly Vote against abrogation | of the rule,” Gov. John Garland Pol- | lard said. “However, I will support the nominee of this convention whether chosen by the two-thirds or majority rule, and if I didn't feel this way I would go home.” Senator Carter Glass, former Gov. Harry F. Byrd and John Stewart Bryan Richmond publisher, were others out- spoken_against any change in the tra- | ditional requirements of a_two-thirds vote for nomination. Mr. Bryan in a | written Statement sald abrogation of the rule “without previous notice to the | delegates will necessarily mean the | destruction of the Democratic party, and the selling of the South into pep- | petual servitude to the Northern and Western States, that have been and will continue to be Republican.” Plans Made for Caucus. Leaders, expecting the remainder of the huge State delegation on_trains_to- night and Sunday, were making plans for a caucus about 8 o'clock Sunday night. Re-election of Gov. Byrd and Mrs, R. C. Watts of Lynchburg as mem- bers of the National Committee, a lection of Senator Glass as Virg member of the Resolutions Committee is expected to be a mere formality. “Several delegates have been men- tioned as probable Virginia members of the Rules Committee, including Gov. Pollard, W. T. Reed of Richmond and Mr. Bryan Senator Glass will present Virginia's viewpoint on matters coming before the Resolutions _Committee for the plat- form. Mr. Byrd does not expect to ap- pear in person. Senator Glass was made a member of the subcommittee |drafting the platform. | Glass Opposes Changing Rule. | Senator Glass, busy with the plat- {form, denounced abolition of the two- thirds rule, asserting he would not vote for nomination of a man who sought to change the rule. Bryan, after asserts ing abrogation of the rule would destroy the party, added: “These conclusions are inevitable, when we consider the two-thirds rule | has since its inception resulted in forc- | ing opposing tendencies in the Demo- cratic party to compromise. Neither wing alone can win, and a divided and disrupted perty 1s lost. Above all at |this time the duty of the Democratic party to America transcends all per- | son “gain or private opinion. To give |a new policy and fresh leaders to a misgoverned people is the demand of the nour. Only the Democratic party can do this. If the Democratic party changes its century-old rule in the middle of the game for any individual candidate’s benefit, that party will carry a heavy handicap into this fight, because mil- lions of Democrats will believe that the nomination was secured by the irregu- iar and high-handed exercise of power coming from the temporary possession of a majority of the delegates, not one of whom has any instruction authoriz- | ing him to take such a revolutionary and desperate step. |SOUTH DAKOTA INDORSES RESUBMiSSION PLANK Voters Stand the Best Which Could Be Taken Under Circumstances. BY ALFRED BURKHOLDER. Special Dispatch to The Star. SIOUX FALLS, S. Dak., June 25— Most of the voters of South Dakota, which was a bone-dry State before national prohibition went into effect, tcok keen interest in the nature of the resubmission plank adopted by the Re- publicans. The plank, as adopted, ap- pears to have met with their approval |as the best that could have been adopted under the circumstances, as no South Dakota prohibitionist of standing in the Republican party has condemned | the plank. As a result, Republican Believe Republican vote will be lost. ‘These leaders say the “bolting” by | | Senator Borzh of President Hoover and 'the platform will make no appreciable difference in the vot X A BANK for the INDIVIDUAL If We Could g Have Second Tlmougllts First We would probably not permit ourselves to get into debt. It takes considerable moral character to live within one's incol it large. me, be it small orbe If you desire to consolidate your debts into one amount, come in our loan officers and and talk to one of we may be able to make you a bank loan which may be re- paid by means of monthly deposits. We make bank loans purpose. for any constructive State leaders are claiming that not a | DRY WOMEN JOKINGLY SUGGEST WET TEST IN EMPIRE STATE Return to Saloon System| Would Prove Hornet, They Agree. New York Is Outside Union | Anyhow, California Leader Remarks. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 25—Several hun- dred women prohibitionists jokingly agreed today to & proposal by Mrs. Henry W. Peabody of Beverly, Mass., that New York be allowed to “prove itself the perfectly model wet State” | to demonstrate to the rest of the States what conditions would be without pro- hibition. Mrs. Peabody made the proposal at a luncheon rally of women drys, sug- gesting that before the rest of the States considered repealing prohibi- tion that all Federal prohibition con-| trol be removed from New York until) 1936 to see how that State fared. | “The trouble lies in New York State | with Nicholas Murray Butler, Mrs.| Charles Sabin and Al Smith,” she said. | & adding that New York was “not in the Union anyhow.” She predicted that New York would be in the position of the little boy Who | 4 wanted—and got—a hornet. She in- sisted, however, she was making “a | perfectly fair offer.” She sent it to a | New York newspaper with the request that it be printed on the front page as the “First Wet Word from My Bone- dry Pen.” Jane Addams Gives Plea. Jane Addams, Nobel prize winner, who spoke 2t the same meeting, made her Hull House background a plea for con- tinuance of prohibition. She stressed | to the National Woman's Democratic Law Enforcement League, which ar- ranged the rally, the need of prohibi- tion for the working people. “I beg of you all to go back to the old temperance lectures, or to frame new ones that are better, to keep the people informed of the evils of alcohol- ism, and to take us out of this queer no man’s land in which the prohibition | movement at present is” said Miss | Addama. | Miss Addams told the several hun- ‘drcd dry women she had never known a settlement or welfare worker who pedple and knew the; y day,” who was wet. “Charity people all say conditions are enormousiy improved by the present arrangement,” she said. | The veteran settlement worker added | that working people are living in a mechanical age and that it was a “dangerous thing to have liquor flow- | ing freely” among people handling ma- | chines. | Prohibition, she said, had never been | really tried out, but “in spite of the | difficulties, in spite of the bootleggini had never brought conditions worse than those of pre-prohibition days. |~ “I recall that in the Grant adminis- tration the whisky ring got into the | cabinet itself,” she said. Denounces Bingham. Mrs. Jesse W. Nicholson of Wash- | Ington, D. C., president of the group, opened her attack upon proposals modify or repeal the eighteenth amend- ment with a statement that “the Re- publican party leaders had crucified President Hoover and nailed him to a wet_plank.” She called the beer parade of the Re- | publican convention * aceful | scene” and denounced United States | Senator lending the prestige of his great office” to it, referring to Senator °d among wcrking r problems day Morris Plan Bank Under Supervision U. S. Treasury 1408 H Street Northwest Capital & Surplus, $250,000 GROSNER’S MRS. HENRY W. PEABODY. Bingham of Connecticut, who led the fight for a repeal plank. Mrs. Nicholson demanded a dry can- didate for the Democratic party. “We Southern women will watch erly to see if the Republican women will be as courageous in 1932 as we were in 1928 when we repudiated our party leadership,” she said. The women unanimously voted to tch a telegram of congratulation blican Senator Borah, saying: “We, the National Woman's Demo- cratic Law Enforcement League, as- sembled in Chicago today, wish to ex- press our appreciation of the fine con- stitutional statement made by you. We are glad you are loyal to the eighteenth amendment. CAROLINA’S INTEREST |CENTERS ON STATE RACES Democratic National Convention to Get Less Attention Than Local Elections. BY ROBERT E. WILLIAMS. Special Dispatch to The Star. RALEIGH, N. C, June 25—Politi- cally-minded people in North Carolina will have their interests sharply divided next_week. Ordinarily, the meeting of | the Democratic- National Convertion in | Chicago_would be of absorbing interest in this Democratic State. Bu. meeting as it does in the final week of the most hotly contested campaigns for the Democratic nominations for Governor and United States Senator the State has ever known, the national conyen- tion will receive far less atizntion here than would otherwise be the case. ‘There is much more uncertainty in the State as to what will happen fin the run-off primary for the United States Senate next Saturday. Sepator Cam- eron Morrison, an_ardent dry, ran 15,000 votes behind Robert R. Reynolds, a mifltant wet, in the first primary on June 4 and both sides have redoubled their efforts for the second primary. J. C. B. Ehringhaus, administration candidate for Governor, had a com- manding lead of 47,000 votes in the first &rimnm But friends of Lieut. Gov. . T. Fountain have taken ¢n new en- ergy and it is generally assumed that to| any magked success by Reynolds would be favorable to Fountain. However, there are too many instances of divided alle ces for the contest to ve & straight line-up of Morrison snd Ehr- inghaus on the one side and Reynolds and Fountain on the other. In fact, each of the four candidates has made a marked effort to keep his campaign ;;pnnhu and distinct from that of any e else. TOWMI’ row ar GROSNER’S B 23 “ZeaSiicnlt AN HARMONY SEEKERS BACK RODSEVELT Delegates From Rural Area Want Quick Nomination to Avert Row. BY MARK SULLIVAN, Special Dispatch to The Star. CHICAGO, June 25.—The ground can be cleared a little by saying that almost no worth-while opinion here believes Smith has any serious chance to win the nomination. There is some such opinion in disinterested quarters, but the amount of it is 5o small as to be almost negligibie. Opinion about Roosevelt's chances is complex. A considerable amount of Jjudgment believes Roosevelt will win Teadily. Practically an equal amount thinks he will be stopped. As between the two, the opinion favoring Roose- velt's success seems to grow. The ded- | gations now arriving include men from | Tural communities and smail towns in |the West and South. These favor | Roosevelt. Even more than they favor Roosevelt, they favor avoiding a row. | They associate the idea of a row with | Smith. Because they wish to avold & | Tow and resent whatever tends toward | & Tow, they feel the best way to avert all that is to nominate Roosevelt and do it quickly. If Roosevelt should be sto by the powers opposed to him, the bulk of judgment here thinks that the most probable heir to success is Newton Baker. Roosevelt's managers have made many mistakes. A serious one was to announce their intention to do away with the rule Tequiring two-thirds to nominate. One would infer today that some of the Roosevelt managers now recognize this to have been a mistake and may back away from it. They are still free to say they did not intend to abolish the rule for this convention, but only for future conventions. That position would :x:éounter comparatively little resist- e. The two-thirds rule is not a rule but a precedent. As such it has been uninterrupted for a hundred years. What may happen on Monday is that the Committee on Rules, dominated by the Roosevelt forces, will make a mo- tion to the effect that the rules of this convention shall be the same as the rules of previous conventions, ex- cept that the presidential nominee shall be chosen by majority vote instead of two-thirds vote. This motion can be carried by a mere majority vote. If the Roosevelt-domi- nated committee makes that motion and stops at that and stands by that there will be a real fight. Roosevelt will have given an opening to his op- ponents, and his opponents are men who know how to make the most of such an opening. Smith and his asso- ciates against Roosevelt are more ca- pable of emotion-rousing oratory and more shrewd and resourceful in parlia- mentary battling. The Roosevelt forces can escape this by saying they merely wish the change to take effect in future conventions. Many Democratic leaders think the two-thirds rule should be abolished, but only in this way through one convention repealing it for future conventions. The same leaders feel sincerely that changing the rule for this convention after the delegates to it have been elected would be a case of changing the rules after the game has begun. ‘The Roosevelt forces claim they have enough delegates added to second-choice delegates to win by the two-thirds rule. In other words, they say they are go= ing to change the rtile, but will re- frain from taking -advantage of the change at this convention. (Copyright, 1932.) 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