Evening Star Newspaper, May 13, 1940, Page 27

McNary Seen Cabinet Timber In Event of G. O Believes Farmer Vote All-Important In 1940 Campaign By WALTER M. HARRISON. Perhaps the height of folly is gpeculation about the members of the cabineét in the event of the Republicans winning in November. It would be easy to name at least three. The first three would be “Charley Mac,” sad-eyed, sagacious | Senator Charles L. McNary of Oregon. More than any other man in the upper house, the brilliant, crafty, silent-working leader of the minor- ity is entitled to the credit for shrewd strategy that has kept the Republicans workirg as a team and with greater and greater effective- ness, since Franklin D. Roosevelt took over in 1933. If and when the G. O. P. returns to the top of the heap, the leadership and loyal serv- ice of the pink-cheeked, 65-year-old Senator from the Far West will be rewarded. Calls Himself a Farmer. \ In spite of the fact that “Charley Mac” is an able lawyer and a for- mer dean of Williamette University, where he took his law degree after Leland Stanford, he identifies him- self as a farmer, spends all of his time when in the home State on a 200-acre place where he grew up, loves to graft varieties of fruit to| make new hybri is the developer of the Imperial prune, grows and markets cherries, pears and nuts. Every one knows him as the father of the McNary-Haugen bill, | P.Victory SENATOR McNARY. | McNary's 23 years of service in the | | Senate that he ought to be Presi-| dent. He doesn't swallow all Repub- | lican dictum, nor fulminate against New Deal dogma, just because it | has the opposition party label. He | is called to the White House more than any other member of the mi- nority and he is as popular as Senator Vandenberg in the Senate; some say he is more popular. My guess is that it is Senator McNary's zeal for the party and | indifference about his own per: 'sona; future, his immunity to the presi- dential bug that give him such cqmplcle and wholly trusting sup- | | which for the first time tried to |port among the G. O. P. He knows | apply the principles of the protec- | how a man’s usefulness is 1mpa|redl tive tariff to agriculture. Two Con- gresses passed the measure, which protected the domestic market for | the farmer. Two Republican Presi- | dents, Coolidge and Hoover, vetoed it. Many elements of the original McNary program may be seen,| slightly disguised, in the New Deal's parity payments plan. Senator Mc- Nary thinks the farm vote is going to be all-important, believes that | the essence of the old McNary- Haugen plan is sound for the cam- paign of 1940. Interest in Migrants. Washington is acquiring a fervid | interest in the migrant problem. | ‘The dust bowl, the migration of the | “okies,” the wails that came out of California and the Pulitzer Prize book, “The Grapes of Wrath,” built up a fire in the agricultural section which is jelling today in demands | for congressional investigation and | immediate action. Secretary Wal- | lace is working at it. One of his sub-departments is studying every | angle of the causes behind the drift of 11 per cent of the agricultural population of America. Senator McNary is not excited about the migrant situation. He be- lieves it is overemphasized and overplayed. He sees no immediate solution, vet favors development by reclamation, the getting of water to erid lands, the settlement on small tracts, with long amortizations at low rates of interest that can be worked out. Two causes of the migrant prob- lem, often underplayed. are un- derscored by Senator McNary in conversation. The passing of the last frontier and the normal lag of 8 depression period have aggravated a natural condition, in his judg- ment. | At Sea on Campaign Issues, } Visiting with him just after the brilliant young Governor of Minne- sota, Harold Stassen, had been in to | get some help on his keynote speech | for the Philadelphia convention, I was impressed by Senator McNary's frank admission that he was largely at sea as to the principal issues of the impending campaign. He sees @ drive to capitalize the opposition to the reciprocal trade treaties in the West, the attack on unemploy- ment in the industrial East, the ! farm policy is a cinch: but nothing is certain except the tragic uncer- | tainty caused by the situation m‘ Europe. Senator McNary says the events of ® day may change the whole picture, move war into the canvas as the major issue, shutting out every do- mestic policy. He sees the third- term issue as capable of producing | one of the most bitter campaigns in history. Naturally he is too high up in the ranks of the Mr. Bigs to be out for any single individual for the Republican nomination. He wants party success, which means he will be for the man at Phila- delphia who seems to be the right‘ | when he is bitten by the presidential bug. He does not claim to be a poet, but one day in the Senate dining-room, when the late Senator James Couzens of Michigan, his boon companion, offered to launch a campaign for him, Senator Mc- Nary dashed this off: “The presidential bee is a deadly | bug. I've seen it work on others. | Oh Lord, protect me from its hug, And let it sting my brothers.” There is no indication that he has recanted. (Released by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) Price ON MANHATTAN’S DE LUXE Hand-Finished Laundry Service Now Dul ] For 9 ibs. COLLECTED THURS. or FRI. Here's a real barvzain! Manhat- tan’s Hand Finished Laundry THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. 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