The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-05
KEEPING UP
With
THE NE WIS
BY LUDWELL DENNY


l. mony and rejoicing over with
drawal of Senator Walsh as a can
didate for the Democratic presiden-
tial nomination, along comes Sena-
tor Jim Reed, promising to make
trouble.
Reed is angry. He is inSulted by
this talk Of Smith on the first bal
lot" He thinks he might have
won over Smith in the California
primary if Walsh had stayed out
and not "muddled the waters"
The fighting gentleman from Mis-
souri, wants to tell the world in gen.
eral and the Houston convention
in particular that Smith is not the
Jeffersonian candidate and not the
man to clean up alleged Repub-
lican corruption.
Il entered the contest because I
believe some one representing JEFF
ferSonian Democracy and devoted
to the cleansing of Washington
ought to be willing to undertake
the task. shall go on with the
contest" says Reed.
IF were a general in war I
would not surrender my army be-
cause I had lost a skirmish'
But to the mind of Senator Walsh
this Smith drive is no skirmish. 1t
is the end. After talking with Nc
Adoo, who fought Smith so long
and so hopelessly at last, Walsh
was "impelled by the logic Of
events" to write to his manager.
THE result of the primary of
Tuesday in California quite clearly
dictates that the Democrats desire
Governor Smith as their candidate.
So decisive is it, following like ac-
ton in States that might be ex-
pected to send delegates to the con-
vention out of harmony with his
candidacy that it demonstrates to
my mind the futility of advancing
the claims of any other to party
leadership in the ensuing cam
paign."
Like Reed. Walsh is sincerely op-
posed to Smith-perhaps even more
opposed, because of his desire to
keep a wet out of the White House
such as Smith or Reed
But Walsh is unwilling to split
his party after he believes that
Smith will get the nomination I'M
der any conditions. Though it is
commonly said, even by Smiths
friends, that the Teapot Dome in
quisitor is as deserving of the presi-
dency as any man in the country,
Walsh now recognizes" that the un-
practicable winds Of politics are
blowing for the other man.
In such a predicament Jim Reed
is the kind Of man who spat and
shook his fist at Fate and went on
with his losing fight against the
elements. 1t was so when Reed
stood alone against Woodrow Wilson.
1t will be so at Houston, and long
after, his friends say.
Though Smith supporters now feel
certain their candidate can not lose
the nomination, many of them are
uneasy over the new bitterness
which Reed is bringing into the
campaign. They think perhaps
more care should have been given
to the sensibihties of the vanquished
and rather less to rubbing in"
Smith anticipated victory.
Smith managers now realize, more
than ever, that their big job is to
achieve and maintain that party
harmony, without which Smith will
lose the election.
A FTER the Daughters of Amer
"A lean Revolution controversy over
"blacklisting" liberal speakers, in
which defenders of administration
policy were overwhelmingly vic
toriouS, Washington is hearing "the
other side" from the Women's In
ternational League for Peace and
Freedom.
Under the leadership of Jane
Adams, who is also a D. A. r., the
league passed resolutions:
"Deploring the recent action of
the Senate in sanctioning the
marine occupation Of Nicaragua,
and we reinterate our opposition to
any military intervention.
Urging the State department to
request the Central American coun-
tries to share with us the respon-
sibility of overseeing. Through a
military commission, the COM
ing Nicaraguan election"
Other resolutions favored i'm
mediate "demilitarization of our
Mexican border similar to our
Canadian frontier, and supported
the Burton bill to prohibit export