Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-11
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC RlLLIAM RILE.

There ISN'T 'H1s inner Of q neces-
Slty 1or the ProgresS in conclave at
washington this W to form a third
party. Tney alreaare one. They
may not nominate Republican for
President and Demq for Vice Pres
ident IN 1882, or VERSA, as they did
when they put pa toilette and
Wheeler in 1924, c oVrwise enter the
presidential lists aga Long before
next years campignae Progressive
third party will b . u in being, If
not In name It viii r the roost on
Capitol Hill. BY us an only can
legislation be enacted. nus the ex-
elusive stress which Sesors Norris,
Wheeler, La Toilette, CHs and COST
gan lay upon the folation Of a pro-
gram for considerably the incoming
Seventy-second Cong. 1t is these
gentlemen and their patetic Repub-
iican and Democrsti5lies in House
and Senate who will a definite and
decisive balance Of pd.
4 y \
In the Senate thsyIy temporarily
20 Republican for hearpose Of per-
petuating their presnAvish share of
committee chairmantiplums (Borah,
Foreign Relations; Nds, Judiciary;
Nye, Public Lands; oens, Interstate
Commerce; Norbeck, 3ating and Cur
rency; Howell, Claim bhnson, Com
merce; Frazier, India fairs; La Fol-
lette, Manufactures, ah Shipstead,
Printing!. But on recas the Repub-
lican Progressives wifhetG. o. P.-ism
and 20 Norris. In e huse it may
be young Mr.. Kvalesarnr Labor, OF
Minnesota, who'll cashe ociding vote
on orRaniza ton. Lat on Wisconsin,
10 Progressives are ing b pipe the
tune in a chamber most 9ially di-
yided between Repubans al Demo-
Gratis. These iron fac bye in mind
Senator Norris assuranceAt the Pro-
Qressive council of war ht called to
beoueath TO the Nation kboon Of a
new party becomes crystatear. Why
take the trouble to oAize what
already Is?
The stage managers 4 Progress.
siye convention are irld Ar beyond
anything they are reat ttedmit by
the conspicuous absencef thive Gov
errors they invited Wilmington
Roosevelt of New YeS, Pkhot OF
Pennsylvania, La Follee OF Wconsin
Olson of Minnesota an Meier1 Ore
gon all developed Rvious .egage-
ments. The fact that Iost OF tlState
executives at the mornt have egis-
latures on their hand was the asor
generally assigned for1e gubernSoria
boycott Of the ProgresAe poWs6w. In
at least two cases-C1sf. of Cows
Roosevelt and Pinchot-Ae causes
were the actual determinal. -he New
Yorker isn't doing anythik Twadays
that can remotely jeopardizeis hances
for the Democratic presidetias nom.
nation. As for the shiftys ndSifteo
Clifford, he has by no mearnperA dec
himself that the regular aeputcar
nomination next year maj not Eor
into the lap Of a 100 perkent IT.
power, anti-booSe Progresse ofNt
kidney.
washington newspaper men Gfc
grieved over the physical MISE Of
one of their oldest friends, latel A
Mcdowell, veteran servitor attn Ma.
tional Press Club. Mac" nlN q
couple Of months ago and lana ir
Freedmen's Hospital. The chaeeshat
he can ever resume work are WY b
| der. Nobody knows Just how o. NJ
is. He must be close to 30. it'll 4!
Winter he was on duty at ne CT
erect and spry and verbose as Ter, ",
his ninble wit and passion for
words unwithered. McDowellhas h
distinguished career. Besid clail
ing to be one of the rnillionor me-
darkeys who at one time or d1er III
Storewall Jackson's horse, h was
! years butler to Gen. NelsonA. Mil
Before that he was private sSva'vdi
the yacht Of Samuel j. Tilden ati 4
ccmpanied the celebrated New vi
Democrat on O cruise to England. Nh
the Press Club four years ago toy
into its own building Mac" walp-
NOTED from a waiter to doorman. r
more genial souls than his tia
bodies of any color.
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Now that the State Departnel
reviewing the state Of our relations
Soviet Russia, the new book of Al
ica'S foremost authority On the @
munistic regime, the Rev. EdmunC
Walsh, 8. j., Of Georgetown UniveE
% Of timeliest interest. It 10 called