Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1931-10-29
WASHINGTON
Merry-Go-Round
!. OWEN ID. YOUNG WILL.
I SEEK DEMOCRATIC PRES.
: :IDENTIAL NOMINATION IN.
: 1892. .
BY DAVID WRIGHT

|
Washington. Oct. 2S-Let no
one take seriously Owen D..
Young's protestations that he is
not a candidate for the Democra-
tie nomination for the Presidency.
| He threw his hat into the ring
several months ago when he issued
the traditional manifesto politi-
clans always issue when they go
cunning for office. Mr.. Young
said he was too busy even to think
of politics. When a man says
that, he will bear watching.
Mr.. Young will bear Watching
for several reasons. Three of these
reasons are John J. Raskob, Ber-
nard Baruch and Tammany Hall.
| The chairman of the Democratic
| National Committee and Mr.. Bar
ueh, a liberal contributor to the
party Golfers, think that Young
would make an ideal candidate.
Tammany hasn't any convictions
in the matter, but will trail along
with any promising man who is
opposing Governor Roosevelt.
Raskob would give his eye-teeth
to see his friend Al Smith nomin-
ated again. So would a good
many others, for that matter. But
if the cards are stacked against
Smith next June, Raskob's second
choice is Mr.. Young, according to
the best political dope here in
Washington. Which means that
Young is virtually first choice, for
Smith, it is believed, hasn't the
slightest intention of going after
the nomination if he has to fight
for it.
The way the astute Mr.. Raskob
has figured it out is that the Re-
publican party is falling to pieces.
This, however, is not Johns ex-
elusive opinion. Washington news
paper correspondents, who never
intrude their own opinions, are
saying the same thing. Even writ
ers who contribute their daily stint
of copy to devout Republican news
papers think so, too, but this opin-
ion is only privately expressed.
Mr.. Raskob may have been a
greenhorn in the political game
when he resigned the vice-presi-
dency of General Motors Corpora
tion in 1928 to take the chairman
ship of the Democratic National
Committee, but he is thoroughly
dry behind the ears now, and is
able to find his way around with
out a guide. His faith in Big Busi-
ness is strong. It's tenets are his
credo. 1t will take more than the
present depression to shake his
conviction that Big Business is the
only arbiter of the peoples des-
tiny. That is why he wants to see
d. Young nominated.
have it on good authority that,
aside from his own desires, Raskob
thinks that Young's name will car
ry tremendous weight with Wall
Street and attract powerful sup
port from one end of the industrial
East to the other. Raskob and his
friends figure that if the Demo-
Gratis nominate Young the jig will
be up for Mister Hoover.
A Quiet campaign has been un-
der way for Young ever since
last spring. Long before Congress
adjourned, reports were persistent
that the Southerners were being
rounded up for him. Senators Joe
Robinson of Arkansas and Pat
Harrison of Mississippi were re-
ported to have hoped baord the
Young bandwagon when the round
up started. The plan is now, I am
told, to give Robinsoa second place
on the ticket again.
To the uninitiated it would look
as though Mr.. Raskob will get the
candidate he wants. But my guess
is that before the June pow-wow
Raskob will find that he made a
Wild choice when he picked Young
as the ideal candidate for the
Democrats. Any Southerner who
may have pledged to Young will
be scurrying to cover long before
John raps the convention to order.
When the South and West learn
the real facts behind Mr.. Young's
candidacy, he won't even be able
to get to first base with the con-
vention delegates. The second
Young plan will fail just as the
first one did. Long before the del
egates convene they will have been
told how Owen D. Young organ
lied Radio Corporation of Amer
lea, the aspiring monopoly that is
trying to seize control of radio
broadcasting in America. They
will have been told, also, that Gen
eral Electric, in which Mr.. Young
is high official, is the pivotal or
ganization that controls the vot-
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