The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-04
NEA Service writer

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 Washington = This report that President Hoover wants Governor Theodore Roosevelt to run with him on the republican ticket in the 1882 campaign takes on a quaintly cock eyed aspect the more you think of 1t. l But 1t does suggest the amusing possibility of a Governor Roosevelt on the republican ticket and a Gov ernor Roosevelt on the democratic ticket.
 And if a Hoover-Roosevelt ticket were elected and MT Hoover were to get sick and tired enough of his job to quit, there would be a Theo- dore Roosevelt again president of the United States, stepping in from the vice presidency.
 That Third Term Issue. And then who could be sure that Theodore Roosevelt wouldn't be elected in 1936 to succeed himself and then run again in 1940 or 1944. thereby raising again the third term" issue which was used against his father in 1912?
 Theodore Roosevelt also a son nam ed Theodore? We'll, never mind that, but the original Theodore was first elected vice president and Gov ernor Franklin o. Roosevelt of New York was democratic candidate for the job in 1920.
 It's hard to stop musing on the possibility that this T. R. might be the republican vice presidential can- didate. The republicans have their convention first and wouldn't 1t seem as If the democrats were just a bunch of copycats if they came along and nominated another Roose- welt? Anyway. one can just hear all through the campaign, which would be about as good a talking point as political party usually has. And all of us, to keep our Roose- velts straight, would have to be calling them nothing but Teddy and Frank" for months. Also, what a fine somersault the present poIiti- cal dope would take if Teddy" got a nomination and Frank" got none!
 Would Puzzle Democrats. | Certainly lot of democrats would get all mixed up and wor-
 ried if they had to nominate a
 Roosevelt after the republicans had
 nominated one some would be bound
 to feel that the party was being ser iously handicapped.
 But there is at least one definite point that can be made from the rumor itself-a rumor current here which says Hoover went to Porto Rico partly to call national atten-
 tion to Roosevelt in order to test
 the country's reaction to him as a
 vice presidential possibility. l The point is that Young Teddy" finally and concededly, has begun to amount to something. Which is
 more than most people ever expected
 after observing his early attempts. ! There was a very widespread
 opinion that the young man would | never resemble his famous father in
 anything but name and carefully
 cultivated mannerisms. that he had
 been unimpressive as New York gubernatorial candidate and flame duck" assistant secretary of the navy and that he was being unloaded on the poor Porto Ricans so as to still the demand of his friends and his
 devoted sister. Alice Longworth. that
 he be given a far bigger and better
 job.
 Porto Ricans Like Him. | All available reports are that
 Roosevelt has been doing fine job as an insular administrator. Corre-
 spondents who went with Hoover say so. Critical students who have
 spent some time in Porto Rico say so. Most impressively of all, the
 Porto Ricans say the same thing. l In very short time. it appears. the new governor got to know the
 problems of the island through inti-
 mate contact with the people. He
 began at once to learn Spanish and