The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-07-21
News and Comment
By CHARLES F. SCOTT

FGFlLdDle young AOcHlHVdF came OUT
of the west, projected himself upon a
distracted Democratic convention and
with his dramatic "You shall not cru
city mankind upon this cross Of gold;
you shall not press down upon the
brow of labor this crown of thorns,"
nominated himself for the presidency,
the Democratic party has not expert
enced such an upset, such complete
transferrence of ideas and leadership
as happened to it when Franklin D.
Roosevelt was nominated as its can
didate for president at Chicago one
day in the very recent past.
Bryan made the Democratic party
radical and kept it that way for six
teen housekeeping it out of power
just that long.
Roosevelt again has made the DEM
ocratic party radical. Will he keep it
cut of power as long as Bryan did?
Bryan was western man and Mr..
Roosevelt is a man of the east. And
yet the forces which nominated Roose-
welt were as distinctly sectional, the
south and west against the east, as
were the forces that nominated Bryan.
In the east, Roosevelt was backed by
but one small state-New Hampshire
which can not conceivably be carried
by any Democrat at the election.
Maine, Vermont and part of Penn
sylvania were his in the convention, it
is true, but they will not be his in the
election. He owes his nomination ex-
clusively to the south and the west.
He is as much a candidate of those sec
lions as Bryan was. And he will have
the antagonism of the conservative
eastern states just as distinctly as
Bryan had it.
And what a crowd of faces that
have been familiar these past twenty
years will fade out of the picture with
the coming of Roosevelt! Smith,
Shouse, Raskob, Melvin Traylor, New
ton D. Baker, James M. Cox, Robert
Buckley, Governor Richie, Governor
Byrd, Senator Glass, Bernard Baruch,
John W. Davis, Owen D. Young,
James A. Reed, David /. Walsh, JOS
eph T. Robinson-all these and others
like them who have been formulating
Democratic policies and managing
Democratic policies for the past two
decades, all these go into the discahr,
and onto the screen to take their
places will be seen such figures as
Wheeler of Montana, who bolted the
Democratic party in 1924 to run as a
candidate for vice president with Rob-
ert M. LaFollette; Dill of Washington;
Huey Long of Louisiana; Norris of
Nebraska; LaFollette, Blaine, Nye and
a half dozen other radicals in the
northwest. 1t is certainly picture
vastly different from what Democrats
expected year ago to look upon at
this time. A year ago statements and
interviews were emanating from DEM
ocratic headquarters in a constant
stream, speeches were being made by
conspicuous party leaders, all an
nouncing the purpose of the democra-
cy so to conduct the party as to in
spire confidence in the business and
financial interests and in the minds of
thoughtful people generally. Today
the whole scene is changed. The radi-
Gals have taken control, the crusade
against "Big Business" has started,
the campaign is to be made around
"the forgotten mainland we shall see
what we shall see.
Franklin D. Roosevelt is not a son
or nephew or even cousin of Theo
dore Roosevelt, although he has been
rated as one or the other of these in
Vulnerable times. The truth is that
this Roosevelt and the former Presi-
dent were about fifth cousins, going
back to somewhere along 1914 to find
a common ancestor. Inheriting fair
fortune, Franklin D. Roosevelt was af-
forded all the advantages of culture
and education which the son of a we'll
TODD New York family should re-
ceive. He is without doubt a cult
waited, clean, honorable gentleman.
The fight that will be made against
him will be upon the ground that
he lacks the qualities absolutely vital
to the presidency in such a time as
this. Frank Kent, the distinguished
political analyst, himself Democrat,
wrote to his paper, the Baltimore Sun,
from the convection at Chicago that
the opposition to him there was due
solely to the "deep seated conviction
among the better grade party leaders
that he does not measure up to the
presidency, that his nomination would
be party disaster and his election a
national calamity" His opponents in