Evening star., 1932-06-20
ROOSEVELT CALLED
RADICAL" BY FOES
ASPARTY GATHERS
Effort to Rally Business Men
Against Him Seen at
Chicago.
FRIENDS THREATEN WAR
ON TWO-THIRDS RULE
Action to Depend on Convention
Suprort-Traylor Urged as Run
ming Mate to Quiet Fears.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN,
STAFF Correspondent OF The Star.

CHICAGO, Ill, June co.-Charges
that Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt Of
New York, leading Democratic candi-
date for the presidential nomination, is
radical and that his nomination and
election would be detrimental 10 busi-
ness, have been widely spread among
business men in Chicago. as they have
in other cities Of the country, by the
anti-Roosevelt propagandists.
AS a consequence there is consider
able opposition to the Roosevelt nomi-
nation in business circles here. The at
tacks on Roosevelt are hooked up, it is
said, with the efforts Of the power and
other interests in New York to defeat
Roosevelt for the Democratic nomina-
ton.
The Roosevelt forces are doing all
they can to dispel the fear on the part
Of busienss interests that the Gov
error, if he bacame President, would be
hostile to business or that his election
would postpone a return to more normal
conditions of business and employment.
1t has been reliably reported that efforts
have been made to obtain Melvin A.
Traylor, president Of one Of Cnicago'S
biggest banks, to take second place en-
the ticket, as an evidence of the fact
that the Roosevelt outfit is favorable to
6uSlenSS.
Smith Out for Repeal.
Al Smith will stand for a plank in
the Democratic platform pledging the
party to straight out repeal Oh the
eighteenth amendment, it was said by
joseph Israel, who opened Smith head
quarters here today.
The Roosevelt forces take the position
it would be wise to vo:e for submission
Of the repeal question and not under
take to commit the party to repeal
much as did the Bingham plank. dis
carded by the G. 0. P convention.
j. Bruce Kremer, Democratic nation
al committeeman from Montana, is the
Roosevelt choice for the important rules
committee of the Democratic National
Committee, James A. Farley said to-
day. Mr. Farley also said that Arthur
F. Mullen of Nebraska who is to be
the Roosevelt f1ooa leader in the con-
vention, will have six to ten assistants
on the floor. picked from various parts
of the country.
With the national convention OPEN
ing one week from today, the opposing
candidates for the presidential nomina-
tlon are already digging in here
withstanGins the claims of Farley.
held marshal for the Roosevelt forces,
that the New York Governor is going
ever the top on the first ballot, there
are prospects of stern battle. Admit
u Srn int ka
tion with a majority of the delegates
back OF him. Unless the two-.h:rds
rule IS abrogated and a majority rule
imposed, Roosevelt must still pick up a
hundred delegates CT more after the
balloting begins.
Farley, who arrived here yesterday.
declined to discuss at this time what
may be done by the Roosevelt forces
regarding the tWo-third rule. The
abrogation Of the rule is threat which
the Roosevelt forces, having a majority
of the delegates, holds over the heads
OF the rest OF the presidential candi-
dates. However it is understood that
the Roosevelt people will not 60 to the
extent OF proposing majority RUE until
and unless it becomes evident that
Roosevelt, although he has a majority
OF the convention with him, cannot OBJ
vain tWo- -tHu Us. rdlley, nlHSelI, insists
that the two-thirds will be obtained by
the New York Governor.
Smith Due Wednesday.
The Roosevelt forces have gone to
New York for a man to make the
nominating speech for Roosevelt and to
Nebraska Tor floor leader in the con-
vention.
Roosevelt's name will be first present.
ed to the convention by John E. Mack
of Poughkeepsie, who nominated the
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