The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-23
NEA Service Writer


 Washington.-At Chicago in
 June there will be many redhot nominating speeches and various
 noisy parades around the conven- tion hall, allegedly for the presi- dential candidates of various gov- ernors, senators and perhaps other public officials.
 But the ballyhoo will in reality be designed to promote the vice presidential aspirations of those gents and nobody will be fooled about that. After the presidential candi- dates are nominated the vice presi- dential possibilities will have their innings without any camouflage, but with the benefit of whatever impression they may have been abolt to make while shadow-box- ing for first place.
 Charlie q Good Bet
 Inasmuch as the presidential nomination oc tic republican party is certainly sewed up by MT Hoover and the democratic nomin- ation is, according to most or the present dope. likely to go to Gov ernor Roosevelt on the first or sec | OuQ luc IIldtlCl OA mates for those two may offer the | delegates their only good chance for real vote fight such as IS traditionally associated with po- litical conventions at their best. 1 Even that, however, assumes that the movement to scrap Vice President Charlie Curtis gets somewhere among the republi- cans, The chances now seem to be that Charlie will be renominated without struggle. Not because there is any violent enthusiasm about that renomina- | ton. There is, in fact, wide spread feeling among the more practical republicans that a younger, more vigorous person with greater ability as a spell I binder would be useful to the 1882 ticket. Curtis, after all, is 72 years old. He can't be expected to rouse many rabbles this year. Since a president doesn't do much person. al reelection campaigning. it's -al- | ways a good idea for him to have a running mate who can do the
 transforming.
 Pat Hurley a Prospect
 Other possibilities are Secretary of War Pat Hurley. Lately Post master General Walter Brown. once often mentioned. has seemed to
 fade from that picture and Cover. nor Theodore Roosevelt would hardly be recalled from the Philip pines. Hurley says he doesn't | x,;<a ,vacidonn Q1fhnnOh his actions and speeches had led
 us to think that was what he was after. Perhaps he has just been
 campaigning for his own/ job, which hangs on Hoover's return. Anyway, the present belief Is that Hoover won't throw Curtis overheard, partly because it would seem ruthless, party because Cur | tis is still popular enough in Kan sas to make loss of that state more likely if he were discarded. Also, whetehr important or not, it is reported that Mrs Dolly Gam, the Curtis official hostess, who goes around making speeches which say the depression is over, | is proving popular with republican
 audiences.
 Barkley's Chances
 The democratic party seems overloaded with vice presidential possibilities, including some who own states on the first ballot for first place and other "favcrite sons'' who have bowed themselves out, with or without declarations for Roosevelt.
 Except in the case of an un- likely compromise deal, the Roose- kvelt forces win nominate one of their own men for vice president in case they control everything.