Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-11-11

Documentary evidence is in posses
sion of this observer indicating that,
however optimistic Il don't-concede-a-
State" Jim Farley was. many Of the
most important Democratic State lead
ers were completely unprepared for the
devastating dimensions of the Rose
welt landslide. On October Is a New
York Democrat wrote Il am not as
optimistic as Farley and his crew.
give Roosevelt approximately 300
electoral votes. would not bet that
the Governor will carry the State OF
New York, with Hoover having little
BIT of the edge" Roosevelt carried
New York by $4,000 From neighbor-
ing New Jersey one of the foremost
Democrats in the State opined on
October %: The drift was undoubtedly
Rcosevelt's way until Al Smith made
his damphool speech at Newark. Nor
mally. Jersey is Republican by better
than 100000 This year, because Of
depression and lack of enthusiasm for
Hoover. the thing was toSs-up. Then
came AL, and my guess now would be
that Hoover will carry New Jersey.
Roosevelt carried New Jersey by so 400
One of the outstanding Democrats of
Indiana thought on October % that
the trend toward Gov. Roosevelt has
been reversed. l believe. nevertheless,
thai Gov. Roosevelt Will win the State.
and shall be surprised if his margin
falls below $4,000" Roosevelt carried
Indiana by $4,000. An Illinois Demo-
crat of national renOWn said on october
LII 30 he lNr
guess of so-called better informed poll
ticians that Roosevelt will capture
Illinois. my own opinion is now that
there will be rather close contest in
the State" Roosevelt carried Illinois
by $4,000.
Not long before election a man who
was at Harvard with President ELECT
Roosevelt and knows MIN well enough
still to call him Frank" called the
Governor on the telephone and told
him candidly that he and lot of other
fellows, otherwise friendly. were re-
luctant to vote the Democratic ticket
because of the radicals" who were
swarming to its support. Roosevelt
made a significant reply. We'll, Tom
Cthat not being his name). the Governor
said. lust say to your crowd that they
OUGHT to feel it's darned lucky that a
bird like me is running" The impli-
cation that seemed to lie in the Gov
ernors remark is that while some ether
Democrat in his place might have sue
cumbed to the WhimS and snareS OF the
Huev Longs, the George Norrlses, the
Burton Wheelers ct al. he-FrankLn
Delano ACKNOWLEDGMENT dream OF 90
ing so.
Rig business and high finance, eSpe-
ciallv the public utilities. Will Watch tne
President-elect's selection of his At
tornev General as the first acid test OF
the new Administrations policy. II the
Denartment of Justice portfolio goes to
a LAWYER like Senator Tom Walsh OF
senator Burton Wheeler. both of Mon
tsna the interests" will shiver in thelr
corporate boots If Jim Reed Of Mis-
souri, becomes A. G.. their spines Will
run almost, though not quite. as cold
Gov Ritchie of Maryland, widely re-
nuted to be out in front for the lega
most in the cabinet, would be regarded
with favor by the Nations commercial
and industrial elements. They woulc
look with vastly greater dlspleasure
upon Prof Felix Frankfurter OF the
Harvard Law School, who is being per-
sistently mentioned for the attorney
peneralship. Frankfurter espoused the
cause of Sacco and Vanzettl. but Gov
Ely of Massachusetts, recently Offered
him a place on the Bay State Supreme
Court bench and former United State!
Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell
Holmes warmly approved the appoint
ment. Frankfurter declined 1t.
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The sooner Washington and the
country read I'D on Col. Louis McHenrI
Howe of New York the better they'll bt
prepared to size up the incoming adj
nlinistration and pyscho-analyze it!
! major moves IN the opening passage
OF his very first pos.-election utteranc'