Evening star., 1932-07-06

This years presidential contest, as
far as actual waging Of the campaign Is
concerned, is going to be tussle be-
tween relatively young men. Both
Everett Sanders, Republican national
chairman. and James A. Farley, his
Democratic opposite, are at about the
half f-century mark. Farley is perhaps
couple of years the Junior Of Sanders.
Each of them Is in his fighting prime.
The pitching of main Republican head
quarters in the West-at Chicago-and
the certainty that the Democratic cam
paign will be conducted from the East
in New York-are significant circum-
stances. Roosevelt's strength is chiefly
western; hence, the G. o. P. has to con-
centrate its attack in that region.
Hoover is regarded most formidable In
the North and East; hence the Demo-
Gratis must battle hardest there, par
ticularly in States like Massachusetts,
Rhode Island. Connecticut New Jersey
New York and Pennsylvania, which &C
cepted Gov. RooveSelt's nomination
half-heartedly.
~
Democratic members of Congress and
! newspaper correspondents drifting back
to Washington from the Roosevelt con-
vention at Chicago are holding AM
mated post-mortems on 1t. Pre-eml-
nent in their morning-atter Specula-
tions and ruminations is Whetner the
terrific licking the Smith anti-Roose-
welt group took is going to ramIy INTO
the campaign and knock all prospects
of harmony into a cooked nat. FoI
the moment Gov. RooseveltS enortS
are being concentrated on pacuylhg
Tammany. His Fourth OF July teIe-
gram to the Tiger was bid NO. IN tnat
direction. His repeated references 70
INV very old friend, John F. BOSS
| Curry" are little movements that nave
| a meaning of their own. Not until the
Mayor Jimmy Walker incident is dis
posed of, and until the outside world
| hears of a heart-to-heart reconcllatlon
| between Gov. Roosevelt and Al Smith,
will there be any public assurance that
Manhattan Islands al-essential sup
port of the Democratic ticket may be
relied upon.
It's been long time since the Amer
| ican public in a national political cam
paien has experienced the twisting OF
! the British lions tail for partisan pur-
! poses. Gov. Roosevelt has resumed the
ancient and one-time potent practice
! In his independence day greeting to
! Tammany Hall, the Democratic presl-
| Dental nominee compared the miSdeeds
of the present Republican government
of the country to the arrogance" of the
British in their dealings with the Colo
| MES in l776. To q man up tree that
looks suspiciously like a Roosevelt bid
| for the New York Irish vote on the
good old-fashioned lines.
al Tor y1Attrb raIioTCp
on what happens in Maine in Septem-
| ber. At least, the Nation is warned
| against doing so by Prof. Claude E
Robinson of Columbia University. In
forthcoming volume entitled STRAW
Votes, a study of Political Prediction,
Prof. Robinson plans 10 upset the ira
ditional dictum that "as Maine goes, sc
goes the Union" AS the result OF eX-
! haustive analysis, Prof Robinson comes
| TO three major conclusions: CD That
| the Maine election initially gained
barometic authority from combina-
ton Of historical circumstances and moi
| through scientific observation that the
country voted as did Maine; 90 thai
political leaders have exploited the ole
slogan for "propagandistic usage" ano
thereby conserved its popularity, anc
(3) that the Maine election is not "a
sensitive indicator Of national politica
trends and offers no practical fore
casting help that cannot be had by thu
use of simpler techniques. In the ligh
Of these findings Prof. Robinson de.
elares, "the September returns from
Maine cannot be seriously regarded a!
an omen of the national November
outcome"
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-Four Capitol Hill men from Washing
ton-Col Edwin A. Halsey, secretar!
to the Democratic Senate minority
James D. Preston, Senate librarian: Bill
Collins, superintendent Of the Senat