Evening star., 1932-07-27
DEMOCRATIC PLANS
ARE TAKING SHAPE
Chairman Farley to Report
to Gov. Roosevelt With.
in Day or Two.
G. GOULD LINCOLN.

The Democratic campaign is shaping
up rapidly.
Today in Albany, Gov. Franklin D.
Roosevelt, the party nominee for Presi-
dent, has as his guest, Gov. Joseph B.
Ely of Massachusetts,, who placed AL
fred e. Smith in nomination at Chicago
for the presidential nomination. The
meeting is designed to bring harmony
and cooperation between the Roosevelt
forces and those which backed Smith
In the pre-convention campaign.
Within day or two, Gov. Roosevelt
will get first hand from Chairman James
A. Farley Of the Democratic National
Committee a report of Mr.. Farley's
conferences here yesterday with a num-
Der OF Democratic members OF Congress.
The Democrats are planning to con-
centrate their fight for victory largely
in the big industrial States of the East
and in the Middle West.
Furthermore, they will make as much
use as possible Of the prohibition issue
in the big States Of the East and in
New England.
Going 70 Middle west
Mr.. Farley, after his conference here,
announced that sometime after Presi-
dent Hoover's speech accepting the Re
publican presidential nomination on
August II and prior to Gov. Roosevelt's
speech at Seagirt, N. j., on August 27,
the New York Governor would go to
Middle West city to deliver q political
address. Just where the speech would
ha mo hn Caid I,a
later. Speculation placed his speech
probably in Ohio or Indiana, but 1t may
be mace further West.
But 1t Is evident the Democrats are
not going to let the grass grow under
their feet. Senator Pat Harrison of
Mississippi, one of the Democratic big
guns in national campaigns, is to speak
over the radio Friday night, and a little
later Chairman Farley will 60 on the
air and talk politics
Gov. Roosevelt's determination to get
underway with his campaigning at an
early date already has been manifest.
He has behind him his acceptance
speech, which might have been delayed
until next month Now, with two
speeches planned for August, one in
the East, In New Jersey, and the other
In The Middle West, the Democratic
candidate is setting brisk pace.
Against Coast Trip.
Just how much travelling about the
country Gov. Roosevelt is to do Is a
question still to be determined. The
Democratic members Of Congress who
conferred with Mr.. Farley Yesterday
were, in the main, of the opinion that
he should not attempt to cover the
whole country, with a swing to the
Pacific Coast, but that he should make
a number Of speeches at set points and
rely largely upon the radio. Gov.
Roosevelt himself was pictured as de-
string TO do lot OF travelling If it be-
came necessary, with a possible trip to
the coast. Mr.. Farley's own views ap-
peared to coincide with those of the
congressional advisers, who held that
there should be no Pacific Coast trip.
Tne Democrats seem to have lost their
earlier fear that the anti-prohibitton
plank adopted by the national conven-
tion In Chicago would be handicap In
the South. The vote on the prohibition
question in Texas, which showed a pre-
ponderance of the voters wet, was a
contributing factor apparently in the
decision not to attempt to soft pedal
that issue.
At conference with the press late
Yesterday before returning to New York,
Mr.. Farley was asked how much money
the Democrats would need for the cam
paign. His reply was:
I'VE need all the money we can get"
He added, however, that they were
planning a modest campaign.
South for Platform.
Senator Cohen of Georgia, a vice
chairman of the Democratic National
Committee, was asked how the South
would stand in regard to the Demo-
cratic platform pledge of repeal of the
eighteenth amendment
The South will stand on the nation
al platIorm and Tor 1t, and will vote
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