The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-24
John F. Curry
 Fights Rule Change
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hold for a few ballots and then try to break 1t.
 Were going to do it on the first ballot" James A. Farley. the hard- hitting Roosevelt manager de- clared.
 We went on record last night and we're going to follow through.
 Have you counted noses?" Far 1 ley was asked.
 "We wouldn't have made this move unless we were sure of our position" he answered. He still in- sisted Roosevelt had 690 to 700 votes nailed down.
 | Are you afraid of any cry of q tainted nomination if you get 1t under the abolition of this rule ?' Farley was asked.
 | No" he answered. The dele- gates have been chosen by the pco- pie and they are entitled to make their own rules.'
 Attempt of the Roosevelt forces to abolish the two-thirds rule was hailed as an admission of failure" by Representative Sam Rayburn of Texas, campaign manager for | oDthhET JOiih ophhth sh esA s~S tack on James A. Farley, Roose- welt manager, for advocating 1t.
 Americans have been bred to believe 1t unfair to change the rules in the middle of the game" l Rayburn declared.
 Tt is with difficulty that can 1 believe that the Roosevelt forces. l after having so frequently and so | Iz, tat nI that Mir RnnaQ- welt would be nominated on the first ballot by two-thirds of the | delegates now admit that they can not do so, and hope. by changing | tho rules to nominate him by d simple majority on the third or | fifth ballots"
 Now the democratic battle against President Hoover and the republican party is destined to be- gin with ranks divided, with bit- terness and dissention, chiefly aris- ing out of the anger from a broken friendship between two of the most popular political figures ever | produced by the state of New York.
 The Roosevelt Smith feud ovcr- shadowed everything else to-day. For once democrats appeared to be united on the anti-prohibition issue. They seemed set to go down the line against the 18th amend | mcnt.
 The platform committee and the i credentials committee were busy with prelminaries to the convcn- ton which opens Monday. Leaders in the victory campaign fund drive planned to meet to consider the condition. of the party exchequer. Over the whole scene was cast the spell of this newest party feud. Nobody can cite any very tangible reason for this bitter break be- tween Roosevelt and Smith. Just four years ago next Monday. the smiling Roosevelt, with halting steps appeared on the platform of the Houston democratic national convention to place his old friend Smith in nomination, It was the third national convention to which he had appealed in behalf of the man he named the happy war rior."
 Smith, in turn, begged Roosevelt to run for governor of New York on his ticket in 1928. 5 Roosevelt was eIcctcu. oHiitH failed to carry his own state Roosevelt consulted Smith seldom If at all over his appointments and policies. He never told Smith tha' he intended to run for president Smith felt that as leader of tho party he should have been consult cd. That. in brief, is the story O the break as told recently to
 United Press correspondent.
 So to-day the Roosevelt forces
 with victory almost, but not quite
 within their grasp. have set out or
 a fateful attempt to overthrow thu
 historic two-thIrds rule.
 They claim. to have 691 votes
 Under the two-thirds rule ITO vote
 would be necessary. Smith conccde
 them 570 votes not counting an!
 at all from New York, Indiana ant
 Minnesota. This is eight vote
 hort of simple majority.
 With m apparently. assured ma
 JorI,y. Roosevelt intends to def, Smith and the ring of fayorite soI