Evening star., 1932-12-26
Refuses TO Reconsider.

10 the pleading State chairman who
wanted his State made a stopping point
and to the local politician who insisted
that success or failure depended on a
speech in this place or the other. the
Governor turned smiling refusal to
reconsider his first decisions
Even the car which was going to be
used by the nominee was selected un-
der the Governors instructions and en-
bodied exactly his ideas as the best type
Of car for presidential nominee tc
travel in as result of his experience
on his own trip when he was a vice
presidential nominee himself A room
holding eight or 10 in the rear of the
car, which. of course was the rear cal
of the train; a few staterooms for the
members of his family, including his
eldest son James. who made a most ef-
f1cient pinch hitter for unexpected
speeches from the rear platform of the
who accompanied him or Joined hin
from time to time. in between, and 6
larger room at the other end of the cal
where visiting delegations at way sta
tions were received and brought in ir
small groups. to talk things over With
him. made almost an ideal arrange
merit
oped was the inadequacy OF the real
room to receive all Of the newspaper
correspondents, who came in far greater
numbers than anticipated. On his sec
ond trip this difficulty was got arounc
by having groups from the press. vary
ing from day to day, brought in with
the understanding that anything the
Governor said was to be repeated tc
;v,y,, IAi
have compared the Governors train
to Columbus caravel. but there was
one tremendously important difference
When the land disappeared over the
horizon Columbus was cut off from al
knowledge of what was going on in the
world. The. most elaborate arrange
ments were made. however. to keep the
Governors train in constant touch
through national headquarters with the
latest political news developments al
over the country.
Called Every Morning.
At every stop Of the train of over 10
minutes, from 9 o'clock in the morning
until 2 or o'clock the next morning
sometimes, 1t was part Of Mr.. McIn-
tyres duties to get in immediate touch
by longdistance telephone with Ma
it was our duty to have our notes
ready so as to be able to tell him al
that had aadap mere spes his last sa to
him, generally by airplane mail. 20 Oh
80 pages of abstracts from editorials
on political news from the daily press
as well as editorial opinion on matters
political from practically every news
paper in the United States. In this
way Gov. Roosevelt probably was the
best informed nominee who ever cut
loose from headquarters and toured the
country.
In addition, the policy of continually
shifting advisers was carried out on the
train as well as at headquarters. Some
times local national committeeman
sometimes nominees for Senator. some
times the local Senators, when they
happened to be Democrats themselves
and almost always the State chairmen
and other recognized political powers
were invited to join the train, very
was reached, and accompanied the Gov
ernor until the borders Of their ball
wicks were crossed.
of ignorance, such as is generally
thought to have ruined the chances o1
more than one nominee through mis-
understanding of local situations or OF
local sentiment. Every night, very often
until l and 2 o'clock, these advisers
would 90 over the latest development.
in their territory with the Governor
and more than one local committeeman
upon boarding the train the next day
was surprised at the Governors accu.
rate knowledge Of local conditions ano
local political leaders.
In addition, Prof. Moley and several