Evening star., 1932-06-21
Seek to Agree
ON a Single
Opponent.
HOPES
HAMPER MOVE
Each Sees Self as
Heir to Backers
of Governor.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN,
STAFF CORRESPONDENT OF The Star.

CHICAGO, June 21.-An effort
will be made to get the field" op-
posing Gov. Roosevelt Of New York
for the Democratic presidential
nomination into a conference here
Friday to determine on a candi-
date whom the Roosevelt opposi-
tion can center on, it was learned
today.
The weakness of the Roosevelt
opposition has been that it is
divided into eight or nine separate
camps, the Smith camp, the Gar
ner camp, the White camp, the
Ritchie camp, etc.
Seek One Candidate.
The purpose of the proposed
conference will be to seek some
one man on whom the opposing
forces can agree if Roosevelt is
stopped" on the first ballot or
two. The friends of Melvin A.
Traylor, Chicago banker, are said
to be engineering the conference.
The difficulty, however. will be to
bring those candidates who are really
bona fide candidates for the nomination
and not in the picture merely as stop
Roosevelt" men into line. Each one Of
them may believe that he should be
the choice of the anti Roosevelt alliance
1t seems inevitable, however. that
sooner or later the anti Roosevelt Demo-
Gratis will have to face this situation
If they are to make any headway at all
They cannot beat the New Yorker with
a scattering of candidates There must
be one to whom the entire opposition
can rally. Possibly Newton D. Baker
of Ohio. who has been in the back
ground, or Traylor himself.
Raskob Reaches Chicago.
Chairman Raskcb, who rolled into
Chicago early.today to take charge Of
the national headquarters, in his first
interview with the press declared:
That prohibition is the most impor-
tant issue in the coming campaign, So
cially and economically
That the Democrats in convention
will decide on their prohibition plank
and that it will not be settled by a
small group in a smoke-filled room.
That Jouett Shouse. executive chair
man Of the Democratic National Com
mittee, will be elected permanent chair
man Of the Democratic National Con-
vention.
Sees BEST" Chances.
That the Democrats have the best
since the Civil War
That there will be no abrogation Of
the two-thirds rule for nominating can
didates for President and Vice President
at this convention.
That he himself has no choice for
the presidential nomination and that
he has not worked for the nomination
Of any candidate.
Celebrating on these propositions Mr..
Raskob declared that to do ether than
elect Mr.. Shouse permanent chairman
OF the national convention would be to
lose respect for the Democratic Ma
tional Committee and the Subcommittee
en- Arrangements for the convention.
He said that the Committee on Ar
rangements had definitely recommended
the election of Senator Barkley of Ken
lucky for temporary chairman and of
Mr.. Shouse for permanent chairman.
Pins Hope in Program.
Notwithstanding the fact that James
M. Farley, field marshal of the Roose-
welt forces, has repeatedly stated that
they would not permit the election of
5house, alleging that Shouse and Raskob
have been inimical to the cause Of
Roosevelt and his candidacy, and that
Senator Thomas j. Walsh would be
elected permanent chairman. Mr.. Raskcb
insisted that Farley had given no init
nation to him personally that an effort
to set aside the recommendations of the
Committee on Arrangements, entered
into with the consent of the Roosevelt
people.
II believe that the program Of the
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