Milford chronicle., 1932-07-15
NEWS AND COMMENT
BY Charles f. Scott

Washington, d. c., July 9-Since
that day in 1896 when William Jen-
nings Bryan, vertable young Loch-
invar came out of the West, project
ed himself upon a distracted Demo-
cratic convention and with his dra-
matte you shall not cruelty man.
kind upon this cross of gold; you
shall not press down upon the brow
of labor this crown of thorns," NOM
mated himself for the presidency,
the Democratic party has not ex-
complete transference of ideas and
leadership, as happened to it when
Franklin d. Roosevelt was nominat-
ed as its candidate for President at
Chicago.
Bryan made the Democratic party
radical and kept it that way for six
teen housekeeping it out of power
just that long.
Roosevelt again has made the
Democratic party radical. Will he
keep it out of power as long as
Bryan did?
Bryan was a western man and
Roosevelt is a man of the East. And
yet the forces which nominated
Roosevelt were as distinctly section
al, the South and West against the
East, as were the forces that NOM
mated Bryan. In the East, Roose-
welt was backed by but one small
state-New Hampshire-which can
not conceivably be carried by any
Democrat at the election. Maine,
Vermont and part of Pennsylvania
were his in the convention, it is
true, but they will not be his in the
election. He owes his nomination
exclusively and entirely to the
South and the West. He is as much |
a candidate of those sections as
Bryan was. And he will have the an
tagonism of the conservative cas-
tern states just as distinctly as Bry-
an had it.
And what a crowd of faces that |
have been familiar these past TWEEN
ty years will fade out of the pic
ture with the coming of Roosevelt!
Smith, Shouse, RaskOb, Melvin
Traylor, Newton D. Baker, James
NJ. Cox, Robert Bulkley, Governor
Governor Byrd, Senator
Glass, Bernard Baruch, John w. Da-
Wis, Owen D. Young, James A. Reed,
David l. Walsh, Joseph T. Robinson
all these and others like them
who have been formulating Demo-
cratic policies and managing Demo-
cratic politics for the past two dec
ldes, all these go into the discard,
and onto the screen to take their
places will be seen such figures as
of Montana, who bolted the
Democratic party in 1924 to run as
/ candidate for Vice President with
Robert M. LaFollette; Dill of Wash
ngton, Huey Long of Louisiana,
Norris of Nebraska, LaFollette,
Blaine, Nye and a half dozen other
adicals in the Northwest. 1t is cer-
ainly a picture vastly different
rom what Democrats expected
ear ago to look upon at this time.
year ago statements and inter-
Jews were emanating from Demo-
ratio headquarters in a constant
tream, speeches were being made
" conspicuous party leaders, all
the purpose of the dem
cracy so to conduct the party as
o inspire confidence in the business
nd financial interests and in the !
minds of thoughtful people general !
y. Today the whole scene is chang
d. The radicals have taken control,
ne crusade against big Business" {
as started, the campaign is to be !
lade around "The forgotten man
nd we shall see what we shall see.
Franklin D. Roosevelt is not
on, or nephew or even a cousin ?
Theodore Roosevelt, although he
as been rated as one or the other
f these innumerable times. The 8
nth is that this Roosevelt and the :
,rmer President were about fifth |
1usins going back to somewhere =
long 1914 to find a common ances-