Evening star., 1932-09-23

Grains of comfort for the Republi-
cans are few and far between these
drab Autumnal days, so they're extract
ing all the traffic will bear from the La
Toilette Blaine debacle in wisconsin.
/ No matter what betides in November,
| the G. o. P. feels 1t Is rid of an incubus
! in the smashing of the Badger Progress
! sive machine. Though the Hoover ad-
ministration was not directly an issue
in either the gubernatorial or senatorial
primary. the La FolletteS and Blaine
| have at no time concealed their bitter
hostility to the President and all his
works. Blaines votes in the Senate nave
been almost consistently anti,aaminiss s,
! tration. both during the Coolidge ana
! Hoover regimes He tastes now the
dregs that await all party traitors-the
same kind Tom Hef1in had to swallow
! for deserting his organizations presl.
dental ticket in 1928 Blaine bolteo
Hoover to support Smith. and Hen.
bolted Smith to support Hoover Phli
la Toilette is rolled in the mud, oul
| young Bob" is far from down and out.
| The latter has three more years IN tne
Senate before his present term expires
He has grown in stature on Capltol aiii
! The dynasty may pull itself together
again by the time Young Bob seeks
reelection In 1894 Incidentally, Blame
! defeat causes the third b to tumple
| IRON, the Senate roll can-Bro2khart
and BrouSSard being the otherS' ~ oil
unlucky letter this year.
Gov Roosevelt had the stellar oppor-
tunity of his Western trip at Porllano
| to blossom out as radical. but ne
| in, 6lrprtlOn
mower speech bristled with thruSts at
the public utilities and stirred the
enthusiasms of the multitude out
! there. where kilowatt hours and hydro
electric energy are paramount issues.
But closely analyzed. there's little or
| nothing in the Rooseveltian regulatory
, program that should keep any power
magnate in the land awake at nleht,
The Portland address is fresh evidence
I of the Governors determination not 10
stir up the capitalistic animals unnec-
| e,sarily Mr.. Roosevelt obviously con-
siders this the c3giest strategy Even
Democratic newspaper correspondents
with the Governor report that MS
/ pus5yfooting is getting the western
! goat. J. Fred Essary of the Baltimore
sun. in the dispatch from the Roose-
I yelt special, says: ITO the great dis
appointment of one Western audience
! after another Franklin D. Roosevelt is
not making the aggressive campaign
expected of him. He is not hlttlng
out. and particularly is not aiming
sledgehammer blows at President
Hoover, is not walloping the admlnis-
tration in the approved Western man.
ner and is not making the issues be-
| tween the two parties stand out
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| OF course. it's counting chickens q
| long time before they're hatched. but
| Washington's gossip factory has already
chosen President" RooSevelt'S Seere-
I tary of State for him. He Is former
we'll known member of the foreign
| service, Sumner Welles. 1t appears
that Mr.. Welles Is an occasional visitor
| to Gov Roosevelt at Albany and Hyde
, Park. presumably for the purpose oil
/ advising him on foreign affairs. Weles
Is a man of wealth, culture and aris-
| tocratic background and has served
! both in the State Department and
abroad. He is considered something oil
a Latin American specialist. A lew
! years ago he married the former Mrs.
| Peter Goelet Gerry, a daughter Ipf the
late Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Townsend
Of washington. an heiress in her own
right.