Evening star., 1932-10-21

One of the outstandingly striking as
poets of the 1882 campaign is the TACT
that boiling to date, with unimportant
exceptions, is confined to the Repub-
lican party All the persons of dis
tinction who have abandoned their
ordinary political moorings have turn
ed their backs on the G.. o. P. The
Democrats, for the first time in a
good many presidential years, present
the appearance of band OF brothers
working for common cause The de-
fection of the Republican Progressive
bloc, practically complete but for
Bo-ah, is the most notable bolt to
Roosevelt, but the G. o. P. exodus in
cludes others, like President Samuel
Harden Church of Carnegie Tech and
DR.. William Draper Lewis, director of
the American Law Institute, to say
nothing of the tens of thousands who
disclose. in straw votes throughout
the country. that they were Hoover
voters in 1928, but are Roosevelt men
and women in 1882. OF vastly more
significance from the Democratic
standpoint than Republican boilers is
the cohesion in the party'S own ranks.
To date, no key Democrat Of conse-
quence anywhere is out of line. That's
a luxury the donkey hasn't experienced
for aeonS.
Well, we're having an old-fashioned
wind-up of the quadrennial unpleasant
ness, despite its colorless tick-off.
What with Secretary of Labor Doak
and Senator Norris calling each
other a liar, and President Hoover
and Gov Roosevelt using the longer
and less ugly term ever and anon on
the stump as they accuse each other OF
oratorical ineXactitude, the campaign is
turning out not to be so drab and
dreary after all. The tip is out in both
the Republican and Democratic camps
that the mud slung on both sides SO far
is milky white compared to the mire and
muck still to come. Every man for
| himself and the devil take the hindmost
is to be the rule from now until mid
night of November 7. Behind the
Quaker exterior of Herbert Hoover, ac-
cording to the testimony of men who
have worked alongside the President
for years, is a Jack Dempsey tempera-
ment which only needs provocation.
Roosevelt is providing plenty of that,
so the stage seems set for bloody war
| till further notice.
When the "wives of engineers" who
| have banded themselves into phalanX
| for Mr.. Hoover's reelection, were re-
viewed in motorcade at the White House
today the President was informed that
the organization has now spread into
a scheme that embraces 80 States. Its
basic purpose is to re-enthuse the wom-
en- who elected" Hoover in 1928 to do
the trick again next month, but Sec
| ondarily the idea is to get out the
vote on November 8. To that end the
engineering sisters plan to send flying
squadronS Of automobiles into every
voting precinct in at least two-thirds
of the States. They're bent upon find
ing out whether it's true that the only
time the American people really stay
at home is election day.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt is evidently
out for the culture vote. His constant
companion, in the form of jeweled
adornment, is the Phi Beta Kappa key
which bangles from watch chain af-
fixed to his coat lapel. Whether he
won 1t at Harvard, when he got his
A. B. in 1904, or while at the Columbia
years, is not known.
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| Arthur Brisbane, famous columpist,
who's going to vote for Hoover despite
his aff1liation with chain of news
papers which are supporting Roosevelt,
Is master of the gentle art of tact.
After addressing a group of women in
Washington one day this week. the vet
eran scribe was approached by one OF
them, who said: "Mr Brisbane, knew
you Is years ago." Quoth the editor
well, madam, that must have been
when you were in your cradle" Then
the fair admirer calculated: And you
haven't changed q bit" To which
Brisbane rejoined that the same thing
kcould b said Of stha rock o6 Gibraltar 2