Evening star., 1932-07-05
ROOSEVELT TRAIL
BLAZED BY BRYAN
Nominated Without Tam
many, Candidate Draws
issue on Liberalism.
BY WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE.

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CHICAGO. July tN.A.N.A) The
campaign now before the American peo-
pie will be the first campaign for
generation in which the issues will be
fairly we'll drawn between the conserva-
tiveS and the liberals.
Smith and Roosevelt, four years ago,
made enough confusion of issues to
Justify liberals voting on either slde,
but it is apparent now that Franklin
Roosevelt at least will start into his
campaign down the trail that Bryan
went.
Roosevelt will not be a Bryan, for he
lacks eloquence and fire, but his issues
will be Organism expressed in its mod
ern terms. He has never receded from
his Minneapolis speech last Spring, in
which he sounded the tocSin for the
forgotten man.
Declared for Federal Control.
He is so thoroughly committed to the
doctrine of Federal control for public
utilities and to Government ownership
Of the natural sources of power that he
cannot change-at least until the CAM
paign warns up.
In this city a large group Of Roose-
welt hackers were men who have been
fighting the power interests Tor a
decade. These men claim that Roose-
welt RsIl stand hitched on Government
ownership of hydraulic power
AEother group surrounding Roosevelt
Is che group that believes in what
Thaodore Roosevelt used to call social
and industrial justice-the believers in
old-age pension and some sort of indus
trial unemployment insurance.
Strength in Convention.
Still another element making for lib
eralisn1, IL not radicalism, in the Roose-
welt program. was the source OF his
strength in the convention. His fight
with Smith was something more than
q fight on Raskob and Tammany. He
was nominated without New York and
New England which is significant, for
both Cleveland and Wilson were nom
mated without the help OF Tammany.
The most significant thing about Roose-
velt's convention strength is that it
came almost exclusively from the South
and West.
Smith was the candidate Of provin-
cial New York and Seaboard New Eng
land: Roosevelt was the candidate of
the hinterland South of the Ohio and
West of the Mississippi, excepting Mich
1gan and part Of the Pennsylvania del
egation and Delaware.
Roosevelts strength came from the
old Confederacy - from the Missouri
Valley States and from the mountain
States. The Roosevelt map which hung
on the walls of the Congress Hotel was
a sectional map and every one knew it.
Roosevelt's strength on the map
stretched like a great elbow in red from
North Carolina west to the Ohio,
thence to Mississippi and across the
continent. north and south and north
west to the Pacific.
Bryan States.
These States were Bryan States In
these Western States Theodore Roose-
welt had his strength. These States
gave Wilson his victory when Hughes
took New York and New England.
SO it is plain that whatever chance
Roosevelt has in winning Is to take the
Bryan road and fight for the border
States. such as, Kentucky, Missouri,
Tennessee and West Virginia.
Curiously enough, it is IN these States
that Hoover is weak. Here in the South
grows cotton, which must be marketed
below the cost of production. In the
West grow wheat, cattle and hogs
which have been suffering from de-
vastatingly low pressure. In the South
west, copper; in the Northwest, lumber
all making acute issues IN the cam
paign which will carry with them mil
lions of votes.
Farley Not Strategist.
Let there be no mistake. Franklin
Roosevelt will not blow the Bryan
bugle, though he goes the Bryan route.
Roosevelt'S active managers have come
from the South and West. Senator
Dill of Washington and Senator Hull