Evening star., 1932-10-03
WESTERN OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

CHICAGO, October 3-Democratic
leaders in conference with Gov. Roose-
welt at Chicago agreed that the prob
able and logical result Of President
Hoover's imminent sortie into the Middle
| West will be a temporary cessation of
| the Roosevelt BOOM They profess con-
| tentment that this should be SO. The
| Governor has had the floor, the lime
| light and the front pages for the past
| three weeks without interruption, and
it is time, his advisers think. for him
| to do fade-out They trot out a
| plausible reason for this effacement.
| From the Democratic standpoint, the
| fight is won. provided Roosevelt does
not stub his toe during the five weeks
| the fight still has to go. So far he
| has evaded pitfalls. If he withdraWs
from active campaigning for while the
time and opportunity for possible
breaks will be corresponding cur
| tailed. Within the next two weeks.
| when Gov. Roosevelt returns to the
| fray, the Democrats are convinced the
anti-Hoover tide will be in I'LL flow
again, and their chances of victory more
solid than ever.
Gov. Roosevelt told Mayor Cermak,
| Melvin A. Traylor, Michael l.. Igoe and
other Chicago Democratic moguls that
| the West is in the bag for the Roose-
| velt Garner ticket. He did not 60 the
| length of Jim Farley in claiming every
thing west of the Mississippi" but the
| Governor feels that the vast majority
| of Western States is irretrievably anti
| Hoover, and the others so much so
| that they can be classed as doubtful
| with strong Democratic leanings. The
| Hoover home State Of California and
| the Hoover native State OF Iowa are
classified as definitely doubtful" I'm
biased participants in the Roosevelt
swing agree that anti-Hoover senti-
| ment is rife and widespread every
where. but in no single place visited,
with the exception of Seattle, found
any evidence of outright Roosevelt en-
thusiasm.
illinois, Gov. Roosevelt could have
| learned even at Republican national
| headquarters in Chicago, is doubtful
| territory, with a capital D. Industrial
Cook County, with its gigantic army
of unemployed. is undoubtedly "rarin !"
| TO join agricultural down-State in a
| Crouch. vote against Hoover. The
Democrats for the first time in years
boast a copper-b -bottomed. non-factional
| OrgdulZaLlOfl, aIlu IL Is luIlCLiolIiils hhC
! steam engine for Roosevelt and the
! State ticket. With Senator Jim Ham
| Lewis staggering 100000 majority in
| 1880, Illinois Democrats have something
| to 20 on. AS that was largely depres-
sion protest vote, they expect to roll
up 1882 majority no less impressive.
Low-priced corn Is going to play havoc
in the ordinarily Republican region OF
Central and Sodhern Illinois.
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| If Roosevelts basic purpose in doing
a 100O0-mile figure-eight trip across
| the continent and back was intended
| to be a demonstration of human en-
durance, as it is variously allowed to
have been, the expedition must be ac-
counted triumph. The 5000 banquet
| ing Democrats Mr.. Roosevelt faced In
Chicago Saturday night never beheld
a more vigorous specimen of manhood
as he stood addressing them. Senators
Pittman, Walsh of Massachusetts, and
Cohen, who accompanied the nominee
on all or portions of his Western me-
anderings, are unit in declaring him
nothing short of a physical marvel
Newspaper men who travelled with the
Governor echo this sentiment. They
say every day he weathered programs
that would have worn out the average