The Washington times., 1932-10-03
STATE POLITICS
NOW GET HIS
ATTENTION
Governor Insists on Lehman
As Successor; Ready to
Defy Tammany
By GEORGE R. HOLMES

ALBANY, n. Y, Oct.
(I.N.S.O O.-Convinced that the
West is his in November, Gov
Franklin d. Roosevelt re.
turned to his native New York
today to face a political stu,
alton at home that may have
an important bearing on the
presidential election.
Elated by the reception he re.
ceived on his 9,000-mile journey
through twenty-odd states and the
assurances he received of victory
the Democratic presidential nomi
nee came back to Albany ready
for a fight or a frolic with Tam
many Hall.
Lehman is Chief issue
If Tammany goes along with
his program of nominating Lieut.
Gov. Herbert H. Lehman for gov
ernor in the State convention to-
day, it will be something Of a
frolic. If Tammany balks and
refuses to accept Lehman, then it
will be a fight.
For the Governor served notice
In numerous long distance calls
from Detroit yesterday that Leh-
man is his candidate and that he
is going down the line for him.
Tammany can take it or leave
1t, so far as Roosevelt is con-
cerned.
The Lehman candidacy for gov
ernor, of interest chiefly to New
York, but important because it
might conceivably affect the pres
idential situation, may ultimately
prove to be the means of reap
proachment between Governor
Roosevelt and Ex-Governor Smith.
Lehman is Governor RooSe-
velt's candidate for the govern
orship. For years Lehman was
one of AL Smiths closest friends.
In 1923 he contributed half q
million dollars to Smiths cam
paign fund. They have been
close for years.
Supported Roosevelt
But in the Chicago convention,
Lehman was one of those in the
New York delegation who sup
ported Roosevelt while Tammany
was supporting Smith. Neither
Smith nor Tammany relished
that, yet the convic ion is gen.
p eral among Governor Roosevelt's
friends that in the final analysis,
neither Smith nor Tammany can
afford to oppose his gubernator-
ial nomination.
The next two days may be
fateful ones not only in New
York State politics, but nation
ally, because New York's At elec-
toral votes constitute one Of the
chief prizes in the presidential
campaign.
Governor Roosevelt returned
from his Western invasion conf
dent that he will carry the West.
Neither he nor his most intimate
advisors will concede single
State to the Republicans west
of the Mississippi, not even
President Hoover's own State of
California, Vice President Cur
tis' native Kansas. nor Utah,
which was one of the two States
carried by Taft in 1912.
Claim Border States
The Democratic nominee and
those about him believe that the
West is safe. They are conf
dent of the South and the border
States. Give them the three
pivotal States of Ohio, Indiana
and Illinois, they say, and they
won't worry about New York
and the East in general.
Granted the West. the South,
the border States and those three
pivotal Mid-Western States, of
course, they are right. They can
afford to be Supercilious concern
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Whether their confidence is mis-
placed, whether they are too opti-
mistic about Democratic chances
in the West, and in the border
States and Ohio, Indiana and II,
linoiS, is another matter. one that
only the voice of the country on
November can settle.
Two Weeks In Albany
Governor Roosevelt will spend
about two weeks in Albany, catch
ing up on State business. Then
he plans a second campaign tour,
going probably as far South as
Atlanta. and thence northwest
ward through the border States
of Tennessee, Kentucky, up 10
Indiana and probabl"
, West as st. Louis
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