Evening star., 1932-10-14
Lot Depends an Whether
Hoover Continues Stride
Hit in Iowa Talk.
ROOSEVELT GIVEN EDGE
IN BETS and STRAW VOTES
Old-Line Johnson Leaders Are
Splitting Up, With Vets Lin
ing Up for New Yorker.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
staff Correspondent Of The Star.

staff Correspondent OF The Star.
SAN FRANCISCO, Calf, October
14-California carries off the palm
today as the chief political crazy quilt.
The State which made Woodrow Will
son the World War President of the
United States is in the limelight again
and likes it, Californians seem to feel
that perhaps the selection of Presi-
dent for the next four years and re-
mainder Of the great depression may
depend upon them. They are not quite
sure just yet what they are going to
do about it. This is due in part to
interparty rows among Republicans and
among the Democrats. BIT. more 1t Is
due to the fact that these Californians
are waiting to see what President
of the campaign, which closes Novem-
ber with the general election. A lot
will depend on whether the President
continues the stride and pace he hit
in his Des Moines address. The Re-
publicans here have come to life since
that speech when the President took
the offensive. Before that they were
dead, but not buried.
On the Republican side Of the pic
ture out here are the faithful Hoover
Republicans, typif1ed by Mark L. Requa,
personal friend of the President and
Republican national committeeman for
California. Alongside, but not with Mr..
Requa, stands Senator Hiram johnson.
whom Gov Franklin D. Roosevelt has
called the great exponent of pro-
gressiveism " Senator johnson, who
loves Mr.. Hoover not at all. still has
a very considerable following in the
State, although not the Progressive or
ganiZation that he once dominated.
Add to the group a great bunch of dis
gruntled Republicans, who couldn't
stand the gaf of hard times and top
the whole off with the wet Republicans
and the dry Republicans. You have
mixture that might do almost anything.
Organization Rather "Shot."
Under all these conditions, the Re-
"shot." Things went wrong for the
regular outfit when Senator Samuel
Shortridge in the primary fell under
the combined fire of the wet Tallant
Tubbs and the dry Republican, Joe
Grail Tubbs was nominated for the
Senate by the Republicans Tubbs is
as wet as the Pacific and the Atlantic
combined, not to mention the Gulf of
Mexico. The very mention Of the name
of Tubbs is enough to throw some of
the dry Los Angeles County Repub-
among these ardent drys of knitting
Mr. Tubbs in the senatorial election.
which is not aiding harmony in the
Republican ranks. Some of Mr.. Tubbs'
friends in the northern half of the
State are talking of knitting President
Hoover and voting for the wetter Gov.
Roosevelt. All is not too rosy for the
Democrats.
William Gibbs McAdoo and William
Randolph Hearst, chief sponsors for the
Roosevelt presidential candidacy, are on
top of the heap. Under them, squirm-
ing, but still at the bottom of the heap.
are Justus Wardell, Isadore Dockweiler
and bunch of Smith Democrats. De-
spite this situation, the Democrats in
sist that perfect harmony" prevails, |
that all factions, the leaders and the
rank and file, are going through" for
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
They say that the Smith Democrats, |
of whom there are a great lot in San
Francisco. are now reconciled to voting |
for the New York Governor. But at |
that point, apparently. the Democratic |
harmony seems to end-if it goes |
that far
Mr. McAdoo> eight years ago went to
Ma sdison Square Garden with the |
California delegation pledged to him
for President and train load OF rooters |
and crates of oranges. In those days |
he was the apostle of the drys and had
the backing of every Ku KluXer in the |,
convention whether he believed in that |
organization or not. That is what Is |
making it so hard for Mr.. McAdoo right !
now in this Northern part Of Cali |
fornia. That and the fact that the !.
Smith Democrats feel Mr.. McAdoo sold |
them out in Chicago last June when |
he dramatically switched the vote Of the |
California delegation from Garner for |
President to Roosevelt Now the Smith |
Democrats, if the reports are to be /
credited. have screwed themselves up to |
the point of forgiving Gov. Roosevelt !
and are prepared to vote for him. But |
Mr. McAdoo is something else. And be- |
cause of the determination of the |
Northern Democrats to vote for the !,
Republican nominee for the Senate, Mr.. |
Tubbs, rather than for McAdoo, who Is |
the Democratic nominee for that Office, |
George Creel, war time director of |
publicity for the Wilson administra-
ton in Washington, is having tough |
time in San Francisco today as director
of publicity for McAdoo.
1t seems almost certain now that a |
large number of these vets, Northern
Democrats, will cast their ballots Tor |
Tubbs and against McAdoo.
The newspapers in San Francisco are
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