The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-24
ROOSEVELT IS
FAR AHEAD ON
DELEGATE LIST
Organization Work of High
Order Bears Results in
Early Primaries.
F0RESEE EASY VICTORY
N. Y. Governors BackerS
Say He Will Be Nominated
on. First Ballot.
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER
United Press STAFF CORRESPONDENT

WASHINGTON, March 24.-Or-
ganization work begun long ago is
yielding its spring harvest of dele
gates for Governor Franklin d.
Roosevelt. It has put him we'll
ahead in the sweep toward the
Democratic national convention,
three months hence.
Winning of the Georgia primary
adds twenty-eight delegates to
Roosevelt's- list. although the dele
gates actually will not be selected
until next month. Counting them
as already chosen, Roosevelt now
has a total of ninety-one delegates.
The only other Democratic can
didate for whom delegates actually
have been chosen is Governor Will
liam H. Murray of Oklahoma. He
has his own states twenty-five and
one from North Dakota slowed
away in his pocket.
Makes Clean Sweep
Roosevelt delegates have been
selected as follows:
Minnesota, "a Subject to con-
test).
New Hampshire, 8.
North Dakota, 9.
Washington State, Is.
Alaska, 6.
Roosevelt workers are growing
more confident daily. Their can
didate has nosed out former Gov
ernor Alfred E. Smith in New
Hampshire and Minnesota, Murray
in North Dakota, and an I'M
authorized advocate of Speaker
John N. Garner in Georgia.
Homer Cummings, one of the
Roosevelt board of strategy and
former chairman of the Democratic
national committee, predicts the
Governors nomination on the first
ballot. He says Roosevelt is first
choice in thirty-five states and
second choice in most of the others.
Organization Gets Results
This early blooming of Roosevelt
delegates is, like ali early spring
Towering, the result of patient
tilling of the soil weeks and months
in advance. In politics, practically
nothing takes the place of organiza-
ton
Popularity, endorsements, publ
city, straw votes and all such
window dressing count for little as
compared with hard, early, field
organization.
Roosevelt's men have been on
the job for months. His agents were
moving, selecting local managers,
making alliances with Democratic
state bosses. When the Democratic
national committee met here several
months ago, Roosevelt workers
buttonholed every man and woman
on the committee.
They kept elaborate charts which
listed the pledges, preferences. and
connections of every member of the
national committee.
Canvass All Congressman
They have canvaSSed practically
every Democratic member of the
house and senate in the last three
months. Democratic Governors have
kept up procession to the Cover
nor's mansion at Albany, each Wis
itor departing in a cloud of vague
complimentary vice presidential
talk.
This is the work that now is bear
ing fruit. 1t was responsible for the
overwhelming defeat of Smith in
New Hampshire Months ago the
Roosevelt people made an alliance
with the real Democratic factor in
New Hampshire, Robert Jackson.
He merely ordered his organiza-
ton to go down the line for Roose-
welt. When Smith came in, every
body was sorry, but they already
we're pledged to Roosevelt.
The same thing happened in
North Dakota, where Alfalfa Bill
Murray got the cheers, but Roosevelt
harvested the votes.
Georgia Staked Out Early
Georgia was staked off by RooSe-
velt last year when political leaders
of the state went to Warm Springs
and pledged their allegiance. Long
ago Roosevelt's managers knew that
Washington state was the first to
select delegates and made every
effort to line it up for psychological
effect.
They likewise have aimed at every
early contest. so that they have a
running start now for the more
difficult tests in observation-disclosures
of Smiths great domains-and
Pennsylvania.
Roosevelt's early showing is due
in considerable part to the hard
work of a strange pair Of managers
James Farley, Democratic state
chairman of New York. and Louis
Howe, long a personal aid to Roose-
welt.
Farley is huge, powerfully built
and genial, bouncing all over the
countryside other a thin, diminu-
tive ex-newspaper man, dour, al