Evening star., 1932-08-25
The Political Mill
By C.. Could Lincoln.

| FALMOUTH, Mass, August 24-Al-
| fred E. Smith becomes editor Of the
New Outlook, a bipartisan magazine,
| in the midst of the presidential cam
paign. He announces that he intends
| to work hard at his new job Of being
editor. All Of which does not give the
Roosevelt Democrats any great amount
Of hope or joy What they want from
Mr.. Smith is kind word for Gov.
Franklin D. Roosevelt and for Speaker
John N. Garner, who made Mr.. Roose-
| velts nomination for President possible.
They want Mr.. Smnth to take the
stump and speak for the Democratic
national ticket If Mr.. Smith has made
any promises to any one to go to the
bat for Gov. Roosevelt the secret has
been jealousy guarded up to the pres
ent time.
When the first issue Of the New Out
look appears there will be wild scram-
| BILE for 1t on the part of both Repub-
lican and Democratic leaders.
If there is anything in it which may
be construed as favoring President
Hoover and his policies or Gov. Roose-
welt and his policies, 1t will be eagerly
played up by the Republican or Demo-
| cratic press, as the case may be. 1t is
| possible that Editor Smith is letting
/ himself in for lot of constituting" In
the next two months.
II AL Smith could ever be neutral and
| non-partisan in a presidential cam
| paign it would appear that he might be
in this present campaign with President
Hoover running against Gov. Roosevelt.
Mr. Hoover beat him in 1923 for the
/ - DONnz,,a1k u.
| presidential nomination away from him
Smith and his followers assert. It IS
true that Mr.. Smith has issued a state
| ment that he, as Democrat, will sup
port the Democratic party. This has
been interpreted as meaning that sooner
or later he will get into the fight on
the side Of Roosevelt and against
Hoover. He still has plenty Of time to
,, DO so.
Roosevelt apparently has burned his
bridges behind him. He is antiWall
| Street, or at least so Wall Street con-
siders him. He Is for the forgot
ten man." judging by the way some
OF the Wall Streeters are talking.
However, they consider themselves the
| forgotten men of today Gov Roose-
velts play for the disgruntled and the
destitute may be a good one. It has
been clear for long time that the
| only thing that can elect him PreSi-
dent is the bitterness growing out of
hard times and directed against the
Hoover administration and the Re-
| publican party. If it were not for
hard times Roosevelt would not have
look-in.
It will be interesting to see what
| AL Smith has to say about the for
| gotten man when he comes forward
with his first issue Of the New Outlook.
| When Gov. Roosevelt made his first
| speech mentioning the forgotten man"
last Spring Mr.. Smith called him a
demagogue. although he did not use
Mr. Roosevelt's name. However, Gov.
Roosevelt seems to have made no mis-
take so far in talking about the for
gotten man. It certainly did not bring
| nomination, although desperate efforts
were made to kill him of.
| Tonight Gov. Roosevelt is to 90 on
the air In an appeal for funds for the
Democratic national campaign. The
| G. o. P. in its search for funds has
big handicap over the Democratic
party. 1t does not face a half lf-million-
dollar deficit as 1t toes the mark. How
ever, it has been pretty. clear for a
long time that many business men
and financiers are not going to con-
tribute to the Roosevelt campaign fund
Gov. Roosevelt's Columbus speech did
not encourage these men to give more
1t has proved increasingly difficult, 1t
seems. for the Democrats to get the
| necessary funds. II reports are cor
rect, Gov. Roosevelt will appeal to the
forgotten man" himself for contribu-
tions. probably in the hope that If
Mr.. Roosevelt Is elected this forgotten
man will cease TO be forgotten. The
Republicans are also out campaigning
for funds, with which to conduct their
campaign. For some reason or another,
however. not so much noise is made by
the Republican seeking money as by his
Democratic brethren.
| There is no lack of material for the
Republican gubernatorial nomination in
New York this year. F. Trubee Davi-
announced his candidacy for the NOM
ination. Already Col. William j. Dono-
van Of World War fame has begun a
campaign for the nomination and is
speaking about the State in an effort to
win delegates to the Republican State
convention which in September will
make the nomination. If Mr.. Dawson
should win the nomination, he will be
the second member of the little cabi-
net" - the assistant secretaries in
Washington-to have obtained such an
honor this year. \ Assistant Secretary
Of the Navy for Aviation ingalls, was
nominated a couple of months ago for
| Governor of Ohio, winning the right to
go on the ballot as the Republican can
didate in a Statewide primary.
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Newton D. Baker, Secretary Of War
under Woodrow Wilson, is to campaign
| for the Democratic National ticket.
Mr.. Baker never publicly admitted that
he was a candidate for the Democratic
presidential nomination this year. In
| fact, he said repeatedly that he was
not a candidate Nevertheless, there
were a lot of Democrats attending the
convention out in Chicago who would
| have welcomed a chance to vote for
| Ohio's little big man. Undoubtedly
speeches by Mr.. Baker, who is brill
liant and also caustic speaker, may be
| Of great assistance to the Roosevelt
Garner ticket. Ohio is one of the So
called pivotal States, with 26 electoral
votes to deliver to one Of the presiden-
| tial candidates.
| In 1916 Wilson carried Ohio. al
though he lost Indiana and Illinois, and
Ohio's votes made it possible for him
to win over Chief Justice Hughes, the
Republican nominee that year.
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| This year the Democrats appear to
/ have a better chance to carry Indiana
and possibly Illinois than they have in
Ohio. The Republicans are well organ
! lied in Ohio and have strong candidates
for Governor and for Senator. In ILL
nois and Indiana, ON the other hand,
/ the Democrats seem to have the better
Of the situation so far as unity and
candidates are considered. The Repuo-
| licans have nominated for Governor IN