The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-06-10
DEMOCRATIC FIGHT
. HOLDING SPOTLIGHT
ONPOL|T|CALST STAGE
Republican Battle Expected to
be Tame as Compared
With Rival Party
ANTl.ROOSEvELTIANS ANGRY
Forces Of New York Man Ap-
parentIy Decide to Have
Friend at Every Post
ANTl.ROOSEVELTlANs ANGRY

pugnacious next weeks Republican
national convention may become over
prohibition, 1t seems increasingly evi-
dent that the real 1882 award for
sustained and hard-hitting mitigating
will be won by the Democrats when
they get together the last week of
June.
Not only is there to be a last-ditch
battle over the candidacy Of Frank
lin D. Roosevelt, but a first-ditch
combat Of real proportions is assured
over the convention Craftsmanship.
For the first time. the developments
OF the present week have seen the
Roosevelt-Anti- Roosevelt split set be-
fore the country in all its magnitude
BY their decision to oppose Jouett
Shouse for permanent chairman, the
Roosevelt managers raised an issue
which the opposition shows every
signs Of meeting directly.
There even are reports they will put
up candidate against the Roosevelt
pledged Senator Barley of Kentucky
for temporary chairman. They may
not go that far. but there is no ques-
ton that the Roosevelt move to put
Senator Walsh of Montana into the
place for which Shouse was slated has
been accepted by many on the other
side as definite attempt to read the
whole Smith askob- Shouse influence
out of the convention picture-and
that does not set well at all with Mr.
Rooseyelt'S enemies.
Was Surprise to Many
The decision to oppose Shouse SUR
prised most politicians. Up to now
the Rooseveltian strategy has been al
most wholly conciliatory. When A
Smith made his celebrated thrust al
"Demagogues," the reply was softly.
worded. When Shouse was "com'
mended" by the arrangements com.
mittee for chairman, it was interpret.
ed widely as a Roosevelt gesture o.
recognition toward that wing of thu
party opposing him.
On Sunday last, without the slight
est publicity. conference Of Leaders
! assembled at the governors home ant
the withdrawal from Shouse was onl.
one of the results. Several things We
to be disclosed were decided. A floo
manager was picked, but his identit.
is kept in confidence.
The decisions were militant deci
sions, presumably based on the as
sumption that the Roosevelt strength
now had risen past controlling ma
jority of the convention and that tn
time had come, therefore, to take com
plete possession Of the party machin
cry. It Is doubtful how far any speci
fic consideration, such as the possible
ruling of the convention chairman OF
the two-thirds rule. entered into tn
calculations. The big idea seems II
have been to be sure there was
friend at every sentry post.
Cermak- Cox Opposed
ShouSe's retort, asking the countr.
to make up its own mind whether thu
governor had been guilty of bad faith
apparently has had no retarding eff
feet, so far as the Roosevelt people
are concerned. Smith and those Wit
conferred with him later in the weel
unhesitatingly gave their support t.
Shouse. It is not yet apparent wha
the favorite son states will do, al
though James M. Cox of Ohio. ant
Mayor Anton J. Cermak of Chicago
Thursday denounced the fight OF
Shouse, Cermak saying he would pro
pose Senator Lewis for the permanen
Craftsmanship If the Rooseveltian
persist.
The claims of the Roosevelt man
ayers, some of them disputed, nov
forecast a first ballot vote on nearl.
TOO out of 1854 In the convention
counting Florida and Mississippi
which chose delegates this week. ant
Idaho, North Carolina and Indiana
yet to come. It takes ITO to nominate
With virginias ringing endorse
i11ent of former Governor Harry
Byrd Thursday. the field Of favorit'
sons and runners-up appears com
plete, most calculations sum up tn
nom Roosevelt strength like this:
Alfred E. Smith 81, not countint
votes claimed in New York and Penn
sylvania: John N. Garner 80: JAIME
Hamilton Lewis So; George White So
James A. Reed SO: Harry F. Byrd "a
William H. Murray 23; Albert G
Ritchie 16.