Evening star., 1933-05-09
Patronage SURVEY
HOLDING UP Jobs
All Places Are Not Expected
to Be Filled by Democrats
for Over Year.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 9.-An exhaustive
patronage survey being made here and
in Washington by Democratic aides is
holding up vast array Of political ap-
pointments. 1t was learned last night.
1t will be a year or two, it was said
unoficially at Democratic national
headquarters. before all places have
been filled
Party leaders. as they start their
third month of work on the problem.
contemplate the most thorough and
complete analysis ever undertaken by
an incoming administration of the
thousands of places which can be filled
by appointment.
New Jobs Crop Up.
Many positions not appearing on any
previous list of available jobs have
cropped up during the survey although
no definite count of the total has been
made.
!, One reason for the delay in making
the appointments, it was explained, is
the intention of listing every one of
these jobs, and then weighing and re-
weighing all recommendations to see
that each place goes to the most deServ-
ing party worker who seeks it.
The caution with which the party
leaders are proceeding Is in direct con-
trast to the speed with which some
incoming administrations have dis
pensed patronage.
Meanwhile, those who supported
Franklin D. Roosevelt for the nomina-
tion at Chicago and also those who
worked against him are by necessity all
keeping eager eyes on the political plum
tree. =
Tammany Hall. which voted against
the New York Governor through the
last convention ballot, is anxiously wait
ing to see what in the way of patronage
will fall into its outstretched hands.
Dozen are Rewarded.
More than a dozen New Workers, a
number of them from Tammany's own
bailiwick, already have been given i'm
portant posts in the Roosevelt govern
ment. Not one has been a Tammany
member.
One priced patronage appointment,
that of collector of the port, has been
handed out. In that case Tammany
was passed by and the job, which pays
$4,000 year, went to Harry M. Durn-
ing Democrat from the Bronx. where
Edward Flynn ardent Roosevelt sup
porter, is party leader.
New Workers from Tammany'S borough
and from other sections-none affiliated
with the Manhattan organization-al-
ready have been named to the Secretary
of Labor Postmaster General, Assistant
Secretary of State, Assistant Secretary
of Agriculture. Ambassador to France,
head of the Farm Credit Corporation
and Minister to Sweden.
Wants Patronage Power.
But the sort of jobs Tammany is
eyeing are those that carry patronage
power in themselves, such as collectors
of internal revenue, United States
marshals, postmasters and United States
attorneys.
No indication has yet come from
party headquarters as to the possible
political affiliations of the men who
will get these jobs.
Mail from aspiring job holders still
comes by the sackful to party Offices
here and in Washington.
When James A. Farley. Postmaster
General and party chairman, arrives in
New York-even though he sometimes
comes unannounced and unexpected
lines of men three and four abreast fill
the corridors leading to his Office.
All are being told to be patient: that
the deserving will be rewarded as far
as possible for their campaign efforts
when the survey is finished and the
appointments begin to trickle out.