The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-05-12
POLITICAL WORK
CONTINUES ON IN
ALL ACTIVITIES
GENERAL ASPECT OF sITUA.
TIoN SHOWS PARTY AFFiL-
IATIoNs ARE CONSIDERED
IN ALL EVENTS
By BYRON PRICE
(chief Of Bureau, The Associated
Press, WashinRton)

WASHINGTON, b, C.. May IL.
LIN times like these it is easy to
forget that political party organi-
cations continue to exist, and must
go ahead with their planning re-
CARELESS of the tuMult around
them.
Six months, roughly, has elapsed
since the November election. That
is about one-third of the interim
of preparation for the next cleo
ton. A year hence, the party
committees viii be emersed deep
" in the preliminaries of the ma
tion-wide congressional campaign
of 1884.
The present is an opportune
time, therefore, to glimpse the
general aspects Of the situation,
even though many Of the elements
involved still are somewhat nebu-
lous.
Roosevelt, that's All
On the democratic side, the
whole trend of party reorganiza-
ton is easily described. To para
phrase an expression much used
during the last previous democrat
ic regime, the situation ii "Roose-
welt. that's all.
Patronage furnishes the bolts
with which political machinery is
held together, and today all the
important patronage Is bestowed
on those who supported Mr.. Roose-
welt at the Chicago convention or
whose loyalty is otherwise fully
proved.
Many old-line organizations
which did not work for his non1i-
nation, intending Tammany Hall.
are either out in the cold or so
near the door that they feel an
uncomfortable draft.
This Is the usual procedure.
The only unusual element il that
the Roosevelt managers are fit
ting into this solid Roosevelt pha-
lanx as many as they can Of the
western republican Insurgents.
There Is a very obvious effort to-
retain and increase the hold Mr..
Roosevelt had on this group in
1882.
The ms and Outs
Republican headquarters carries
on IN Washington under complete
control of the Hoover wing Of
the party, bnt with an intense
storm developing about it.
The old guard, which never
wanted Mr.. Hoover in the first
place. Is quietly at work planning
TO Dust the Hooverites and take
over. Still another group who
doesn't care much for the old
guard, doesn't want Hoover again
and yet doesn't like to 90 the
length Of boiling. Is reserving
judgment.
So there are at least three sub
divisions of the party. not count.
ing the bolters whom nobody seems
TO be trying to WOO hack from the
Roosevelt camp.
The recent announcement that
prominent Hoover men were
launching n nationwide organixa
ton has put the other factions on
guard and revived their fighting
spirit.
Within the next few months a
grand melee for party control
seems inevitable.
As the Lines Form
Washington hears no talk nf 4
third party--for the first time
in years. Neither Is there a gem
eral belief. such as there was be-
fore the last campaign. that the
socialist or some other minor par
" soon viii rise into real promi-
nenee.
II is pretty well accepted that
in 1884 and 1886 the voters will
be divided sharply into two classes
those who are for Mr.. Roosevelt
and those who are against him:
that those who are for him viii
have no trouble Of getting togeth-
er; and that those against him will
have To get together somehow, de-