Evening star., 1934-09-04
SINCLAIR WILL SEE
ROOSEVELT TODAY
President Expected to Lee
ture Nominee on New
Deal Support.
BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG,


HYDE PARK, N. Y, September A.
Much speculation is centered in the
meeting here late this afternoon Of
President Roosevelt and Upton Sin
clair. erstwhile Socialist, who was re-
Gently overwhelmingly nominated as
the Democratic candidate for Cover
nor of California.
The meeting, in the seclusion Of the
large. cozy library of the Roosevelt
home, necessarily gives rise to much
speculation.
Is it to result in subsequent embar-
rassment to the President and his
New Deal administration or Is 1t to
be o coup for him? are among the
questions.
OF course, as 1t was pointed out in
behalf of the President when Sinclair
wired his desire to visit Hyde Park,
this meeting is to be of q "socia" ma
ture. Politics and campaigning are
not to be included. Even though Mr..
Roosevelt succeeds in carrying out his
intention to bar discussion of poll
tics, it Is felt very certain that they
surely are not going to conflne their
chatting merely about commonplace
subjects. Sinclair did not hurry across
the continent Immediately after his
smashing victory just to tell the Presi-
dent about California's weather and
to listen to the latter discourse on the
agricultural possibilities of Dutchess
County, N. Y.
To Exchange Ideas.
Both men are students of economic
and social matters, and it Is natural
to assume that their conversation
will include these subjects. This part
Of their talk will be highly interesting
because Of their different viewpoints.
They have a common objective, but
their ideas Of helping the unemployed
and others in distress, and their plans
for promoting the general welfare Of
the country, are as wide apart as the
poles. However, it is thought pos
sible they might take this occasion
to reconcile to some extent at least,
these differences, which now so
greatly separate the aims of the New
Deal from the promises of the "epic"
program of Upton Sinclair. Although
the President has insisted that politics
Is not to be discussed, it is hard to
believe that it will not be touched
upon to some degree. From the
moment that Sinclair became the
victor in California, political asso-
ciates Of the President are known to
have been studying the political
aspects of the situation from every
angle. They have since been figuring
the possible political effect Of a meet
ing between the President and Sin
clair, as Is scheduled for today.
There is no denying that a situa-
ton frought with all sorts of pos
sibilities for political embarrassment,
as well as some advantage to the
President, is presented by the visit
Of this former Socialist.
From a strictly political viewpoint,
the way matters stand now, as figured
out by some of the Presidents po-
litical friends, If Sinclair loses in The
November elections he will probably
carry q number Of Democratic con-
gressional candidates down with him.
II he wins, however, the chances are
he will carry some Of these congress
sional candidates into ONCE on his
coat tails.
Result Of Election.
II defeat were certain for Sinclair
some Of the administration political
advisers are Of the opinion that it
might be well for Mr.. Roosevelt to