Evening star., 1934-08-26
Radical Wings Gains in
California Menace New
Dealers Rule.
LOSS OF HOUSE SEATS
SEEN IF SOCIALIST WINS
Presidents Managers Fail to En-
list Support for George Creel.
Voting Tuesday.
BY THEODORE C. wALLEN.

The California Democratic primary
drew to a close last night with PreSi-
dent Roosevelt refusing to intervene
to check a radical swing which was
reported by State Democratic leaders
as menacing California's whole new
deal delegation in Congress.
The administration was advised
that Upton Sinclair, with his left
wing program contemplating the end
of the profit system. was leading a
field of eight candidates for the
Democratic gubernatorial nomination.
George Creel, President Wilson's war
time propagandist. was reported run
ming second and Justus S. Wardell.
an old-line Democrat, poor third.
Despite the largest Democratic reg
istration in history, State Democratic
leaders protested that fully 40 per
cent of the regular Democrats would
bolt rather than support the former
Socialist Sinclair. They predicted the
loss of most or all IL California DEM
ocratic seats in Congress in that event.
This would be a decisive setback in
the administration campaign for
clear-cut new deal majorities in the
new Congress.
New Dealers Back CreeI.
President Roosevelt's political man
ayers seemed to prefer to take their
chances with the more moderate Cree,
a new dealer with a regular Demo-
cratic background This was on the
assumption that Mr. Wardell was be-
yond hope. Senator William Gibbs
McAdoo is supporting Creel.
Confronted with appeals to stem
the same tide which had swept him
into office, Mr.. Roosevelt was repre-
sented as refusing to be stampeded by
"panicky" local leaders. Proposals for
some sort of gesture to help Creel
appeared to have made no headway
by the time the President left WASH
ington for Hyde Park. In the Tug
wellian wing of the administration,
there was unmistakable sentiment for
taking a chance with Sinclair.
With the primary scheduled for
Tuesday, the surest thing of major
consequence, it appeared, was the
denomination Of insurgent Republican
Senator Hiram johnson under cir
cumstances virtually guaranteeing his
reelection, whatever happens to the
rest of the new dealers. While he had
one opponent for the Democratic NOM
3nation and two for the Republican,
he had the open Endorsement of Presi-
dent Roosevelt and was certain of
the Progressive and Commonwealth
party nominations.
Merriam to Win.
Gov. Frank Merriam, who succeeded
to the chief executive Office at the
death of Gov. James Rolph, jr., was
to be nominated for Governor in the
Republican primary.
With conservative business interests
preparing to support Gov. Merriam on
the basis of his attitude in the San
Francisco general strike, the Ameri-
can Liberty League was under pres
sure to set UP a California branch
without delay. 1t was urged that the
league, formed by Alfred E. Smith
and other Eastern conservatives to
fight radicalism and defend the Con-
Stltutlon and personal and property
rights, would offer a rallying center
for conservatives of all parties who
wanted to unite against the Sinclair
candidacy
While the league disavows parti-
sanship and has announced that l.
will work on Congress rather than on
the coming congressional election. con-
servatives in Washington felt that it
could hardly ignore the hottest radi-
cal spot yet to show in a State pri-
mary.
Primaries Tuesday in Mississippi
and South Carolina are expected to
turn chiefly on local considerations.
They have the power however, to re-
tire the Democratic Senator Hubert
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