Evening star., 1934-11-14
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

At the White House inquirers are
told that no thought has been given
to the question of a successor to Post
master General James A. Farley as
Democratic national chairman. Some
people believed that the furry over
the propriety of retaining National
Committee members in Federal office
might lead to Big Jim's retirement
after the 1884 elections. There is
neither sign nor prospect of any such
development. Mr.. Farley. after three
successive triumphs in the Roosevelt
cause.-The pre-convention campaign.
the presidential contest Of 1882 and
the 1884 landslide-stands ace-high in
F. D. RS graces and laurel-crowned
as few political managers before him
ever were During the next year his
friends expect Farley to attend pretty
strictly to his Post Office knitting.
He's credited, among other things,
with an ambition to make the postal
service turn in a balanced budget OF
its own, and the talk is that from now
on he'll devote himself to that ideal
with the same zeal he applied to
making the country safe for the New
Deal. Not until the end of 1885, when
it will be time to mobilize Roosevelt
delegates for 1886, does Farley plan to
return 100 per cent to the political
firing-line.
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ism, but whatever it is, hardly any
political party in American history,
even in Mark Hanna's palmiest days,
boasted such an organization as the
Democrats under Farley's generalship
have created. 1t reaches into every
voting precinct in the land. Its "in-
telligence service" is so perfect that
the percentage of places where it
guessed wrong about the recent elec-
ton is inflnitesimal. Even at the
White House, National Committee
prognostications, bulwarked in most
cases with specific figures, seemed in
credibly rosy, but Farley's invincible
optimism-a Democratic gain OF
roundly 10 Senate seats and increased
strength in the House-was vindicated.
Emil Hurja, the chairman's aStute
executive assistant, is entitled to a
generous share of credit for the DEM
ocrats' victory organization. He is a
wizard in political strategy and proph-
ecy. One of his featS was the predic-
ton that Warren R. Austin would be
reelected in Vermont by bare 5000
odd. Hurja missed the exact figures
by only a couple of hundred votes.
While Farley's right-hand man was
in the Green Mountain State during
the heat of the campaign, he dined
pleasantly at Burlington one night
with Senator Austin.
Mrs. Charles H. Sabin, who will
supervise the women's division of the
American Liberty League, is one of
the country's seasoned and skillful
woman politicians. She looks back
upon Is years in the hurly-burly of
party affairs. The blond, slender and
dynamic New Yorker fits naturally
into a bipartisan organization like
the Liberty League. Her late father,
Paul Morton, was for two years Secre-
tary of the Navy in Theodore Roose-
velt's cabinet, and her grandfather,
Julius Sterling Morton, was Secretary
of Agriculture In the second Cleveland
administration. Mrs. Sabin has held
memberships In various New York
Republican committees, in 1921 was
president of the Women's National Re-
publican Club and from 1924 to 1928
was Republican national committee
woman from New York, resigning to
lead the women's crusade against pro-
hibition. The Liberty League counts
heavily on the cooperation of women,
who have already Joined in impressive
numbers