Evening star., 1934-09-26

They do not talk about such things
in public, but, II you get them alone,
you will find out that they are con-
vinced the electorate this year is in a
rare, independent frame of mind as
regards the New Deal and everything
else.
To the phenomena of Sinclair in
California. Bilbo in Mississippi,
Donahey in Ohio and countless other
insurgencies has been added the ma
tionally unnoticed eruption Of Curley
in Massachusetts,.
Fen people know it, but MasSd-
chuSetts is the poting residence Of
the Presidents right-hand politi-
cal man, Louis Hope Every one
knows it is the official bdli,Uick OF
James Roosevelt, the eldest son
of the President Both hdue taken
quite q patronage hand in Bay
State democracy, James openly
and Louis privately,
They have played ball with Mr..
Curley of and on, possibly more of
than on, since they neglected to get
the Ambassadorship to Italy for Mr..
Curley early in the New Deal.
Curley Ambitious.
However. no one can accuse them Of
lending a hand to Mr.. Curley in his
latest success. If the insiders here
are right. that was entirely Mr..
Curley's idea. He is very ambitious
man. The Democrats of his State
turned him down in their State con-
vention, or rather he was turned down
by the Democratic agents who were
running the convention. They did not
nominate him for anything.
Undismdyed, Mr.. Curley entered
the Democratic primary as cdndi-
date for the ouberndtoridl nonlind-
ton and accomplished the un-
heard-ot feat OF defeating the con-
pention- picked candidate, Gen.
Cole That Uds enough to make
a fen faces red, but the fact that
Mr.. Curley Uon by mcjority Of
more than ttDo to one Just prdc-
ticdlly made the Dhole upper crust
of Bay State democracy as crimson
as Harvard freshman.
llClc Lo lcClulS OIl lllS lIlSlOt Il6Te Z
that Mr.. Curley is well on the way tc
becoming the undisputed Democratic
boss Of Massachusetts,. Also there Is
a suspicion that Louis and James may
ultimately wish they had given Mr.
Curley the Ambassadorship to Italy.
Mortality in Parties.
yIyhila +ba yriroor;as r,o.h.d x~.n,
strange fish up out of the sea, they
fail to indicate much displeasure
among the people as regards sitting
members of Congress For instance
only one Democratic Congressman in
Massachusetts, was denied renomina-
ton.
A private check-up OF the phole
ing interesting mortality figures:
Democrdts-311 up for renomi-
nation, 6 voluntarily retired, 20
pere defeated.
Republicans-115 up for renomi-
nation, 2 retired, defeated.
Brandeis' Friends Speak.
The official dignity of the Supreme
Court prevents Associate Justice
Brandeis from answering the implica-
tions Of Gen. Johnson's recent re-
marks
There are a few of Mr. Brandeis'
friends who are able to speak for him
They say Justice Brandeis saw Gen.
johnson several times and was pleased
with Johnson's personality, but that
the general is all wrong about the
Brandeis philosophy of industrial con-
troll That is not hard to believe, in
aSmuch as everything written by the
associate justice shows him to be op-
posed. fundamentally and completely,
to industrial cooperative movements
of the NJ R. A. class.
These PHILOSOPHERS, Of course, are
those Of Brandeis the man, and not
Rrandeis the illriSt