Evening star., 1934-09-24
ThePOlitical Mill
By C.. Could Lincoln.

James M. Curley OF Boston won the
nomination for Governor may have
far-reaching consequences. Mr.. Curley
is likely to have much more to say
about the ordering Of things Demo-
cratic in the Bay State than he ever
had before. He has been strong po-
litically in Boston for a long time,
| where he was three times elected
mayor In the primary election last
Thursday he carried every voting
ward in the city. He also demon
strated great strength out in the
State. What his personal ambitions
for the future may be have not been
disclosed. If he is elected Governor
| in November, it is easily con-
ceiyable that in 1886 he may become
a candidate for the Senate. Senator
David I. Walsh, the senior Senator
and a Democratic power in the State
! for years, came to the Upper House
of Congress after he too had been
Governor. In 1896 Senator Marcus
| A. Coolidge, Democrat, comes up for
denomination and reelection. Wheth-
er Curley could or would seek to oust
Senator Coolidge remains to be seen.
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| would be difficult to stop. On the
other hand, If because Of Democratic
dissentions in the State, Casper G.
| Bacon, the Republican nominee for
Governor should win this year, he
would become a logical and proba bly,
powerful candidate for the Senate two
| years hence.
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Mr. Curley's present job Is to get
himself elected Governor, however,
and he probably will take one step
at a time His election would
| place him at the top of the heap in
Massachusetts Democracy. Gov. Ely,
who declined to be candidate to
succeed himself this year and who
strongly supported Gen. Charles H.
Cole for the nomination against
Curley, looks to be out of the political
picture at least for the time being
Senator Walsh, who has had the sup
port of many independent voters in
the State as we'll as the Democrats,
received $4,000 less votes in the pri-
mary than did Curley, and more than
$50 900 votes were polled against Walsh
by two opponents for the senatorial
nomination. In some quarters this is
| interpreted as meaning that Senator
Walsh's influence has waned. He is,
however, resourceful leader and a
great campaigner. The future rela-
tions between the senior Senator and
| the Democratic nominee for Governor
will be watched with much interest.
The Roosevelt influence In Massa-
| chusetts, as demonstrated in the
| primary election, has increased enor-
mously. The Democrats there in the
past have idolized Alfred E. Smith,
and Ely and Walsh have been of the
! Smith faction. Curley, an original
Roosevelt man in 1882 and before,
made his campaign for the guberna-
torial nomination largely on the issue
| of Roosevelt and the New Deal. His
victory naturally is regarded as vic
tory for the Roosevelt Democrats
James Roosevelt, son of the President,
is a Massachusetts, Democrat. While
he took no direct part in the cam
paign now closed, things have come
his way. The Boston newspapers re-
/, port that young Roosevelt was present,
of stage, at the final big rally for
Curley on the eve of the primary elec-
| ton.
Curley's opponent for the guberna-
torial nomination, Gen. Cole, was not
| a strong candidate. What strength
he had lay in the backing of the
| organization controlled by Ely and
Walsh. He had received the indorse-
ment Of the Democratic pre-primary
| convention, at which candidates were
picked in accordance with the new
Massachusetts, election law. But he
received only 128,00 votes to 283, 900
| for Curley. The mere figures tell the
story clearly.
If Bacon should win the election for
Governor it would be for a single rea
son-that the great majority of the
followers of Ely and Walsh had turned
a cold shoulder to Curley.
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Back from 10 weeks study of
conditions in Europe and particularly
in Germany, Senator Ebert D. Thomas
of Utah insists the peoples of Europe
do not want war and neither do their
leaders. His comments also were to
the effect that: Hitler is more or less
secure for the present, with the quail
| fication that remember that Dalai
Lamas die young the Jewish boycott
against Germany Is unfortunate, not
| for the Germans, but for the Jews.
and from the Jewish standpoint it is
bound to hurt more than it will help;
Russia's accusing finger against war
like Japan and Germany is born out
of suspected menace not to the
world but to Russia herself; France is
destined to follow the United States
of the gold standard and is going
| through the preliminarieS today, and,
! finally, international barter looms as
opportune at the present time"
Senator Thomas is a former profess
sor of political science at the Uni
versity of Utah and at present he is
a member Of the Senate Foreign Re-
lations Committee. He Is going to
Utah soon to campaign for the New
Deal and the Democratic nominees.
Discussing his proposal that this
country and others turn to "interna-
| tional barter" he said:
| WICA OllC SuSSCSIS dh ulCcilld-
tional barter, he suggests not just the
single method Of the President of the
United States standing on a Bunker
Hill and saying: I've got so many
bales Of cotton I want to trade for
something That is one method
There is also barter between persons
and corporations of different coun-
tries. Just to give you a single illus
tration, Germany needs copper very
badly. We have plenty. German
genius has invented a copper welding
machine. We need those machines,
and especially does our copper indus
try need them because with this ma
chine we can bring about the con-
sumption of more copper. Now. why
| should not those persons in the
United States who own copper trade
some Of it for machines?"
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Senator James Hamilton Lewis,
chairman of the Democratic Sena-
torial Campaign Committee. comment
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