The Bismarck tribune., 1935-04-20
pehind the Scenes
~ in WASHINGTON

Washington, April 2o-Accordins to various popular
magazine writer's Roosevelt has fired the Brain Trust
spurned the lefwingers turned completely to the right
and surrounded himself with ring Of conservative
advisers.
suppose that explains why the major New Deal
OF the last happen to have been Budget
Director Lew Douglas and NRA Administrator Huet,
Johnson two Of the best friends conservative fnanciers
and industralists have had In Washington since Mr..
Hoover left.
crucial program in the workreef opera
ton has chosen his brain trust" to direct It the
three outstanding New Dealers who still stick their necks
out as beralsMr. Hopkins, Mr. Tugwell and Mr. Ickes
And suppose that's why Roosevelt had Tom Cor
and Ben Cohen two original brain trusters ana
leading young Brandes Frankfurter disciples prepare
and fight for the Wheeler Rayburn holding company
b which has called forth the power trusts most fr-
Gus propaganda effort Of all time.
PALACE GANG STRONG
Enough Of that. What mean is that the situation
as to Rooseves advisers is much complicated than
most commentators would have you believe.
Despite those important Incidents the ear Of Roose
welt has lately been lent Of the time to cautious
who warn him against the alleged dangers
of radical reforms
certain ring Of those fellows is coming to be known
as the palace gang and the Roosevelt seems to
listen to the the less he seems to take counsel from
such liberals Tugwe Ickes Hopkins Frankfurter and
the progressive senator's The palace gang includes
Donald Richberg who has become increasingly un-
ing to make the New Deal the darling Of big business"
MoRGENTHAU ON TOP
Secretary Henry Morgenthau who now stands In at
the White House better than any other cabinet member
who takes his troubles in all their detail to the president
lin contrast to independent Ickes who his show
and who has become increasingly powerful through the
no-longer independent budget bureau.
Postmaster General Jim Farley, the administrations
White House Secretary Marvin Mc1ntvre commonly
considered pipeline to Roosevelt for the bg-time
lobbyists here, and the doorman for big business"
Raymond Moley, original Number One Brain Tfuster
who comes here frequently loaded with advice from the
business financial crowd in New York.
Moley has been the lion at long series Of lunch
cons cocktail parties and dinners in New York arranged
by taxcab magnate named Freed with the idea that
Moey could explain reasonable radicalism" to the
tycoons while they in turn told Moley what wrong
with the government.
MoLEY's wHITEwAsHED
Liberals here usually think Moley has been taken
into camp and whitewased Of his last trace Of pink
Mr. Freeds imprimatur has just appeared here on an
incredibly handsome and expensive privately printed
book warning the administration against radicalisn-
faced with editorial adonitions Moley that desr-
able reforms be subordnated to recovery The red
hot liberals are red-hot about this book
Harry Hopkins is the favorte White House liberal
at this writing That's because Harry has been playing
politics more than the Others
The liberals distinctly worked up and discour-
aged for the most part, at Roosevelts disposition to
listen to conservative advice in most matters They
dark fears that he will 60 the way Of President
william Howard Taft
POINT TO TAFTS FATE
Taft elected his promise to carry out policies
of Theodore Roosevelt, who endorsed him, and then
succumbed to the Establishments of stand-patters and
the big business boys losing all the progressives and
ending up the worstdefeated president in history
AS to the complications and conflicts embodied in
the stuation-consdering left" factors intally
toned n this MI uh0 hestd
But some who have known him many years insist
that the presidents right turn is based the idea
that urgent need Of stimulating the capital market
capital goods market and private employment best
be met by instillng business confidence
Roosevelt knows the relief load is simply too huge
to and thinks he needs some real recovery to win
in 1896.
Unemployment by industry of two three million
according to this theory. would encourage Roose
welt to become radical than he before He
will be far more left in his second term.