The Washington times., 1935-09-11
HARMONIOUS
CONVENTION
PREDICTED
TaImadge Viewed As
Only Threat to Big
Democrat Farley
By GEORGE r. HOLMES
International News Service

duey Longs tragic, SpeCIdCuItAI
exit from the national political
stage removes the last lingering
doubt that President Roosevelt
will experience any enlbarraSs-
ment in the Democratic National
Convention next year. The way
now is cleared for his unoppoGed
denomination, on a platform Of his
own choosing.
Had he lived, the colorful King
fish was calculated to make
trouble. Not serious trouble, per
haps, for Mr.. Roosevelt'S renomi-
nation is and always has been
assured. But Huey planned to
take an anti-Roosevelt delegation
to the convention, and he impishly
planned to throw in q lot Of reso.
lutions and platform plankS which
would never get anywhere except
to irritate those who will run the
convention.
TSlmadge Threat
There was in Huey a lot Of the
small boys inclination and capac-
ity for mischief. Shrewd politi-
clan that he was, he realized he
could get nowhere by opposing the
inevitable denomination of Mr..
Roosevelt. Nevertheless, he was
going to do so-and have q lot
OF personal fun in it, as we'll as
furnishing considerable embarrass-
ment for the Administration lead
erS.
The only other threat to har.
moniouS convention lies in Gov.
Eugene Talmadge Of Georgia. Tai.
madge has been a runner.up to
Huey in his diatribes against the
Administration and against Mr..
Roosevelt, personally. But with
Huey Long, the moving spirit of
the anti-Roosevelt sentiment in
the party has now been removed,
and it was predicted today that
there will be no voice raised
against what the White House
wants in the next platform and
convention proceedings. Maybe
that prediction will not prove true,
maybe some new "anti" Messiah
will appear. But at the moment
the politicians can't see any. The
opposition, what there is, will have
to be furnished by the Repub-
GcanS.
Farley Silent
Bald, genial Jim Farley, who is
expected to resign from the Cabi-
net in January to take over the
management Of the Roosevelt
campaign, didn't like to comment
today on Huey'S death.
Poker-faced, he sat behind his
big ornate desk in the Post Office
Department and smilingly evaded
all questions bearing on the shoot
ing Of Huey and the political re-
suits that may flow from it.
He did say, however, that he
had never considered a possible
third party movement in 1886 as
a serious matter. There might
have been one, he conceded, but
he insisted there would have been
no substance to it. He said:
"And / now predict that every
State will send an instructed
delegation to the convention
instructed for Roosevelt"
He was asked:
''What about Georgia? What
about louisiana"
Grinning he replied:
II stand on my statement.
II you want another prediction
I will give you one. It is that
the Republicans will carry
fewer States than Hoover car.
ried in 1882"
PEACE ON DELTA
New England's disaffection, as
demonstrated in the Rhode Island
bye-election, doesn't worry Far
ley. He said:
"Why we lost six States in
1882. Four Of them were in
New England. So what?"
The belief obtains here in
usually wellinformed quarters
that successors to Huey's dynasty
in Louisiana, whether it be
"Okay Oscar" Allen, or a trium-
virate, will make peace with the
National Administration in Wash.
ington. Huey'S feud with the
White House was largely personal
and individual. The colorful
Kingfish had a way of making
all his feuds personal. But his
followers and those who will
carry on for him have not the
same faculty of reducing things
to a personal basis.
There is Federal patronage in
Louisiana that is of considerable
value to whoever takes over the
State machine. This patronage
was denied to Huey. It may not