The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-13

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 The real story behind the fussilade is that 1t was the open- ing gun in a carefully laid plan to keep Huey out of next years democratic national convention. As worked out by the master minds of the national committee, here is the strategy:
 A pro-Administration slate of delegates, under some designa- tion such as regular democrats or Roosevelt democrats, will be run in Louisiana. Huey, of course, will have his own ticket which, as things now appear, Is sure to get a majority of the votes.
 But this will not deter | the
 administration ticket from presenting its credentials to the convention and asking to be seated.
 The national conventions of both parties are the sole judges of their membership. The pro- administration slate will go be- fore the Credentials Committee and claim that as Huey is "self-confessed traitor to the democratic party" he and his henchmen are not entitled to sit in the convention.
 And the Credentials Commit tee, which will be in the safe control of big, bald, bland Jim Farley, will solemnly uphold this contention and seat the pro- Administration delegates.
 There is nothing new about the strategy. It is hoary with precedents.
 The late William Howard Taft busted Freddy" Roosevelt delegates and won his re-nomin- ation by similar tactics back in 1912. And just two years ago the same Jim Farley helped the same Huey Long to do almost teh same thing when both were battling for Roosevelt at Chi cago.
 BUTTER CONSCIOUS
 The dairy industry is out to make the housewife butter con- scious. That is the real story behind the new drive on Capitol Hill to slap a tax on oleomar- garine.
 Despite the low price of butt ter, the sales volume of OleO has mounted steadily. For the first six months of this year its consumption was more than double that of the same period in 1884.
 The corresponding loss to dairymen, has been terrific. To make matters worse, large dairy areas that were hit by last years drought are again in full production and this years butter make" promises to a high one. Already cold stor- age stocks are reported to be 20.O00,000 pounds greater than in August of last year. So, like many, other indus. tries, the dairymen arc clam bring for government help to help boost sales.
 Rep. Richard M. Kleberg, one of the largest cattle owners and dairy producers in Texas, is fatkering a bill to tax all oleo- margine if 1t is made from im- ported ingredients. The power full National Cooperation Milk Producers Federation, which maintains a permanent lobby in Washington, wants to go further.
 It proposes a flat cent tax on all oleo regardless of where it's ingredients come from. Only by such drastic measures, the federation argues, can the but ter makers hope to compete with the chaper substitute.
 With congress drawing to close, it is a late-hour to launch this fight. But the farm bloc is a potent force, and has dem- onstrated more than once that it can pull rabbits out of the legislative hat.
 TIT FOR TAT
 Philadelphia's Representative Michael J. Stack proudly tells this story himself.
 An official of a large soap fac- tory in his district called on him, urged support for a bill repeating the s-cent tax on Philippine cocoanut oil.
 '.sure. I'm with you," said Stack. ''I'll be glad to gel be. hind this biii. But how many jobs gre you going 10 give my boys in your factory if the bill aOes tlarough?"