Evening star., 1935-09-16

in Washington and as a pastime edits
The Window Seat. a breezy political
news letter, indulges in a bit Of fantasy
as to what might have happened il
Huey Long had lived to run for Presi-
dent next year. Supposing that Gov.
Lsndon of Kansas, whom he regards as
the Republicans best bet. were the
G. o. P. candidate against President
Roosevelt, Mr.. Jameson thinks the elec-
ton might easily have been thrown into
the House of Representatives after an
electoral college vote turning out as
follows: For oosevelt-Alabama IL;
Arizona, 3; Colorado, 6: Florida. 7: In
diana, IA; Kentucky, Il; Maryland, 8;
Mississippi. 8; Missouri, Is; Montana, 4;
Nebraska 7: Nevada, 3; New Mexico. 3;
New York, AZ North Carolina, 13; Okla
homa. II; South Carolina, 8; Tennessee,
II; Texas %: Utah, 4; Virginia, IL;
Washington, 8; Wisconsin, IL; Wyom-
ing, 3. Total-252. For Landon-Cali-
fornia, %; Connecticut. 8; Delaware, g.;
Idaho, 4: Illinois. %; Iowa, II; Kansas,
9; Maine. S; Massachusetts,, IT; Michi-
gan, 19; Minnesota. IL: New Hampshire,
4; New Jersey, 16; North Dakota, 4;
Ohio. 26; Oregon, 5: Pennsylvania, 36;
Rhode Island, 4; South Dakota. 4; YER
mont. 8: West Virginia, 8. Total-248.
For Long Arkansas, 9; Louisiana, 10;
Georgia, II. TotaE31.
Norman Thomas denies that the New
Deal has carried out the Socialist pro-
gram. Writing to the New York Herald
Tribune in reply to an article published
in its columns alleging that President
Roosevelt has gone Socialist, Mr..
Thomas says: "If Mr.. Roosevelt stole
our baby he is bringing it up very badly.
If he appropriated some piece of our
clothing while we were in swimming, the
resultant attire resembles nothing so
much as an African savage in top hat
and spectacles. In more sober speech,
we Socialists affirm that on the whole
Mr.. RooSevelt's achievement has been
the rescue of capitalism. T. v. A. is the
only genuine Socialist legislation to his
credit. Both N. r. A. and A. A. A
whatever their incidental and temporary
benefits to certain groups-deliberate
plan to restore profit by subsidizing
scarcity. They are capitalist in their
inmost core. No American Socialist
government with real power would fix
up the banking system and give it back
to the bankers. or try to fix up our tot
tering railroad structure in order to
make railroad securities more expensive
when the time comes that railroads must
be nationalized."
Circulating in Republican political
circles is the story that former Gov.
John G. Winant Of New Hampshire.
who has just taken office as chairman Of
the Social Security Board, looks forward
to 1910 as the year when he will throw
his hat into the presidential ring.
In choosing Spain and Portugal for
a dolce far niente vacation trip to
Europe, Secretary Morgenthau hopes to
escape sterilization entanglements and
other currency vexations while on the
other side He thinks the lands OF the
peseta and the escudo at present offer
more fiscal immunity than. any place in
the world, although he said he would
have gone to Iceland II there had been
q boat to Reykjavik.
A**&
President Roosevelt was at his best
as a politician extraordinary in ending
the Ickes-H Hopkins feud. AIS quiet
again on the work relief front, and there
will be no designations. thanks to an
other masterpiece Of Rooseveltian con.
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