The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-13
Father Coughlin Not
 To Tour The Nation
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 He explained there probably would DO . resolution to endorse LOmke'S presidential candidacy, but not to endorse the Lemke Unlon Party.
 The priest estimated N. U. s. !. strength i,800,000 active members and approximately 0,0O0,000 sym- pathIzerS. There arc no dues, He said most of his strength is north of the Ohio river and east of the Mississippi and that the N, ., 8. J. iS organized in 20 states.
 Many states have few radios" he said In explanation of lack of organ. iSation elsewhere.
 Protest Was Made
 Cleveland, Aug. l3.--(Up)-Dis- pute among underlings over speak, ing privileges at Rev. Charles Y, Coughlin'S National Union for So- ciRl Justice convention threatened today to destroy tho minor political coalition formed here last month to promote the Union party presi. dentiNl candidacy of Representative William LeEnke.
 The convention will be called to order tomorrow ct Q Q, m. Cl0 0, Sn., ED,T3,
 Walter 0. Davis, grand marshal Of the Coughlin convention, rushed to the telephone here in m effort to prevent pr. Francis E. Townsend md the Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith from speaking before Father Cough. linS NU.S.J. He appealed to Father Coughlin in Royal Oak, Mich, to deny platform privileges to those two men who were the priests hosts last month when he uttered blisterlnR words of criticism of President Roosevelt in 0 speech to the second annual convention of Townsend old Age Penson clubs. It was agreed At that convention that the priest, the preacher and the doctor would join Lemko m . political swing through the country during the pres- idential campaign.
 Priest Has Arrived
 Father Coughlin arrived here today to dispose of the problem raised by Davis' protest against Smith and Townsend, the former the Self-styled spiritual heir of the late Huey P. Long and his successor as leader Of the Share. .Our- Wealth movement.
 Townsend and Smith are due Sat. urday. In their absence they were defended by 0ilmour Young, execu- tive secretary of the national Town- send organization. He heard of Davis' plea to Father Coughlin and remarked that if his chieftains were not permitted to speak before the Coughlinites as the priest was re. ceived before the Townsenlites last month, there would be no joint speaking tour this year in behalf of Lemke.
 Not on Speakers List
 The Coughlin convention pro. gram distributed here did not list Either Smith or Townsend as speak CTS during the three dWys, August l4-i6-i6, assigned to the National Union for Social Justice on Cleve- lands crowded convention calendar. Furthermore, Davis asserted that Father Coughlin had informed him neither Townsend nor Smith had been invited to address the NUSJ meeting.
 But Sylvester v. McMahon, Ohio organizer of NUSJ, with headquar- ters here, announced that he thought the doctor and the preacher should be given speaking privileges. The issue is in Q stalomate among the underlings pending Father Coughlin's arrival. His decision prob- ably will end the discussion imme- diatcly.
 l0,0O0 Are Expected
 The auditorium which SO far this year has resounded to the oratory of the socialist, republican and Townsend conventions, has been ar- ranged on this occasion to accom- modate i0,22l persons of whom, Davis said, 5000 would be alternates and delegates to the NUSJ conven- ton. There will be an alternate and a delegate representing each 400 NUSJ members, which would indi- cate a national roll of approximately 1,600, 900. Davis, who is not an NUSJ member despite his prominent poe sition in the convention. said all but 9 states, mos tof them in the south, would be represented.
 The NUSJ convention is pointed toward Q climax Sunday, when Father Coughlin, Lemke and Robert c. O'Brien, theunion party vice. presidential candidate, will address Q nafternoon audience in Cleveland's stadium.
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