Evening star., 1936-01-09
Selection of Convention City
to Be Made This After
noon, With Illinois .Metrop.
oils Leading in Favor.
DIRTY POLITICAL FIGHT
PREDICTED BY FARLEY
Talmadge Blocks Unanimous
Pledge of Loyalty to Roosevelt
as National Committee Meets.
Appointment of w. Forbes Nor
gan as Secretary Announced.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

Ia NJ ooOLD LAENSoLANs
With President Roosevelt's defiant
pledge-"We will not retreat"-still
ringing in their ears, the Democratic
National Committeeman today turned
to Chicago for their national conven-
ton next June.
There the champion of the New
Deal was nominated three and a half
years ago and the Democrats started
triumphant campaign.
why retreat from that precedent
lets give the President a second
nomination in Chicago" was the way
leading members of the committee
put it.
The actual selection Of the con-
vention city will be made by the
committee this afternoon. following
luncheon at the White House with
President Roosevelt
In addition to Chicago, Philadelphia
and San Francisco will make bids.
Chicago, however, is reported to have
decided edge in the lace for the con-
vention. The word has been passed
around that Chicago is the choice of
Chairman James A. Farley. and pre-
sumably will be acceptable to the
President.
Farley Sees Bitter Campaign.
Before the committee. which met st
10 am. in the Willard Hotel. got down
to the business of receiving bids from
the cities seeking the national con-
vention, it listened to a speech by
Chairman Farley, in which he pre-
dicted. Our opponents will make this
the bittrest and certainly the dirtiest
political struggle that any Of us here
can remember"
Farley's address to the committee
was at once warning that every
Democrat must be up on his toes and
tion.
He predicted the campaign waged
by the opponents of the New Deal
would be campaign of defamation
and that the assault on the Roose-
welt administration would be financed
by the largest Slush fund on record.
contributed for the most part by
those who have neither public con-
science nor private scruple."
The President. Farley insisted, had
kept his pledges to the people-that
none should starve, that there should
be sound currency and Government
credit, that prohibition should be re-
pealed-and had put the country sue
cessfully on the road to recovery.
| One discordant note was sounded at
| the committee meeting this morning
| National Committeeman Frank Hague
of New Jersey offered resolution re-
affirming the loyalty of the members
of the committee to President Roose-
welt and indorsing the efforts "of our
great leader"
The resolution was slated to &c
through unanimously.
Gov. Eugene Talmadge of Georgia,
bitter foe of the Roosevelt admins
tration. a member of the national
| committee, loudly shouted no when
the resolution was put to vote.
Vice President Garner appeared at
the committee meeting as vice chair
man Of the Democratic National Com
mittee He made brief introduction
of Chairman Farley. Both the re-
marks of the Vice President and
Chairman Farley were broadcast over
the radio. 1t was the first time the
Vice President has spoken on the
| radio at a political gathering since
he assumed Office. He praised Farley
as an efficient chairman.
1--WE are all human" said the Vice
President, land we make mistakes
politically, but your chairman has
made as few mistakes as any man ]
ever knew"
The national committee adopted
the call and delegate strength fol
the Dem ocratic National Convention
The delegate strength will be 1,l00
or 54 less than in 1882. This is due
to the fact that in 1882 the State:
| (See LINCOLN. Page A-3)