Evening star., 1936-02-19
NEW DEAL MAKES
best OF SMITH AS
|PARLEY DELEGATE
Roosevelt Forces Fairly
Content With Tammany
Reinsurance.
G. o. P. IN new YORK
PICKS REPRESENTATIVES
Fur Flies, However, With Asser.
tion by Fish Only Old Guard
Has Been Recognized.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
The selection of sAlfred E. Smith,
who has threatened to take a walk"
If President Roosevelt is renominated
on a New Deal platform, to head the
list of Tammany delegates to the
Democratic National Convention is
not exactly down the Roosevelt alley.
Nevertheless. Roosevelt high command
today was preparing to make the best
OF the matter and was reasonably con-
tent with statements that Tammany's
delegation would stand by Roosevelt
and vote for his denomination, with
the exception of Smith and possibly
a few others.
The presence of Smith as delegate
not only breaks into Roosevelt and
New Deal harmony but presents
rallying post for any other delegates
who may be hostile. Chairman James
A. Farley of the Democratic National
Committee is out to bring about the
election of only Simon-pure Roosevelt
Democrats to the national convention.
There is always the chance, however.
that disgruntled delegate may be
found here and there The chairman
Of the Democratic National Committee
will see to it, wherever it is possible,
that the State delegations be in
structed" for Roosevelt and voted un-
der the unit rule.
There were reports that the admin
istration had requested James j. Doo-
ling, Tammany leader, to keep Smith
off the delegate list, and even that ne
had been summoned to Washington.
They we're denied. Representatives OF
Chairman Farley. who is also chairman
of the Democratic State Committee OF
New York. were said to have urged the
selection of former Mayor James }.
Walker of New York as district dele
gate, but to have been turned down by
Tammany. This, too. was stoutly de-
MED. Walker was not named on the
delegate list, at any rate.
G. o. p. Picks Delegates.
While Tammany was making up its
delegate list for the Democratic Ma
tional Convention the Republican State
Committee, under the leadership Of
Chairman Melvin c. Eaton, chose a
slate of eight delegates at large to at
tend the Republican National Conven-
ton and eight alternates.
The fur flew in the committee meet
ing, however, with charges that only
Old Guard delegates had been picked.
Representative Hamilton Fish. sup
porter of Senator Borah of Idaho for
the presidential nomination. made
that assertion. There was wrath, too,
because Walter j. Mahoney Of Buf-
falo, president of the Association Of
New York State Young Republican
Clubs. had been omitted.
Notwithstanding the protests of Mr..
Fish and of supporters of W. Kings
land Macy, former State chairman,
the Eaton list o. delegates at large was
voted up. 1t Is headed by the veteran
Republican national committeeman,
Charles D. Hilles. The other members
of the delegation at large will be Mrs.
Ruth Baker Pratt, New York; Repre-
sentative Bertrand H. Smell. Potsdam;
Edward H. Butler, Buffalo; Mrs. vir-
ginia M. Bacon. Westbury, Long
Island; Representatives James w.
Wadsworth, Genesee: John r. Crews,
Republican leader, Kings County, and
Charles H. Grifhths, Republican leader
of Westchester.
Small Comfort for Borah.
1t does not look as If Senator Borah
would get any comfort out of the list
of delegates at large. However, the
fight for the election of Borah district
delegates in the Empire State at the
coming primaries is likely to be in
tensified.
Fish complained bitterly because
there were no young Republicans and
no liberals on the list. This slate, -
he said, "does not represent so per cent
of our party. Why is our party at such
a low ebb? It Is because we have fol-
lowed just this sort of leadership of
rule or ruin"
Chairman Farley said today that ii
Dooling, the Tammany leader. had
been to Washington, he had not seen
him. He said he had heard it re-
ported that Dooling did come here
The Tammany leader, it was insisted
in other quarters, had neither seen
Mr.. Farley nor President Roosevelt
He did see and talk with Senator
Copeland, who has not always seen
eye to eye with the Roosevelt admin
istration. The Senator, however, is
of the opinion that the Tammany
delegation, with the exception of AL
Smith. will support the denomination
Of Roosevelt.