Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-07-10

Sunny Jim Farley, on the eve Of
plunging formally into the campaign to
save the New Deal, refuses to descend
an inch from the stratosphere of serene
confidence amid which he is sailing into
the fray. He will not concede single
State to Landon." That has been the
Democratic field marShals story all
along, and he's going to stick to it.
Farley thinks that his batting average
as political prophet, especially where
Roosevelt fortunes we're concerned, de-
mands respect for his 1886 predictions.
Neither Democratic walk takers nor the
Lemke third party threat seem capable
of wiping the smile of optimism from the
national chairmanS chubby countenance.
Nevertheless and Notwithstanding, cur
rent developments betoken a certain
anxiety on his part to leave no stone
unturned to assure Democratic victory.
Farley's temporary retirement from the
Post Office Department, in order TO
concentrate his energies upon the CAM
paign, and the strenuous efforts to in
duce Herbert H. Lehman and Frank
Murphy to run for the governorships,
respectively, of New York and Michigan,
are straws showing, off the record, how
the wind is actually blowing. To most
observers they are signs that the New
Deal high command. despite its public
good cheer. is privately not quite 100 per
cent sure that things are lin the bag"
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Selection of Representative Sam Ray
burn as chairman of the Democratic
Speakers Bureau at national headquar-
tiers is generally interpreted as sign
of the Rooseveltians' desire to promote
the Texans ambitions to be elected
Speaker of the next House. His campaign
job will give Rayburn unusual oppor-
tunity for useful contacts with party
leaders throughout the country. The
chairman of the House Interstate and
Foreign Commerce Committee was an
ardent aspirant for the speakership in
the contest from which the late Joe
Byrns emerged triumphant. Because OF
the prominent role Rayburn played at
Chicago in the Texas-C California arrange
ment which resulted in the Roosevelt
Garner ticket in 1882, it was expected
he would have administration support
in the speakership fight Of two years
ago. It looks now as if it were planned
to do the Lone Star Representative be-
lated justice on Capitol Hill next Winter.
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With acting Postmaster General bill"
Howes sitting in the cabinet, it's believed
to be the first time South Dakota will
ever have been represented In the White
House official family. Doubtless when
President Roosevelt shortly visits the
Dakotas for a close range look see" at
the drought situation, due and honorable
mention of that fact will be made. With
a North Dakotan, Representative Lamke,
in the, presidential race, and a South
Dakotan in the cabinet, the great wheat
and corn belt area, which is this year
celebrating the diamond jubilee OF its
creation as Territory, prances into the
national limeLght to degree 1t has
never before experienced. Mr.. Howes
Is q native of Wisconsin, but has spent
the last Is years of his life at the bar
in South Dakota, including an active
career in Democratic politics. National
names predominant in his family. His
own middle name is washington and
his only child is daughter christened
Mary Senate Howes. Mr.. Farley's pinch
hitter rates as one of the up and COM
ing Democrats of the Western country.
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Defeat for denomination of the veteran
Senator Thomas p. Gore, Democrat. Of
Oklahoma is not matter of unalloyed
satisfaction to the New Dealers. They