Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-04-02
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Washington.-Retu from New
Hampshire and Georgia primaries
prove-to the entire satisfaction of
President Roosevelt-that Jim Farley's
claims as to what he has been doing
in building up Roosevelt organiza-
tions" are sound.
Farley has been telling the Presi-
dent for some time that he had built
organizations in every state in the
Union which would get the vote reg
istered, cast and counted-that he had
accomplished for the country as a
whole, since 1882, what he did in up
state New York between 1928 and 1882.
What this means, Farley figures, is
that many states in the Union, as for
example Wyoming, had always been
regarded as so hopelessly Republican
that the Democrats did not make any
real fight. Sometimes, as in 1916 and
in 1882, they would go Democratic on
a tidal wave, but this was always due
to the broad general current, and
actually any organization work had
nothing to do with the results.
This year, he claims, is going to be
different. There is an active Demo
cratic county chairman in every coun-
ity of every one of these normally Re-
publican states. There is to be a
worker, or workers, and watcher,
or watchers, at every precinct. The
efficiency of Tammany in getting the
vote registered and cast (they don't
like comparisons with Tammany on
the counting) is going to be nation
wide so far as the Democratic party
Is concerned.
Roosevelt knows perfectly well what
Farley did in New York state. Incl
dentally the President believes very
firmly that he is going to carry New
York state. He disclosed this in a
rather remarkable comment to per-
sonal friend about bet the friend had
made.
But he had been a little dubious, to
say the least, as to Farley's confidence
that this organization he had built up
would be very effective. In short, he
knew Farley was a genius at lining
up delegates, but he was not so sure
of his ability to project his organiza-
ton methods all over the country.
Farley's Efficiency
Then came these two striking dem
onstrations of Farley's efficiency, for
the political experts here regard them
as almost nothing else In New Hamp-
shire, where there was not enough
Roosevelt sentiment to swing the cleo
toral vote in 1882, the Farley created
organization won handily. In Georgia
the friends Of Governor Talmadge
were repulsed by vote so overwhelm
ing as to make the Talmadge strength
joke.
So now the New Dealers think that
maybe Jim Farley has not been exag-
gerating in his claims as to what his
"boys and girls" can do in Wyoming
or California, or Oregon, to name three
Of the most dangerous states, accord
ing to Farley's confidential electoral
vote tables.
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organization has been nationally
organized women's movement, extend
ing into every county and every pre-
cinct, inspired by Mrs. Roosevelt She
first developed the plan in 1882, CIV
ing women workers gasoline money!
for making their rounds, urging
women to register and vote-for Roose-
welt, of course.
In fact, it is these two elements on
which Farley and Emil Hurja have
based their supreme confidence in
Roosevelt's reelection, despite the
Literary Digest poll and various other
indications that the country was in
clined to go Republican.
Most Of the Republican leaders
figure privately that there will either
be an anti-Roosevelt tidal wave or
there won't. If there isn't, the cleo
ton, they think, will be very close
But in making that calculation they
are figuring on carrying some of the
Western states, and all the Northeast.
Carrying all the Northeast, right out
to the Mississippi river, will not be
enough.
Which gives some pertinence to
Farley's claims.
Pigeonhole Seaway
The st. Lawrence seaway treaty will
remain pigeonholed until after cleo
ton, despite the clamor Of the grange
and other interests that want to force
a vote in the senate.
President Roosevelt knows 1t is i'm
possible to obtain a two-thirds ma
jority in favor Of the treaty from the
present senate, unless there are at
least half dozen changes Of heart
on the part of individual senator's, and
that is not likely in the near future