The Washington times., 1936-03-06
R00SE EV Ell 7
CHALLENGES
PARTY FOES
BY GEORGE DURNO
international News Service

Just confirming a wide-open
secret, President Roosevelt's hat
officially was in the ring today
for reelection.
The manner in which it was
tossed there, however, constituted
q definite challenge to the ele-
ments within the Democratic
party which have been critical
of his Administration in recent
months.
BY signing the necessary papers
to place himself before the pri-
mary electorate of Ohio, Massa-
chusetts and Maryland, the Pres
ident served notice he would con-
test in every State for delegates
to the June convention in Phila-
delphia, whatever the issue.
Breckinridge in Race
Col. Henry Breckenridge, New
York attorney, who achieved ma
tional publicity as counsel for
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh during
the latter's trying days in search
of the murderer of his kidnapped
child, has announced he will en-
ter the Ohio and Maryland pri-
marieS in opposition to the PreSi-
dent.
In Massachusetts,, Mr.. Roosevelt
already has felt the intra-party
opposition of former Governor Ely
an ally of Alfred E. Smith, who
recently told the American Lii
berty League he might take a
walk" if the Philadelphia conven-
ton renominated the President.
According to Postmaster Gen
eral Jim Farley, who again will
manage the Presidents election
campaign, the Executive will be
entered in every primary where
State laws provide for a pledged
delegation.
In this connection, though,
Farley has been having his trou-
bles with California. The Post
master General has worked for
weeks trying to compose the diff
ferences between the faction led
by Senator William G.. McAdoo
and that headed by State Chair.
man Culbert Olsen - the latter
having been manager for Upton
Sinclair in the bitter EPIC cam
paign.
Following up the filing of papers
In Annapolis, the President will
open his campaign on April 13 to
keep Maryland in the Roosevelt
column. On that date he will
motor over from Washington to
speak at dinner of the Young
Democrats assembled from all Of
the States within this region.
On April Is the President is due
for a return engagement in New
York City where he will deliver
the principal address at a belated
jefferson Day dinner sponsored by
the New York City Democratic
Club.
The last of May Mr.. Roosevelt
will swing out across the country
to Texas for that States centen-
nial celebration. Stops will be
made in Arkansas and Mississippi,
according to present plans. On
the return trip the President will
speak on June 7 at Vincennes,
Ind, in connection with dedica-
tion of the George Rogers Clark
Memorial
Early intenslfication of the
Roosevelt campaign was seen
with the advent of secretary OF
State Cordell Hull on the cam
paign stage.
Speaks in Baltimore
Hull left his foreign affairs at
the State Department to journey
to Baltimore last night and make
a strong defense of the Admins
tration policies in general. The
speech was made before the
Young Democratic Club of Mary
land and broadcast over a nation.
wide radio hookup.
Commenting only briefly on
foreign affairs, Hull dealt gen.
really with the Administration S
domestic policies. He defended
practically everything the .Ad.
ministration has done; from its
agricultural program to it's none
tary and industrial policies.
Recalling that when the new
Administration came into power
the nation was on the verge OF
collapse, Hull asserted the mea
Sures taken by President Roose
velt saved the country from that
disaster.
He chided those who contend
that "inaction would in it's own
good time have set things right
again" and that American life