The Washington times., 1936-06-22
FARLEY HEADS
F0LL|ES AND
SCANDALS
Nominees, Platform
In Bag Slim Chance
Seen for Fight
Continued from Page u

Harvard by the New Deal, which
has lot to answer for If there's
any justice in this world or the
next. He's just a sample Of the
brain trust, this near-sighted ped
agogue, for they're all over the
shop-40 or so of them. Bulging
with brains. Very hot stuff.
Pinks to Reds
Parked behind fat-bowled pipe
and half -obScured by its smoke is
Exhibit B of the New Deal-one
Of those Whiskered lads who burn
a candle to Karl Marx and gets
all het-up if you happen to men
tion this fellow Stain over in Mos
COW. Very much down on the
Constitution and those nine old
gentlemen up on the Hill. You
see them all around, these fellows
pale pink to real red who have
crept into the Democratic nest.
In and around the hotel lobbies
the Bellevue-Stratford's mainly,
since that is convention headquar-
ters, where the Democratic Ma
tional Committee hangs out, and
the press associations are camped
are the usual run of old polit1-
clans local bosses - standing
around, chewing on cigars, talking
out of the corners of their mouths,
mySteriously; making the most
trivial gossip take on the aspect
of q state secret. Sneering at
Roosevelt in private but stretching
out eager paws for Federal cash
and almost going down on their
knee bones when Jim Farley comes
around.
Platform Ready
They're great lot, these Demo
Gratis of the vintage of 1886, a
mighty interesting lot. Somehow
they don't look like politicians at
all. They don't create the familiar
convention atmosphere. It's more
like a convention of the B. P. O.
E. like an exposition.
Goodness knows there's moth
ing much for either delegates or
visitors to do. Roosevelt and Gar
ner will be re-nominated by ac-
clamation unless somebody has a
brain storm. The platform is pref
ty well cut and dried. They are
putting the finishing touches on
it this afternoon, with Prof. Ray
Moley and Herbert Bayard Swope,
closely connected, res pectively,
with those eminent milllonalres,
Vincent Astor and Bernard M.
Baruch, planning some of the i'm
portant planks.
Somebody may stir up. a plat
form row over the Constitution
whether or not to bawl it out in
public, as we'll as to call those
nine old gentlemen of the Su-
preme Court out of their names.
But that's about all. Just routine
stuff, going through the motions.
There's just sporting chance
that something really worthwhile
in the way of delightful trouble
may come out of Father Cough
Inns performances. Let me tell
you right now that the Detroit
priest has got these Democrats
worried. Don't you think for
minute that he hasn't.
If Jim Farley had any hair on
his head Coughin would be in it.
Most of the talk you hear around
the hotels today has to do with
the danger to Democratic pros
poets of the radio priests third
party-headed by the radical,
Lemke. They may talk big and
try to laugh it off, but privately,
when they get together and let
down their hair, they don't like
1t a bit.
Half a dozen Democratic lead
ers of pretty well demonstrated
acumen tell privately-under the
seal of confide nc e-that the
Coughlin-Lemke third party is
going to cost President Roosevelt
at least a million votes. That
third party will draw in a lot of
Roosevelt left wingers, a whole
mob of the discontented have
nots.
Week Of Vaudeville
The fellows who read the new
republic and the n a t on and
think Roosevelt is a softy. The
Democrats here admit that it
won't even make a dent in the
Republican party which is more
than 80 per cent conservative as
a recent survey has just disclosed.
The Democratic party is SO per
cent liberal, or radical, whatever
you want to call it.
What we're going to get here
instead of politics is vaudeville
a solid week of it, Jim Farley,
as impressario and entrepreneur
in the role of ziegfeld, directing
the Democratic follies and scan
dals of 1886. If you can't give
the boys good fight, keep 'em
amused and well fed.
Busy Week Scheduled
The program of this convention
would infuriate Grover Cleveland
if that grand old gentleman were
still alive. Grover would have
taken one look at this Setup Of
beauty shows, bathing girl parades,
midget auto races, Paul Whiteman
and his band, an open-air prize
fight, water sports on the Schuyl-
kill River, garden parties, inter-
national ice skating, and one
hilarious round of breakfasts,
luncheons and dinners, and order
out the Regular Army.
The six days Of vaudeville
opened today with the meeting of