The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-06-20

... Clouds of Dirt Already
 Flying "SeIlOut" Boys
 Get Ready to '"Tell All" ,.
 Ickes Once More BObs Up
 on Top. , Washington, June 2O.-The "gae Jim Farley" movement is gaining strength here and may soon make some headway.
 Many of the boys and girls in the administration are convinced that the postmaster general-nationai chairman is showing up as Labil- ity No. in the campaign and that practically every time he makes a public utterance the net effect is all to the bad.
 No one is trying to get Jim out of his job as campaign manager but in many quarters you hear the wish expressed that he would cease appearing as chief spokes- man for the New Deal and the democratic party and confine him. self to getting the votes.
 The idea Is that Farley may carry an appeal in New York and perhaps New England, but that when you go west from there you start running into an anti Farley, anti Tammany prejudice which ought not to be unframed.
 There are other men who might speak up for the party. It is ar- gued, for instance, that 1t would have been much better for Secre- tary of Agriculture Wallace to have made the charge that Cover nor Landon in 1883 favored pay ing off the Fourth Liberty Loan .n greenbacks.
 As handled by Farley, this one fell 50 flat that Republican Chair man John Hamilton was able to make a biting reply to Jim's other remarks without being forced even to mention the greenback charge.
 
 Dirt Starts Flying
 It begins to appear that some democratcs are willing to do prac- tically anything to win the elec- ton. Current charges that poli- tics induced the administration to drop income tax indictments against Huey Longs old lieutenants in Louisiana and that postmasters are being used for collection of small campaign contributions have added to the odor of suspicion.
 Republicans are enabled to point to Farleys prediction that this one would be 8 dirty campaign" and hint that he was referring to his own plans.
 Since 1t obviously Is Farley's job to take care of such dirty work as there Is to be done and because the more sOrdid as well as the normal political lnaneuv- CTS have been under his super vision, the picture of rather sinister fellow has been built up.
 Various prominent New Deal- CTS who consider themselves "purer" than Jim have helped in the building. And the pie ture becomes easy to sell in areas where religious prejudice is still strong.
 Every insider knows the cam- paign will be dirty" and that 1t will be dirty" on both sides. Any one who knows politics and poli- ticians has no right to expect any, thing else.
 But the democrats will have to decide whether it's safe tactics to have Farley acting as both party scapegoat and party spokesman at the same time.
 Ready to '"TelI All''
 You can expect explosions soon from men now working in the New Deal who are aching to get loose and tell all," perhaps for Q price. Every administration has It's skeletons and recent inquiries from g. o. D. "brain trust" headquarters lead certain officials to believe the enemy already is seeking to piece together some exposures which are based on leaks from the in- side.
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 Ickes on Top Again
 If the New Deal takes a licking next November, Secretary Harold L. Ickes need hardly worry. He could get job in any circus as the "1n- dia rubber man."
 For three years Ickes has been demonstrating his ability to be knocked flat on the floor and then after an interval suddenly bounce high in the air as if released by Q spring.
 His PWA boys, celebrating their third anniversary, brag that they have 0utlived the other members of the New Deal trio, NRA and AAA. A few weeks ago, with the approval of Roosevelt and Harry Hop kins, the referees all pro- nOunced PWA as definitely Q dead duck. No money was be- cling asked for another PWA program.
 The story of how PWA rose like a phoenix or something from tho ashes is 8 devious one, featuring some grim biting and scratching in the clinches.
 But the current chapter is that Ickes gets $30O,0OO,OOO to give away, which presumably means a construction program of about $75O, 100000. Since PWA had only $320, ,O00, 900 last fiscal year, Ickes does relatively better than the