Evening star., 1936-01-31
ALI. Other States and Canada.
Talmadge and Smith.

Gov. Eugene Talmadge Of Georgia, in
vited by the "Jeffersonian Democrats"
to become candidate for the Demo-
cratic presidential nomination against
President Roosevelt, has announced
plans for stumping the country. He will
travel from coast to coast, he says, dis
cussing the platform" adopted by the
Jeffersonian Democrats in Macon. This
platform pledges support Of the Con-
stitution and the Democratic platform
of 1882; it attacks President Roosevelt
whom 1t holds to be no Democrat-and
the New Deal policies. So another
Democratic voice is to be raised more
vigorously against the present admin
istration, Whether Gov. Talmadge actu-
ally projects himself into the race Tor
delegates to the Democratic National
Convention is not material. AS things
now stand, there seems no doubt that
Roosevelt will be renominated at the
Philadelphia convention next June. But
n speaking tour through the United
States by a Democratic Governor OF a
Democratic State charging the President
with being a socialist and the New Deal
. with destroying the liberties OF the
American people can be little short OF
Irritating to the Roosevelt campaign
managers.
Talmadge has a fair for stump speak
inc. He has demonstrated his ability
to appeal to the masses in his own State
of Georgia. It is to the masses that his
appeal will be made in his tour OF the
country. The administration would have
had q dificult time trying to link the
late Huey p. Long of Louisiana, its bitter
Toe. with the "classes" and against the
masses, had Long lived. The New Deal
ers will have just as tough a time pic
turing Talmadge as friend OF the
millionaires and an enemy OF the farmer.
So Talmadge becomes in some degree
menace to the reelection OF the Presl-
dent. He will make an appeal to the
same kind of people as those from whom
the New Dealers are hoping for support
for President Roosevelt.
The tactics of the administration, in
It's effort to offset the recent attack on
Roosevelt and the New Deal by Al Smith,
have been to smear" the former Gov
ernor of New York. This was expected.
Instead of answering the charges brought
by Smith, they have adopted the argu-
ment ad hominem. Smith is, they say,
q minion of the rich, a sour, disappointed
politician. And they let it go at that.
Perhaps they will find Smith later on
the stump against the New Deal.
About the time it was announced that
Al Smith would make his attack on the
New Deal at the American Liberty
League dinner charges were brought by
administration officials against Pierre S.
du Pont and John j. Raskob of fraud in
connection with the 1929 income tax
return of Mr.. du Pont. They are friends
Of Smith, leaders in the American Lib
erty League. In an effort to lessen the
political effect of Smiths speech, the
charges against du Pont and Raskob
were dragged into the Senate by New
Deal Senator shortly before the Liberty
League dinner
Charges of the misuse of w. P. A.
funds yesterday were brought before q
grand jury in Atlanta, involving a
brother of Hugh Howell, democratic State
chairman and supporter of Governor
Talmadge. Hugh Howell it was who
obtained from the Macon convention
the Endorsement Of Governor Talmadge
Is q candidate for President. It is
claimed now that A. S. Howell, State
supervisor Of education, had used
w. P. A. workers to send out copies of
. newspaper. the Georgia Woman's
World, attacking the President and Mrs.
Roosevelt. If such turns out to have
been the case it is entirely reprehensible.
Has any grand jury yet been asked to
consider charges made by former Gov-
ernor Pinchot Of Pennsylvania to the
effect that relief funds are being misused
In the Keystone State, where the demo-
cratic machine is in control?
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