The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-01-27
BY LYLE c. WILSON
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. (UP)
Former Governor Alfred E. Smith
emerged last night as leader of a
conservative Democratic bolt from
the presidential reelection candi-
dacy of Franklin Delano Roose-
welt.
Political Washington is specu-
lating whether Smith intends &C.
lively to campaign against the
New Deal ticket or to sanction a
Jeffersonian or constitutional
Democratic national convention
to nominate an opp osition ticket.
He announced his refusal to
support Mr.. Roosevelt Saturday
night in banquet speech before
cheering members of the Ameri-
can Liberty League. AS the DEM
ocratic nominee of 1928 and the
nations No. 2 radio orator of
1886, Smith could give tremend-
Gus Importance to any organized
Democratic move to stop Roose-
welt.
Democrats were confronted with
a similar situation in 1896 when
William Jennings Bryan and free
silver kidnapped the party. A
rump convention of sound money
Democrats nominated a presiden-
tial ticket in opposition to Bryan
ism on a national Democratic
platform. But national Democrats
sought primarily to defeat Bryan
instead of elect their candidate,
John M. Palmer, and they succeed
ed.
The Happy Warrior did not dis
close his campaign intentions Sat-
urday night. But he re-asserted
his allegiance to the Democratic
party, denied his own candidacy
for political preferment and stat
ed his inability to vote for Pres
ident Roosevelt.
Smiths disavowal of the Roose-
welt administration was based on
the charge that the New Deal had
scrapped the 1882 Democratic
platform and adopted a Socialis-
tic program. His words aroused
immediate political speculation
whether the brown derby would
come off the shelf in 1886.
William Randolph Hearst has
suggested a Jeffersonian Demo-
cratic ticket in opposition to the
New Deal slate, which will be
Roosevelt and Garner as in 1882.
Governor Eugene Talmadge of
Georgia walked out on Mr..
Roosevelt months ago. Talmadge
complained that the Democratic
administration in Washington is
tainted with Communism. The
young governor has threatened to
lead constitutional Democratic
bolt from Mr.. Roosevelt.
There have been symptoms of
rebellion among Democratic leg
islators. Virginia's leading Demo-
crats-Senators Carter Glass and
Harry F. Byrd-battered Mr..
Roosevelt's agricultural and fiscal
policies. Senator Josiah w. Bal
ley 3D., N. c. has protested the
unconstitutionality of many New
Deal experiments. Senator Thorn
as P. Gore 3D., Okla.) has been
a consistent critic and Senator
Ellison D. Smith 3D., S. c. often
has bolted Roosevelt bills. But
the legislative rebellion against,
Mr.. Roosevelt appears to be SUBJ
siding as the nation enters upon
an election year in which several
of the presidents sharpest south
ern critics are up for reelection.
There is no assurance they
would follow Smith in organiza-
ton of a conservative Democratic
opposition to the Roosevelt-Gar-
ner ticket. But listening and ap-
plauding when Smith spoke Sat-
urday night were men who rep
resented ample funds for any po-
litical venture the Happy Warri-
or might care to undertake. Also
listening and applauding were
such powerful Democrats as John
w. Davis, New York lawyer who
was the Democratic nominee of
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