The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-01
BEHIND | THE SCENES lN THE |l CAMPAICN 1! Al Smith To Endorse Landon Is The Latest
 Inside Dope
Expected to "Shoot the Works" When He Opens Up on
 New Deal.
BY RODNEY BUTCHER Waterbury Democrat Washington

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 COrrespondent)
 New York, October = Al Smith fa addition to attacking the New Deal with his bitterest brand of Gcorn. will endorse Governor Lan- upn by name, says an inside tip. %t That's the answer to a question nan politicians have been asking themselves = assuming, of course, tlaat Smith doesn't change his mind.
 Some of the republican strategists TOW say privately that Smith will out more heavily into the Roosevelt vote than they previously antici- nated, mainly in large cities such as New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Detroit.
 Democrats consulted on that point gre divided between those who say Smith will give votes to Roosevelt HS often as he speaks and those who feel that Smith will be helpful to Roosevelt in some areas and harm fjl in others.
 ss The question as to whether
 Smith, in campaign speeches,
 would actually come out for Lan- don has been a question of
 whether this lifelong democrat
 could actually be persuaded to de-
 clare for a republican candidate
 0ther than by implication. " The inside tip from republican
 sources is that Smith has so de- eided. old associates of both
 Smith and Roosevelt admit that the bitterness which has grown cup between the two men is now
 almost in the incredible stage. Garner to Speak-Once
 President John N. Garner will make 8 radio speech for the Roosevelt Garner ticket. This is news to republicans, who have been aSserting that Garner had gone into the silences because he was person. ally opposed to most New Deal policies. It may also be considered news, Especially when you consider the pr0digious oratorical activities Of Colonel Frank Knox, that the dem- ocratic presidential candidate $ lined up for only one speech.
 It is common talk in Washing ton that Garner does considerable gl.ousing in private about the New Deal. One story is that he planes : the New Deal because he now has < to pay pecan pickers 75 cents in- < stead of 50 cents 8 day. 4 But Jack does keep reasserting his loyalty to Roosevelt in private conversations and has pointed out to many bosom friends that no one gould possibly agree with Roosevelt or any other man on all points of a program as big as that which Roose- lvelt initiated.
 Pin Faith on Roosevelt
 The real strategists in the demo- cratic high command have finally concluded that they have only one Speaker this year worth mentioning. That's Roosevelt.
 C The other New Deal speakers are local heroes, just window dressing.
 One question this raises IS whether Roosevelt can be more Effective than Landon and all the other republican orators put to- Sether.
 ' There were those who felt that Secretary Harold Ickes would be the nearest thing to a tower Of strength among New Deal speak CTS. But they have been more | nessimistic since Ickes undertook t0 wipe the floor with Hearst in D radio speech.
 The delivery wasn't very exclt- ing and the content wasn't up to Expectations of those who wanted to see Hearst thoroughly smeared. Hopkins Is Silent
 Ickes still rates higher as 8 New Deal campaign crusader than his xival, Harry Hopkins of WPA, However. Hopkins has been com hletely silent.
 Reason is that Jim Farley doesn't think he would be of any sheIp. Jim can't see WPA as A- campaign asset at all. And,