The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-09-09
Has 'En1
Guessing

aus EN- quandary concern
Guessing ing the detectives
of the New Deal
administration because of a series
OF late developments Frankly, most
students of politics have to confess
their inability to fathom the various
developments of recent weeks or to
measure their significance.
l have written, heretofore, about
the wide open split in the Demo
cratic party and about the presiden-
tlal moves to heal that split but,
instead of the new developments be-
ing of a kind designed to heal
wounds, they appear specifically at
least to be doing directly the oppo-
site thing. Confessing my own in
ability to understand the political
strategy, if there be strategy, let
me merely call attention to such
things as:
The recent radio speech by Sena-
tor Guffey, Pennsylvania, Demo
crat, which thoroughly read out of
the party such able men as Sena-
tors Wheeler of Montana, Burke of
Nebraska and O'Mahoney of Wyo-
ming.
The speech of Postmaster Gen
eral Farley before the Young Demo-
| Gratis at their Indiana meeting, stat
ing that there will be no reprisals
against those Democrats who have
seen fit or now see fit to object to
parts of President Roosevelt's New
Deal program.
The so-called harmony dinner of
Democratic senators at a Washing
ton hotel after the election of Sena-
tor Barley of Kentucky as Demo-
cratic leader of the senate, and the
absence of President Roosevelt
from that meeting.
The renewal by President Roose-
welt of his criticism of Economic
Royalists" in his speech in celebra-
ton of the birth of Virginia Dare,
the first white child born in Amer
lea, at Manteo, N. C.
The speech of Senator Guffey in
New York declaring without equiv
ocation that the Committee for In
dustrial Organization, headed by
John L. Lewis, should provide a
nucleus for an American Labor par
ty. This party should have among
| its detectives the political destruc-
ton of any one who fails to carry
through the New Deal policies or
who opposes a program designed to
make the court structure of the
United States subservient to the
President.
There are other phases, other cir
cumstances that might be included
in this list, but those enumerated
serve to show the confusion that
prevails. 1CIsr present to me a
wholly nonunoerstandable and I'M
explainable. hauling and filling
breathing hot and cold without a
change of face.
There has been nothing of pure
~ political nature create quite SO
much of stir in
Gufey long time as did
Causes Stir the radio speech
of Senator Guffey
in which he called for defeat of all
those who opposed the President
plan to reorganize the Supreme
court of the United States by adding
to it six justices of the President S
own choosing. 1t was in this speech
that Senator Guffey singled out
Senators Wheeler, Burke and
| O'Mahoney for destruction. He did
this because these three senators
led the fight against the President s
plan to pack the Supreme court
Senator Wheeler and Senator Burke
conducted the fight on the floor Of
the senate; Senator O'Mahoney
wrote the devastating report by
which the senate judiciary commit
tee advised the senate to kill the
court packing bill.
Senator Guffey's speech was
made at night. When the senate
convened at noon the following day
Senator Wheeler took the floor anc
delivered one of the most vicious
speeches of which he is known tt
be capable. It was excelled in bit
terness only by the attack which
came from Senator Burke. Senator
O'Mahoney likewise made sure tina
the senate record revealed the feel
ing of those who were convinced
the President had made a vital mis-
take in proposing the court reor
ganization.
This situation would have less sig
niicance as concerns the party spill
were it not for the fact that Senator
Guffey has been serving as chair
man of the Democratic senatorial
committee. That committee is Sc
up to promote the election of Demo
cratic candidates for the senate il
every state. 1t has no other func
ton. So, when the chairman o
such a group blasted some of hi
own party's members in a country
side broadcast it takes on suprem,
Importance, and has probably mad
impossible any effort to get the tw
factions of the party back togethe
again.
1t is currently reported and it ha
not been denied that Thomas Cor
coran, publicized in the Saturda.
Evening Post lately as whit
House Tommy" because he has
desk in the executive offices, wa
the author of the radio speech b
Senator Guffey. Further than that
no one knows whether Presider
Roosevelt has anything to do wit
the Guffey speech. Suffice it to sa
that since the President has not dis
avowed the Guffey speech as repre-
senting New Deal policy, man
thousands of people are going t