The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-09
. BEHIND | THE SCENJESl WASHINGTON v RODNEY DUTcHER-I
 Democrat Washington
 Correspondent
Bob" Jackson, Who Can Do Everything, May Be
 New Deals Hope in Pivotal New York State for the 194O Elections.

for the 194O Elections.
 Washington, Dec. 9-Roosevelt once said of Assistant Attorney General Robert H. Jackson:
 "He is the only man I have who can do everything"
 Jackson, who caught the biggest fish on the recent presidential va cation trip, is the administrators fair-haired boy. The presidents personal fondness for him explains why he was invited on the trip for conversations which could just as well have been had in the White House.
 The conversations between the two men, however, were potentially of great political importance. One subject was anti-monopoly legisla- tion, on which Jackson, as head of the justice departments antitrust section and perhaps the most bril- liant all-round lawyer in the gov- ernment service, is the administra- tion expert.
 New York Key to 1940
 The other topic had to do with Roosevelt's concern over the 1888 elections in New York state. The president wants Jackson to be the Democratic candidate for governor there next year-in case Postmaster General Jim Farley decides not to seek the post. It has been widely believed that Farley wants to be governor and Roosevelt will back him 100 per cent if he does. But Jim hasn't said a word to the president or anyone else, and FD.R appears to have exhibited delicate reti- cence about asking him.
 Meanwhile. New York state is
 virtually the key to 1940. Any
 presidential candidate who can't carry it probably cant win the election. If Republicans should elect 8 governor, senator or both in Roosvelt's home state next year, the new deals prestige and political fortunes would suffer terrific blow. Also, any reasonably conservative Republican governor or senator from New York would almost automatically become leading Republican presidential candidate.
 District Attorney Tom Dewey of New York city, able and spectacular anti-racket crusader won Sensa- tional victory over Tammany oppo- Sition in the recent New York elec- ton and fairly exudes political it," More and more he is becoming white hope to the battered Republi- cans-and correspondingly is re- garded increasingly as menace by the Democrats.
 Dewey is certain to run for gov- ernor next year, administration pol iticians believe.
 What of LaGuardia?
 One group of administration poli- ticians is convinced that Farley could lick any Republican guberna- torial nominee-except Dewey. They doubt whether anyone could beat Dewey except Jackson. A native New Yorker, as Dewey is not, Jack OOLl CdlIlCo lluSLA UyPC of appeal as a clean-cut urbane, honest, extremely able public ser- want.
 Farley's greatest handicap might be his inability to obtain support of the American labor party which boiled nearly 500,000 votes for Mayor F. II. LaGuardia last month and also has strength up- state. The ALP. would be likely to support Jackson if he were the Democratic candidate, if only be- cause Dewey would be the more conservative of the two men.
 Poised in mid-air is LaGuardia, who also has presidential aspira- tions and-like everyone else wonders which way various politi- cal cats are going to jump. Con- ceivably he will run for the senate as Republican. And there is spec ulation whether Senator Robert P. Wagner, Democrat, might not want to take a crack at the governorship, perhaps in a deal with Governor Herbert Lehman, who would like to have Wagner's seat in the senate.
 Certainly the word for anyone in- terested in 1940 politics is-- Watch NeW Y0rkt