The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-19

les or state conventions of 1858.
 This means the biggest major
 party split since the Bull Moose
 bolt of 1912, assuming that the
 administration is successful, and
 that the Republicans carry out
 their private assurances. Strate-
 gists in both parties, however, ex-
 pect that the big year of political
 alignment between conservatives
 and progressives will come in 1940.
 The Farley machine, local poli- ticians and labor's Non Partisan league-which is backed chiefly by top officials of the big c. I. O. unions-are working together in at least a half-doaen states for pro- New Deal and pro-labor Democratic candidates, with elimination of anti New Deal Democratic senators as 8 chief aim.
 Will Try to Smash Machine EIRST indication that these forces A were operating came from New Jersey, where Senator William H. SmitherS, and other Roosevelt sup porters, have decided with organiz- ed labor'S aid to try to smash Frank Hague's powerful Democratic ma chine. Congressman Elmer H. Wene will run against Senator Harry Moore in the Democratic guberna- torial primary.
 The background of this is the
 fact that Boss Hague, whose ma
 chine was not too On0rouS for
 New Deal purposes when he play
 ed New Deal ball, has been Op-
 posing the administration lately.
 His senator, Moore, joined the
 anti-court senators, and Chair
 man Mary Norton of the House
 Labor committee, another political
 ally of Hague's, had been fighting
 desperately to avoid wage-hour
 legislation at this session.
 Investigation discloses that the same tactics, in one stage or an- other, are being used in several other states.
 Faces Desperate Fight
 CENATOR ALvA ADAMS of Colo D rado, 8 leader in the fight against the court plan and one of the signers of the judiciary report, will face a desperate fight against combined administration and labor forces. Labor's Non-Partisan League has promised adequate financing if a strong candidate to run against Adams can be found.
 Present plans call for slate
 which will advance a former or-
 ganization man for senator and .
 candidate with strong labor ap-
 peal for governor.
 Over at the White House they're saying that Senator Bennett
 Champ Clark of Missouri is fin-
 ished as senator. His principal
 worry is Judge Charles Hay, who has strong labor support and probably will be the pro- RoOse- vent candidate.
 Senator Pat McCarran of Nevada already has announced during the court debate that the party ma chimes dagger is in his heart. AL though he has had a big buildup from William Randolph Hearst, 1t is believed that even Pat doesn't 4eel potent enough to defeat the man Senator Key Pittsman and the Democratic machine will run against him. V Conferences on Tydings CONFERENCES have been held M lately with a view to eliminat- ing Senator Willard Tydings of Maryland, another court plan op- ngnent who is wealthy and socially urominent. The New Deal candi- date against Tydings is likely to be the progressive congressman, Davis Lewis, who has had @ labor back ground since he went to work in the mines at the age of g.
 Senators Van Nuys, Indiana, and Gillette, Iowa, two other court plan onponents whose terms will soon ex- nlre, have been doomed for some *fEne by their state machines. Van Ntys ilas been out of favor both with fhe McNutt machine in Indiana, and also the new machine which Governor Townsend has been build ing up. He was really out of the nicture before the court plan came au, and will continue to be out of 4t unless he receives a Republican Examination.
 Purge of the Party
 CENAToR AUGUSTINE LoNER- VI GAN of Connecticut will be kuught bitterly by New Deal Demo- erats, and will almost surely be Mnminated by Republicans if his nnrty throws him overheard. Pre- sliinably the administration is also after Senator Walter F. George of Georgia.
 That leaves Senator Cotton EdD Smith of South Carolina .mong the group of Democratic H0nrt plan opponents up again next year. Nobody in the admin lstration or elsewhere believes ssCotton Ed" can be licked.
 This information comes mostly from pro-New Deal sources and may reflect more New Deal optin1- ism than is justified. But it shows fhat Roosevelt has moved at last toward his threatened purge" of she Democratic party. The senators ha is after are all conservatives who have opposed him on other issues Ahan that of the court plan. { Copyright, 1887, NEA service. xz,c.j