Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1937-08-26

A friend of mine, welI-known
doctor, who is not a politician,
=, - -, knows nothing
NetO FORKS about politics.
Fight man. in short,
who m inds his
own business and tries to do the
best job of which he is capable,
asked me a question the other day
that precipitated this discussion. He
asked me why the newspapers
throughout the country were giving
so much space, front page space at
that, to the political fight over the
Democratic nomination for mayor
in New York.
My doctor friend observed that
which is true, namely, that the may
or of New York is only mayor Of
that city and has no Jurisdiction or
power anywhere else; he observed
as well that New York City is sim
ply a subdivision OF the state of
New York and that New York state
is only one state out of forty-eight
In our nation. Further, he sug-
gested that he, and he believed mil
lions Of others, could not possibly
have any interest in whether
Tammany or the New Deal faction
of Democrats in New York City
should win the nomination and their
mayoralty candidate.
Specifically, the doctor was
right. His thoughts, however, do
not touch the root of that situation.
Fundamentally, the battle between
Tammany and the Democrats in
New York is battle between the
old line, conservative Democrats
throughout the nation and the New
Deal faction of the party which is
headed by President Roosevelt. It
is vitality important also to the Re-
publicans for the reason that the
Presidential election of 1910 is al
most certain to be a campaign in
which we will find conservatives
from whatever party aligned on one
hand and radicals from whatever
party aligned on the other side. To
that extent, the New York primary
and mayoralty election is the begin
ming of the 1910 presidential cam
paign.
The bitterness that is going to pre-
vail from here on has been given
something Of a preview by the
charge by Senator Copeland, the
Tammany candidate, that President
Roosevelt was interfering in a pure
~ local fight. Senator Copeland's
activities in the senate have been
almost wholly antagonistic to the
President and the New Deal gener-
ally. Where the President has been
sound, as the conservatives recog-
nize sound policies, Senator Cope
land has fought alongside Of the
New Dealers. Otherwise, he has
not concealed his opposition to rad
ical New Deal proposals.
Thus, when Senator Copeland
broke openly and accused the Pres
ident of STOPPING to local politics,
he opened the way for conserva-
tives everywhere to strike back at
the political machine managed by
Postmaster General Jim Farley in
Mr.. Roosevelt's behalf. AS one
house member suggested: Senator
Copeland has put fire into the fight"
The selection of Senator Copeland
by the famous Tammany ORGANIZE
ton in New York City was the sig
nal for the New Deal faction of the
great city to take off their coats.
They promptly announced selection
of New York Supreme Court Justice
Mahoney as their candidate against
Copeland. There are four burrough
organizations behind Mahoney.
There is only the Tammany group
behind Copeland. On the face of
it, it would seem that the senator
cannot win. The fact seems to be,
however, that there will be rather
close race for the reason that some
Of the four organizations behind Ma
honey may not be able to control
the Democratic votes in their baili-
wicks as entirely as Tammany Hall
will control Democrats so long af-
fiiated with that Organization. Ger
tainly, according to the best advices
can get, the Copeland charge
against Mr.. Roosevelt is likely TO
swing good many Democrats to
the Copeland ticket. This will be SO
because New York City always has
resented outside influences in its
political battles. Senator Copeland
can be counted upon as well to
broaden the charge so that Mr.. Far
ley's tentacles in New York City
politics where he has long been ac-
tive will be made to appear like the
strangling, crushing arms of an oc-
topus. In other words, the conserv-
atives who are supporting Copeland
will not let the charge of interior
ence by the President become of
less consequence any time it is re-
| told.
True, Secretary Marvin Mcintyre
of the White House staff denied that
the President had talked politics
with the Mahoney leaders. But the
denial was not accepted by Cope
land as being sincere, for he added:
81 am not afraid of Mr.. Roose-
| velt's reprisals. The President on