Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-06-24

The point is that most of the Ohio
Democrats have discovered, to their
own satisfaction, that a majority of
the voters in their districts are
against the court packing bill; but
that a majority of the Democrats
in their district are for the Presi-
dent.
Thus they are between the devil
and the deep blue sea. If they vote
against the President, they are like
ly to be knocked off in the prima-
ries by a New Dealer who charges
them with having betrayed the
cause of liberalism, fought our lead
er, and generally acted in a traitor
GUS fashion. This, especially as the
Farley machine is apt to be very
efficient in the primaries.
Would Hurt Chances
But if they vote for the President
on the court bill, then their chances
in the general election are very
poor indeed. Their danger there is
that the general sentiment in the
entire district, among Republicans
as well as Democrats, would beat
them.
If Roosevelt himself were running
in 1888 the situation would be diff
ferent. The President, they still be-
lieve firmly, is simply magical as
a vote getter. People would in
many instances vote the straight
ticket, and thus the Democratic can
didates for congress would be pulled
through in most of the districts the
President carried.
But the President is not running.
So they are frightened. They want
to keep their $4,000 jobs. They
like the perquisites, the feeling of
Importance. Their wives like the
social life of the capital. They do
not want to be retired. Most of them,
as a matter of fact, could not earn
anything like so much money at
home.
So they are doing their best to
avoid either danger. They do not
want this measure voted on in the
house, and just because so many
of them do not want it voted on, it
probably will not be.
They want the bill to stay in the
senate until after the election next
year, or until present interest in it
dies away.
But if they do have to vote
against the President, the same
political logic will lead them to
vote for a great many more New
Deal measures than perhaps they
otherwise would. 1t would not do
to put themselves forward as too
strongly against the President. That
is not good politics. So the President
may be triumphant after all!
To Rejuvenate G.. o. P.
There is a movement on to re-
juvenate the Republican party. So
far the move is rather shrouded in
mystery, but a man very prominent
in the last campaign until he was
virtually shelved by Chairman John
D. M. Hamilton was in Washington
a few days ago explaining to some
senators he knew what he was try
ing to do in aiding the movement.
The main point of the idea, it
seems, is to organize a large num-
Der of huge Republican clubs, start
ing in the big cities. When cam
paign time approaches the idea
would be for the young Republicans
in these clubs to work together, in
the various congressional districts
and also in the states, for district
and state at large delegates to the
Republican National convention.
Assuming success in this, the
idea then would be for them to take
over control of the G. o. P. or
ganization at that time, and make it
a live force in the country once
more.
There is at least one shrewd idea
in the plan, however impractical
it may appear to be. This is that
the hackers are in agreement that
they must not try to foist any choice
they may develop as to the candi>
date for the presidency.
Not Like Old Days
It's very different from the good
old days, when there were bosses
that were bosses. 1t is just a little
bit interesting, since the death of the
last of them, j. Henry Roraback OF
Connecticut, a few weeks back, that
some of the young Republicans are
wishing the party had a few leaders
who had the brains and strategy Of
the old group headed by Boies Pen
rose, even if they do think the new
party ought to be a little more
liberal.
There seems to be no personals
ties particularly in the new move
ment, which is just as well at this
stage, but there are quite a few
gentlemen whose names are anath
ema. Head and front of this list is
Herbert C. Hoover. A close runner
up, for no other reason apparently
than that his name is considered
bad medicine politically, is Ogder
L. Mills of New York, Hoover.
Secretary of the Treasury and gen
orally branded as an arch conserv
alive.
1t goes without saying that Johl