The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-15

and for the New Dealers W November.
 To be absolutely blunt, in other words, it would help anti-Admin- istration forces if business did not pick up and if the New Deal had to go to the polls in the middle of a depression.
 This is not admitted publicly, of course. Publicly, anti-New Deal Democrats are thunderbolt- ing about currency, sound econ- omy and budget-balancing. But privately they admit that if con- ditions improve in the next six months, New Deal candidates would reap the benefit, and the Presidents position would be greatly strengthened in the new Congress.
 The Reason Why
 Should business continue sour, on the other hand, the opposition not only could return with en- hanced prestige, but it would also gain a powerful tactical advan- tage in its secret aim to wrest control of the Democratic party from Roosevelt and nominate it's own man in 1940.
 As Jack Garner once said: "We don't want any of these New Dealers nominated in 194O." -..
 Because of the political dyna- mite attached to any open attack on spending, the antis will wage their battle by indirection. They will concentrate their efforts on amendments to "earmark" the new funds; that is, to specify the express purposes for which the money can be used. / Such strategy, if successful, would strike double blow at the White House: W by restricting and retarding expenditures; (2) by preventing outlays being made in such a manner as to help New Deal candidates.
 Republican Dilemma
 The above is the strategy of anti-Roosevelt Democrats. For Republicans, however, the spend- ing program is much more brain- wracking.
 They feel exactly the same as the anti-Administration Demo- crats. They realize just as acute ly that brightening of the econ- omic skies will be to the advan- tage of the New Deal. But they fear that if they line Vp with the Old Guard Democrats in fighting the Presidents recovery plan, they will be tarred with the same un- popular brush if conditions do. improve.
 So the COP boys are tossing uneasily between the two un- comfortable horns, trying to fig ure out the sOundest course to pursue. Oregon's veteran Sen. Charles McNary, the brainiest head in the COP command, is counseling the same strategy he advised during the Supreme Court fight:
 Let the Republicans keep in the background while dissident Demo- crats do the public gunning against the President.
 AIS Ghost Writer
 Al Smith, who spent lot of time denouncing Rex TugWell during the 1886 campaign, now has expressed a desire to meet him.
 It will be recalled that when Roosevelt was up for reelection, Al Smith based much of his at tack on the assertion that the President had surrounded him. self with a lot of crack-pot pro- fessors, chiefly Tugwell, whose ideas were running the nation.
 At a cocktail party, the other day, Al ran across Charles Taus- sig, member of the Brain Trust, and now Tugwell's boss in the American Molasses company. They got to talking in a friendly way, and finally Smith, knowing that Taussig was Tugwells employer and close friend, said:
 "By the way, what kind of man is Tugwell? I'd like to meet him."
 "Oh, haven't you ever met him?" replied Taussig. "He used to write all the speeches for Belle Moskowitz."
 As eyes nearly popped from his head. Belle Moskowitz, who died in 1883, wrote most of Al own speeches when he was gov- ernor of New York and candidate for President.
 NOTE-Taussig promised to ar range luncheon between Smith and Tugwell. They may find that