Evening star., 1938-10-09

death and de-
struction to The
majority party.
distinction between political differ
ences on methods and differences on
fundamentals. They do not realize
that a President and members Of Con-
greSs might entertain divergent views
on certain governmental policies and
still 60 along in perfect accord on
the great objectives Of the party. just
as a colonel might disagree with his
general as TO the conduct of 4 battle
without either of them trying 10 de-
stroy the other regardless of the ef-
feet their quarrel might have on the
struggle.
Once upon a time President McKin-
ley had a policy feud with a number
Of Northwestern Senators, but do
not recall that that hampered the
election of Theodore Roosevelt or
William Howard Taft Likewise,
President Theodore Roosevelt took
the scalp of Senator Foraker of Ohio
and a little later on got his tomahawk
out for Platt and Depew Of his own
State It doesn't seem to me that
those things wrecked the Republican
| parry, any more than did the quarrel
Of the Coolidge branch Of the G. o. P.
and the Progressive Senators who were
iolted out of their committee assign
ments rs a consequence.
When the Hatchet Is Buried.
In these intra party battles some-
times one side wins out and some-
times the other and then the books
close and things 60 on as usual.
| In regard TO the much advertised
discord between the Democratic Presi-
dent and the Democratic national
chairman, the Republican trumpeters
know all about it and the only people
who are unaware OF 1t seem to be
Franklin d. Roosevelt and James A.
Farley
My esteemed contemporary, Frank
Kent, who is always perfectly neutral
as between stating a political fact and
stating political fiction, devotes q
column or more to the denomination
of Gov. Lehman in New York, In which
he announces that President Roosevelt
did not mean what he said in his tele-
gram OF congrattlation to the Gov
ernor and was really very unhappy
when he told the Governor that Il am
very happy at the result of the recent
Rochester convention. 1t 50 happens
/ that Franklin Roosevelt and Herbert
Lehman have been friends since boy
hood. Lehman was Lieutenant Gov
ernor during Roosevelt's terms at Al
bany and Roosevelt groomed him for
| his successor. Their friendship has
/ continued, and continues on uninter-
ruptedly. despite a disagreement on
/ one item In Roosevelt,s Federal pro-
/ gram.
! Mr.. Kent attributes Gov. Lehman's
denomination to the efforts of Chair
man Farley. But nobody but a q. O. P.
| propaganda can see that the chief of
the Democrats field forces could or
would go out to renominste the Gov
ernor Of New York in opposition to
! the wishes OF the New Yorker In the
| White House
Maybe They Just Wanted 4 Winner.
As simple observer of political af-
fairs, particularly of Democratic af-
fairs, might I venture the suggestion
that both President Roosevelt and
Chairman Farley were concerned with
| the selection OF a winning ticket in
that State and connived with each
other, choosing the candidate for Gov
| ernor who would insure victory for
the Democratic side next month.
1t was no secret that Herbert Leh-
man was reluctant to accept q fourth
term in Albany. Is there any child in
politics who believes that he would
have accepted his party's call at this
time had he thought that the President
OF the United States opposed his re-
| nomination?
As to the wisdom of New York's
choice, even the most intense of the
Pejos cannot see calamity for the
Democratic party in that outcome.
Pejos Is handy contraction of
Pejorists, which was a word discovered
to me by college professor and which
I found meant super-superlative
to pessimists. There has been q good
deal of debate, judging from my mail,
in the choice of this designation for
q miscellaneous assortment of in
terests that represents the anti-Roose-
welt forces and for which Republican
was obviously an inadequate term.
Jeremiahs on Jokes?
One correspondent insists that they
should be called Pejobs, explaining
that Job made capital of his boils.
Another etymologist presents that 4
better designation would be Peters,
the "jer" standing for jeremiah. the
great biblical calamity exponent. A
third offered Pejoe, on the theory that
that word lent itself readily to further
contraction into Joes. Needless to
say, this third correspondent was \
newspaper man and was thinking of
a word that would fit nicely into
headlines A fourth came across
with the statement that the new
designation of the minority party
ought to be Pejokes. And there were
many others. Amid so many helpful
thoughts, am bewildered and there
fore must continue the use Of the
original designation until have fur
ther enlightenment.
In view of the constant pejoristic
warning that ruin and chaos lie ahead,
1 am moved to reprint paragraph or
two from Mr.. Kent's own newspaper,
the Baltimore Sun, Of last Sunday.
Here 1t Is:
References to evidence Of improve
ment can be multiplied. Besides,
there are evidences of the efforts which
are being made to expand business
activity. Postal receipts are to be
interpreted as affording evidence Of
this kind. They are running at q
level higher than for the corresponding
period in any year since 1929.
"An of tip evidence points to some