Evening star., 1938-01-10

Some one of his pet phrasemongers-
Tommy the Cork, Bob the Jack, Charlie
the Mike. or Harold the Ick-seems to
have sold the President a brand new
slogan for his bag of rhetorical tricks.
He pulled 1t out no fewer than eight
times during his $100-a-plate Jackson
Day dinner speech-"the integrity of the
morals of democracy" Every time F.
D. r. paid his lusty respects to the
naughty Mariettas who comprise the mi
nority of Big Business he explained that
what he's fighting for isn't to put the
du Points, the MELONS, the Fords, the
Morgans and the rest of our sinful sixty
in the Federal doghouse, but merely to
restore and uphold the integrity of the
morals of democracy" No theme ever
permeated a Wagnerian opera with more
persistence than the integrity and
morals. motif of the latest Rooseveltian
thrust at undue concentration OF eco
nomic power" When the "$20-a-course
diners recovered consciousness after the
feast of edibles and eloquence, many of
them wished the President had aban-
doned the now overworked field of scold-
ing and appeal generalities and crossed
over onto the ground of specific dis
ton" between Government and business
His Jackson Day "96-inch dog and finch
tail" speech was rattling good 1888 poll
tics, but was woefully lacking In brass
tacks.
Clifford Pinchot's announcement of his
candidacy for third term in the COVER
norship of Pennsylvania has more than
Statewide significance. The veteran
Progressive. who won smashing victory
over both the Keystone G. o. P. machine
and the Democratic party in 1928, and re-
peated in 1881, is expected this time to
run against no other than Senator Joseph
F. Guffey, provided, of course, the former
governor brings home the bacon from
the May primary. Pinchot's friends
figure that Guffey will be drafted for the
gubernatorial contest because Democrats
believe the Senator would make their
strongest race, and more likely than any
body else to keep Pennsylvania safe for
the New Deal this year and in 1910. Con-
versely, Republicans concede that II they
should lose the State in '38, as they did
in both "a and '36, the jig would prob
able be up for them in 40, and, with 1t,
pretty much all chance of electing Re-
publican President. Should Guffey
switch from Washington to Harrisburg,
the big idea apparently would be to ap-
point Governor Earle junior partner in
the Guffey machine, to the unexpired
senatorial term, which has three years to
run, and then incubate him into presi-
dental timber. Pinchot will train his
heaviest guns on the alleged raw deal
handed Pennsylvania under Earle's gov
ernorship.
Europe's dictators harp on the fiction
that Americas Wanted representative
government doesn't work." Mussolini,
Hitler e. Co. probably find some corrobo-
ration Of that theory in the Senate anti
lynching fllibuster. No fewer than 10
out Of 96 members are accounted ready
to support the measure as soon as they
get the chance, but our democratic in
stitutions, including the Senates unlim-
tied debate rules, enable sectional MI
nority to block vote. Another COM
mentary on the situation now stalling
the Nations legislative engine is the as
sertion that not more than seven or eight
senators. representing big-city regions,
where the colored vote Is political fac
tor, actually care fig about the anti
lynching bill, one way or the other.
49,
Representative Bruce Barton, Republi-
can, Of New York, took trust-busttng As
sistant Attorney General Bob jackson for
q ride the other day during the advertis-
ing executives talk before the Advertis-
ing Club Of Washington. Barton said:
'11r. jaekDon knows the truth. Hes much