The Washington times., 1938-08-23
FARLEY'S SPOT
IN ROOSEVELT.
PURGE WEIGHED
Has Been Politically
Silent for Months
BY EARL GOODWIN

sim" Farley-back in the city
for "a hours today-Where does
Farley stand? Where is he 60
ing-or where will he be thrown?
In the midst of the most active
purge" the Democratic party has
experienced in all its almost-cen-
tury of existence. the biggest per-
konal news story of the day in
wolves the mystery of the attitude
and the future of the man who
nominated Roosevelt who or
ganiZed the overwhelming conVen-
ton strength for RooSevelt-and
who for months has been politi-
cally silent because Gt is assumed
he does not believe in the whip
and.laSh purge method now being
utilized by the President Of the
United States.
MIRACLE MAN"
The miracle man OF politics,
Jim" Farley, whose Western
trip prior to the Chicago con-
vention of 1898. sewed up enough
convention candidates to nomi-
nate F. D. R. and smash Alfred
E. Smith to the point where he
eventually supported q Repub-
lican candidate for the PreSi-
dency, has been out of the coun-
try and out of touch with current
poltical events. All the while
President Roosevelt has been
driving ahead, either on his own
steam or with the advice and
counsel OF Tommy" Corcoran or
Harry Hopkins. 100 per cent New
Dealers Both are aVoWedly OF the
notion that the way to win-With-
Roosevelt is to purge the Demo
cratic party of every candidate
for national office in Senate or
House who is not a thorough
going liberal Of the New Deal
stripe.
NEW LIBERAL PARTY
No matter what such pro
gram does to the old-line Demo
cratic party, the new political
management minus Farley) be-
lieves it is the way to force into
being q new party, liberal and left
WingiSh to a startling degree.
Already the public is alive to
what is going on; there are no
secrets. All who run may read
and all who sit by the radio may
hear. 1t is purge and a fight
compared to which the mild house
cleaning tried by Woodrow Wilson
=: was a polite, kid glove affair. The
great wartime Democrat wrote a
few scholarly letters. The New
Deal President doesn't Write-in
the language of the day, he puts
the finger on 'em"-"ThiS man
is OK" or "As for this man-out
the window" But it is all done in
full view of the applauding multi
tudes.
IT'S ONLY WAY
The President is thoroughly
convinced the method is the only
one that will carry on his pro-
gressive and liberal program.
=. All OF this is benig mulled over
In the politically experienced head
of James A. Farley-back in the
city for a. hours today. 1t all adds
up to the question of the next
convention held by the Demo
Gratis. The wise ones, who hear
much and say little, are hintnig
that Farley will have a part to
play in that convention which
will have nothing to do with the
third term program.
THIRD TERM
No politician now in Washing
ton believes Mr.. Roosevelt will
announce himself as a third
teFmer; they are inclined to think
the Roosevelt friends like Hop
kins, Corcoran, Ickes, and others
will spread enough Roosevelt in
fluence outside the regular party
machine as to percolate into the
convention by propaganda pro
cesses and force a third nomina-
ton by mere dint of SO much
difference of opinion among favor
lite sons that the convention will