The Washington times., 1938-08-23

Il needn't go lnCO TOO Spec1A1Cdly 4eLe
Anyway President Roosevelt is now engaged in what
his enemies call purge" and in what New Dealers
call drive to persuade voters to various anti
New Deal Democratic Senators and Congressman from
the Washington that the New Deal may proceed
The Presidents enemies using the word purge"
because two European dctors in the last few years have
made it word which rings an unpleasant bell IN the
mass mind. Hitler in 1884
The WOT1 Has an rounded up lot of his erst-
r,1I cJ while pals and had them
O"P'0"0'' shot, on accusations of sedi-
ton and immortality. Stain has been blood-purgng lot
of his old friends 1t is hoped by the Presidents foes
that voters will come to view him another rapscallion
who murders his old friends.
So far as know the first political purge in history
was Prdes purge of the British Parliament Decem
Der G. 1648. Oliver Cromwell had unfriendly Parlia
ment to contend with body of Cromwells Roundhead
reformer soldiers under Colonel Pride simply refused
to let 143 anti-Cromwel members enter the House of
Commons.
There are four shining targets up to now in the Pres
dents drive to obtain cooperative Congress
Walter F. George (Ga), E. D. Cotton Ed Smith (S CO.
Millard Tydngs (Md.), and Representative John J.
OConnor, of the Sixteenth New York District.
Of these think the most important is OConnor AS
chairman of the House Rules Committee, Mr.. O'Connor
large extent shape the calendar of Congress- He
fought the Supreme Court REFORM wages-andhours and
reorganization bills On his record, think Mr. OCon-
is highly intelligent very capable reactionary.
His opponent for the Democratic nomination.
JAMES H. FAY
is like Mr. O'Connor, an Irish Catholic, but he is
frankly New Dealer pledged to cooperate with the
o,1 President
OCOnnOTS Fay enlisted in the Old Sixtyninth
Onnononf (165th Regiment of the Rainbow Div-
sion) before he was 18, on the day the
United States went to with Germany. He served
through the fighting until November 1, 1913 when he
lost his left leg below the knee by meeting up with
piece of high explosive shell in the Argonne Mr. Fay is
active in veterans affairs; recently resigned chief
field deputy the Third N. Y District Internal Revenue
Collector has the endorsements of liberal groups
We think those Sixteenth District voters who for
Roosevelt and his policies should vote for Fay AS for
COTTON ED SMITH
he seems to us the best illustration of the Pres-
dents reasons for the purge" Smiths $50 cents
day in South Carolina" remark, which the President
~, raped, went in full follows:
~ 49," In words, South Carolina nv
n u1 ing conditions kindly that it
"" V0yeS takes only So 50 cents "a day day. for nlusra
an reasonably @ M and n new W. Gsanq @ @ SEaeS ax SipO &
people will suffer. then the
gressonal Record July 80 1872
This was sarcastic smack at the New Deal philosophy
buying power the dynamo of American pros
peritya protest by eminent spokesman of the South
ern economic royasts against New deal proposals to
raise Southern buying power The Southern
economic royasts by and large cannot grasp the New
Deal philosophy, while they prefer to forget that the
NRAs brief existence via maximum hour and minimum
wage codes, did produce prosperity in the South
1t seems plain to us that the President
should try to root these antiNew Dealers out of his
path and that voters who believe in his economic phi
losophy should back him up with votes.
CFrom the New Daily News)
Welcome, Letter Carriers
no the members of the National Association of Rural
l. Letter Carriers who in Washington for their
annual convention we extend hearty welcome.