Evening star., 1938-10-02
FAY HAPPY OVER
PURGE VICTORY
Kids Will Have Something
to Show Good Job Was
Done, He Says.
Ry the Associated Press.

Ry the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Oct 1.-James Herbert
Fay, the first White House choice to
win in the Roosevelt Democratic con-
gressional purge" campaign, twisted
his large Irish body around on the
hospital bed. sending up red shower
Of quilts as he impatiently worked his
hands free to spread them philosophic-
ally, and said:
Il feel good; I feel happy. And
whatever happens now. my kids will
have lot Of clippings to prove that
their old man did a job"
After the October Democratic pri-
mary campaign here in the sixteenth
congressional district-a brass knuc-
kled campaign Of almost incredible
bellicosity in which he beat the vet
eran Representative John j. O'Connor
Mr.. Fay retired to the sickroom
with great swelling in the stump of
the leg which was left him in France
and the desire, too, to plot the rest
Of the current political war
For Mr.. OConnor in losing the DEM
ocratic nomination gained that Of the
Republicans and still will be a stout
factor in November
Tells Of Past Campaign.
Mr.. Fay. as bald as James A. Farley,
as wide almost as his bed and alight
with an immense grin, was telling, in
the broad Frank Patois of the native
New Yorker, of the campaign past
and specializing about the one ahead.
They (the O'Connor forces) beat
me four years ago" he said, land right
afterward I had to 90 to the Demo-
cratic convention andsI just felt like
slipping around behind the potted
palms in the hotel so nobody would
see me-"
What wish now is that I could
have been at the convention Gn Ro-
chester) this time. I'd just 60 around
with my head up like this illustrat-
ingl and I'd nod and say to all of
them: Well, hell-hello there"
What really got me in 1884 was the
way they went around later Dragging
about how they'd beaten Jim Fay.
Well, We got hunk with them Squared
matters with them) this time"
An old-time Tammany man-as is
Mr.. O'Connor-Mr. Fay. as he talked,
was full of the Tammany notion of
reforming ranks after the primary
fighting. But while there was for
giveness for almost everybody, there
was none for Mr.. O'Connor himself.
Used to Support O'Connor.
II used to support OConnor," he
said. Il was his campaign manager
in 1896, although I didn't do anything
or even need to-you know how those
party assignments are"
But that" he added simply, with
no further hint OF discussion, was
before OConnos quit the President"
That's what told the kids in the
district to ask him when he spoke
Are you for the President or not?'
They'd do it, too, plenty, and some
times the women in the fats upstairs
would lean out and begin hollering
too. OF course, the cops would fan
the kids little sometimes to make
EN- stop the noise-but, hell, they
didn't mind that"
At these memories he grinned the
happy, reminiscent grin OF con-
noisseur Of fighting. but his broad
| joviaily pugnacious face turned serious
as he spoke of what he hopes to do In
Washington, II he gets there.
Need Lot Of Housing.
We've got to have a lot OF housing
in my district" he said, and If they
would put me on. one OF those vet
erans' committees. too. Id appreciate
it. No connin' mo fooling) some OF
the fellows who were wounded have
a hell Of a time
with one thick arm he pushed
himself up in the bed: with the
other he pointed wordlessly to the
short trunk Of a leg which was
lying under the covers With three
other soldiers. he was buried. IL
days before the armistice. under
the debris kicked up by q Ger
man SHELLY
you know" he went on, smiling
now, two years don't go so slow. If
I don't do something down there
they're going to be asking around here
on the East Side: What the hell did
we send that guy to Washington for?