Evening star., 1938-07-12
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compartments of the newspapermen.
waiting for the Roosevelt wand to
wave
Wait for Private Chat.
First Of all they were anxiously
waiting to be sent for by the Presi-
dent in his private car for a chat, and
at each stop they pricked up their
ears to learn II the President would
be thoughtful enough to mention any
one Of them by name
Among other things, President
Roosevelt is good-natured. Before
yesterday was over, each Of the hope
fuls had been received by him indi-
vidually or in groups of two in the
Presidents private car. Only those
through whose congressional district
the President was travelling were men,
toned by him in platform talks. If
any of these felt puffed up over the
mention the President made, he must
be easy to puff up. The President did
mention their names, and that was
about all. In this group were Lyndon
B. johnson. w. D. McFarlane. Marvin
Jones and Maury Maverick. Fritz
Lanham. who represents the Fort
Worth district, but who has been of
the New Deal reservation most of the
time, was aboard the train, but only
for what might be described as a
"coattail ride" He could not expect
anything resembling a presidential
bleSsing-not even mention by
name or q nod. But he was content
with permission to ride on the special
train.
Representative Summers, veteran
chairman of the House Judiciary Com
mittee. who did as much as any one
other man on Capitol Hill to defeat
the court-packing plan Of the Presi-
dent. was on the train for several
hours, and the best he received was q
brief chat in the Presidents private
car and not alone. Mr.. Summers can
easily explain that while he is having
considerable opposition to return to
the House. the President was not
passing through his district, and
therefore could not be expected to say
anything about him in the district of
Others Senator Tom Connally was
aboard all day and although he intro
duced the President to audiences three
or four times. the best morsel he got
was when the President said in q
speech my old friend Tom Connally."
Maury Maverick may not have been
dazzled by anything the President
said in his speeches. but he got
something that will probably help him
more than kind words-the Presidents
approval of a 81, ,O0O, 900 slum clearance
project in his district.
Politics Of Personalities.
Politics is being talked q lot in
Texas, but down here they talk
politics differently from some other
sections. First of all, they don't dis
cuss issues. They seem to prefer to
discuss personalities. and, best Of all,
they like music and rhythm with
their politics and this time they are
getting both. OF course, Kentucky,
has couple of singing campaigners
in Senator Barkley and Gov. Happy"
Chandler, but Kentucky has nothing
like Lee O'Daniel, 45-year-old -four
miller of Fort Worth, who is con-
Quoting campaign resembling
mixture of song revival and the big
apple dance. This is Mr. O'Daniel's
first dip into politics. Heretofore he
has been satisfied selling good -four
under the name of Hill Billy Brand"
To boost sales, he has been using q
hill billy band and singers to advan-
tage. He has built up q tremendous
following by his interesting talks and
his sweet singing. He claims that he
entered the gubernatorial race because
his fans urged him. And now he Is
making = tuneful bid for votes and
according to old-timers who know
Texas politics. he has his opponents
worried. He never discusses issues;
his platform is the Ten Command
ments.