Evening star., 1938-09-04
Plan to Support All
Liberals Met With
Mixed Emotions.
A motor caravan bearing Presiden

Ill travel through enemy territory,
Striving to swing the tide of victory
In Maryland's bitter senatorial fight
to his stanch ally, Representative
David ]. Lewis.
For two days he will tour Southern
Maryland and the Eastern Shore
areas generally regarded as strongholds
OF Senator Millard E. Tydings-in the
nope OF thwarting the reelection of
one Of the New Deals most consist.
ent opponents in the Senate.
Emotions Mixed on Liberals
Climaxing his efforts will be a Labor
Day address to be delivered at Denton
at pm. tomorrow and microphones
from radio networks will pick up his
message and carry it to every corner
OF the Nation.
Departing from the White House,
Mr.. Roosevelt will leave behind him
Democratic and Republican leaders
regarding with mixed emotions his
statement that good liberal" on the
G. o. P. ticket would serve the coun-
try better than a conservative DEM
Ocrat.
Even as he was making plans ves-
terday for his venture into MARYLAND
the Democratic Congressional Cam
palgn Committee forcefully declared
: 1t would not go along with him if he
campaigns this fall for the election of
liberal Republicans over anti-New
Deal Democrats.
Victor Harding, secretary of the
Democratic Congressional Campaign
! Committee, said
AS soon as a candidate is NOM
mated for Representative in Congress,
this committee considers him to be
the choice of the Democratic voters of
the particular district involved. and
the committee will do everything in
Its power to assist in the campaign to
secure his election"
Test Is Eight Days Away.
The committee is concerned only
with campaigns for election to the
House of Representatives. Its chair
man is Representative Patrick H.
Drewry Of Virginia.
Mr.. Roosevelt pointed out at his
press conference Friday that he was
talking about principles and not
specific candidates, but his statement
that "the good of the country rises
ebove party" caused speculation that
he might later give aid to particular
Republicans he considers liberal"
But the President put all that
behind him. for the time being at
least. and prepared for the latest test
OF his PHILOSOPHERS of governmental
test that will culminate in Marylands
senatorial primary just eight days
away.
He could not choose a more severe
testing ground than the Free States
primary on September IL. Never have
the issues been more sharply drawn;
never have the principals offered a
clearer contrast between New Dealer
and anti-New Dealer, and seldom has
the New Deal been put to test in a
State where Roosevelt sentiment has
been stronger.
Organization Fights Lewis.
Mr.. Lewis finds himself opposed in
the senatorial contest by the State or
ganization. the State and county COM
mittees and Marylands two Senator'S
Mr.. Tydings, the candidate, and Sem
ator George L. Radcliffe, who is man.
aging the Tydings campaign despite
his long friendship with the President.
1t is because. Intervention by the
White House is seen as the last hope
for a Roosevelt-Lewis victory that the
President personally will enter the
scrap. He will leave on his quest at
1890 this morning.
His trip into the Free State is being
made for the announced purpose of
inspecting the site of proposed bridge
across the Potomac River at Morgan
town, linking Maryland and Virginia
and offering more direct route be-
tween the South and North. Actually,
however, the purpose is political.
Accompanying the President as he
leaves Washington will be Postmaster
General James A. Farley. Representa-
tive T. Alan Goldsborough of the East
ern Shore district of Maryland, Rep
resentative Stephen W. Gambrill OF
the fifth Southern Maryland district.
Senator F. Ryan Duffy of Wisconsin,
who is up for reelection in his own
State this year, and Representative
Lewis himself. and the usual naval
and secretarial aides.
Gov. Nice tp Go Along.
Harry w. Nice, Republican Governor
Of Maryland, will 60 along as the Off
cial host Of the occasion, but will ac-
company the party no farther than
Morgantown, where State officials and
engineers familiar with the bridge pros
pect will join him and discuss the
proposal with the presidential party
Automobile caravans bearing Lewis
supporters from Western Maryland,
the area the Representative serves in
the House, and from Prince Georges
= County, were to assemble on Good
Hope road at the District line to
welcome the President to Maryland
He will pass that point about l0:45.
Lewis followers from Garrett, Ale
eany. Washington and Frederick
Counties were to meet at Bethesda a
group from Montgomery. leaving at
am. to join the Prince Georges
delegation on Good Hope road
The Roosevelt party was to board
the presidential yacht Potomac off
Morgantown late this afternoon and
spend the night on the lower river.
The yacht will cross Chesapeake Bay
IN the early hours tomorrow morning
and dock at crisfield at daybreak.
On the eve Of the Presidents de-
parture. Mayor William E Ward of
lSee ROOSEVELT Paae ~