The Washington times., 1938-09-08
LEWIS NEEDS
5 COUNTIES ON
SHORE TO WIN
Political Miracle Only
Can Save New Deal
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this silent or stay-at-home vote
might carry Lewis through ano
save the New Deal from its most
decisive defeat. 1t still could if ii
was preponderantly pro-Roosevelt
but the soundings show it to be
divided. Tydings will get lot OF
them, too.
Today the fight had narrowed
TO the point where Lewis has to
carry five of the nine Shore coun'
ties, four of six legislative districts
in Baltimore, Prince Georges
county and all of his own con-
Eressional district except Mont
somery county, to win. And then
he would Just squeeze through.
Has Enough Votes
Tydings, on the other hand, ap-
pears to have enough votes In
hand to make him a sure winner
If he can break even in Baltimore
and on the Shore. He could even
skin through if he got an even
break in either spot. He will not
win by so much as he thinks he
will, but in the absence of po-
litical revolution of the sort that
is never foreseen he has the NOM
tt1ation right now in the bag"
That calculation gives Lewis
four Of the five Shore counties in
which his hackers are concentrat-
ing their fire in the final phase
OF the battle-Wicomico, caro-
line. Cecil and Worcester. They
think he has a chance in Somer-
Get, at the lower tip Of the Shore
peninsula, but the best informa-
tion from impartial sources shows
this to be excessively optimistic,
II he gets the other four he'll
be doing better than can be rea-
sonably expected, for all of them
are doubtful-Caroline Congress
man Goldsborough's home) most
Of all, and Wicomico, the only one
Of which seems fairly certain now.
Presidential Talk
Looking to the future - and
what a blow it would be to his
pride if he should happen to lose!
Tydings and his sup
porterS already see him as a presl-
Dental possibility in 1910. The
Senator himself has included the
suggestion in one of his campaign
circulars. If he should win Mon
day and be reelected in November,
as he probably would be with the
aid Of a big Republican vote, the
country can expect a flood OF
Tydings-for- President talk. The
foundation for it is already being
laid, and there would be plenty
Of money to back it up.
1t is costing the Tydings crowd
something like $4,000 in visible
expenditures to get the nomina-
tion for him, to say nothing of
other sums spent on the sly by
committees Of one"-otherwise
BY individuals Of the business COM
munity who are reported to be
dumping money into the fight as
Q personal contribution to his
success. Some of it is said to be
New York money. but most Of it,
50 far as anyone knows, is poured
into the political stream through
Maryland pipe lines.
Job for Lewis
II the business crowd thinks it
worth that much to nominate
him, and more to elect him, it is
reasonable to suppose the same
element among them would be
willing to shoot the works to
make him President, If they
thought they could.
Little Davey," If defeated, at
least will not have to worry about
his immediate future. There will
be q New Deal job waiting for him
as well as Alan Goldsborough if
that should happen. That isn't to
say he would take it, but the best
guess is he would.
But he isn't defeated yet. That
has to be kept in mind. For the
fight is close enough that if a big
New Deal vote should happen to
come from the cornfieldS over and
above anything reasonably to be
expected now he still could slip in.
It's probably three or four-to-one
shot. but long shots sometimes
win.
It all depends on the strength
Of the Roosevelt vote. That's what
makes the primary what is gen.
orally regarded as the best test of
the New Deal to date. 1t isn't
Tydings or Lewis that most Mary
landers will vote on; it is what