The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-31

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 They have been impatiently looking forward to the completion of the primaries In September as the end of the White Houses purging operations. Once the pri- inaries were out of the way the boys figured all would be forgiven and forgotten and they would be welcomed back as good Democrats once more.
 WE'LL, THEY ARE MISTAKEN.
 The finish of the primaries will not finish the purge. It will be the start of a new and much tougher one. From then on the President intends to move in on the patronage office-holders who as one White House intimate ex- presses 1t, have been "biting the hand that feeds them."
 In other words, the henchmen of anti-New Deal Democratic senators and congressman are slated for the axe.
 Regardless of whether such men as Senators George of Georgia, Tydings of Maryland, and McCar- ran of Nevada win or lose in their primaries, the state machines they have built up through patronage obtained from the White House are going to be smashed by the White House.
 Hereafter the test of an ap- pointee to a key federal job will not be who is sponsoring him but whether the appointee is a dependable White House supporter. And the test isn't only going to apply to the anti Administrationltes up for cleo tion this year.
 It will apply to Vice President Jack Garner, Senator Burt Wheel CT, Senator Harry Byrd of Vir- ginia, Senator Pat Harrison. Sen ator Josiah Bailey of North Caro- lima, and other anti-New Deal chieftains.
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 Behind the new White House strategy, of course, is 1940.
 For a long time Roosevelt's llb- eral advisers have been telling him that 1t was hopeless to attempt to unseat anti-Administrationites on Capitol Hill if he persisted in arming them with patronage ann munition in their home bailiwicks.
 Opposition of federal appoin- tees to various New Deal can didates, plus reports from all over the country that anti-Ad- ninistration Democrats are using patronage to build up machines to oppose Roosevelt's control of the 1940 convention, finally convinced him that the purge should continue.
 He told Jim Farley of his in- tention at the day-long conference between tthem at Hyde Park. Big Jim's reply was, WHATEVER YOU SAY. YOU'RE THE BOSS" Tugwell Marriage
 Despite her denials, Tanis Tug well, 21-year old daughter of Professor Rex Tugwell, did take out a license to marry the son of a Tennessee examiner. And there is still a possibility that the mar riage will go through.
 Tanis has a job with the Farm Security Administration, which, when Tugwell ran 1t, was called Resettlement Administration. She got her job, at a salary of s1080, shortly after her father left Wash- ihgton late in 1838.
 F5A sent her to the Cumber- land mountains to help coach the hor1nesteaders at Crossville in a historical pageant. One of the things she did was to make rec ords of mountain folk-songs.
 At Crossville, Tanis met young Lon Watley, aged 22, son of . homesteader who had been a coal miner. Lon was a lively youth, and a leader among the young people. He had had a short stretch of college train ing at work-yorir- Berea college in Kentucky.
 The fact that he had no job and no prospects didn't worry Tanis. She fell in love with him and they planned marriage.
 This was reported to Papa Tug we'll by Margaret Valiant, Tanis' boss in the pageant project. Tug wells reply was significant. He said: You can't spank 21-year old child:"
 But he became more con- cerhed when he heard they ac- tually had taken out . marriage license. He wired her to re- turn at once to Washington. This and another wire from Rex Tugwell's nibther on Lake On- tsrio, brought Tanis back In the company of disappearing Miss Valiant.
 In Washington, Tanis stayed away from the office for three days and stoutly denied that she planned marriage. She in-