The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-12

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 Colorado is the best illustration of that. In Pueblo. home town of Democratic Senator Ava Adams, it looks as if that gentle- man has been out early enough to catch the worm.
 "Alvy," as he is called by folks in Colorado, has been consist ent opponent of Roosevelt's. He began his opposition a few months after he got to Congress, when he started working against Ferdin- and Pecora during the famous Senate Banking Committee in- vestigation. Alvys has not changed his tune since.
 Despite the fact that he was down on the blacklist, absolutely nothing was done about sharp ening the axe. As early as April IF, two of Colorado's most im- portant Democrats, Gov. Teller Ammons and Mayor Ben Staple ton of Denver, sent work back to Washington that they would aid a Democratic move to beat Adams in the primaries.
 But they got no response.
 It was not until two weeks ago, when Roosevelt was motoring through Wilmington, Del, at the Swedish monument exercises, that he first took up the Colorado pri- mary. At that time he suggested to Oscar Chapman, assistant sec- retary of the Interior, who was riding with him, that Chapman might run against Alvy Adams.
 Chapman replied that 1t was too late. He pointed out that in order to be sure of beating Adams it would have been neces- sary for him to begin building up political machine last De- cember.
 The man who finally came out against Adams, Colorado Supreme Court Justice Ben Hilliard, is a great campaigner and has popular following. But the odds are against him, for two req sons:
 l. He lacks an organization
 which is almost essential in a primary.
 2. Hordes of Republicans are
 changing their registration so
 they can vote in the Democratic
 primary for Ava Adams.
 NOTE-Another reason why Os- car Chapman was hesitant about getting into the race was because his Interior Department boss, Harold Ickes, had endorsed Sena- tor Adams. This was in return for Adams work in helping put across the confirmation of E. K. Burlew as assistant secretary. Indiana Blues
 Another primary faux pas which is giving the blues to the "rear car" (the Presidents ,party) is h. diana. There Senator Fred Van Nuys today is being welcomed back into the fold of the Democratic organization.
 Here it was not so much the early bird, but case of too much trust in man of over-Weaning ambition.
 The gentleman with the ann bition is Paul McNutt, high commissioner to the Philippines, whose one thought in life is to plant his carefully creased pants on the swivel chair behind the big mahogany desk in the White House. It was this burning ambition and only this, which caused the sudden re- versal in Indiana.
 The tall, handsome Hoosier has no more liking for Van Nuys than the White House has. In fact, almost up to the last moment he was seriously debating whether to run against him. During Mo- Nuts visit to Washington last winter he told Roosevelt to leave the matter entirely to him, that "the state organization would take care of Van Nuys".
 That is why Roosevelt and Far ley had made no move to ensure that someone was put in the field against Van Nuys. They confi- dently depended on McNutt.
 What upset the applecart was the Republicans. McNutt ct al. had based their plans on the expectation that the RepubIi- cans would nominate either for mer Senator Jim Watson or one of his henchmen.
 Jim is loveable old character but neither he nor any one of his crowd had a chance to win in Mo- vember. Their nomination would have meant the certain split of large Republican vote, thereby