The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-01-27
THE GREAT
GAME OF
POLITICS.
By FRANK r. KENT
Copyright by the Baltimore Sun and
reprinted in The Republican by
special permission.
Strange Palace Politics
By FRANK r. KE.

AS said in this place the other day,
the extraordinary way in which the
politics of the Administration has re-
Gently developed, is as confusing to
many as the simultaneous White
House advocacy of obviously conflict
ing economic policies. If there is a
way of reconciling with reason what is
now going on politically it would be
interesting to have it presented.
For example, there is the amazing
spectacle of the President, quite clear
ly without the approval, acquiescence
or cooperation (Which certainly seems
essentially of his political generals
simo and close personal friend, Mr.
James A. Farley, backing the New
York Gubernatorial aspirations of one
of his radical young friends and sub
ordinates-Mr. Robert H. Jackson.
AS has been pointed out, it is obvious
that if Mr.. Jackson should be nomi-
mated and elected Governor of New
York in 1888, he would have an adj
vantage over other aspirants for the
Presidential nomination in 1910 This
fact has greatly panied the other as
pirants, some of whom are not eX-
actly suffering in silence. What
grieves them most is the inescapable
nature of the conviction that Mr..
Roosevelt has picked Mr.. Jackson as
his successor.
Upon no other theory can they ex-
plain the situation. They know, Of
course, that if it were not for the
Roosevelt backing, Mr.. Jackson would
not have a ghost of chance for
Governor; and they know-because
there was never anything more obvi-
vious-that where the feverish Mr..
jackson is not thickly covered with a
Gubernatorial rash he is all broken
out with Presidential bee stings. AS
an amused observer said the other
day, Gle thinks he's in now" 1t isn't
necessary to tell the politicians what
this all adds up to. They know and not
many of them like it. For one thing,
it is altogether too hand-picked to be
palatable. For another, young Mr..
Jackson is just a trifie "too unani-
NOUS" as they say on the Eastern
Shore of Maryland. For another, Mr..
Farley has far too many friends IN
the Administration and out of it, IN
the Democratic party generally and in
New York particularly, for them not
to feel some resentment mot, it is fair
to say, in the least fostered by him)
at what seems an inexplicable elimi-
nation.
No word of complaint has come
from Mr.. Farley and probably none
will ever come He has been-and is
far more loyal to Mr.. Roosevelt than
all the Jacksons, Corcorans, Cohens
and other Brain Trusters combined,
some of whom have lost few opportu-
mites for his diparagement. He has
served the President more faithfully
and done him infinitely greater good
He has taken a tremendous lot Of
journalistic punishment with smile,
urbanely accepting blame which was
not really his, built up a great politi-
cal organization which only he knows
how to make function fully. In other
words, wholly aside from his Cabinet
position, Mr.. Farley is an outstanding
Administration figure, and the idea
of ignoring him on any White House
political policy-particularly one con-
nected with his own State of New
York, where he still happens to be
Democratic State chairman-certain-