The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-30
STEAMSHIPS IN
 RANKS OF COP,
Dupont Family Friend Beats New York Liberal
 for Party Seat
BY LYLE c. WILSON

United Press Stan Corresp0ndent)
 Washington, Nov. 30-(UP)-The Republican party is headed today toward 8 series of 1nconclusive "con- servative-liberal" slkirmishes for or- garization control before circum- stances force 8 showdown in the contest for the 1940 presidential nomination.
 The first of these indecisive tests took place yesterday when national committee conservatives submarined the executive committee membership aspirations of Kenneth F. Simpson, liberal from New York who chal- lenges Hoover and Liberty League" control of the party.
 Du POnt Man Named
 Former Sen. Daniel o. Hastings, of Delaware, a statesman often as- sociated with the DuPont family, was named to the executive commit tee berth sought by Simpson and Washington political experts are as busy as grandstand quarterbacks ex- blaming the strategy of that play. The majority seems to feel that when the Republicans passed over Simpson they missed a change for publicity on the ascendency of younger, more progressive men to party control.
 But others argue that the execu- tive committee position is of no great importance anyhow-Simpson, himself, holds that view-and some suggested that it made little differ ence whether the national commit tee chose the New Yorker, Hastings, or a Chinaman. These concede. merely, that the c. O. P. briefly will have a bad press because it picked one of the "old guard" instead of the Red-headed Simpson to play spot lighted bit part in yesterdays party gathering. Harvey Jewett, Jr., of South Dakota, was named to a sec ond executive committee vacancy.
 Martin, Wadsworth Fight
 Another of these indeterminate tests of conservative liberal" strength probably will take place when Congress meets Rep. WadS- worth, R. N. Y, has announced his candidacy for House Republican leader in opposition to Rep. Martin, R. Mass, who was assistant leader last session and who expected to inherit the job, unopposed. Wads- worth, like Hastings, has Liberty League connections and is among the staunch conservatives.
 Simpson was 8 newcomer to the national committee, his membership certified less than an hour, when the conservative steam roller flat tened his executive committee hopes. Furthermore, his man Thomas E. Dewey was not elected governor of New York on Nov. 8, although he made sensationally good race of 1t. Had Dewey been elected, or, had Simpson been for year or so prev iouSly a member of the national committee, his defeat might have been tremendously significant.
 House Leadership Factors
 The same factors bear upon the house leadership contest. But in this case 1t is the conservative WadSworth who comes late to bat tie. Announcement of his candida cy last week was entirely unexpec- ted. He is not in line of house lead- ership succession. Therefore, the odds now favor election of Martin, with votes to spare.
 If Wadsworth is elected, the poli- tical form charts will have had proved wrong and conservatives will have made real progress toward party control. But if Martin is elec- ted, the odds-on favorite will have come home in front, not necessarily because the party is liberal or anti- conservative, but owing largely to the circumstance that Martin was first in the field and, as assistant leader, stood as heir to the bigger job.