The Washington times., 1938-09-15
WHAT? TYDINCS
SET TO annex
White HOUSE?
That's the Story, and
Lewis Goes Independent
BY THEODORE HUNTLEY

BY THEODORE HUNILEI
Looking ahead in Maryland poll
tics, as the salvagers start work
on the wreckage from the big blow
you could guess today that the job
Of putting that old home in order
Is going to take some time.
There was an idea floating
around, for example, that Little
Davey Lewis might run for the
Senate this fall as an independent.
There was another, meaning
about as much, that Millard Tyd-
tngs intends to go into immediate
training for the Presidency-an-
nextng the White House, as it
were, since the White House failed
to annex Maryland.
There was the certainty that the
governorship mess will get worse
before it gets better.
And there was still some purging
to be done on the boys who put
their heads on the chopping block
during the late unpleaSantness
ever the senatorShip.
TAKE LITTLE DAVEY
About Little Davey, first: Little
Davey is an idealist. He thinks
ats terrible that Tydings, eminent
critic of the Roosevelt program,
should represent Maryland in the
Senate. He said so - plenty - in
the recent campaign. And he
hasn't changed his mind.
Nor, for that matter, have the
New Dealers who worked so en-.
Enthusiastically toward such - to
them-a disappointing end. They'd
like to get rid of Tydings, too.
They would rather have Little
Davey in the Senate.
There is only one trouble with
that idea: 1t won't work.
ALMOST HALF VOTES
Tydings, in the Democratic pri-
mary. got almost so per cent of
all the ballots cast by Democratic
voters. He carried all but one of
six Baltimore legislative districts.
He carried 19 out of % counties.
Add the total Republican vote to
the total Democratic vote, and he
got almost half Of all votes cast
by members of both political
parties.
You could let Davey Lewis keep
all of the votes he got last Mon
day-which he wouldn't, if he ran
independently-and add half OF
the Republican vote to that, and
he still would have less than Tyd-
ings' Democratic vote alone. And
everybody knows that Tydings is
going to get a potful of Republi-
can votes in November.
Just where the idea that Little
Davey might run Independently
sprang from isn't clear, but the
complete futility of it is.
BEE LONG BUZZING
Next about this You-tell-'em-
Tydings presidential boom: No
Senator who ever whipped a ma
tional administration to a stand
still to get himself reelected can
be considered completely immune
to the idea that he might go
higher. It's inevitable. In the
case Of Tydings also, the idea was
there before the victory. It
chopped out in his campaign ap-
peals. The bee was buzzing be-
fore the vote came in.
It Is only necessary to remem-
ber:
1. That no man has ever been
nominated for the Presidency OF
the United States whose record
was in itself a reputation of his
party record as made by an out
going administration. To NOM
mate Tydings would be to re
pudiate Roosevelt, since their
ideas are antithetic. And no
party is ever going to repudiate
Its most popular President.
2. To attempt to nominate
hiRn would enrage the New Deal
erS in the next Democratic con-
Vention, split the convention
wide open and possibly wreck
whatever chance the party may
have to name Mr.. RooSevelt's
successor.
3.To succeed in nominating
him would throw the liberal half
Of the Democratic party squarely
into the lap Of any liberal or
halfway liberal who might be
nominated by the Republican,
If they happen to be smart
enough to pick one.
I'M /GAA