The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-09

" AONAAGeSO( VAAN @AASSA @ASs politics. Digs at the pres President, but generally tn, This one was quite different. He spoke with undisguised indigna- ton.
 What the newsmen didn't know was that he was not only spank ing the Detroit papers but some- one else = a member of his own- family. The inside story of the incident Illustrates the circuitous way in which Roosevelt sometimes operates.
 The member of his family he was b0oting was G. Hall Roose- welt, brother of Mrs. Roosevelt.
 Hall Rooseveral, connected with certain anti-New Deal business interests, has been secretly trying to harpoon the Presidents close friend and ardent disciple, Gov. Frank Murphy. Early last month, before the Michigan State Demo- cratic convention. Hall Roosevelt tried to supplant Murphy with State Highway Commissioner Murray D. Van Waggoner as the nominee for governor.
 The scheme fell through be- cause Van Waggoner's lieuten- ants told him he couldn't beat Murphy.
 Since then Hall Roosevelt has continued his undercover opposi- ton against New Dealer Murphy, The Detroit news story. implying that the President had dropped his dedication trip because he had become convinced that Murphy's chances for reelection were hope less, appeared the day after Hall Roosevelt talked to Washington correspondents.
 Whether rightfully or wrong- fully. the President suspected his br0ther-in-law of planting the story and also of implying that he. Hall Roosevelt, was rec sponslble for the change In the Presidents plans.
 But he didn't call Hall in and bawl him out. Instead the Presi- dent denounced the story as deliberate distortion" and an- nounced his intention to cam. paign vigorously for Murphy next month - thus demonstrating to Hall Roosevelt's newspaper friends and business superiors that he is wholly without influence at the White House.
 Maverick Out
 Rep. Maury Maverick, dynamic Texas crusader who was defeated for renominatlon, has definitely decided not to run as an indepen- dent this fall,
 Like Senator James Pope, Idaho New Dealer who also fell by the wayside and considered making another try as an independent. Maverick has concluded to take his medicine. His reasons, how ever were different from Popes.
 Pope quit because of lack of money to finance another eam- palgn plus the inability of the White House to 90 to bat for him after Jim Farley's telegram congratulating Pope's successful rival and assuring him of Ma. tional Committee support.
 For the President to back Pope after this declaration would have been interpreted as Q slap at Far Icy. Roosevelt wasn't ready to do that, 50 Pope threw up the sponge.
 Maverick had promises of fl. nanclal backing and was keen to re-enter the race, but he was barred by m opinion from the Texas attorney general that his candidacy would be Illegal. Law yer friends told him the ruling was faulty and would not stand up In the courts.
 That didn't help Maverick, be- cause c suit to override the opinion could not have been decided be- fore the election.
 Dove of Peace
 Peace is in the making between Governor Earle of Pennsylvania and the o. I. o.
 They split last spring when Earle refused to support Lieuten. ant Governor Tom Kennedy. United Mine Workers official, for governor, Backed by Senator Joe Guffey, Kennedy was nosed out of the Democratic nomination by Alvin Jones, conservative Pitts burgh lawyer.
 Jones and Earle were both sup. ported by the A. P. of L., but only Earle assailed John Lewis during the bitter campaign. After the factional battle the Earle-Jones