The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-06-22
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as having presidential approval be-
cause of the intimate relationship
between the two men and If 1t has
presidential approval 1t Is tanta-
mount as far as I can see to an
announcement of Mr.. Roosevelt,s
intentions.
Early Declares Voters
VIII Not Be Confused
Writing in the Saturday Evening
Post Mr.. Early concluded his dis
cussion of unfair criticism Of Mr..
Roosevelt with a fervent declaration
that the voters will not be confused.
With the gracious consent Of Mr..
Wesley Winans Stout, editor-in-
chief of the Post, I herewith reprint
the salient paragraph from Mr..
Early's article that has served to
spread in new and broader form
the feeling that Mr.. Roosevelt will
seek reelection to a third term:
Certain it is that with the ap-
proach of 1910, as has been the
case every four years since this
democratic form of government was
adopted by the people of the Unit
ed States, new rumors, new whis-
perings, variations Of truth and un-
truth will come to mix with the old,
Fortunately, it is equally true that
the vast majority of those who vote
in the next presidential election will
take salutary pleasure in expressing
their contempt Of all that the
double-tongued scandal mongers
and their ilk may do to confuse the
real issues" ..
I find the general question being
asked:
Why is notice being taken now
of rumors and half-truths which
have thus far been ignored through
six years of the administration, un-
less it is the purpose to dispose OF
them in advance of another cam
paign? ...s RI.
I hear also this question:
How can the voters express "con-
tempt" for these false rumors and
vilifications unless by q vote for Mr.
Roosevelt, personally?
The answers to these questions
of course. will vary. Those who
are heart and soul with Mr.. Roose-
welt are saying naturally that he
wants to put an end to the unfair
and poisonous attacks by answering
them openly. Those who want tt
island by the two-term tradition are
reading into those lines Mr.. Roose.
!velt's determination to go ahead
and seek reelection. Why, they
ask, should the Early article and
the Ickes article be published sim.
ultaneously, especially since Mr.
Roosevelt has remained silent on
his future course.
Every Reason to Wonder
What the Anewer Will Be
There has been considerable criti-
cism of Mr.. Roosevelt because he
has kept his own counsel concern
ing the scads Of favorite-son can
didates that go shouting about the
countryside. Such criticism Is
silly. The President, whatever his
thoughts may be about the third
term, Is not called upon at this
time to say whether he likes any
one or all. It accomplishes moth
ing for those who dislike the Pres
ident to stir up a stink along that
line. But the determination Of the
President, or lack of 1t, to run fol
a third term is quite q dlfferen,
proposition and there is every rea-
son under the rules of the game a
it has been played for people tt
wonder what the answer is to be.
The record of history being what
it is, a tradition of two terms fol
a President, there can be no JUST.
fication of the New Deal attack.
upon Vice President Garner, whose
friends are now openly seeking del
egates for him. Mr.. Garner's friends
surely have the right to assume thai
the time has come for them to cul.
tivate votes in the next nationa
convention of the Democratic party
Such attacks as Mr.. Ickes made
against Garner in the Ickes state
ment favoring Roosevelt for thirt
term sounds like spoiled fish to me
and you know what mess tina
is. The vituperations by Mr.. Ickes
however, are not different than hi
usual line of thinking.
AS a part of the general pictur'
of confusion resulting from the &C
tivity Of Mr.. Roosevelt's friends
the recent tour Of the country b.
Postmaster General Farley must b
examined.
Ambitions Of Jim Farley r
Are Rather Well Known
The Farley transcontinental toul
however. Is not impossible Of anal
lysis. First, Mr.. Farley's ambition
are rather we'll known. No man ca
be blamed for wanting to be electe'
President Of the United States. ]
he were seeking facts about the 20
litical situation for use in behalf Q
Mr.. Roosevelt. Mr.. Farley wouI