Evening star., 1939-11-28
Invitations Go Out
For $100-a-P|ate
Jackson Day Dinners
Roosevelt May Reveal
His Plans for 1910 and
Sound Call to Bottle
By G. GOULD LINCOLN.

Invitations to the $l00-a-plate
Jackson Day DEMONSTRATING time
of the 1910 Democratic campaign
which is to be given in the May
flower Hotel the night of January
g. have gone out to high officials of
the Government and to prominent
Democrats in the Capital
President Roosevelt will be the
guest of honor His address, which
will be carried over the radio to
other Jackson Day dinners through
out the Nation and to listening mil
lions who do not attend these gath
erings is expected to sound a call
to battle for the Democratic hosts.
1t has been suggested that Mr..
Roosevelt will clearly indicate also his
own plans for 1940-whether he will
or will not become candidate for
denomination. There is a possibility,
of course. that he will set this ques-
ton at rest prior to the dinner.
The Jackson Day dinner of 1899.
held two months after the congress
sional elections in which the Re-
publicans made material gains, gave
the President an opportunity to call
for a united Democratic party to
carry on the work of the New Deal.
Mr.. Roosevelt predicted that if the
Democrats united in support of
measures in the interest of the whole
people. the party would be unbeat-
able in 1910.
Tweedledums.
While calling for party union and
closed ranks, the President at the
same time voiced the idea that con-
servatives who were unwilling to
support the New Deal get out of the
Democratic party. He said:
If there are nominal Democrats.
who, as matter of principle, are
convinced that OUR party should be
conservative party-a Democratic
tweedledum to a Republican twee-
dledee-it is; on the whole. better
that the issue be drawn within the
party, that the fight be fought out,
and that if the tweedledums are de-
feated they join the tweedledees.
But the prospects of such fight are
far more remote than members of
the opposition would have you be-
lieve."
The coming six months will reveal
the answer and determine whether
the President was correct in his
forecast
The Jackson day dinner invita-
tions. for Washington, are sent out
in the name of the jackson Day
Dinner Committee of the District,
whose chairman is Homer S. Cum
mings, former Attorney General and
one of the party leaders who brought
about the nomination of Mr.. Roose-
welt at Chicago in 1882. Malcolm
S. McConihe, Democratic national
committeeman for the District, is
secretary, and Melvin D. Hildreth is
treasurer.
Other members of the committee
are Brice Clagett, Mrs. Arthur D.
Condor, Joseph J. Cotter, A. Seton
Darr. Mrs. John Allan Dougherty,
DR.. F. Thomas Evans. O. Max Gard
ner, Mrs. Wilbur w. Hubbard, Mil
ton w. King, j. Bruce Kremer, Mrs
George T. Marye, Guy Mason, Brian
Mcmahon. Mrs. Howell Moorhead,
E. Barrett Prettyman, Arthur Clare
don Smith, William Stanley, Robert
G. Thatch, Mrs. Huston Thompson.
Joseph j. Tumulty, John Walsh and
Mrs. Charles Warren.
Attending the jackson Day din
ners here and in other cities will be
all the potential Democratic presi-
Dental candidates. Last January
Vice President Garner, now regard
ed as an active candidate for the
nomination, whether or not the
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