The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-06
THIRD TERM FOR| ROOSEVELT IS ON
Campaign Already Started Under Auspices of Cabi-
 net Members
By LYLE c. WILSON

WaSnlngCon, June 6- (UPD - "A campaign to re-elect President Roosevelt in 1940 began today under cabinet auspices, and led in1medi- ately to an announcement by Sena- tor Rush D. Holt, D., w. Va, that he would ask the senate at this ses- sion formally to oppose a third term.
 Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes opened the draft-R Roosevelt movement with the blunt statement:
 T want Roosevelt for 8 third term"
 His announcement, written for Look magazine, came within 48 hours of the revelation that Vice President John N. Garner would seek the 1940 democratic presiden- tial nomination regardless of MT. Roosevelt's plans.
 Charges of Ickes
 Ickes charged that anti-Roosevelt Democrats were back-stabbing the president. Without naming Garner, he ridiculed his candidacy as that of one "whose strength is that of knowing nothing, saying nothing, doing nothing"
 Holt said his resolution would be a simple proposal that the senate express its sentiment against third terms. He has contemplated offering it for some time and told the United Press today it would go in this month. Holt and New Dealers long have been feuding.
 The Ickes article jared the cap- ital.
 It seemed to end the period in which it could be argued that talk Of third term was confined to those who sought to embarrass the presi- dent. And it had further signifi- canoe because of the probability that MT. Roosevelt will leave June IS on a trans-continental journey which would be accompanied, even without his cooperation, with a tremendous third term build-up. A third term call from the cabinet circle scarcely can do less than start the ball rolling.
 Visit to California Tentative plans for a presidential visit to the San Francisco fair call for an outward journey through North Carolina, Tennessee, Kansas and Colorado, and return by a northern route. From Seattle, MT Roosevelt would make a four day side trip by water to Alaska. Ickes wrote that other leading Democratic contenders were Garner, Secretary of State Cordell Hull Postmaster General James A. Far ley and Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace. He placed Thomas E. Dewey, Senator Robert A. Taft, O., Senator Arthur H. Van- denberg, Mich, and Senator Harry Cabot Lodge, Mass, first among Re. publicans but aid none of the eight could be influential in work affairs while at the same time com. i manding the respect of his own peo ple."
 'This is no time," he wrote, "fo a candidate whose qualifications consist of the fact that he has beer chirruping weak opposition to every thing the worlds greatest Demo crati cleader has done, or a candi date whose claim to office consists of the traitorous knifing in the bacl of the commander n-chief to whom 1 he has sworn fealty, or one whost strength is that of knowing noth' ing, saying nothing, doing nothing.
 Ickes Denies Story
 Ickes denied that George Wash ington opposed presidential thirt terms and recalled efforts to keel former Presidents Coolidge and The odore Roosevelt in the White Hous
 Poll generally reflect popular op. position to Roosevelt third tern but the band wagon has been roll ing for some time. Among Demo crats and Independents more or les committed to third term are: Sen ators Josh Lee, Okla., James E Murray, Mont, Joseph F. Guffey Pa, William H. Smathers, N. J. George w. Norris, Neb., M. M. Nicely w. Va, Elmer Thomas, Okla, ant Joseph B. Keenan, former assistant to the attorney general. A group O inside New Dealers led by Thoma R. Corcoran generally is credited with active organization of thirt term campaign.
 Farley Wants Declaration
 Farley, considered to be among potential candidates himself, i known to believe the presiden should declare himself one way o the other after this session of con gress. But he repeatedly has saie that MT. Roosevelt would be re. elected if he ran.
 Senator Edward R. Burke, D. Neb., in public, and other more ol less conservative Democrats in pri. i vate, have warned that third tern candidacy would split the party Various workers organizations have endorsed a third term, including tht Workers Alliance of Unemployed and WPA Clients.