Evening star., 1939-07-25
Business at the Old Stund

Roosevelt and Farley has not been
dissolved. Business will be transacted
as usual, despite alarming reports
over the week end that an explosion
was about to occur at Hyde Park
President Roosevelt, it has been re-
peatedly declared in the press, no
longer feels the close relationship to
Postmaster General James A. Farley
that he did in 1882 Mr.. Farley, on
the other hand, has been described
as smarting under cavalier treatment
accorded him at the White House
and as believing that it would
be extremely unWise for the Demo-
cratic party to nominate the Presi-
dent for third term. Indeed, the
newspapers have been filled with ru-
mors calculated to stir up i'll feeling
between the President and his politi-
cal Man Friday
Unless the President and Mr.. Far
ley are assembling, the efforts to
bring strife between them have not
is reason to believe that both men
understand that certain Democrats,
for their own purposes, have tried to
break the old Roosevelt Farley politi-
cal alliance.
Such a break between the President
and the chairman of the Democratic
National Committee quite naturally
would be of aid to those Democrats
who oppose Mr.. Roosevelt and the
New Deal-who particularly oppose
third term nomination for Mr.. Roose-
welt. Mr.. Farley, as Democratic ma
tional chairman, has wide influence
with the Democratic organization
throughout the country. And the
Democratic organizations, national
State and county, have a great deal
to say about who shall be delegates
to the 1910 Democratic National Con-
vention. The anti-third term Demo-
Gratis would rejoice to have Mr.. Farley
as an ally.
Politics is politics. The President
may have come to understand that
1t is more advantageous to have the
experienced Mr.. Farley at his right
hand in his future political battles,
whether they look to another term in
the White House or not, than to
substitute for him the ubiquitous
Thomas G. Corcoran, for example.
After all, it is necessary to have the
politicians with him for Mr.. Roose-
velt to hope to control the Democratic
convention next year, no matter how
popular Mr.. Corcoran may tell the
President he is with the rank and
file of the Democratic voters.
The political advice of the Cor
eoran-Cohen combination, which has
been given rather freely to the Presi-
dent, if reports are true, has not re-
suited in any signal successes for the
President. There was the fight over
the court bill in 1887, which turned
out disastrously. Then came the
1nept attempts at the party purge"
last year, with SHINING Democratic
Senators against the New Deal
singled out for elimination" Now,
more recently, the advice of the
Corcoran- Cohen outfit, according to
reports on Capitol Hill, has been for
the President to remain entirely quiet
regarding his possible candidacy for
third term right up to the opening
OF the national convention next year.
Doubtless, the advice of Mr.. Farley
to the President in the past has been
to keep silent on the third term
question. At the same time Mr.. Far
ley probably realizes that if this si-
lence is allowed to continue as long
as Messrs. Corcoran and Cohen de-
sire, the chances for a united Demo-
cratic front in the campaign next
year will be nil. Furthermore, Mr..
Farley for personal reasons would
like to know the Presidents final at
titude toward denomination. AS
chairman of the Democratic National
~AoeSS cAAo q EOoolUlC SO1lUSIlUCE
for the nomination himself, Mr.. Far
ley may consider that he is entitled
to be informed in this matter.
The President may have made
clear his position to MIR. Farley at the
Hyde Park conference. If the Presi-
dent said to his old friend: II am
going out for a third term, believing
that it is necessary to preserve the
New Deal"-his old friend may well
have replied, "I'll 60 with YOU" Mr..
Farley has had Roosevelt complex
for many years. On the other hand,
as he has in the past, Mr.. Roosevelt
may have told Mr.. Farley that he did
not wish to be a candidate-and that
doubtless would have been satisfac-
tory to the Democratic national
chairman.
Mr.. Farley is of to Europe, not to