Evening star., 1939-06-06
Wallace Entry
Seen as |ckes
Backs Roosevelt |
Farm Secretary Held
Waiting on Third
Term Decision
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Political kettle has been CON-
ing to boil in recent Ueeks as
Republican presidential poSsib;l-
tiles jockey for advantageous 20
sitions and Democratic possibtl-
tiles get ready for fast start
1Dhile aWditing decision of Presl-
dent Roosevelt on third term.
Despite harmony" efforts 1Dithin
both parties, definite cleauaoes
erist, that 1Dithin Democratic
ranks believed deeper and less
likely to be healed by November,
1910.
Reports that Secretary of Agricul-
ture Wallace will soon move into
the class of Secretary of State Hull
and Postmaster General Farley as
prominent Democratic presidential
possibility were matched today by
an unqualified request by Secretary
of the Interior Ickes that President
Roosevelt be a candidate for a third
term.
AS IN the case of Secretary Hull
and Mr.. Farley. Secretary Wallace's
candidacy is believed at present to
be fully secondary to Mr.. Roosevelt s
ultimate decision about running
again.
Congressional friends of the Agri-
n or$, tof i
they had talked to him about the
1910 race, expressed the belief he
would not permit entry of his name
unless it was certain the President
would not seek a third term.
Other members of Congress said
Secretary Wallace might seek
pledged delegates who would swing
to a third-term movement for the
President.
Talk of the Secretary's candidacy
echoed recent visit to his native
State of Iowa and other Midwest
ern points by Paul H. Appleby, Sec
retary Wallace's assistant.
Mr.. Appleby, former newspaper
man. whose desk has been the one
closest to Secretary Wallace for
several years, was reported to have
sounded out Democratic leaders
about Wallace-for- President dele
cations.
Ickes Backs Third Term.
Mr.. Ickes' call on the President
to remain at the top of his partys
ticket was contained in an article
written by the Secretary on request
and published in the current issue
Of Look Magazine
The article said the Secretary dis
misses leading candidates men
toned by both parties on the ground
they could not be influential in
world affairs while at the same
time commanding the respect" of
their own people.
Il want Roosevelt for a third
term Mr.. Ickes is quoted as say
ing.
This is no time for a candidate
whose qualifications consist of the
fact that he has been chirruping
weak opposition to everything the
worlds greatest democratic leader
has done, or candidate whose claim
to Office consists of the traitorous
knitting in the back of the Com
mander in Chief to whom he has
sworn fealty, or one whose strength
is that of knowing nothing, saying
doing nothing
Ickes Did Not Write Caption.
The article as published by Look
at this point said: Pick from the
above groups of prominent candi-
dates OF both parties one who could
be influential in world affairs while
at the same time commanding re-
spect of his own people. There is
than Roosevelt" The
groups" referred to are photo
graphs of Vice President Garner,
Secretary of State Cordell Hull.
Postmaster General Farley and Sec
retary of Agriculture Wallace, Dem
ocrats, and Thomas Dewey of New
York and Senators Taft, Vanden-
berg and Lodge, Republicans.
According to spokesmen for Sec
retary 1ckes-he, himself, is out of
the city-Mr. Ickes did not make
such list at all, but the magazine
wrote the caption" into his story
and placed the photographs.
So aroused was Mr.. Ickes when
he saw proof sheets of the article
that he threatened to send lawyers
to enjoin distribution, it was re-
ported today. More than million
copies of the magazine. however, al
ready had been run off the presses.
Mr.. 1ckes was angered also because
parts Of his article had been omit
ted, as well as because of the cap
tlons" written into his article by
the magazine. The magazine has
promised to print it in full, exactly
as written by Mr.. Ickes, in its next
issue.
Mr., Ickes declared in the maga-
zine that "a solid phalanx of eco
nomic royalists proposed a third
term for Calvin Coolidge"
IF the people can be trusted to
elect a President for one or two
terms" Mr.. Ickes said, they can
be trusted to decide whether he
shall have a third I'm too devoted
to Roosevelt personally to wish him
to continue in a breaking lob.
were there any one to replace him,
but In too devoted to my country
to be unwilling to sacrifice to it. if
necessary, even the well-being and
peace Of man who has earned
peace"
Wallace Chosen in 1888,
Mr.. Wallace came to the cabinet
IN 1888 as Republican who had
supported Mr.. Roosevelt for the
presidency. At the time he was
editor of a farm magazine in Des
Moines. His father, the late Henry
c. Wallace, had been President
Harding's Secretary of Agriculture,
Former Gov Nelson G. Kraschel
(See POLITICS, Page A-3.)