Evening star., 1939-06-16
Democrats 10 Stand
On Record in Race,
Farley Asserts
Will Be Better United
Than 6. O. P. Thinks,
He Tells Conference
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 16-Postmas-
ter General James. A. Farley, the
Democratic national chairman, said
last night the party would fight the
1910 presidential campaign on the
record of the Roosevelt administra-
ton, and added:
And on this record we shall
win = ="
At the same time, in a speech pre-
pared for a conference of Demo-
cratic women from 10 Northeastern
States, he remarked that party lead
ers frankly -" have our eyes set
on this important sector in the po-
litical battlefront and the electoral
vote of these States may well de-
pend upon the measure OF your &C
tivities between now and the time
when the ballots are counted
AS for the Republican party, Mr..
Farley asserted it was approaching
another national election in the
same state of futility which brought
about its original defeat"
1T has failed" he went on, ito
develop a single leader who has cap
tured the imagination OF the public
and it has nothing to offer in the
way of a program. Those leaders
who attempt to speak for the party
are in hopeless disagreement.
Says G. o. P. Confidence Wanes.
"Only recently one eminent Re
publican Cthe reference was to Sen
ator Vandenberg of Michigan) sug-
gested that the next gentleman to
enter the White House should pledge
himself to serve one term only. That
was a faint hint that he himself
would willingly make the sacrifice
If duty called.
THE idea got nowhere, but again
It served to show that the jaunty
Republican confidence of short
while back is fast disappearing.
There are two errors commonly
made by those who specialize in the
delicate business of forecasting po
litical happenings. The first is that
in 1910 the Republicans will be far
less united than they think, and the
second is that the Democrats will
be far better united than they think
The gulf that exists between the
die-hard Hooverites and those who
favor a diluted New Deal as the
only means of returning to power is
far wider and deeper than many
people suppose If the Grand Old
Party nominates a candidate who
indorses the basic reforms of the
Roosevelt administration, it will be
public confession of error, the
meaning of which will not escape the
electorate.
And if the Hooverites nominate
their men and pin the black flag of
reaction to the party masthead, the
issue will be joined by the Demo-
cratic party in just the same man
ner that it was in 1886. and the
outcome will be every bit as salts
factory"
Change in Thinking.
At another point, discussing what
he termed "a gradual change in the
stream of political thinking" the
Postmaster General said the COM
pelling need for the adoption of
humane principles in government
has bitten deeply into the hearts
and minds of the American people.
Il venture to predict" he added,
"that the political battles of the
future viii not be waged on the issue
of uprooting gains already made,
but rather on the best means of ex-
tending and preserving what this
administration has accomplished.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the
final speaker said that women who
failed to join a political party be-
cause there was nothing in it" for
women forget that the primary
reason for politics is to be in poll
tics because of what you give, and
you give best if you are a part OF
our party's machinery, because then
you have a chance of making your
party conform to your ideals"
A political party, she added, must
be "a way to the workings of gov
ernment-sometimes in power but
always active because of always hav-
Ing objectives to accomplish