Evening star., 1939-02-05
New Deal Governors
In South Can Pick
81 Delegates in 40
None Has Said Whether
He Fuvors denomination
Of Roosevelt
8r the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, Feb. "A bloc of
Southern Governors, strongly New
Deal In their political sympathies,
can name delegates from their States
to the National Democratic Con-
vention in 1910 If they wish.
Whether they favor the renom-
nation of President Franklin D.
Roosevelt or want some other for
the party standard bearer, none
has said
Governors of Georgia, Arkansas
and Louisiana, Through their State
committees, can control the per-
sonnel of the delegations from their
States in 1910 to the convention.
To this may be added Tennessee,
where the party machinery is con-
trolled by United States Senator
K. D. McKellar and Gov. Prentice
Cooper, New Deal advocates.
These four States will have "a
votes in the 1910 convention.
A suggestion that Florida let the
Democratic State Committee decide
on how delegates are to be named
brought prompt charge that the
proposal originated with Senator
Claude Pepper as part of plan
to insure control of the 1910 con-
vention for Roosevelt"
State Chairman T. T. Turnbull,
who suggested the change, said the
committee had not consulted with
Mr.. Pepper, a strong Roosevelt sup
porter. The committee member who
made the charge is Ty Cobb, jr,
of Orlando.
Legislature Can Change Mode.
Florida has IA votes in the ma
tional convention and selects her
delegates in primary. Any change
In the method would have to be
made by the Legislature, which
meets in April.
In Alabama, the first State called
on the roll, the % delegates may be
selected in a primary or named by
the Democratic State Committee.
which controls the party machinery.
The new Governor, Frank Dixon,
says he is cooperative" with the
New Deal.
The Mississippi delegates. 18. are
selected by party convention. The
Governor normally is influential but
not In control. The State elects a
new Governor this fall.
The party in Virginia consists of
TWO factions, one headed by the
Governor and the other led by Sena-
tor Harry Flood Byrd. Gov. James
H. Price, who recently has defended
New Deal expenditures in an ex-
change of comment with Senator
Byrd, is pro-New Deal. There has
been no test since Mr.. Price was
inaugurated in 1898 to indicate
which faction controls the party
machinery.
Virginia's % delegates are chosen
by State convention. membership
IN which is based on the vote in the
last preceding presidential election.
Texas to Back Garner.
Texas, which with California made
certain the nomination of Roosevelt
at Chicago in 1882, is expected to
swing its as votes behind John N.
Garner, who is now Vice President,
or to the person Mr.. Garner sup
ports.
Texas and California backed Mr..
Garner on the first two ballots at
Chicago in 80.
The delegates from Oklahoma are
chosen by a party convention. The
Governor controls the party ma
chinery and he is generally classed
as "lukewarm" toward the New Deal.
Although the new Governor of
South Carolina, Burnet r. May
bank, is strong personal friend of
the President, Senator E. D. Cotton
Ed Smith is expected to be a pow
erful factor in the convention which
will select the Palmetto States 16
delegates. And Mr.. Smith was one
Of the Democrats whom the Presi-
dent unsuccessfully tried to purge"
last summer.
New Dealer Rules in Arkansas.
The man elected Governor of
Kentucky this year, if he is a Demo-
crat, will control the party machin-
cry through the appointment Of
county chairmen and thereby the
convention of 1910 to select the %
delegates to the national gathering.
A bill was recently introduced in
the Arkansas State Senate designed
to strip Gov. Carl E. Bailey of his
control over the States delegation
to the 1910 national convention.
Gov. Bailey is known as 100 per
cent New Dealer. The bill was with
drawn voluntarily after a supporter
of the Governor had urged that it
be killed. He said "our Governor
has some propositions up with the
Federal Government and is being
blocked by reason of the fact this
bill is on the Senate calendar"