Evening star., 1939-05-14


conception OF Star Artist NeUman
Sndduth. A. P. photographs aboue
sho1D the Postmaster General in
typical action poses.
Joe, this Is Jim. How about your
delegation going along for a fellow
named Farley" Joe Doaks would jump
at the chance. The New England dele
CATION, which is not likely to have any
favorite sons, has 80 votes in the con-
vention.
Then, from the Farleyian point of view.
the States with big delegations, with
cities where organizationn is paramount,
are likely to be found in the column of
the Postmaster General New York, and
Jim may well expect to be New York S
favorite son, has ga votes. Pennsylvania
has 70, Illinois, So; California 44 Ohio,
So; New Jersey, 80. Together these make
bloc of 352 delegates. and few political
observers would deny that Farley could
have most of them.
Support From Other Quarters.
Add to this the scattering support
which could be expected from States with
well-oiled machines where there are no
favorite sons and it will be seen how
close Big Jim might come to ID even on
the first ballot. Add Arizona. Colorado,
Delaware, Iowa, Kansas. Minnesota,
South Dakota and part of the territorial
vote, Alaska and Hawaii, plus the District
OF Columbia, and the total is 112
ojy nd tot ta1 nf
which is only ten short of nomination.
1t will be noted that in this estimate of
possible strength not single Southern
State is included, nor even any of the
so-called border States. Farley can
scarcely expect any pre-convention sup
port from the South, where his Ca
tholicism would be an issue. It's perfectly
obvious that with this much scattered
strength. Farley could pick up enough
more-Puerto Rico and the Philippines
have IL delegates-to do the trick
With the lineup it will make no diff
ference to the big boss of the party If
Tennessee sticks to it's favorite son. Cor
dell Hull, or Missouri to Clark, or Mich
igan to Attorney General Frank Murphy.
Under the majority rule there is not
likely to be another one of those "24
votes for Oscar w. Underwood" con-
ventions that so delighted the Repub-
licans
In view of all this it is small wonder
that Farley is one of the few really
happy Democrats in Washington today.
AS he looks at it, he can afford to sit
tight and see what happens. He made
transcontinental tour that extended
to Alaska last year and it's safe to guess
this just wasn't to be sure there was
enough glue on the postage stamps. In
fact, when Farley predicts what the vote
will be at the 40 convention-leaving
Roosevelt out of the picture-he prob
ably has pretty accurate information on
which to base his prediction.
Whatever happens, he feels that he's
sitting pretty. The favorite son contend
ers, Clark, Murphy, Hull, Paul McNutt
of Indiana. will not, in the Farleyian
view, get much further than that. The
so-called New Deal candidates who
seemed for time at least to have had
the White House blessing are out. Vice
President Garner is the only formidable
rival, since he is likely to come in with
the support of the solid South.
Wife Averse to Political Career.
This is a long way for Farley to have
come, and he is keenly aware of it. He
can afford to sit back and wait, particu-
larly since his wife is strongly averse to
an official career in Washingtons She mas
hearty dislike Of the Capital Her
advice to her husband all along has been
to get out Of public life and get lnJo
business. She would naturally be graft"