The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-20
NEW DEALERS TO
 CLOSE UP RANKS
Left Wingers, Progress sives Are Sought; COn-
 servativeS Feared
By LYLE c. WILSON

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Washington, June 20.-(UP)-The New Deal today is closing ranks with left-wingers and Progressives for next years presidential battle as Democratic conservatives draw far- ther from the Roosevelt admins tration.
 These developments follow a course charted by President Roose- welt in public statements inviting conservatives to join the opposition if their inclinations are in that di- rection.
 Typical of the conservative Demo- cratic challenge to MT. Roosevelt were the Atlanta, Ga, speech by Rep. Eugene Cox, D., Ga, charging that the federal bureaucracy is shot with Communism, yesterdays senate judiciary committee rejection of a Roosevelt nominee, the anti-third term address last night of Sen. Ed ward R. Burke, D., Neb.
 Conn. One of Gaps
 The fundamental maneuyer of New Deal Democrats to offset con- servative defections is to close ranks with the left wingers or Progress sives who deserted the administra- ton in 1888 and helped bring about Republican victories in such states as Minnesota, Wisconsin and Con- necticut.
 Two cabinet officers have been wooing Wisconsin ProgresSives in the few days. It appears that both the La Toilette brothers and New Deal Democrats are convinced now that 1940 will not be the time for a third party movement such as Senator Bob and former Governor Phil were developing before last November's election. Those returns showed that where the left wing deserted the New Deal-democracy to go its own way, the Republicans romped into office.
 New York Just Saved
 In New York state it was only the support of the American Labor and Communist parties that produced a slim margin for reelection of Gov. Herbert H. Lehman over District At torney Thomas E. Dewey, the Re- publican nominee. Farmer-Labor- ties had third party ticket in Min nesota, Progressives in Wisconsin and Socialists in Connecticut.
 Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace invaded Wisconsin June IT with a plea for Progressive support of the Democratic party. His ad- dress, incidentally, offered an op- portunity for official statement of his own party affiliations. Old line Democrats regard Wallace as a late arrival in the party fold. He ex- plained that he had left the Repub- ican party in 1924 and had become an independent but 'had come to regard myself as a Democrat" in 1928. He supported Al Smith for president that year.
 Appeal to Progressives
 Wallace said in Wisconsin that Independent Progressive voters have had set-backs because they were not united. The place to unite, he said, was under the Democratic standard.
 Political observers generally agree that no New Deal presidential can- didate would have a chance next year unless the various Progressive, independent and left wing groups among the states supported him.
 Attorney General Frank Murphy continued the appeal for Progress sive support in Madison, Wis, during the weekend in an address in which he was reported to have gone a bit out of his way to praise the La Toilette brothers who year ago were in the process of bolting the New Deal to establish their own national political party. The exist ing political situation is expected to persuade the La Follettes to raise the New Deal standard again.
 Cannot Laugh It Off
 Neither is the conservative Demo- cratic trend away from the Roose- welt administration to be laughed of. The senate judiciary voted yes- terday 13 to 5 against the nomina- ton of William s. Boyle to be U. S. attorney for Nevada. Sen. Pat Mc- Carran, D., New, one of those ten- tatively but not finally listed for the 1888 purge opposed the nomina- ton. He carried eight Democratic committee members with him. and some of the votes appear traceable directly to senate resentment against MT. Roosevelt's efforts to defeat certain conservative Demo crats in last years primaries,