Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-19
Sen. Wheeler Talked
AS Compromise
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as effectively as Burton T.. has.
Would this seem calculated to make
him as acceptable compromise from
the supposedly very liberal New
Dealers angle?
All the same, Wheeler's suggested
as a compromise. .
What Is He?
My own estimate Of the Montana
statesman is that he's an honcst-to-
goodness democrat with a small
"d'') and a democrat of pretty viol-
ent type, too. He certainly was far
too leftWard to suit the Bourbon
Democrats (big "D") Is years ago,
though undoubtedly they're appre-
ciative of the trouble he's made for
New Dealerism more recently.
What Burton K. evidently doesn't
like in the New Deal is what he con-
siders its tendency toward Nazi-ism
or Fascism, and if Hitler and Mus
solini are radicals they're the op-
pOSite kind Of radicals from his kind:
his kind is in the direction of ali
colors of personal liberty.
In short, as he sees it, we have
rectangular situation:
Democrats (big "DD, democrats
Qittle "d"), Republicans, and New
Dealers, who, in his Judgment are
on the way toward what nowadays
we call "tOtalitarianism."
Wheeler super-emphaticaly is a
democrat (ittle "d").
l wouldn't suppose that anybody
nfc i
promise on him. The Democrats (big
"D') and the Republicans probably
are quite grateful to him for the heck
he's raised with the New Deal, but
that they'd indorse him as their
standard-bearer strikes me as alto
gether unlikely. And that the New
Dealers would acquiesce! It's ridi-
culous. They might compromise on
young Senator La Toilette or Sena-
tor Norris (if he weren't so old). But
Wheeler's as anti-New Deal as SEN
atOr Hale of Maine or Senator Glass.
of Virginia
Supreme Court Fight.
Senator Wheeler began to be talk
ed about cOmprOmiSingly on account
of concurring remarks of his own
and of President ROOsevelt's relative
to the outcome of the Federal Su-
preme Court reorganization contest.
Earlier in his term, as we know.
the President was bothered by the
conservative courts hostile attitude
as to his New Deal plans. Accord
lngly, he proposed to increase the
number OF Justices, to enable him to
appoint enough new ones to outvote
the conservatives. This was describ-
cd as scheme to 'pack'' the court.
subOrdinating it to the White House.
Wheeler led the campaign to prevent
it. He did dandy job and won.
Moreover, it was a conspicuous Job,
because Wheeler had so long been
regarded as an enemy of Supreme
Court conservatives
For all that, the Supreme Courts
been somewhat New Dealerized.
Several retirements enabled the
President to name new Justices to
his liking. A few of the remaining
bunch unquestionably were scared
into turning more liberal Today it's
fairly New Dealerish tribunal.
Lost Battle but
The other day it appears to have
occurred to President Roosevelt that
he'd won a Supreme Court victory
he'd lost battle but won war.
"That's true enough" conceded
Senator Wheeler.
That admission (Which can't be
disputed) evidently has been inter-
preted in various quarters as having
qualified Wheeler as a Democratic
democratic-Republcan = New Deal
-liberal-radical - conservative -
reactionary compromise presidential
candidate
Will it work. =