The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-04-13
WASHIN GTON, April IL


made in Congress, practically
every action or utterance of the
President or any member of the
Administration, is carefully cal
culated in the light of its pos.
sible effect on the Presidential
campaign of 1910.
Washington lives politics
thinks politics and plays polite:
all the time, but with the next
Presidential campaign less than {
year and a half ahead, the politi-
cal activities at both ends OF
Pennsylvania Avenue are becom.
ing more and more sharply focus
sed on the question of who will
be the next President of the
United States.
There is more political expert
ence and wisdom concentrated in
Washington than in any other
spot in the world. 1t is not all
confined to politicians, either.
The soundest political judg-
ment on national political issues
is that of the five hundred or
more special correspondents of
the important newspapers and
press associations whose chief
job is telling the folks back home
what is going on here, and why.
Most of these correspondents
were political reporters in their
home cities and states before they
came here; many were managing
editors of important daily papers.
They know politics and political
personalities from the ground up,
and an honest cross-section of
their opinions is the best possible
guide to the probable future
course of political events.
Your correspondent has lately
sounded cut hundred or so of
the most experienced and least
partisan of the corps of CORES
pondentS as to who will be the
Presidential nominee of the two
parties, so far as present condi-
tons give indications.
Don't Expect Third Term
There is practical unanimity
that President Roosevelt's chance
OF being renominated by the De-
mocrats is growing less. Nobody
can be sure that he wants or eX-
poets to run for a third term. If
he does, and can get the nomina-
ton, the best opinion is that he
can be reelected.
The bitterest inter-party strug-
gle in recent political history is
going on, more or less behind
closed doors to prevent Mr..
Roose 1t S denomination, by
building up the candidacy of
Vice-President Garner.
There are dozen receptive
personalities around whom the
beginnings of an organization are
being set up; but the combined
judgment of the Washington OBJ
servers who know their way
about is that all of those move
ments will fall to the ground
when the Democratic National
Convention meets and it is de-
monstrated that Cactus Jack"
Garner has a block of delegates
pledged to him large enough, if
not to nominate himself, at least
to prevent the nomination of any
one whom he DIES not endorse
The Garner boom has come out
into the open with the passing of
a resolution indorsing him for
President by the Texas legisla-
ture. Mr.. Garner modestly retir-
ed from the presiding officers
chair in the Senate when the
Texas resolution was being read,
but there is no doubt that it was
highly pleaSf1g to him.
Also pleasing to the bushy-eye-
browed Vice-President was the
recent exchange of letters bet
ween the President, son, Elliot,
and his brother n-law, John
Boettiger. Elliot Roosevelt, who
is now a citizen of Texas, came
out in enthusiastic terms in favor
of Mr.. Garner as his fathers sue
cessor, while Mr.. Boettiger
thought his father-in-law ought
to run again.
May Choose Candidate
Underlying all the talk about
the Garner boom, which seems to
be growing rapidly all over the
nation, runs a question whether
the 70-year-old Texan really
wants to run for President him
self or to hand his delegates over
to the candidate of his choice.
There is still a strong belief
that Mr.. Gamers real candidate
is not himself but Senator Ben
nett Champ Clark, of Missouri.
But there is definite conviction