Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-11-08
Says Roosevelt Should
Serve Third Term \
Writer Sees No Other Man
Qualified to Deal With
Current Problems
To the Editor OF The Star.

TO the Editor Of The Star:
Your correspondent who signs him.
self American Patriot righteously hopes
the Republican party will nominate
an outstanding businessman in 1910
and offers his own list of "dark-horse"
candidates. He begins with Senator
Lodge Of Massachusetts, and dips here
and there across the country, glancing at
Gov. Bricker of Ohio, Col. Knox of ILL
nois, ALI Landon of Kansas, and finally
winds up with Senator McNary of Ore
gon. Paradoxically he does not name
an outstanding, attend-to-his- own busi-
ness businessman in the entire group.
All are politicians.
Your American Patriots only choice
who has presidential stature and back
ground is Representative Jimmy"
WadsWorth, a successful farmer and
businessman, but best known for his
career in Empire State politics. How
Gov. Arthur James of Pennsylvania can
be classed as a businessman is beyond
the ken of any one who knows his record
He is the creature of the Pennsylvania
Manufacturers Association and his adj
ministration has aroused the ire of Re-
publicans and Democrats alike.
1t is we'll known that the Republican
high command several months ago put
out the propaganda that the party
should pick sound middle-of -the-road
businessman for first place on the 1910
ticket. They looked for a comparatively
colorless individual whose outstanding
qualification was success, who would
sound good to the farmers and who
would not antagonize labor He would
be given a pious buildup, and young
Dewey or a similar energetic party
worker would be selected for Vice Presi-
dent. Three months ago this was con-
sidered good strategy.
The same people who set about to
inspire the selection of G. o. P. BUSH
nessman candidate proceeded also to Sc
lect Democratic nominee and quite nat
urally picked John N. Garner, whose
lifelong career in politics has been sub
sdiary to his activities in business. John
is a Democrat-he comes from Texas
and is, of course traditional free trader,
but We remember in the Hawley Smoot
days that he didn't object to a little
tariff on goat hair! Being politician,
he loves labor, but is not exceptionally
enthusiastic about the pecan pickers.
Do the Republican sponsors of Mr..
Garner and those Democratic conserva-
tivesrwho have been flirting with the G..
O. P. realize that the Cactus Jack" build
up has been overdone? If 1t goes on we
shall soon look upon the Vice President
as just fisherman, man who snoozes
in his backyard, who doesn't know
deuce from face card-an innocuous
teetotaler!
The Republicans have overlooked their
real business leaders-John D. Rookie
Teller, Henry Ford, Harper Sibley, Charles
NJ Pew and Richard K. Mellon. Why
does the G. o. P. not nominate a candi-
date in name as we'll as in fact?
1t was three months ago that the Re-
publicans began looking for business
man candidate. We are now in a diff
lSlellI WOIlu. DOIIleSIlC lTkSOmeQeSS OF
June and July has disappeared in the
consideration of the tense problems that
face America today 1t will take more
than SNUG businessman or a willy poll
tician to guide our destinies during the
next four years.
Through kind and watchful Provi-
dence our country has always produced
a leader capable of bringing the people
out of the darkest hours of adversely
and In defending our land against for
eign encroachment. From the days of
Washington, Franklin and jefferson and
their compatriots of l776 down to the
present minute we have been fortunate
in having such leadership. To consider
change of Presidents now is to put
politics before patriotism, selfish ex-
pediency before practical common sense.
In uniting for American safety and free
dom in 1910 businessmen as well as all
other Americans could do no better than
to continue President Roosevelt in office,
SOCRATES THOMPSON.
November l.