Evening star., 1940-03-24
Preserve New Deal
Bye Choosing Garner,
Sheppard Asks Party
Vice Presidents Record
Cited as Two Stotes
Await Primory.Tes
By G. GOULD LINCOLN.

Senator Sheppard of Texas, him.
self an ardent New Dealer, last
night made Nationwide appeal to
Democrats to nominate Vice Pres
ident Garner for President.
Speaking over the air, Senator
Sheppard said:
1T should be obvious that the
work of this administration ought
to be perpetuated, in order that the
liberal objectives remaining may be
attained.
Clearly, then, the people should
devote the most careful thought to
the problem of choosing the best
qualified man to succeed our pres
ent great President"
Describing Vice President Garner
as practical liberal, closely iden-
titled with the liberal program Of
the past few years, who has had
that length of experience in gov
ernmental affairs which alone can
provide the perspective needed to
orient that program into the basic
ideals Of the American democracy"
Senator Sheppard pointed out that
Garner was elected on the same
ticket with President Roosevelt in
1882 and in 1885,
Wisconsin Primary to Be Test.
A week from next Tuesday, the
supporters of Vice President Gar
ner and the supporters of a third
term nomination for President
Roosevelt will clash at the polls
in the Wisconsin presidential pref
erential primary. This will be fol-
lowed a week later by q similar
contest in the Illinois primary. In
neither of these States has the
President, on his own initiative,
entered the primaries against Mr.
Garner. He has simply refrAined
from withdrawing his name. The
third-termers are seeking in these
contests, without having had any
definite statement from the Presi-
ident that he will run again, to
f1atten beyond resuscitation the
candidacy of Vice President Garner.
The speech made by Senator
Sheppard last night is the first that
has been broadcast nationally in the
interest of Mr. Gamers candidacy
since last December. At that time
Mr.. Garner announced his uncon-
ditional candidacy, and E. B. Ger
many, Garner manager and Demo-
cratic State chairman of Texas,
made a brief radio talk extolling the
Vice President.
No Speeches by Garner.
The Vice President himself has
made no speeches whatever-and 1t
does not appear that he will do So
in this pre-convention campaign. He
has written several letters and tele-
grams to supporters in various States
holding preferential primaries that
his name could be entered. Beyond
that he has not gone. President
Roosevelt, on the other hand, while
also making no speeches regarding
the presidential nomination, has not
given any public authorization to
the entry of his name into the pri-
maries. Nevertheless, it has been
entered.
Just when the New Deal third
termers had reached the conclusion
that the bandwagon wheels were
turning well and rapidly for a re-
nomination of the President, Post
master General Farley last week
threw a monkey wrench. He an
nounced he was a candidate with
out reservation"
Whether this is interpreted as
meaning that Mr.. Farley will run in
opposition to President Roosevelt II
the latter becomes a candidate for
the presidential nomination, or as
meaning that the President has de-
termined not to run, it can only be
REGARDED as a check to the third
term draft idea.
Since Mr.. Farley's statement in
Springfield, Mass, no prominent
New Dealer has come forward to
attack the Postmaster General. It
may be lull before the storm, or it
may be that the New Dealers are
not anxious to bring about devas-
tating break between themselves
and the chairman of the Democratic
National Committee.
Secretary of the Interior Ickes, who
has been one of the prime movers
in the third-term movement, spoke
of Mr.. Farley most kindly at q
press conference Immediately fol-
lowing Mr.. Farley's without reser-
vation" statement.
Yesterday it was prominent New
Dealer and third-term boomer
Senator Guffey, Democrat, Of Penn
sylvania who took up the cudgels 70,
Mr.. Farley after Senator Van Nuys
of Indiana had demanded Mr.. Far
ley retire from the Craftsmanship o1
the national committee.
II see no reason whatever for jim
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