Evening star., 1940-02-23
Political Speakers
Seek Third Term
Reply byP President
Roilwoy Labor Indorses
n Senator'S; Murphy
Reported an Aspirunt
BY JOHN C. HENRY.

to the political stew today, but the
chief flavoring-President Roose-
velt's decision on whether he is to
be candidate for a third term
was still missing in spite of re-
newed efforts to lure him into a
commitment.
Using Washington's Birthday an
niversary as springboard both for
sly innuendo and blunt demand,
spokesmen of both parties called
yesterday for a presidential state
ment. But the Chief Executive, still
off the Cocos Islands on the U. S. S.
Tuscaloosa, went on fishing.
Closely similar to earlier sugges-
tions, Senator McCarran, Demo-
crat, of Nevada, issued the most
direct call of the day in a statement
warning that Mr.. Roosevelts failure
to speak sis doing the party injury
right now and if statement is not
made soon the injury may be ex-
tremely serious" Clarifcation,
Senator McCarran said, would be
only fair to the party and to those
WllO Ildy dSpllC W
And with an apparent emphasis
on the decision of George Washing
ton to retire voluntarily from the
presidency after two terms, Senator
Burke, Democrat, of Nebraska and
Representative Crowther, Repub-
lican, of New York read Washing
tons farewell address to their SEN
ate and House colleagues in brief
sessions at the Capitol.
Murphy Reported Aspirant.
Aside from the third-term riddle,
the three most interesting political
developments of the past "a hours
were: Cd Endorsement by the Rail-
way Labor Executives Association
of % Senate members for renomina-
ton in State primaries; (2( rumors
that Justice Murphy of the Supreme
Court is seeking the vice presiden-
tial nomination on the Democratic
ticket; 80 appointment of Ernest
T. Weir, steel magnate, to head
Republican Finance Committee.
Naming three Republicans among
their favored group, the Railway
Labor Executives at the same time
pointedly rejected one Democrat,
Senator Burke, to indorse instead
the senatorial candidacy of Nebras-
kas Governor, R. L. Cochran.
The Senators Endorsed by the
railway labor officials we're: Ashurst,
Democrat, of Arizona; Maloney,
Democrat, of Connecticut; Slattery,
Democrat, of Illinois; Minton, Dem
ocrat, of Indiana; Radcliffe fl Demo-
crat, of Maryland; Walsh, Democrat,
of Massachusetts,; Bilbo, Democrat,
of Mississippi: Truman, Democrat.
of Missouri; Wheeler, Democrat, of
Montana; Pittman, Democrat, of
Nevada; Chavez, Democrat, of New
Mexico; Mead, Democrat, of New
York; Donahey, Democrat, of Ohio;
Mcclellan, Democrat, of Tennessee;
Connally, Democrat, of Texas;
Schwellenbach, Democrat, of Wash
ington; O'Mahoney, Democrat, of
Wyoming; johnson, Republican of
California; Vandenberg, Republican,
OF Michigan; Frazier, Republican,
OF N. OAK; Shipstead, Farmer
Laborite, of Minnesota, and La Fol-
lette, Progressive. of Wisconsin.
Murphy Conference.
AS for tho rumors about Justice
Murphy, the Associated Press re-
ported that the recent appointee to
the Supreme Court has been re-
oI i,, 1fot
gan Democratic leaders over pros
poets of having their delegation in
structed to support him for second
place on the ticket. Mr.. Murphy
is former Governor of Michigan.
At the same time, the Associated
Press reported Mr.. Murphy as say
ing there is certainly nothing" to
stories that he contemplates retire
ment from the bench this summer
Work en- the Supreme Court is
more suited to my temperament
than anything I have ever done,
and I expect to be happier than
ever before" Mr.. Murphy said.
Mrs. Taft Speaks.
Meanwhile, the New Deal was
under continued defense and attack
out in the soapbox circuit.
Speaking at Winona, Mimi, Mis-.
Robert A. Taft, whose husband
Senator from Ohio, is seeking the
Republican presidential nomination,
cautioned party followers that the
Roosevelt administration seeks to
keep the public alarmed over inter-
national affairs with the hope that
''the forgotten man will forget he
still has no job, the farmers VIII
not discover that agricultural prices
are still low and that their market
has decreased, and that business
men will fail to see that we are
coasting toward national bank
ruptcy."
And at Topeka, Kans., Secretary
of War Woodring recalled that the
Tories of 1776" condemned George
Washington just as the Tories of
today denounce Franklin Roosevelt
and his liberal followers who have
brought to many millions of our
countrymen the boon of new free
dom" :
The cabinet officer, addressing
Democrats of his home State at
their 36th annual Washington cele-
bration. criticized those who "pay
lip service to liberalism, but cry out
against reform
Without naming the specific re-
forms they would repeal. these
modern Tories emphasize the ex-
pense," he exclaimed. Expensive?
OF course, the measures taken have
been expensive.
1T is impossible to relieve the
distress of many millions without an
appropriate expenditure of funds"