Evening star., 1940-07-28
Wallace National Planner
Vice Presidential Nominee Termed Most Artcuate New Dealer
By p Brandt

In forcing the Democratic National
Convention to nominate Henry A. Wal
lace as his 1910 running mate, President
Roosevelt selected as his possible sue
cessor in the White House the most
articulate, consistent and effective New
Dealer among the small coterie of eco
nomic planners who came to Washing
ton in 1888
Mr.. Wallace, as Secretary of Agricul.
ture, has been the philosopher of the
New Deal as whole and the prac-
tical craftsman of its farm program
from the political viewpoint, most re-
markable assignment for a man who did
not change his Republican registration
until 1896, although he voted for Alfred
E. Smith in 1928 and Franklin D. Roose-
velt in 1892.
The Roosevelt Wallace ticket fits the
specifications laid down by the Presi-
dent in his 1889 Jackson Day speech:
II there are nominal Democrats who
as matter OF principle are convinced
that our party should be a conservative
party-a Democratic tweedledum to a
Republican tweedledee-it is on the
whole better that the issue be drawn
within the party, that the fight be fought
out and that if the tweedledums are de-
feated they join the tweedledees."
Selection Was Resented.
The issue was fought out at Chicago
within the party, and the Roosevelt
forces won, though as forecast in this
correspondence the selection of a 100
per cent New Dealer for the vice presi-
Dental nomination was resented.
Mr.. Roosevelt's statements last week
about boiling Democrats-men whose
minds run more to dollars than hu-
manlty" - and Secretary Wallace's
speeches and books written over the last
seven years foreshadow the kind of CAM
palgn the New Dealers will conduct dur
Ing the next three months.
In addition to defending the third.
term attempt, the Democratic spokes-
men, some with deep reluctance, will
try to arouse the lower income groups
to battle for economic" as we'll as
political democracy. This year, even
more than in 1886, Mr.. Roosevelt wants
to make the Democratic party the lib
eral' party and to put the "conserva-
tive" label on the opposition
OF all the New Dealers, Secretary WAL
lace is best fitted by birth, training and
experience to appeal for the adoption
OF a cooperative program based on "the
general welfare" which is another way
OF calling for the greatest happiness of
the greatest number"
A profound student of American his
tory and the American Constitution
Secretary Wallace has long believed that
political democracy is only a stepping
stone to economic democracy. He hates
relationships, Communistic or Fascist
put he declares that this country must
ADJUST itself by "humanizing" capitalism
SO as to meet world conditions as thew
have developed within the last Is
years"
we cannot preserve democracy" he
says, simply by dishking dictatorship
the preservation of democracy must
Keep democracy working effectively. Po-
Atlcal freedom means very little if it is
not accompanied by economic freedom.
An unemployed man may not think that
the privilege of voting amounts to verv
much. Free speech and the right OF
assemblage may be meaningless to
migratory workers"
Secretary Wallace takes pride in his
aolllty to see the underlying reasons for