Evening star., 1940-07-01

be ticket composed of Attorney
General Robert H. Jackson for
President and Postmaster General
James A. Farley for Vice President.
This is because Jackson is a young
man of vigor and intellectual capa-
city and represents the New Deal
almost as well as does President
Roosevelt himself.
From tactical point of view, the
elimination of the third-term issue
from the campaign would be help
to the Democrats and a bit of a
disappointment to the Republicans,
who have counted on Democratic
defections because of it. Further
more that part of the electorate
which has disagreed with various
policies of Mr.. Roosevelt might be
appealed to on the ground that a
new man would correct the mistakes
of his predecessor.
The fact that Jackson worked
many years in the employ of electric
power companies as a corporation
lawyer should hurt him no more in
the Democratic Convention than it
did Wendell Willkie in the Repub-
lcan Convention. jackson is an
aggressive campaigner. The COM
ing contest would be colorful, indeed,
If it were to be fought between these
two young giants of American public
lfe-Willkie and Jackson,
Way Around Difficulty.
1t will be argued that Postmaster
General Farley could not be named
for Vice President on the same
ticket with Jackson because both
hail from New York. But the Con-
stitution merely says that the
electors of a given State shall not
vote for a President and Vice Pres
ident from the same State. There
is nothing to prevent the New York
electors from voting for another
Democrat for Vice President and it
would not affect the result unless
the election was very close and
nobody had majority without New
York's vote. Then there is another
way to overcome the alleged diff
Guilty under the Constitution which
says the electors must vote for one
man for the top two places who is
not an "inhabitant" of the same
State with themselves. Either Jack
son or Farley could designate WASH
ington as his residence for all prac-
tical purposes. Anyway this would
be mere technicality which might
never arise. If any dispute did arise
as to what the Constitution meant
by 'inhabitant" the New Deal ma
jority on the Supreme Court could
take care of that very readily by
making the word 'inhabitant" mean
whatever the New Deal wanted it
to mean. just few weeks ago, for
instance, the New Dealers on the
Supreme Court ruled that the word
locality" didn't mean a given city,
but meant an area comprising two
or three States in the North, plus
a small area of few square miles
in another State hundreds of miles
away. The two areas together were
designated as single locality" for
purposes suited to the New Deal
regulators in the Department of
Labor who were fixing wage scales
in the steel industry.
Postmaster General Farley de-
serves the vice presidential nomina-
tion because he has the confidence
OF the conservatives in the Demo-
cratic party. This would make the
jackson Farley combination
means of harmonizing all elements
on the Democratic side. Further
more, the Postmaster General
doesn't feel that Mr.. Roosevelt
ought to run and he ought not to
be punished for having conscien-
tiously intimated as much to the
New Dealers.
Roosevelt Expected to Decline.
The probabilities are, of course,
that the nomination will be ten
dered to President Roosevelt. Most