The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-18


present a curious-almost a
fashioned political experts "
ranks of the opposition in tn
1t reflects and dramatizes the
welt has, brought about in the
The only old familiar face is the
round. smiling. cherubic eounten-
anoe Of James A. Farley. who was
the Napoleon Of the Roosevelt
forces in 1882. Then he was
shutting back and forth between
delegation headquarters and the
private phone which kept him in
minute by-minute touch with
Roosevelt at Albany. He was
making deals, getting no sleep
eating hardly anything in MS
heroic and successful attempts to
nominate the man he admired and
loved.
Jim is still here. But there is
a hurt beneath the smile he forces
to his lips. He wraps his arms
around each new arrival from
Washington and says poignantly:
Tell me, what do you hear :?
What's going on? People coming
on from the east know more about
the convention than I do"
Whereas he talked with Roose-
welt every few minutes during the
old battle, he has not spoken to
him since F. d. r. impaired the
great secret of 1910 to him week
ago last Sunday. Except for the
visits of delegates telling him
how much they love him, Jim is
the 1oneliest man in Chicago.
Arthur Mullen of Nebraska,
who skillfully floor-managed the
previous Roosevelt campaign, is
dead. And before he died he was
subjected TO savage attack by Sec
rotary lckes for an alleged over
charge for PWA services rendered
to a Nebraska power company.
Homer Cummings, whose work for
F. D. r. eventually won him a
cabinet appointment, roams around
the corridors and through the
streets interviewing newspaper
correspondents.
Now and then he asks how the
amateurs" running the conven-
ton are doing. And when the
answer happens to be Not sc
good he throws back his head
and laughs like boy. Accom-
panying him on his hermitlikt
tramps is William A. Stanley
whose political labors eight year.
ago landed MIN in the d. of J. a.
Mr.. Cummings assistant.
Uncle Dan" Roper and William
G. McAdoo, who had a part il
swinging to Mr.. Roosevelt tn,
ninety Texas-California votes tha
gave him the nomination. are no
here. If they are, nobody ha!
seen or talked with them. Ton,
Cermak, the Chicago mayor Wit
gave healthy boost to tn
Roosevelt bandwagon at an OPP
perfume moment, died by the bull
let of the assassin who tried t
kill the president at Miami.
Huey p. Long, who was such
vociferous Roosevelt rooter tina
he scared even Farley, is also dea,
lof an assassin's bullet. The orig
1 inal Roosevelt man-Senator Bur
, ton X. Wheeler--is present, bu
l not as a Rooseveltian. Only a
: the last minute did he forego hi
$ plan to let his name be presente
q to the convention as rival t
: the presidents.
y The old order has passed.
has more than passed. 1t is deac
i The 1910 boss is the thin, pail
O. personable Harry Hopkins. VIII
was an unknown social welfar
worker in the days when Jim an
Homer and Arthur and Dan wer
using all their knowledge Of pol
tics and people to smash the "sto
Roosevelt" opposition headed b
AL Smith. Frank Hague, John
a Raskob and Jouett Shouse. 1t
a to the Hopkins suite in the Blacl
e stone hotel that big and lit
e politicos, labor leaders. far
4. spokesman. party workers ar
= plain ordinary delegates mai
e their pilgrimage. II is to his roor
i not to Farley's. that the Rooseve
70 private wire runs.
n With one exception-Ed Flyr
d of the Bronx-Harrys aides col
sist of men who were unknown
y politically, or listed as Republican
|. eight years ago. Francis j. Biddl
- Jr., solicitor general. and Robe
H. jackson, attorney general. a
;. doing political errands for Hopkin
. Leon Henderson is working 4
:. Hobbies trying to influence del
" gates and newspapermen for
aoaipct fbie ~ that vice Dres