Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-24
Pennsylvania
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velt'S chief obstacle to reelection
is the anti-third term sentiment
which has manifested itself in
Pennsylvania in considerable degree
among those Democrats and Repub-
licanS who formerly supported him.
Yesterday was "anti-third term day"
in Philadelphia-as it was in the
rest Of the cOuntry-and Mr.. RoOSe-
velt's address last night was in
tended as an offset to this demon
stration all over the country Here,
Open-air meetings OF anti-thlrd
termers drew big crowds before the
President arrived. and speakers took
to the air to attack a third-term
election
Apathy in this presidential cam
paign long ago flew out of the VIM
dow in Pennsylvania Republican
activities are wide and varied. A
veritable army of Willkie volunteers,
especially women, is pressing his
cause.
Democrats Wake Up.
In a measure the Democrats were
caught mapping They had been told
in no uncertain terms from Wash
ington that the elections in the
bag" They looked back on Mr..
Roosevelt's 663 900 plurality in Penn
sylyania in 1886 with a great deal
of complacency. Now, however. the
Democrats are doing their level
best to line up their voters. They
complain rather bitterly that the
Republicans have great deal of
money to Spend-and refer to G. o.
P. extensive newspaper advertising
and hundreds of billboards.
Full-page advertisements ap-
peared in yesterdays Philadelphia
newspapers directing IL questions at
the President-"Mr. Roosevelt, the
candidate" rather. These questions
dealt with the Presidents effort to
pack the Supreme Court through
legislation, delay in adequate ma
tional defense and "throttling CAPT.
tai expansion" 1t closed with why
did you run for the third term
despite the expressed opinion
against this by the ablest Presidents
-" and would you consent to be
drafted for fourth term?'
A Republican swing began to
develop in Pennsylvania as long ago
as 1887, during the fight in Congress
over the Presidents Supreme Court
bill. It continued in 1888, and the
Republicans recovered control of the
State government. electing Gov
James, re-electing Senator James j.
Davis. and sending to Washing
ION 10 members of the House to
Is for the Democrats. Gov. James,
denounced by the New Dealers as a
conservative, ran up a 100000 vote
lead over his Democratic opponent,
and Senator Davis defeated former
Gov. George H. Earle in the Senate
race by 1872 In that year there
developed an intensely bitter fac
tional fight among the Democrats.
with Senator joe Guftey in one
camp and Democratic State Chair
man David Lawrence in the other
DClCdt OSSlDIC.
Today, the Democrats claim to
have adjusted their differences and
to be fighting shoulder to shoulder
particularly for President ROose-
welt This factional trouble, however
persists under the surface. and the
upShot will be that, unless President
Roosevelt carries Pennsylvania with
a huge lead over Mr.. Willkie,
Senator Guffey will be defeated.
That is the view of impartial polit-
ical observers and of many of the
Democrats themselves.
Democratic leaders talk with great
confidence of a Roosevelt victory in
Pennsylvania on November 5. One
of them insisted to me that the
President would carry Philadelphia
with lead of 2O0000-he had 210,-
900 in 1936-and that he would roll
up 200 900 lead in Allegheny Coun-
ty (which includes Pittsburgh,
where he had 10000 lead four years
ago. This sounds optimistic, to say
the least, especially when veteran
political observers here say that the
outcome is a tossup, some of them
giving Mr.. Roosevelt the State by
10000 and others declaring that MIR.
Willkie will carry it by not less than
10000 votes. Two years ago,
Philadelphia gave Gov. James a