Evening star., 1940-04-30
Accord Found,
Texas Delegates
To Back Garner
Are Instructed Also
To Voice Praise of
New Deals Record
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
Vice President Garner will have
the backing of the delegation which
Texas will send to the Democratic
National Convention in Chicago
July IS.
Under an agreement entered into
by the Garner-fo President man.
ayers and the third-term boomers in
Texas, the delegation of 46 will vote
for Mr.. Garner, having been so in
structed, whether or not President
Roosevelt's name is presented to the
convention.
The agreement entered into is
summarized in telegram sent to-
day by Myron G. Blacock, Texas
State manager for the Garner
forces, to House Majority Leader
Rayburn of Texas and to Repre-
sentative johnson of Texas. who has
been active in the third-term move
ment. 1t reads
Il have your telegram and agree
with you. Our organization advo-
Gates three-point program as fol-
lows:
Il. A strong Endorsement of the
Roosevelt-Garner administration.
To Vote as a Unit.
2. An instruction to the Texas
delegates to work and vote as a unit
at Chicago for the nomination of
our great fellow Texan, John Nance
Garner, for President
"3. The selection of a representa-
tive delegation composed of strong
and representative group of Texas
Democrats, both men and women,
70 carry out this program and not
70 serve as a stop-Roosevelt move
ment. I have conferred with Mr..
Wlrtz Undersecretary of the In
terror Alvin WirtD and we are in
accord on this program"
The phrase mot to serve as a stop
Roosevelt movement" was the con-
cesslon made to the third -termers.
The Garner managers insist they
believe President Roosevelt will not
run.
Mr.. Garner will have the delega-
ton on exactly the terms his sup
porters asked when the Texas State
Democratic Convention IN 1888
unanimously adopted resolutions to
put his name before the national
convention. Those resolutions also
indorsed and acclaimed the record
OF the Roosevelt administration
The Garner managers have never
deviated from that program. 1t
has now been approved by both
Roosevelt and Garner supporters.
Asked for Harmony.
That the Roosevelt forces had
agreed to the plan advanced for
Texas nearly two years ago became
known Monday when Representa-
tives Rayburn and johnson sent al
most identical kilograms to Mr.. Bla-
lock and to Mr. Wirtz. who recently
went to Texas to drum up support for
third term, asking that Democrats
In Texas make every effort to have
harmony in the party ranks. While
the telegram, on its face, was moth.
ing more than the expression Of the
personal feeling of two out of the
2l members of the House from Texas,
there was no doubt of its implica-
tionS.
Representatives Rayburn and
johnson went to the White House
and showed the telegram to Presi-
dent Roosevelt and obtained his per-
mission for sending it. It's effect was
to call of the forces which had been
seeking to have Texas not instruct
its delegation for Mr.. Garner.
Mr.. Wirtz himself had called for
a Roosevelt delegation. In a state
ment issued at Dallas on April Is
he called on Texans to go to their
precinct conventions on May and
instruct for Roosevelt New Deal
delegation"
Resolution Unchanged.
1t was also pointed out that the
program agreed on by all sides
could be carried out without chang
ing the wording of resolutions which
the Garner managers had already
sent to precinct leaders through
out the States. These resolutions
which the Garner managers drew
two weeks ago called for the dele
CATION to be instructed for Vice
President Garner and also to have
the convention praise the record
OF the Roosevelt administration.
The telegram sent to Mr.. Wirtz
by Representatives Rayburn and
johnson read:
I'VE believe Texas Democrats
should make every effort to have
harmony in party ranks and that
misunderstanding now existing
should be ended. You state Texas
Roosevelt supporters should indorse
native son John Garner and send
delegation instructed to vote for his
nomination for the presidency and
Blalock, Garner manager, in public
statement say Garner organization
and his supporters will insist that
State convention approve and ac-
claim administration record and
will refuse to be party to any stop
Roosevelt movement. We think in
the interest of the party and in the
light of the above statements at
tributed to both of you, both sides
should get together and send dele
cation to national convention which
will carry out above program. We
cannot beat the Republican party in
November If we concentrate on
beating each other now. We feel
sure such an understanding would
not be displeasing to the President"
leiserson Sees No Need