Evening star., 1940-03-31
PartyLeft in Confusion
By Roosevelt Silence,
Johnson Asserts
Colorado Senator Sees
Candidates 'Horpooned
And Torpedoed'
BY the Associated Press.

Colorado, declared last night that
President Roosevelt, while keeping
silent on the third-term issue, had
'harpooned and torpedoed" other
presidential candidates until the
Democratic party was "aoundering
in confusion"
The Coloradan, who is supporting
Senator Wheeler of Montana for
the Democratic nomination, added
In statement:
II the President intends to 20
through with it and accept the
nomination, no one can well COM
plain because smart politics are
played in that -blooded way:
but If at the eleventh hour he should
abandon the scuttled Democratic
ship, he must accept the RESPONSE
blllty for the disaster which is so
obviously and relentlessly bearing
down upon her"
Senator johnson said that the
President sis certain to be nomi-
mated for third term unless he
positively refuses to accept the
ONCE The practical, hard boiled
politicians he added, want the
President to run 'for the simple
reason that he can win"
"Floundering in Confusion"
"A year ago the Democratic party
had a dozen attractive prospective
candidates." Senator johnson con-
tinued. Had political developments
been permitted to take their course,
many of these able men would have
grown in public esteem with the
months
However, the President, perhaps
with the noblest of intentions, has
stymled democracy's most depend
able sounding board, the primaries,
and he has harpooned and torpe-
coed other candidates for the pres
idency until now on the very eve
OF the election the majority party
is marking time, floundering in con-
fusion and trailing in public
acclaim"
During the day, another West
erner. Senator Schwartz, Democrat,
OF Wyoming, declared he favored a
third term for the President.
Senator Schwartz, previously
silent on the third-term issue, told
reporters that 'in view of condi-
tions throughout the world, think
1t highly advisable that the Presi-
dent remain at the helm"
The Wyoming Senator made plain
his belief, however, that there were
other candidates fitted for the
presidency who could be called on
1t Mr.. Roosevelt refused to run
again.
Curley Backs Farley.
In Boston, meanwhile, former
Gov. James NJ Curley one of Mr..
Roosevelt's earliest supporters in
Massachusetts,, declared his support
for the presidential candidacy of
Postmaster General Farley.
Mr.. Curley asserted that Mr..
Farley, more than any other in
dividual, enjoyed the confidence of
Democrats.
The round of political speech
making this week end included a
declaration by Senator Lucas, De-
mocrat, OF Illinois, that Thomas E.
Dewey has become "the number one
raoble-rouser of the Nation"
Speaking before a Philadelphia
young Democrats meeting, Senator
Lucas recalled Mr. Dewey's recent
charge that the administration had
demonstrated a fundamental lack
OF Integrity and cynical disregard
for principles of common honesty.
The Senator added:
These utterances constitute the
most brazen piece of effrontery and
campaign buffoonery that ever fell
from the lips of man who is being
considered seriously as a candidate
for President. *s*
This peddler of political poison
indirectly challenges the honesty
and integrity of the President of
the United States.
You see the sorry spectacle of
Tom Dewey, the glamour boy from
New York City, becoming the num-
Der one rabble rouser of the Nation -
Dewey in Jersey Primary.
Mr.. Dewey's name was entered
yesterday in New Jerseys preferen-
tlal primary, with indications ne
might have the field to himself.
Without an opponent in the May
2l ballotlng he would be in a favora-
BILE position to win New Jerseys 80
votes in the National Convention
The Republican State Committee,
IN ratifying recently a slate of four
candidates for delegates at large,
recommend that they run unin-
structed but follow the wishes of
the Republican voters as expressed
IN the preferential primary"
Mr.. Dewey, meanwhile, was CAM
paigning in Wisconsin for that
States presidential preference pri-
mary next Tuecday. Mr.. Dewey is
opposed in the Republican primary
by Senator Vandenberg, Republican
Of Michigan.
Denies Economy Sought.
Another contender for the Repub-
ltcan nomination, Senator Taft of
Ohio, told a Newport News (Vs. }
audience that 1T is perfectly obvious
that the President does not desire
to reduce expenses
Senator Taft argued that as leader
OF the Democratic party, Mr.. Roose-
welt has control of Congress. IF the
deficit for next year is as big as the
deficit for this year" he added, lit
is because the President desires that
deficit"
Representative Martin of Massa-
chusetts, the House minority leader,
declared at Hartford, Conn, that the
Republicans can win the 1910 elec-
tons
He said in an address that 'the
rank and file of the American peo-
pie want leadership in the Republi-
can party that will not try to in
fringe on the New Deal copyright on
fantastic and unworkable schemes. ~