Evening star., 1941-09-02
La Guurdiu Faces q FIGHT
His Moyoro Race Expected to Provide Test
Of Sentiment on Roosevet's Policies

gruntled elements because of the
Presidents international actions
and they are playing for these for
all they are worth.
Obviously Anti British.
A circumstances in point was
the vote of 203 to 202 by which
the House passed the Army serv-
ice extension bill Democratic
Representatives from New York
City divided II against and only
8 for this measure. The opposi-
tion group included several of the
personally selected congressional
minions of Messrs. Flynn and
Kelly. Even without this voting
evidence the electors would not
need to be told that the Flynns,
Kellys, Sullivans, O'Dwyers and
OLearys are anti-British.
Mayor La Guardia is suffering
from the animosities that accu-
mulate around any politician
long continued IN office-accen-
tuated in his case by his own
choleric temperament. He Is
downright cantankerous in his
dealings with many citizen
groups. Also there seems to be
feeling that Mr.. La Guardia late
ly has been giving more attention.
to national and international
affairs than to looking after the
welfare of his down-under con-
stituents. The politically wise
boys say he too often has been
photographed receiving fugitive
kings and queens and other scions
of European royalty. The i'm
preston has grown that Mr.. La
Guardia is hanging on to the
mayoralty only until he can move
on to some more glittering public
post and that, if reelected, he is
likely to resign long before an
other four years has expired.
Tammany, on its side, scored a
10 strike and annoyed the Mayor
no end when it removed the dis
trict attorneyship of New York
County completely from contest
by accepting Frank S. Hogan,
presently an assistant of Thomas
E. Dewey, as the Democratic
nominee for this post. Law and
order, as eXemplified by his dis
trict attorney running mates, has
been a great asset to Mr.. La
Guardia and this particularly so
when he teamed up with Mr..
Dewey in 1887. The latter art
fully swung the Republicans to
support Of Mr.. Hogan and when
Fusionists and American Labor
ties followed suit, Mr.. La Guardia
was left no recourse but to 60
along.
Good Government Element.
Mr.. La Guardia, in fact, is well
pleased with Mr.. Hogan as law
enforcement officer. His fear is
that, with the district attorney
ship removed from the campaign
the good government element,
heretofore the backbone of anti
Tammany movements, will lose
interest and stay home on elec-
ton day.
Union of all parties on the dis
trict attorneyship also has raised
the possibility. still regarded by
most observers as extremely re-
mote, that Mr.. La Guardia will
be defeated for the Republican
nomination for Mayor. The op-
posing Republican candidate is
John r. Davies, former president
of the National Republican Club,
arch Roosevelt hater and isola-
zionist. Four years ago Repub-
licans realized that Mr.. Dewey's
chance of bagging the district at
torneyship rested in his combina-
ton with Mr. La Guardia. Hence
they voted for Mr.. La Guardia as
a means of helping Mr.. Dewey.
Now there is no such collateral
reason for Republican support
of Mr.. La Guardia. The danger
to Mr.. La Guardia is that his
friends predominantly will vote
in either the Fusion or American
Labor primaries, thus leaving the
conservative die-hards to run the
Republican show.