Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-21
President
In+ervenes in
N. Y. Election
Establishes Yardstick for
Other States

Other States
BY GEO. ROTHWELL BROWN
Special 20 THE DETROIT TIMES
WASHINGTON, July 21.-
w A steady stream of Demo-
cratic big shots from New York
has been pouring in and out of
the White House during the
past few weeks.
Politics by no means has been
adjourned.
The President wants his kind
of man nominated for governor
on the Democratic ticket. II is
explained, in his behalf, that he
is not interesting himself in the
politics Of other states, but can
do so with perfect propriety in
New York, because that is his
own state.
The Democratic test this year
lies in a mans record in support
of or opposition TO Mr.. Roose-
velt's foreign policies before
Pearl Harbor.
Now, of course the President
Is politically very subtle in the
pretense that he is not interven-
ing in political situations. other
than in his own state of New
York. What has been transpiring
with regard 10 the gubernatorial
situation in New York has very
clearly outlined a pattern. as
applicable TO other states as TO
the state from where the Presi-
dent halls.
THE politicians in Maryland,
l. Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois
all the other states of the union
will make use Of this pattern
of the Presidents in their own
local campaigns.
But the naive scheme, though
subtle. does notalways work.
For instance, there was a pri-
mary in Oklahoma last week,
one of the consequences Of
which was the defeat for re-
nomination of Rep. Wilburn
Cartwright of the third district.
Mr.. Cartwright, an eight-term
veteran of the House, and
New Dealer. had an unbroken
record in support of President
Roosevelts foreign policies prior
TO December 7.
Mr.. Cartwright voted for the
draft. He voted for the original
lend-lease bill, and he voted TO
the President the $1,000, 900, 900
with which 10 implement it. He
voted for the ship seizure bill.
He was a 100-per center.
Yet Mr.. Cartwright was re-
jected by his constituents, not
withstanding his support of the
President-and by the natural
corollary of the New York pat
tern, the Presidents support Of
him.
CURIOUSLY enough. Mr..
~ Cartwright. who is chairman
of the House roads committee,
and thus one of the leaders of
his party in the House, was
beaten by a country editor, 20
years in the state Senate. an
anti-New Dealer, and anti-labor.
There is another political pat
tern that has been running
through this years primaries.
The American people are not
Furnishing public men who. prior
TO Pearl Harbor, opposed the
entrance of the United States
into the World War.
Nor are they re-electing TO
office. whether or no, all sup
porters of the Presidents pre-
war foreign policies. Not by a
considerable sight!
Other factors are entering
into the primaries. and presuntk
ably will be reflected in the No
vember elections.
THERE has been plenty Of evil
Il dence, in widely separated
states, that the voters of this
country are fed up on the labor
racketeer and his policy of rule
or ruin. That was definitely the
situation in the third Oklahoma
district.
Mr.. Cartwright was bitterly
opposed by Gov. Leon c. Phil
lips. a former Republican who
switched over and won his own
election as a Democrat. He is a
strong out-and-out anti-New
Dealer, and Paul Stewart. the
man who defeated Cartwright.
was the candidate he picked and
backed with the state machine,
10 defeat him.
The Phillips-Cartwright politi-
cal antagonism is1a feud that
had its inception when both
were fellow students at the Uni
versity of Oklahoma many years
ago. Phillips was the campus
Republican leader and Cart
wright the college Democratic
chief.
THERE Is another interesting
Il thread that has been dis
cernible in many primary con-
tests this year-the people are
resentful of the attempted pen
sion grab for congressman. Mr..
Cartwright has caused shivers
to run down the spines of many
of his colleagues by telling them
that this issue was raised against
him with deadly effect.