Evening star., 1942-10-08
By GOULD LINCOLN,
Star StaF Writer

Star STAFF Writer.
DES MONIES, Oct. 8.-IoWa,
heart of the corn belt, listens
with interest when suggestions
are made that it's own native son,
Vice President Wallace, may be
the selection of the New Dealers
to succeed to the presidency
after President Roosevelt COM
pletes his service.
The Vice President is highly re-
garded in this State. He is the
farmers friend par excellence. AS
Secretary of Agriculture when the
Roosevelt administration took over
in 1888, he had much to do with the
formulation of the AAA and with
its administration. The ever,
normal granary" was an early con-
ception of his.
His selection at the 1910 Demo-
cratic National Convention for the
vice presidential nomination, die
tated by the White House and the
New Deal inner circle, was ac-
claimed in Iowa. If he is put for
ward in 1914, or in. 1948, for the
Democratic presidential nomina-
ton, he will have the backing OF
the Democrats in this State and
the support of the State delegation.
Out of Campaign.
Vice President Wallace is taking
no part in the present political
campaign in this State. When he
was asked here whether he intended
to be active in the campaign he
replied that he was not participant
ing in the election campaign here
or in California. In other words,
that he was out of the political
campaign. In this he is following
in the footsteps of the President,
who has announced he is doing no
campaigning this year-with the
war on.
Two years ago, Iowa, along with a
number of other agricultural States
of the Middle West, turned its back
on the New Dealers and gave its
electoral votes to the Republican
candidates.
Some of the Democratic politicians
may be lukewarm toward a Wallace
candidacy. They do not regard Mr.
Wallace as politician. Mr.. Wallace
has never been one to hand out
political favors and patronage as a
politician is expected to do, espe-
cially by the lesser politicians.
The Wallace candidacy then could
not swing the State to Roosevelt.
The farmers in considerable num-
bers moved back into the Republican
fold, despite the many favors they
had received at the hands of the
administration.
1t is true that the foreign policy
of the administration had something
to do with the vote cast in this
section in the presidential election
of 1910. But some of the Democratic
leaders here say that it is a case of
fill their stomachs and the people
forget" many of them 80 back to
their old political allegiance.
Checks Draft Movement.
The failure of the Wallace cam
didacy to swing Iowa, and other farm
States, into the Roosevelt column
two years ago is handicap to a
movement to draft Mr.. Wallace for
a presidential nomination IN the
future. If the Democrats could carry
the State this year. that picture
might be different. That, however
is not likely to happen if the political
straws in the wind are indicative OF
what is going to happen election day
The friends of Mr.. Wallace say
however, that he has quietly grown
in stature during his long service ir7
Office in Washington and particu-
larly in the last two years. He has
made some speeches which have i'm.
pressed great many people ir
other parts of the country as vel
as here.
No one knows what the next years
will bring, complicated as they are
by the war situation. Whether
President Roosevelt will be candi.
date for fourth term is in the fu.
ture, or whether he will give the
nod to one of his followers. Ont
former President of the Unitee
States-Calvin Coolidge-after h,
had decided not to run again, KEEP
his hands off. There was a grea
scramble for the Republican presi.
Dental nomination and Mr.. Cool
idge's Secretary of Commerce, Her.
bert Hoover, won out.
President Roosevelt may fee
called on, however, to have some
thing to say regarding a successor
Indeed, his activity in the selection
of Democratic gubernatorial nomi
nee in New York has been inter
preted widely as meaning that tn
New Dealers did not want James A
Farley to have anything to do witt
control of the big Empire Stat
delegation at the next Democrat
National Convention.
|. Willkie Loses Support.
Wendell L. Willkie, who carrie
Iowa against President Roosevelt
and Vice President Wallace, has los
cast with lot of Republicans herr
The same thing is true in other Mid
west States, where he did we'll il
the 1910 elections. The change i
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