Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-09
Presidents
Bennett Nod
Far Too Late
Farley, Roosevelt Far
Apart Now. Later
Friday, October 9, 1912
By WESTBROOK PEGLER

MEL, President Roosevelt,
w has given a cold endorse
ment TO John Bennett. Jim Far
ley's candidate for governor. but
the New Deal is still licked in
the State of New York and the
reaction of 1914 has begun.
Bennett was anti-New Deal
when Farley got him the nomi-
nation, he hasn't changed since
and the Presidents support was
given too late 10 place him under
any obligation TO the White
House.
Bennett Is under great obliga-
tons 10 Farley, however, and
nobody who knows anything at
all about the situation has any
doubt as 10 how things stand
between the President and
Farley.
They are friends neither per-
sonally nor politically and Far
ley plainly is out TO nominate
himself for President in 1914 as
an anti-New Deal reactionary
or. as he probably will prefer 10
bill himself when the time
comes. as an anti-New Deal re-
former.
If he can't nominate himself
he will support some other anti
New Dealer and you can 60 and
bet something at the best avail
able price today that he will not
merely refuse TO support but will
oppose the President for a fourth
term. should Mr.. Roosevelt de-
sire one. or any one whom the
President selects as his sue
ceSSor.
THE Presidents support OF Mr..
l. Bennett will do him some
good and Farley certainly won't
deny that. but they have no rca.
son 10 feel that he has any claim
on their political gratitude.
There was nothing else for him
TO do.
He couldn't endorse Tom
Dewey and if he had come out
for Dean -Aifanee. thn-man-
whom the miscalled American
Labor Party nominated in
smoke-filled room strictly &C
eording TO the Warren G. Hard.
ing tradition. he would have
caused several embarrassing
consequences.
First, he would have assured
the election of Dewey, who is an
anti-New Deal reactionary or
reformer and. no foolinG, who
in turn would be likely 10 send
number Of Mr. Roosevelt's
more prominent labor takers TO
prison.
And, second. he would have
abandoned the Democratic Party
openly 10 switch over 20 the left
among the Social Dc~-0CratS
and Communists and IDENTIFY
himself and the presidency with
a small group which is distinctly
European in its political theories
and only a little less European
in its personnel
TIVE party consists mainly OF
L a small group of New York
union bosses and is split a little
of the middle between the So
cial Democrats and the Commu-
niSts.
The two groups fight all the
time. calling one another bolos
and appeasers and all the dirty
names that they can think OF
and if any one ever had 10 take
them seriously enough TO fight
them as a whole he could get
all the material he wanted from
the files of the nasty little publ
cations which the opposing fac
tons use 10 revile one another.
The President couldn't adopt
this mess as his party In the
State Of New York, so il had 10
be Bennett, who won't say much
against the New Deal during the
campaign and. for that matter.
probably will go around claim
ing the support of the New
Dealers as a political obligation
because Mr.. Roosevelt gave him
the nod.
DEWEY got a little help, but
~ not much, when Fiorello
La Guardia, the Little Wild
flower who. in the words OF
Ring Lardner's song. is growing
wilder every hour, came out for
Alfange for some jumbled-up
reason that nobody will bots1er
10 try to understand.
None of Dewey's following
would vote for Alfange, whoever
he is, so if the honorable mayor
swings any votes 10 the Social
Democratic-C ommunistic ticket
they will be subtracted from
Benefits total.
incidentally, although Mrs.
Roosevelt did not declare herself
a member OF this group. shc GER
.tainly horned into its affairs like
a true belonger recently when
she rebuked the Communist
wing for using her name against
the Social Denis. You know,
birds of feather.
"A CITAPDTA IN The o,I,or