Evening star., 1943-07-07

For many months friends of the
President have been talking about
James F. Byrnes as the likely Sue
cessor to Mr.. Wallace. Such talk has
not, to be sure, been pleasant to the
ears of the present Vice President,
but it has been rather pointed, and
1t would not be surprising if Mr.
Wallace's outburst reflects to no
small extent his feeling that the
man in the White House is steering
away from him on the political side.
So far as the Democratic party
Is concerned, Mr., Wallace is new
conner, and, while New Dealers
aren't especially interested in the
Democratic party as such, a large
number of voters in the soDd South
are particularly disturbed al 1T the
fate OF their party. Shrewd political
advisers have come forth with the
suggestion that maybe the nomina-
ton of Mr.. Byrnes, who comes from
South Carolina, would go long way
toward assuring party harmony in
Dixie. Advice of that kind isn't kept
particularly secret, and hence re-
verberations from the Wallace camp
have seemed to be inevitable.
Texans Loyal to Jones.
Jesse Jones isn't in the political
controversy himself, one way or the
other, except that the Texas dele
cation in Congress is rather loyal
to fellow Texans and there is no
doubt that they have had consid-
cradle pride in the achievements of
the man who heads up the RFC
and the Commerce Department.
The Texas political strength in
the 1914 convention is not to be
ignored. For there are other States
which would follow Texas If it
should decide that Mr.. Wallace
ought not to be renominated For
one thing there is the possibility
that Texas may wish to unite be-
hind Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the
House, whose name came before the
1910 convention.
1t will be recalled that at the last
national convention of the Demo-
cratic party held at Chicago, Mr.
wallace's name was booed and the
convention distinctly did not want
to nominate him. Had Mr.. Roose-
velt 50 much as lifted finger of
assent, Paul McNutt could have
been named unanimously.
Mr.. Wallace, nevertheless, Is the
symbol of New Dealism, and he has
behind him large number of the
young New Dealers who have for
the Democratic party, as such, an
attitude which, for want of a more
expressive term, might even be
called contempt.
May Be Doomed as President.
1t may be that Mr.. Wallace is
the logical candidate of the New
Dealers for the vice presidency, and
II Mr.. Roosevelt doesn't relish a
continuance of the present incum-
bent as running mate, it may we'll
be that the friends of Mr.. Wallace
will consider him as worthy of first
place on the ticket.
There is a certain element of
logic, too, behind that conception,
For If MIR. Roosevelt considered Mr..
Wallace the most capable man in
the country to succeed him in the
event that fate took him out of
Office, it does seem as if the Iowa
statesman is worthy of considera-
ton for the top of the radical ticket
In 1914.
incidentally, the Presidents bid
for the left-wing vote by his veto
message on the Smith Connally
labor bill didn't endear him to the
Southern Democrats. Nj. Roose-
velt apparently is growing more and
more conscious of the fact that the
1914 campaign for the presidency is
less than II months away.
1t has been said that Mr.. Roose-
yelt would be candidate for a
fourth term if the war is still on.
There can be no doubt now that
the war will be on not only in 1914,
but in 1945. 1t is purely a coinci-
dence, of course, that the breaks" :"
so to speak. are to benefit the Presi-
dents political fortunes in 1914 as
they did in 1910.
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