The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-11-04
By WEsTBEOOK PEGLER


NEW YORK.-Even the politicians and the
lay citizens of the loyal opposition are guilty
of delicacy amounting to political prudery
in their discussions of the corrupt elements
within President Roosevelt's political follow
ing, notably the Kelly, Hague and O'Connell
mobs in Chicago, New Jersey and Albany,
the miserable Tammany organization in New
Jersey and Albany, the miserable Tammany
organization in New York and the foul but
influential racketeers of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor throughout the country.
Why is it that these evil elements in Amer
lean civic and political life are always treated
as separate, independent entities, as though
they existed strictly by and for themselves
when the plain facts is that they are all sub
ordinate parts of the new deal party, giving
strength to and deriving their power from
the great national whole?
I believe this reticerce is patriotic, although
mistaken, because members of the political
opposition cannot bring themselves to face
and emphasize the unmistakable truth that
the governing party of the United States is
knowingly and actively in league with the
underworld of politics, crime and unionism.
And thus, although President Roosevelt has
personal acquaintance extending down into
many of the counties and wards particularly
in the worst of the political bad-lands men
who know the truth ignore it lest they seem
to undermine popular respect for the presi-
dency itself. In this, l hold, they will serve
the country, whatever their reasons for treat
ing such evil as a rash of Localized blotcheS.
The Hague organization, for example, is an
influential section of the new deal party, de-
lvering the vote in return for t e usual
awards and favors. 1t named for governor
of New Jersey Vincent j. Murphy, the sec
rotary of the state federation of labor, whose
domain includes the very brigards who for
years (and lately, with the sanction of Mr..
Roosevelts Supreme Court have operated an
undisguised stick-up the highways under
the authority of the teamsters' union. Union
ism in the AFL in New Jersey is absolutely
crawling with racketeers-one of whom, Jack
Wallace recently laid by the heels in the
state Of New York for operating Shakedown
on vast projects financed by the government,
roughed up Norman Thomas, the socialist
leader, when he tried to test his right on
free speech against Hague'S verboten. Wallace
was, until he was convicted, an underling OF
the notorious union racketeer Joe Fay, a
strong Hague man and when Fay went 10
Bermuda few years ago to attend we'd
ding in his family, one of his social guest
was Longic Whitman, an old-tlme Jersey boot
logger and gangSter named a few days ago,
in the current trial of the Browne (Bioff series,
among the underworld mobsters w h took
over the movie and theatrical union OF the
ALL. The ramifcationS are intricate and end
less with ex-convcts and other notorious but
unconvicted rascals of the foulest type serv-
ing the party and receiving, in return, the
new deal party's protection against remedial
legislation its sanction through the courts and
its active help through various miscalled labor
agencies of the national government.
President Roosevelt spent many years If
Albany, the fief of the OConnell gang whose
perfdies are now beginning to be revealed
by Governor Thomas E. Dewey and the O'Con
nell machine is as much part of the new
deal party as a spark-plug is part of a car
Governor Lehman, his successor and politi
cal kinsman, also lived in Albany unaware
of the stencil; and Fay not only operated ir
Albany but beat an indictment for assault
when the victim conveniently vanished on trial
day. An Investigation which Lehman or
dered toward the end of his term proved tt
be only political gesture, knocking orderly
Justice which came to nothing. His momen
tary successor, Charles Polletti, then conduct
ed clandestine jal-delivery of several vicious
union criminals, including a fire-bug identi
fled with the communist front and also with
Mr.. Roosevelts friend and one-time appointee
Sidney Hillman. Soon afterward, Pollett was
commissioned lieutenant colonel and he is now
in italy teaching the Italians the new deal
version of civic decency and political morality
The relationship, the unity and identity OF
the new deal party and all this corrupton
are traceable, demonstrate and unmistak ab1o
and in time, will be acknowledged by history.
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