Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-28

press as saying that, if RooSe-
welt runs for a fourth White
House term, the South will
split again, as it did in 1923,
when five states of the old Con-
fedcracy holted Al Smith, be-
cause he was a wet, Tammany
Catholic, and voted for Herbert
Hoover.
But there is plenty of evil
dCnCc. and II is increasing, that
the white South is in revolt
against RooSeveItism right now.
for a variety of vital domestic
issues.
The revolt is running strongly
i'm Congress. Southern poit-
clans here are as discreet, for
publication, as were the gov
errors at Columbus. but they
are saying off the record
that the South is fed up with
the New Deal. with bungling
bureaucracy, and with an eco
nomic condition on the whole
domestic war front that is being
denounced almost daily by lead
ing Democrats of Senate and
House as chaotic. and the worst
in the history of the country.
THIS fear Of detection in the
South is back of the current
talk of southern man for vice
president on the fourth term
Roosevelt ticket.
A good many southern Demo-
Gratis with whom this writer has
talked are of the opinion that
Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas
Is definitely receptive Candi-
date for that second place
nomination.
Rayburn has earned it, If
anybody has, by devotion 10
the New Deal that has found
no socialistic dose too nauseouS
10 gag him.
Color is given TO the reports
of the new political ambition of
Rayburn by an Associated Press
dispatch from New York on
June - which quoted the
speaker as saying at jefferson
dinner.
I'VE must follow the leader
Others can take whatever
platform they like but, as long
as Franklin ID. Roosevelt is
commander i'm chief he deserves
and shall have my uncomplain-
ing support"
THE press dispatch also quoted
Il Rayburn as criticizing those
who opposed appropriations for
alrplaneS and the fortificatlon
of the island of Guam
Congress" said the speaker.
Cannot win this war, and II
knows IT,"
Now, ! submit that seldom
has a public man succeeded in
CroWdlng more inaccuracies into
so limited a space
LNRST: Rayburn falls into
Il what is coming 10 be
common error. started by the
President himself, by referring
TO him as the commander in
chief" when he is nothing of
the sort Under the ConStitu-
ton he is commander in chief
of the army and navy, and that
alone.
He is not Rayburn's COM
mander i'm chief. The ConStitu-
ton never intended that the
speaker of the House of Repre-
SentativeS. the legislative body
of the people. should be under
presidential commander in chief
The Constitution makes Ray
burn completely independent Of
the President in his purely mill
tarY capacity of commander in
chief.
CECOND: Nobody in Con-
~ gress ever opposed the forth
fcation of Guam. There never
was bill for the fortification
Of Guam before Congress. The
army and navy never recon-
mended the fortification Of
Guam. This is a hoary old
fake. The speaker should never
have permitted himself 10 fall
into this error
Third: Congress doeSn' know
that il cannot win the war.
Congress is winning the war
right now
Congress has voted every dol
lar for the war the President
has requested II is backing mp
the army and navy II is the
point of origin of every victory
These few remarks by the
speaker of the House are.
rightly or wrongly considered
by some of his colleagues as
Sans notice TO those concerned
that, like the late Mr.. BarkiS,
he is "willin'."
Notwithstanding the opti-
mism OF the governors. the situ-
alton in the South is serious
enough 10 make the politicians
consider the adVisability Of putt
ting a southern Democrat on
a ticket that would violate
every tradition and precedent