The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1943-01-29
. LIGHT
Something About the
Boys on the Wabash
Want q Democrat in
The White House
Ot+o VIII Have 10
Pull q Heavy Oar
BY RAY TUCKER
BY RAY TUCKER

power which a small oil
garchy from Indiana exer-
cises at the capital is begin
ming to worry rival parti-
sans. Except for the fact
that some of these old
neighbors do not like him,
1t looks as if the 1914 presi-
Dental stage Is being set for
handsome Paul Y. McNutt.
Paul oversees the War Man
power commission. His unwilling
aide as chief of selective service
is Brig. Gen. Lewis 3. Hershey,
another Hoosier AS secretary of
agriculture. Claude Wickard de-
cides what we shall eat and when.
Nj. Clifford Townsend. a former
governor of this Midwestern COM
monwealth. determines how edi-
bles shall be allocated. The most
important individual of all in this
city is Wayne Coy, another SMALL
time Indiana lad. Wayne. q
former Republican, is tops at the
executive mansion.
There ara an fax.
boys from this key state who
manage things in Washing
ton. Elmer Davis handles the
Office of War Information,
and he is doing a grand chore
within Army-Navy limita-
tions. Byron Price runs the
censorship bureau and no
practical newspaperman Of
fers any complaint against
him. He and his staff are
performing marvelously.
AT the summit il Lowell
Mellett, one of those six
anonymous White House
secretaries" Lowell, an old
Scripps-Howard editor, does
mt do much talking or boast
ing. but he stands ace-high
with +. ID. X.
Here is the answer. II Mr.
Roosevelt thinks it inexpedient ia
seek a fourth term, and if he
picks Paul as a prospective sue
cessor, McNutt will enter the
1914 campaign with one of the
strongest machines in history. II
they get the word from the head
man, watch these Wabash chaps
go to town.
The congressional revolt Of
Southerners against Mr. Roose-
welt, as forecast here weeks ago
has attained unbelievable proper
tons Old line Demmies from
below the Mason and Dixon's line
will support the chief executive
on all war issues. But on little
else.
1t would not be fair to quote
off-the-record explosions by the
chairmen of some of the more
powerful committees on Capitol
Hill-leaders like Speaker Ray
burn, Summers of judiciary, Gene
Cox of Georgia, Byrd and Glass
of Virginia, Frank Maloney of
Connecticut, Mike Monroney OF
Oklahoma. Banking and Currency
Boss Steagall of Alabama If il
were permissible to publish their
private remarks, F. d. RS ears
would burn.
This is what is taking place,
even though the solons involved
may not realize or appreciate it,
For a decade they have been
upholding a president who. as
they understand politics, is not
a Democrat and they are weary
of playing along with maverick,
Despite the anti-Roosevelt
sentiment exhibited here and
elsewhere, New Dealers anti
cipate the presidents re-elec-
ton. They are laying even
money-no odds asked or
given-that he will he re-
returned to the White House
in November. 1914. Their bets
are being taken right and
left.
President Roosevelt has denied
that Otto of Hapsburg is our man
for Central Europe. But the
handsome young archduke seems
to be the fair-haired boy around
the state department and other
lofty places in the capital
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