The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-06-15
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .

ard with three good westerners
just named to the cabinet, the
West is getting a political lift
such as 1t has not had In years.
Already requests are being
made to have President Truman
put in a few political appear
ances on the side.
Older heads in the Democratic
organization are counse ! ing
against too much of a purely
political party celebration. They
realize that Truman is still in
his political honeymoon and too
much partisan whoopee might
be bad thing. An effort will be
made to have Truman see many
OF the party stalwarts on his
western trip, but do it in such q
way that no appearance will De
given that the President is play
ing politics. There will be plenty
of time for that later on, when
the honeymoon is over.
SEE BRIGHT FUTURE
But there seems to be no in
clination to feel that the future
of the Democratic Party died
with Roosevelt. In fact, just the
opposite.
While Roosevelt kept a num-
Der of diverse West Coast ele-
ments inside the Democratic
Party, there was always lot of
factional jealousy. And it was
not at all uncommon to have
various individuals going around
the state party leaders to take
issues direct to the White House.
All this era of short circuiting
state political machines by direct
pipelines to 1900 Pennsylvania
Avenue, now seems to be ended.
The amateurs, the crackpots,
the labor politicians now appear
to be in the position of having to
work through the party machine
or pass out of existence.
Henry Wallace and the ex-
IRENE left-wingers are consid-
cred as good as dead by the reg
ular Democrats. If this is true,
only place the New Dealers can
&C is into third party, for the
regulars hope that the day is
over when some irregular could
lead the state Democrats into
new and untried paths. In 1892
IT was William G.. McAdoo who
cid this. In 1898 it was Upton
Sinclair In 1888 it was John
Olson, and il was 1912 before
regulars began to get things un-
der control. Even though Repub-
lican Earl Warren was elected
governor that year, Democrats
now count heavily on the ira
dition that no California COVER
nor has ever been elected for
second term, with the exception
of Hi Johnson.
DENIS HAVE 17-6 EDGE
Nationally, the California
Democrats gained five congress
sional seats in 1914 to give them
representation of II, to six
Republicans.
Washington representation Is,
OF course, important, but what
the California Democrats would
particularly like to see Is recog-
milton of their own machine here
in the West. There are over $50
federal agencies with state or
regional headquarters here in
San Francisco. Key personnel IN
many of these agencies don't
even know each other.
If western Democrats could
get deputy Judge Vinson estab-
lished here to serve as what
State Attorney General Bob
Kinney calls "a great oilcloth
shoulder" on which they could
all cry whenever problems Ct
particular interest to the West
come up, it would make q great
many people happy.
President Truman's message
to Congress, requesting broad
power for business manager"
type of national administration
may provide some hope for what
is obviously one of the major
headaches Of the West-lack Of
federal and state cooperation.