Sweetwater Daily Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 135, Ed. 1 Friday, July 8, 1932 Page: 2 of 10
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SOUTH AND WEST IN THE SADDLE
TT IS ever easy to analyse a great historical movement while it is in
1 progress. It has to be seen in perspective, usually, to be gauged pro-
perly. Nevertheless, it is fairly evident" that some far-reaching shift is
now talcing place In the political alignment of the Democratic party.
Traditionally, tne party was a par:y of farmers and the people of the
small towns. Its strength lay in the south and west; it distrusted indus-
trialism, big business, high finance.______
it was ready to embrace such pana- holds that the human rights of
ceas as the free silver movement, it ^hose at the bottom of the heap
tried to fit antique Jeffersonlanlsm are wor*,h consideration. It is a
to an industrialized democracy. I deliberate attempt to gain protec-
In recent years, however, it has tlon for those rights—at the price,
included another wing; the prole-1 if necessary, of efficiency in gov-
tariat, so to speak, ol' the big cities. | ernment. To complain that de-
Stnce the close of the Wilson ad- mocracy is inefficient is beside the
ministration it has been torn by a point. Its inefficiency is bargained
conflict between its two groups, j for in the beginning,
with the south and west allied
against .the industrial cast.
In 1920, 1924 and 1928 the indus-
trial east triumphed. Cox went into
the 1920 campaign with the ap-
proval of Tammany. Davis, in 1924,
was highly acceptable to the cast.
Smith, in 1928, was the very proto-
type of the city man, the darling of
the eastern sidewalks.
Now the pendulum has swung
the other way. Roosevelt rises to
power through the support of the
opposite wing. Tammany is out in
the cold. The men whom the east-
ern wing most wanted arc in the
same position. The west and south
are in the saddle again.
It would be interesting to know
whether this new ascendancy is to
be permanent. Probably only the
seventh son of a seventh sin could
say; meanwhile, however, it Is just
possible that a lasting realignment
of forces is beginning that will in-
clude both parties in its effect.
For one party cannot change its
complexion without causing n sim-
ilar shift In the other party. The
Republicans have their rural and
industrial wings just as the L'imo-
crats have. Will there, eventually,
be a fusion that makes the di-
vision between the two parties far
sharper and clearer than it has
been during the past decade?
It is too early to tell, just now.
The coming campaign probably
will give at least part of the an-
swer. The vote in November will
help decide.
The depression does not prove
democracy’s failure. Democracy
did not cause it; democracy—in a
land proud of its rugged individual-
ism—is not responsible for the cure.
Only if democracy permits starve
lion because of the depression will
it have failed.
A FAILURE?
JORDON SELFRIDGE, Ameri-
* / can-born owner of a London
department store, told a British au-
dience the othrt day that democ-
racy in America has failed. Declar-
ing that his recent visit to the
United States had convinced him
that “democracy as a system of
government is an absolute fail-
ure," he added:
"In my judgment, control of a
country by an inspiring spirit, with-
out selfishness, managing the coun-
try as a great business Is managed,
with Intelligence and care, is what
must come eventually. I beltcve
that in a hundred or two hundred
years there will be no more de-
mocracies in existence.”
Everyone, of course, is entitled to
his own opinion, and it would be
foolish to assert that the American
democracy has met the present
ci Isis in an absolutely perfect man-
ner.
But it is doubtful if the ordinary
American is quite ready to admit
its complete failure; nor does this
call for a government run on strict
business principles seem the kind
of trumpet note that would lead
impassioned revolutionists to die on
the barricades.
What we often overlook is the
fact that democratic government
cRn never. In an imperfect world,
be as efficient or as intelligent as
we might want it to be. To run
anything with perfect efficiency,
from a filling station on up to a
great nation, you have to be abso-
lutely cold-blooded, you have to
shut your eyes- completely to the
human equation; and it is the very
essence of democracy that it re-
fuses to do that.
Democracy Is a philosophy which
epEXAS nominated Roosevelt.
Substantially: Who from Texas
will go Into Ills cabinet, if he is
elected?
E. M. House, astute supporter of
Roosevelt from the beginning, the
intimate friend and adviser of
Woodrow Wilson?
Or some of the Garner leaders
wiio built a favorite son into the
strength that enabled him, by giv-
ing the word, to break a growing
deadlock and make the Texas fa-
voiite the actual nominee?
IT IS HISTORY, but not so an-
* dent, of House and Burleson and
Gregory and Houston, and Thomas
B. Love, In the cabinet and places
cf high renown in the Wilson ad-
ministration.
A guess will be that if Col.
House wants to be secretary of
state, he will be. During Wilson'
administration he could have had
any post in the cabinet he wanted,
apparently, for ills word placed oth-
ers there.
So that now, if lie dorr, not
choose a seat in the president's
cabinet, tilings are so shaped
that Col. House may be able
again to have a voire in sending
other Texans to tile scats of
the mighty.
The ranks of prospective, in that
case would Ire thinned, since th"
dominant political leaders In Texas
for 15 years have been prohibition-
ists, such as were neither Wood-
row Wilson nor Col. House.
* * *
/"VNF, SET of deductions would
Vx imply Roosevelt's nomination
wjil react adversely on cotton, com-
modity and stock prices during the
campaign Another would seem
favorable.
Roosevelt is flatly opposed to
cancellation of war debts. On"
strong element of opposition to him
has been from the banking influ-
ences that wanted, putting It baldly,
to have the government delay its
collections so private loans In
Europe could be colectcd. Foreign
fears of a stringent collection pol-
icy might bear all the markets.
But then the powerful tariff ar-
gument, with Mr. Roosevelt the
most probable wtner out of all
those who were candidates for the
nomination, hight promise relief
for the nation from the interna-
tional web of retaliatory tariffs set
up to combat the republican pro-
tective tariffs no win effect.
Regarding his nomination as
the strongest bid for democratic
victory, and the strongest pro-
mise of return to demoeratie
tariff Ideals, his nomination
may react favorably on trade.
Lease Obtained
In Oil Section
MIDLAND.—Wilson * Davis of
Fort Worth hnve obtained through
assignment of the A. & M. Petrol-
eum Co of El Paso the lease on the
northeast, quarter of the southeast
quarter of section 35, block 16.
University land, in the Taylor-Link
pool in Pecos county. A test is
planned to be started at once.
Douthit, Mays & Perkins
Attorneys-at-Law
222-25 Levy Hldg.
Sweetwater, Texas
By RODNEY DUTCHER
NEA Service Writer
WASHINGTON. — The old fash-
Wloned political bosses still hold;"”''"
firm clutch on their local and state Ionization,
machines, but few of them manage
to establish a grip on the recent
Democratic convention. Some of
them, in fact, looked just a little
Governor Roosevelt later removed
Mayor Jimmy Walker, Curry’*
name would be mud In his own or-
Iron Hand Missing
QO he stuck grimly to the last for
J Al, quite futile and even a bit
ridiculous when the first ballot
'E WILL PRUNE All VlLMTRt'-S-/''/> .
THEREBY CREATIM6 JOBS FOR PROWERS* .4
dictate nominations in the past,, dcle,raLion with an iron hand, as
found themselves cither taking a. „rokur and Murphy were wont, he
lk king from the Roosevelt lender* couldn t cven tell just how the del-
who were not supposed to be very] were BOtng to vote,
ilnM Kn nnmnofigfitl—fir Kit.t.iniT . ®
bright by comparison--or sitting
with eagle eye to see which way the
cat would jump and then scramb-
ling ludicrously in a bad dash after
the band wagon.
Here Are Views of Demo cratic Nominee's Home
Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey
City, a survival from the Roger
Sullivan-George Brennan days and
New Jersey’s Democratic Musso-
lini, was field marshal of the anti-
.... „ „ , Roosevelt forces.
Buss Huey Lung And a fascinating figure he was
-THERE were various bosses from a„ hp barked his comm!inds, di-
* the west and south who sup-; reCted strategy, surveying his
ported Roosevelt from the start, strellgt,h with an unerring eye and
but they were relatively small-time (always realizing exactly where he
czars with no great number of dele- stood and thc desperate nature of
gates under their control. The boss bis j, ,bl
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it that type who attracted most at-
tention was none other than Sen-
aor Huey Long of Louisiana.
Huey organized his delegation of
20 by banging his gavel on thc ros-
Ordinarily. in public, Hague is a
good natured, affable boss. But this
time, unaccustomed to the proba-
bility of defeat at these national
shows, ills face was grim and set,
trum and announcing. I hereby wj1{de demeanor devoid of hu-
mor. His desperate mid-conven-
tion assault on Roosevelt as a
source of party disaster was fruit-
less—and Hague left Chicago with
the virtual certainty that someone
else would be getting all thc pat-
,. ronage in any Roosevelt adminis-
admitted tratlon
ills 22 Oklahoma delegates were | ’ « » ,
hand-pi^ '* by him and that he' May Bc ..Boss” ji,„
was their absolute lord and mas- Massachusetts leaders,
nominate myself for chairman of
the delegation. Anyone opposed to
that motion will say aye.” A pause
and silence. "The motion is ear-
ned and this meeting is adjourn-
ed."
Governor Alfalfa Bill Murray was
another small boss. He
Curry's Sad Performance
UT back to thc big shots of boss-
B
Who
had carried the state for Smith
largely to stamp on Mayor Jim
Curley of Boston who was crusad-
ing lor Roosevelt, also held out
ism and consider the sad Per- j aKalnst Roosovelt 'to thc lost ballot.
formancc of the Honorable John F. - Now in alI probabllity. a Dcmo-
Curry, chief of I ammany Hall, hat- cl.atic victory will mean that they
mg Al Smith but being lorced to; cant ,Ret a federal job for a flllow-
voto his delegates tor Al just, thc
er unless they first see Jim.
| Another who came out on top
was Ed Flynn, New York's secretary
of state and boss of the Bronx, who
worked hand in hand witli Manager
| Jim Farley for Roosevelt through
I the convention. And there’s Joe
i Guffey ol Pittsburgh, whose old
same.
Curry, who apparently is not
made of thc stuft that was in
Charlie Murphy and other ol his
predecessors, came to Chicago un-
certain as to what he would do and
everyone agreed that he was in a
hotspot Weeks before he had an- •. UUcn, . sccmcd about gone
nounecd in Washington that he j unll, hc declared for Roosevelt
■ early in thc season and took a last
.. chance of regaining his influence
unit1
would vote New York's 94 delegates
cn masse under the unit rule.
He learned later that the umo, Ule , that RooscveU wouU1
rule didnt apply to New York, | |jc nomlnated,
which meant that he could doml- i
nate only about two-thirds of the
delegation even with his alliance
upstate and his working arrange-
ment with John H. McCooey, the | friends a few days,
old walrus of Brooklyn. He would1
have preferred to wait for signs of
a band wagon, but didn’t dare op-
pose Smith because Smith might j first is working for the
wrcCk him in New York City. | while the second has the
Returns from Dallas
Miss Dura Whaley has returned
from Dallas where she visited
The difference between a states-
man and a politician is that the
public,
public
If lie incurred Smith's wrath and . working for him.
The ancestral home of Franklin hills of the Catsklll mountains on up of thc main drive and thc en
Delano Roosevelt, Democratic presi-
dential nominee, nestles in the foot- ut Hyde Park, N Y Here is a close- |"The Farm
, , , r .i.,—i trance to the palatial residence
Hu east bank of the Hudson river , . * ........ .
known to the Roosevelt family as
Surrounded by supclous lawns, farm , river region. Thc general view above ostHte and ttie Democratic presi-
lands and pastures, thc Roosevelt, was taken from the side lawn. Built dential nominee is justly proud ol
home at Hyde Park, N Y., is one j by Roosevelt's ancestors, "The the cattle, horses and the crops
of tlie show places of the Hudson ' Farm" is maintained as a country produced on thc land around.
A physician points out that many | ! scientist has found Unit the
city dwellers walk about with their see Is receding at thc rate of 10
•■yes on the ground We didn’t real-1 Inches a year. At that rate, most
tze tliut modern architecture was of our seaside cottages must be
quite that bad. at least 10,000 years old,
In Japanese movie houses they
pay a man to tell the story of the
film as it goes along. Over here, we
have plenty who do Unit for noth-
ing.
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Sweetwater Daily Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 135, Ed. 1 Friday, July 8, 1932, newspaper, July 8, 1932; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth561199/m1/2/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sweetwater/Nolan County City-County Library.