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SOUTH AND WEST IN THE SADDLE
TT IS ever easy to analyze 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 taking place In the political alignment of the Democratic party.
Traditionally, tne party was a pony 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,____
i
it was ready to embrace such panu- holds that the human rights of
ceas as the free silver movement, It those at the bottom of the heap
tried to fit antique Jcffersonianism are woith consideration. It Is a
to an Industrialized democracy. I deliberate attempt to gain protec-
In recent years, however, it has j tion for those rights—at the price,
included another wing; the prole-1 if necessary, of efficiency in gov-
tariat, so to speak, of the big cities. | ernment. To complain that de-
Since 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, ‘ for in the beginning.
with the south and west
against the industrial east.
allied
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 east.
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 are 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 a sim-
ilar shift In the other party. The
Republicans have their rural and
industrial wings just as the t *mo-
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. Tiie vote in November will
help decide.
The depression docs 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 starva-
tion because of the depression will
it have failed.
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Planks the Platform Makers Generally Forgetl
A FAILURE?
i tORDON SELFRIDOE. Ameri-
* y can-born owner of a London
department store, told a British au-
dience the othr# 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 believe
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 lias met the present
ciIsis in an absolutely perfect man-
N »
ner.
But it Is doubtful if the ordinary
American is quite ready to admit
its complete failure; nor docs 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
can 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 notion, you have to be abso-
lutely cold-blooded, you have to
shut your eyes- completely to the
human equation; and It Is the very
rsacnce of democracy that It re-
fuses to do that.
Democracy is a philosophy which
WE WILL APPOINT COMMISSION
TO STUDY SLUMP IN
CONGRESSIONAL POPULARITY//
By RODNEY DUTCHER
NEA Service Writer
ASHINGTON. — The old fash-
Uuvernor Roosevelt later removed
Mayor Jimmy Walker, Curry’s
name would be mud in his own or-
ioned political bosses still
firm clutch on their local and state >g u 0 ’
machines, but few of them manage Iron H#nd MisslnB
to establish a grip on the recent
Democratic convention. Some of
them, in fact, looked just a little
bil funny.
QO he stuck grimly to the last for
J Al, quite futile and even a bit
ridiculous when the first ballot
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THEREBY CREATING JOBS FOR PRUNtRS' / -y ' j/A
T„c mntomm S'" %£*«£ fiJSK,
from the east such as usually have , ! , thn, he couirin’t „jvc the
been able to tie up a convention or jg
dictate nominations i in tJle Pas^’ \ delegation with an iron hand, as
found themselves cithci taking a. rnuor anci Muruhv were wont, he
lit king from the Rravrit leader. ^ ™
-who were not supposed to be very! going to vote
by comparison—or sitting Mayor Prank Hague 0[ Jersey
City, a survival from the Roger
Sullivaii-Georgc Brennan days and
New Jersey’s Democratic Musso-
lini, was field marshal of the unti-
Roosevelt forces.
And a fascinating figure lie was
as he barked his commands, di-
bright
witli eagle eye to see which way tile
cat would Jump and then scramb-
ling ludicrously in a bad dash after
the band wagon.
“Boss” Ilucy Long
epHERE were various bosses from
1 the west and south who sup- j 1Ccted strategy, surveying liis
ported Roosevelt from the start, strcngth with an unerring eye and
but they were relatively .small-time (ajwayS realizing exactly where he
czars with no great number ol dele- s.ood and the desperate nature of
gates under their control. Ihc boss ^ —
If that type who attracted most at- , ordinarily, in public, Hague is a
tcnlion was none other than Sen-. „ood jjatured, affable boss. But this
aor Huey Long of Louisiana. time, unaccustomed to the proba-
Huoy organized his delegation ol bm(y of dcfcat at these national
20 by banging his gavel on Hie ios- | shows, fils face was grim and set,
trum and announcing. I hereby, jds Wholc demeanor devoid of hu-
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 admitted j t‘ra*tlon
ills 22 Oklahoma delegates were j
hand-picked by him and that he
was their absolute lord and mas-
ter.
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 gutting all the pat-
ronage in any Roosevelt adminis-
Here Are Views of Demo cratic Nominee’s Home
'J'EXAS nominated Roosevelt.
Substantially: Who from Texas
will go into his 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
who 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-
vorite the actual nominee?
IT IS HISTORY, but not so an-
* ctent, of House and Burleson and
Gregory and Houston, and Thomas
R Love, in the cabinet and places
of liigh renown in the Wilson ad-
ministration.
A guess will be that if Col.
House wants to be secretary of
rtatc, he will be. During Wilson’
administration he could have had
any post in the cabinet he wnnted,
apparently, for his word place 1 oth-
ers there.
No that now, if he dorr, not
rhonve a seat in the president's
cabinet, things are so shaped
that Col. House may be able
again to have a voire in sending
othei Texans to the seats of
the mighty.
The ranks of prospective. In that
case would tie thinned, sinee the
dominant political leaders In Texas
for 15 years have born prohibition-
ists. such as were neither Wood-
row Wilson nor Col. House.
* * *
fVNE SET of deductions would
V/ imply Roosevelt’s nomination
wjll react adversely on cotton, -om-
modity and stock prices during the
campaign Another would seem
favorable.
Roosevelt is flatly opposed to
cancellation of war debts. On"
strong clement of opposition to him
has been from the banking influ-
ences that wanted, putting it baldly,
to have the government delny its
collections so nrlvate 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 wlncr out of all
those who were candidates for the
nomination, bight 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 democratic
tariff Ideals, his nomination
may react favorably on trade.
Lease Obtained
In Oil Section
MIDLAND. -Wilson Ac Davis of
Fort Worth have obtained through
assignment of the A, Ac M. Petrol-
eum Co. of El Paso the lease on the
northeast quarter of the southeast!
quarter of section 35, block 1(1,'
University land, In the Taylor-I.ink |
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Curry’s Sad Performance
OUT back to the big shots ol boss-
D ism— and consider the sad per-
formance of the Honorable John F.
Curry, chief of Tammany Hall, hat-
It May Be “Boss” Jim
•T'HE Massachusetts leaders, who
' had carried the state for Smith
largely to stamp on Mayor Jim
Curley of Boston who was crusad-
j ing ior Roosevelt, also held out
! against Roosevelt to the lost ballot.
| Now, in all probability, a Demo-
cratic victory will mean that they
fUn flirtl
:•!
ing Al Smith but being forced to , . , ; d . , b f mlow.
vote his delegates for Al just the cam ,l Icaeial J0° Ior d nuow
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 with Manager
1Jlm >'-ley lor Roosevelt through
same.
Curry, who apparently is not
made of the stuff that was in
Charlie Murphy and other of his
certain as to what he would do and
everyone agreed that he was in a
hot spot. Weeks before lie had an-
that lie
Hie convention. And there’s Joe
Guffey ol Pittsburgh, whose old
j political power seemed about gone
nounccd in Washington « ; unli, he declalx.d for RooSPVrU
w-ould vole New York’s 94 delegates , ,,„nson ,ind to„k a la.
on masse under the unit rule. chancc of regalninK his inf1uencC
on the hope that Roosevelt would
I be nominated
He learned later that the unit
lulc didn't apply to New York,
which meant that ho could domi-
nate only about two-thirds of the
delegation even with his alliance
upstate and his working arrange-
ment with John H. McCooey, the
old walrus of Brooklyn. He would
have preferred to wait for signs of
Returns from Dallas
Miss Dura Whaley has returned
from Dallas where she visited
friends a few days.
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A physician points out that many
city dwellers walk about with their
■yes on the ground. We didn’t renl-
tzo that modern architecture was
quite that bad.
A scientist has fount
sea Is receding at the
Indies n year. At that
of our seaside cottages
at least 10.000 years old.
that the
rate of 10
rate, most
must be
In Japanese movie houses they
pay a man to tell the story of the
lilm as it gtx’s along. Over here, we
have plenty who do that Ior noth-
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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/m1/4/?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.