1940

Governor John W. Bricker having cleared the way for him, Ohio's Senator Robert Alphonso Taft last week, put his hand to his brow, looked into the future (see cut) and issued his written "consent" to be designated Ohio's favorite son for 1940. Wrote he: ". . . The unpleasant job which lies before the next President of the United States is such that no sensible man could be eager to assume it. Unless the whole present tendency of the Government is redirected, we cannot long maintain financial solvency or free enterprise or even individual liberty in the United States. But the leaders of the movement against New Deal fallacies must have the courage to incur the unlimited displeasure of every vested interest whose selfish purposes conflict with a radical policy of reform. Furthermore, they must work out the very difficult problem of continuing an adequate provision for the less fortunate people through Relief, old age pensions, subsidized housing and the like on the one hand, while on the other restoring financial solvency and the spirit of business initiative and expansion which only can cure unemployment.

"This is not going to be easy or pleasant. As to my own position, the work of Senator from Ohio is extremely interesting and I prefer it to any other office. I will not run away from a harder job, but whether I am a candidate for any other office is entirely up to the Republicans of Ohio. . . ."

> The first Taft-for-President Club was started at Marion, hometown of Ohio's late lamented Warren Gamaliel Harding.

> Gallup polls revealed that voters in Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois favor a Republican victory in 1940 by 52%-54%. From 54% to 65% of those polled in these States said they would vote against Franklin Roosevelt if he runs.

> A nationwide Gallup poll showed that, since June, Paul V. McNutt had climbed from a tie for fifth into second place among Democratic choices for the Presidency (ex Franklin Roosevelt). The standings: Garner 46%, McNutt 13%, Hull and Farley 12%, Hopkins and Murphy 3%.

> "Maverick for Senator" buttons appeared last week in San Antonio, Texas, of which Maury Maverick is Mayor.

> Charles Francis ("Socker") Coe, 48, author-turned-lawyer, who styles himself in Who's Who as an "outstanding penologist and criminologist," announced in Paris he will run for the Senate next year as an anti-New Dealer against Florida's Senator Charles Oscar Andrews.

> A new professed Third Termite: Boss Frank Hague of Jersey City.

>In Virginia's Democratic primary last week, Carter Glass Jr. lost out for the State Senate, but Andrew Mellon's son-in-law, David K. E. Bruce, won his race. It was the first try for each.

> Kentucky's primary was a simulacrum--with a reverse result--of last year's Barkley-Chandler fight which Senator Barkley (and WPA) won. Last week the Chandler man, Lieut.-Governor Keen Johnson, beat the Barkley (and C. I. O.) man, John Young Brown, for Democratic nomination to the Governorship.

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