Here Comes the Bandwagon

Term Ill's bandwagon began to roll last week in New Hampshire. In California, Ohio, Illinois, Tennessee, the wheels were being oiled.

New Hampshire. In last week's primaries, Garner and Farley delegates were nowhere; twelve Roosevelt delegates (six votes) won handily. Only surprise came on the Republican side, where millionaire Governor Francis Parnell Murphy, now serving his second term, ran fifth in a race for four G. O. P. convention seats. By choosing Senators Styles Bridges and Charles Tobey, onetime Senator George Higgins Moses, onetime Governor Huntley Nowel Spaulding, the hillmen of New Hampshire told Shoemaker Murphy (Thorn McAn) to stick to his last.

For Francis Murphy, first Irishman, first Catholic ever elected New Hampshire's Governor, this defeat seemed a stopper. At week's end, after his rumored purchase of New York's Yankees flickered out, he was a man without a public future.

California. Daily dish of Harold Ickes, Interior Department Secretary, is trouble; if none is handed him, he seeks it out. But last week he turned up in San Francisco's Hotel Mark Hopkins in a new role: pacifier. Problem Mr. Ickes had come to pacify: California's besieged Governor Culbert Olson wanted to name & head a Term III ticket in the May 7 primary. So did Warhorse William Gibbs McAdoo, now a shipping magnate. A split progressive vote would put sand in the bandwagon's axles, might let John Garner's delegates romp home ahead. A Donald Duck for publicity purposes only, Secretary Ickes now quacked hard sense to a dozen assorted California Democrats in 36 crowded hours, got them to agree on a consolidated headless ticket, thus sending 48 harmony delegates to Chicago July 15. Then Mr. Ickes solemnly assured reporters he was in California solely on Interior affairs, headed East, passing his 66th birthday on the train.

Ohio, Oregon. John Garner, never a man to throw good money after bad, last week declined to enter Ohio's May 14 primary, on the ground that the State committee had sewed up the 52 Buckeye delegates for Term III. Instead, he entered Oregon's May 17 primary, seeking 14.

Illinois. As police searched for the "little black book"--slush fund record kept by the late F. Lynden Smith (TIME, March 18)--Illinois Labor's Non-Partisan League threw its claimed 200,000-vote strength to Term III, thus defying C. I. Oligarch John L. Lewis.

Massachusetts. Last week a judiciously picked Democratic delegation of 72 men, carrying 34 votes (twelve one-third-votes at large; four half-votes in each of 15 districts), was formally lined up under the Term III banner, pledged to give lip service to Big Jim Farley, vote service to Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Tennessee. In a straw vote in Chattanooga, 10,909 ballots were cast for Term III; 2,013 against.

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