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...play golf where I won't have to wear a sweater," was the reason announced by President-Reject Smith for his southern vacation, which began last week. He emphasized the fact that the South contained for him something besides Democratic politics, by declining to visit even Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his gubernatorial heir, who was resting, reviewing, retrenching at Warm Springs, Ga. The Smith Special proceeded, not without cheers, to Biloxi, Miss. There the Messrs. Smith, Raskob, Kenny, Riordan, et al., left off their sweaters and played, without further public palaver, golf...
Before leaving Manhattan, the President-Reject had taken leave of the electorate one more last time. People had wondered what he would say-whether he would appeal for funds to pay for the effort he had led;* whether he would have a last fling at "influences" which may have beaten him; whether it would be a personal swan-song or a parting battle-tucket to the Democracy...
...these things, President-Reject Smith's "message to the American people"; all except an appeal for money to pay for the dead donkey. Surrounded by 200 friends in a Fifth Avenue radio-studio, Governor Smith sounded a party tucket to a donkey by no means deceased. He said...
...Kernel of the speech was yet another thought. The President-Reject said: "While it is true that every party must adhere to its fundamental principles, obstruction and blockade for the sole purpose of embarrassing the party in power are not calculated to promote the best interests of the country. It would be regarded as a constructive achievement if the Democratic party at Washington were to formulate a program, adopt it, offer it to the Congress of the United States and there defend it. A refusal on the part of the party in power to accept it or their inability...
...blunt, practical expression of an ideal often mouthed but seldom practised by Congressmen after a general election. But coming from whom it did, it led to reconsideration of two little-discussed features of the Democratic outlook. One feature, forgotten in the turmoil of the Smith defeat, was Vice President-Reject Robinson's continued presence in the Senate. With President-Reject Smith retiring to private life and Governor-Elect Roosevelt taking his place in New York, the party's official Number Two Man had been all but forgotten by commentators on the party's potential leadership...