Democrats

Last week Alfred Emanuel Smith made his first open move to advance what was widely supposed to be his passive candidacy for the presidential nomination. To secure Smith-pledged convention delegates in Massachusetts where a candidate's written consent must be obtained, he gave his power of attorney to Chairman Frank J. Donahue of the Democratic State Committee. Chairman Donahue will now select a slate of Brown Derby delegates for the Massachusetts primaries in April.

P: Smith-Roosevelt friction caused an unprecedented rupture in the small but doughty Democracy of New Hampshire where a primary occurs this week. To reinforce his organization in Vermont, Candidate Smith told off James A. Kennedy of Burlington to try to round up as many of that State's eight delegates as possible. Even if he does not think his chances for nomination are bright, Candidate Smith, say his friends, hopes to gc to Chicago with enough pledged support to block Governor Roosevelt and dictate the choice of party leader. P: Melvin Alvah Traylor, speaking before the Kentucky Legislature last week, declared: "I have not been, am not now, and do not expect to become a candidate for public office. ... I am in love with my chosen work [the presidency of Chicago's First National Bank] and have no desire to desert it for the spotlight of the political arena.'' From the Columbia (Ky.) Traylor-for-President Club, however, fat envelopes urging support of Mr. Traylor's candidacy continued to pour.

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