"All 48"

"A mighty fine family party! I'm awfully glad to see you. We'll have a great big party after Nov. 8 and you're all invited. The tide set in many weeks ago for the Democratic ticket, is continuing and is going to continue flowing that way until the polls close. But there's no need for a letdown now. We're not going after 35 or 40 states but all 48 of them."

Such was Governor Roosevelt's "fight talk" last week to 500 campaign workers at Manhattan's Hotel Biltmore. It was his first visit to his national headquarters. He had just returned from his Southern tour, with his voice hoarse and the lining of his felt hat hanging out. After a handshake and a smile all around, he sped to Albany where Al Smith visited him for the first time in nearly a year.

For the next-to-last sector of his White House fight the Democratic nominee picked New England, territory where he is admittedly weak. By motor from Albany he drove through a corner of Vermont into Massachusetts. At Williamstown, the college students turned out to stare, too mildly.* At the crest of the Mohawk Trail the Governor's party stopped for hot dogs and coffee. Citizens of Ayer were reminded that he once taught Sunday school there.

At Groton School from which he was graduated in 1900 Governor Roosevelt spent two nights and a day with his young sons Franklin Jr. and John. Franklin Jr , centre on the school football team, had a broken nose. Callers upon the Democratic nominee at Parents' House included Professor Felix Frankfurter of Harvard Law School and a group (whom the Governor addressed as "we Progressives"), Mrs. Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre, daughter of the 28th President of the U. S., Mayor Curley of Boston.

After a dash to Portland, Maine, for a campaign talk, the Democratic nominee backracked to Boston. There he made a full-length political speech on the dual theme of advocating immediate Unemployment relief and castigating President Hoover for delay and inaction. Said he: "What we need in Washington is less fact-finding and more-thinking." Stoutly declaring that he would not "reply in kind" to personalities indulged in by the President, Governor Roosevelt observed that in the heat of the campaign the President's "dignity died"; that the President "cannot get action from Congress," "seems unable to co-operate," "cannot get things done."

*Straw votes in 47 colleges (compiled by The Daily Princetonian): Hoover, 29,289; Roosevelt, 18,212; Thomas, 10,470; Foster, 715. Harvard, Yale and Princeton went heavily for the Republican nominee.

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