ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. Typed letter signed ("Franklin D. Roosevelt"), as President, to James A. Farley (1888-1976), Warm Springs, Ga., 26 November 1938. 1 page, 4to, White House stationery .
ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. Typed letter signed ("Franklin D. Roosevelt"), as President, to James A. Farley (1888-1976), Warm Springs, Ga., 26 November 1938. 1 page, 4to, White House stationery . FIGHTING "THE MOSSBACKS" IN THE SOUTH DURING THE PARTY PURGE OF 1938 Ever the optimist, Roosevelt tries to put the best face on his disastrous failure to "purge" the conservative Southern members of his party in 1938. Yet his survey of the situation concedes more defeats than victories. "Down here in Georgia there is a rather definite tendency to quit fighting the Administration and to try to 'make up,'" he writes. "This tendency does not apply to some of the mossbacks like Clark Howell of the Constitution and the Editors of the Augusta Chronicle , and the Macon Telegraph and one or two other leading papers, nor does it yet apply to Walter George. I think Dick Russell will be more inclined to go along--and the same thing applies to quite a number of other Senators who come up in 1940. That is something for us to be watching. In other words, I think most of the crowd will meet us two-thirds of the way." In an unprecedented move, Roosevelt campaigned against a number of fellow Democrats in party primaries, hoping to get more liberal, pro-New Deal candidates elected. The plan was a disastrous failure, especially in the South where every single reactionary segregationist on FDR's hit-list won re-election by a wide margin. Instead of uniting his party, FDR strained relations with Congress, antagonized Southern public opinion, and virtually killed off any enthusiasm for further New Deal reforms on Capitol Hill. FDR also praises Farley for his new book: "I am delighted with Behind the Ballots...and you are not only to be congratulated on setting it down but also on having been so greatly responsible for the making of the record itself." Farley's memoir culminates with the landslide reelection triumph he orchestrated as campaign manager in 1936. He thought it would be the opening brief for his own presidential candidacy in 1940. But when FDR refused to retire and anoint Farley his successor--a delusion which only Farley seems to have indulged--the Irish pol was deeply hurt. He quit the administration and in 1948 published a bitter attack on his former boss.
ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. Typed letter signed ("Franklin D. Roosevelt"), as President, to James A. Farley (1888-1976), Warm Springs, Ga., 26 November 1938. 1 page, 4to, White House stationery .
ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. Typed letter signed ("Franklin D. Roosevelt"), as President, to James A. Farley (1888-1976), Warm Springs, Ga., 26 November 1938. 1 page, 4to, White House stationery . FIGHTING "THE MOSSBACKS" IN THE SOUTH DURING THE PARTY PURGE OF 1938 Ever the optimist, Roosevelt tries to put the best face on his disastrous failure to "purge" the conservative Southern members of his party in 1938. Yet his survey of the situation concedes more defeats than victories. "Down here in Georgia there is a rather definite tendency to quit fighting the Administration and to try to 'make up,'" he writes. "This tendency does not apply to some of the mossbacks like Clark Howell of the Constitution and the Editors of the Augusta Chronicle , and the Macon Telegraph and one or two other leading papers, nor does it yet apply to Walter George. I think Dick Russell will be more inclined to go along--and the same thing applies to quite a number of other Senators who come up in 1940. That is something for us to be watching. In other words, I think most of the crowd will meet us two-thirds of the way." In an unprecedented move, Roosevelt campaigned against a number of fellow Democrats in party primaries, hoping to get more liberal, pro-New Deal candidates elected. The plan was a disastrous failure, especially in the South where every single reactionary segregationist on FDR's hit-list won re-election by a wide margin. Instead of uniting his party, FDR strained relations with Congress, antagonized Southern public opinion, and virtually killed off any enthusiasm for further New Deal reforms on Capitol Hill. FDR also praises Farley for his new book: "I am delighted with Behind the Ballots...and you are not only to be congratulated on setting it down but also on having been so greatly responsible for the making of the record itself." Farley's memoir culminates with the landslide reelection triumph he orchestrated as campaign manager in 1936. He thought it would be the opening brief for his own presidential candidacy in 1940. But when FDR refused to retire and anoint Farley his successor--a delusion which only Farley seems to have indulged--the Irish pol was deeply hurt. He quit the administration and in 1948 published a bitter attack on his former boss.
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