ROOSEVELT'S SUCCESSOR
REPORTED CHOICE
MR. HARRY HOPKINS
DEMOCRATIC OPPOSITION
(Received November 25, 9 a.m.)
NEW YORK, November 23
The Washington correspondent of the New York "Herald-Tribune" states that after a conference with Mr. J. A. Farley, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Democratic leaders from 21 eastern and southern States went away with the impression that President Roosevelt's current choice for a successor in the White House is Mr. Harry Hopkins, the Works Progress Administrator, but informed the Press unofficially that Mr. Hopkins would be nominated only "over our dead bodies."
They listed the objections thus:— "He was an out-and-out supporter of the Newj Deal who was supposed to have aroused the enmity of many types of business men and alienated the farmers owing to difficulties over
farm labour, and he had made the middle classes distrustful owing to his identification with the concept of lavish spending."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 127, 25 November 1938, Page 9
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