POLITICAL NOTES: Democrat v. Democrats

One day last week the Democratic Governor of the most populous state in the Union stalked up & down in his office. He was thoroughly mad. He was not mad at Republicans. His chief ally was the Republican-Fusion Mayor of the biggest U. S. city. But he was thoroughly mad at Democrats, particularly at his own Secretary of State, and at the Postmaster General of the U. S.

On Jan. 1 Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia had gone into office expecting to be to patronage-ridden and empty-treasuried New York City what Franklin D. Roosevelt was...

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