National Affairs: Hogskis & O’Piggys

Not a candidate for office, and hence less philosophic than Governor Curley (see above), is Michigan’s onetime (1932-35) Governor William Alfred Comstock, a Democratic wheelhorse who went bankrupt last year, but whose cash and efforts had been credited with sustaining his Party in Michigan through some 30 lean, mostly Republican, years. Charging that National Chairman Farley had broken a 1932 promise to distribute Michigan’s Federal jobs through the regular Party organization, handing patronage instead to such political parvenus as Father Coughlin, Democrat Comstock last week announced his resignation from the Party. Cried he: “The Hogskis and the O’Piggys, in their scramble for jobs, have upset the trough.”