ABSTRACT
Louis Howe had to send Patch Homer Cummings to Kentucky to work his way through the elaborate intrigues between Franklin D. Roosevelt's man, Judge Robert Bingham, and the Governor, Ruby Lafoon. Louis McHenry was pessimistic; his own political map early that spring liad shown only nine states firmly for Roosevelt. He had been uncertain even about Maine, New Hampshire, North Dakota, and Minnesota. Roosevelt himself would not go to Chicago. It was difficult for him to move about in a mob; there were immense advantages in being insulated in Albany, where he could decide at leisure and with reflection. Jouett Shouse screamed that Roosevelt had broken his promise on the Chairmanship. No amount of explanation would convince Al Smith's friends that they had not been buffaloed by a smooth master of slippery semantics. Republican Norris might put Louisiana in Roosevelt's hands, but Roosevelt would have to keep it there. Anything could be expected from the demagogue at Baton Rouge.
