Abstract

Parley to Flynn

The selection of Edward J. Flynn, to succeed Jim Parley as chairman of the Democratic National Committee has cleared the way for the long-awaited and drastically needed conversion of the party machine into a loyal, hard-hitting U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's organization devoted to the party's New Deal ticket. The choice of Flynn was perhaps inevitable. He was one of three candidates who were both acceptable to the President and available. Induction of a new national chairman ordinarily would be followed by a revamping of the party machine and the replacement of uncooperative or patently disloyal officials. It now appears, however, that Flynn is not temperamentally fitted to carry out the fumigation the National Committee so badly requires and that the President is unwilling to force the issue.