N
EWS Behind
the NEWS
Copyright, 1934.
By PAUL MALLON.
I Lawyers. |
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—There
was enough background to fill Cu-
lebra cut behind Mr. Roosevelt's suggestion that democratic party officials
should not practice law before government departments.
That situation has been piling up
quietly  and  annoying  him  from   the
On inauguration day. the republican
lawyers decamped and the democratic
lawyers started pouring into town.
That is in accord with the ancient
tradition that a client needs a republican lawyer to get anything out of
a republican administration and a
democratic lawyer to handle democratic administrations.
No one would have complained
about continuance of the tradition
under the new deal, except that one
or two of the incoming horde went
about their business with such avidity that they managed to get themselves talked about. And there were
many surprising stories regarding
their practices and retainers.
Most of the gossip was far-fetched,
but it was all unpleasant and increasingly embarrassing to the great bulk
of legitimate practicing democratic
attorneys in Washington, as well as'
to the White House.