Disclaimer

In 1920, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was sent around the country shouting "Maverick!" at his distant kinsman, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, that year's Democratic vice presidential nominee. This year, with Theodore Jr. half way around the world in the Philippines, official family disclaimers have been left to the widow and other children of T. R. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Sr. appeared as the White House guest of honor during President Hoover's acceptance speech. Last week Alice Roosevelt Longworth entered her political disavowal of "Cousin Frank." Beginning her reminiscences in the current Ladies' Home (in which Baltimore Sun's Frank Richardson Kent was suspected of being a covert collaborator)"Princess Alice" remarked:

"On the day that my father was insinuated into the vice-presidency, there started a reverberation which has an echo in the nomination of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932. Many persons, politicians and non-politicians as well, mutter darkly that there is a misapprehension in the country as to just what relation Franklin is to T. R., and as people have actually congratulated me on the nomination of 'your brother,' perhaps there is some confusion and it is only fair that it should be cleared away. He is my father's fourth cousin once removed. . . . Politically, his branch of the family and ours have always been in different camps, and the same surname is about all we have in common. . . . I am a Republican. . . . I am going to vote for Hoover. . . . If I were not a Republican, I would still vote for Mr. Hoover this time."

Mrs. Longworth was also at pains to deflate another "odd legend,"namely, that she is potent politically: "It all amounts to little more than the old sport of lion hunting."

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