Show dispelling THE FOG by charles michelson until the republican party or i th those in e who think they a are re running n that organization get ge t out ou t of the mist that encircles them and determine what if anything they are going to stand for it is pretty prett Y dangerous for any of their prospective candidates to make a positive statement about anything disregard of this cardinal principle got senator taft into a good deal of trouble recently he evidently thought that he was on safe ground on assailing any new deal policy or enactment and so in des moines iowa he told the iowa farmers that the corn loan which is a part of the roosevelt farm program was a terrible mistake naturally that statement caused considerable commotion in the state which produced the second largest crop of corn in its history the des moines register for example was moved to comment or on the speech of the republican presidential ident ial aspirant to this effect if taft should be the republican nominee that as we see it would be most unfortunate wed much prefer to have senator taft I 1 take nis his time hold his tongue for a while on agricultural things and an d make sure of a balanced judgment than to have him get committed by piecemeal to what might total up to a negative ci cita tv minded attitude toward the whole agricultural c a u s e the des moines m paper went on from there with advice to other hopeful candidates di we hope it said dewey will do a lot of self educating about agriculture before shooting off his mouth we hope will do likeN likewise vise senator taft continued on his delegate hunting pilgrimage by the time he reached omaha nebraska he switched his views about bout the corn loan and announced that the farm situation was thi most difficult economic and political problem facing the nation and a little further on he added 1 I came out here largely to find out about the farm problem commenting on his des moines statement the lincoln neb star stated only one other statement could have been more treasonable in iowa the only thing worse the newspaper suggested would have been for him to say that the coach of the iowa football team was a bust if mr taft has eliminated himself from the favor of the farmers and if candidates dewey and do not profit from his unhappy experience the minority party may still be not without hope there is s senator styles bridges of new hampshire for example who has admitted that it if the c country iou n f ry insists on it he will a accept t the h e republican nomination and there is editor frank gan nett author of leagues of propaganda pointing out the iniquities of the roosevelt Hoo sevelt administration and the necessity of his bartys nominating an adequate republican ca to bo be his successor on a recent western tour mr air gannett modestly denied seeking delegates to the national convention and mentioned that he had been promised some new york delegates a and nd others to use his own language 0 the presidency would kill the man who takes the job after roosevelt but I 1 will consider it a public duty to do my best if given c n the opportunity according to the akron ohio beacon journal mr gannett is personally convinced that roosevelt elt will seek a third term and he believes a successful business man who is able to take a good campaign to the voters would have a chance of being elected by econs I 1 that phrase about the necessity of a successful business man being bein chosen has a familiar sound sometimes the G 0 P s paraphrased it by insisting that the president should be a man who had had to meet a payroll th dea of course was that nobody without that experience could ope with the financial problems of government it may be good philosophy but it has not always worked out abraham lincoln was hardly famous as a meeter of payrolls the first we we had of late years was warren G harding he was so successful that he built up a country newspaper until it paid him forty or fifty thousand dollars a year year and after he became president he sold it for about half a million calvin coolidge hardly qualified though he was a thrifty soul and the next business man we had in the white house was herbert hoover who was I 1 believe our first millionaire president the examples cited do not mean that a moneymaker money maker is not qualified for the great office but do suggest that he must have qualifications afi other than the ability to amass a fortune if he is going to be a success as the chief executive of the nation it may be encouraging or the reverse according to your political and economic beliefs that except tor the eminent example of mr gannett none of the prominently mentioned candidates of either party this year has great wealth as his chief title of availability though a number of them have comfortable fortunes but plus some measure of accomplishment in n pastures other than that of the money field |