Show dispelling THE FOG by charles Mic michon hLson mr frank gannett who publishes nineteen newspapers has formally announced his candidacy for the republican presidential nomination most people who have read or at least skirted the edge of the propaganda with which he has been filling the mails ever since the liberty league went into retirement as the official assailant of the new deal might have the idea that he has been a candidate for a long time the hartford courant hails the official announcement in this fashion we have feared all along that it might happen and no now it has happened on his recent trip to the pacific coast mr frank E gannett whose newspaper chain has grown to nineteen links told of the effort that was being made to push him into the race for the republican presidential nomina noaim tion he had braced himself he was standing firm against all tho the pressure but he did not know how long he could hold out one mm man with right on his side is a tower of strength but even so he cant forever hold back the mighty force forca of public opinion he is no trifler tom dewey senator taft senator styles bridges and all the rest 0 of them may talk about diesl preserving arving what is good in the new des deal 1 with of course the reservation that it would be much better with a republican in the white house but not frank gannett he announces that there is no hope for the country until the new deal and its theories are cleaned out root and branch he has been particularly ticul arly bitter about the menace to business involved in the roosevelt administration among the bus ness sufferers ebers among the scandalous misdeeds to which he referred in one of his earlier speeches of acceptance he accused the democratic administration of being guilty of crushing in g taxes that have stagnated business in ess kept down real wages lowered er ed the standard of living and killed incentive to invest in new enterprise or to expand industries that speech was made on april first of last year A fortnight before the gannett company reported for the year a net profit of from his newspaper eni terp rises an increase of more than forty thousand over the net of the year before which is of course an index of the suffering in the commercial world his innate modesty was mani n kerst pamphlet proclaiming his I 1 candidacy on the ene cover it is stated the man who has led in every defeat of the new deal can most surely lead in restoring america this pham is i about that man and how he did at t we learn for example that mr gannett defeated the presidents supreme court bill almost I 1 single handed then he clef catch the executive reorganization bill the third accomplishment f for ci r which he claims credit was the election of those senators the president opposed and his findl final achievement was to prevent the enactment of the presidents bill which was supposed to create a new agency for the carrying on of public works etc but which according to mr gannett simply represented the new deals preparation pa ration to buy the 1940 elections 11 now there are some people who attributed the fate of these me measures as to some democratic legislators who joined with the republicans but evidently from the gannett publication these people had little to do with it they had given up hope and believed that congress would be stampeded into rubber stamping the presidential ukase this according to the self effacing candidate was all changed when he assumed the leadership and stampeded congress the other way on this record mr gannett has entered the contest for control of the new york delegation against district attorney dewey no comment has come from the dewey camp in regard to his rival so presumably the youthful new york city contender is cowering at ane ahr threat C at it ill becomes a democratic commentator to speculate how far I 1 mr gannett will advance at the republican national convention perhaps there is some enlightenment in the circumstance that most republican leaders have simply grinned when their views were sought perhaps they were only grinning to hide their embarrassment barras it must be a matter of speculation as to what is to become of 1 mr gannetta Gan national committee to uphold constitutional government ern ment which is the official designation of the institution that took over the liberty leagues I 1 activities when that group of altruistic I 1 citizens went into near retirement I 1 observe that the new publication which announces the achievements of the candidate carries no specific title and instead of being issued under the letterhead of the gannett newspapers nov I 1 carries the imposing letterhead of the Gan gannett nelt for president national committee the candidate may be shy on delegates but at least he is reasonably sure of the support of nineteen newspapers published in upstate new york and in new england to quote again irom the hartford courant and now to be pushed into the presidential arena against his will is only to add distress to an already distressed soul he is compelled by his admiring countrymen to carry a great lo 10 load a d to go out on the firing line and not quit until he has mopped up every last new dealer J |