Show about face of smith Is bared attacks policies he once advocated speech P acell causes R rush to back roosevelt by EARL GODWIN ASHINGTON at al smith washington promising to take a walk unless things happened to suit mm him and his new power trust hilles aides brins up the practical question as to what he can do lie ile certainly cannot stop the ot of F franklin D roosevelt at the philadelphia convention conventi oo of the Demo democratic crati e party at the present writing the possibility of a third or conservative democratic party seems remote we do not expect al A to join the republicans about the only thing he can dp do it seems to me Is to remain with the liberty league which Is the smearing agent of the antl anti roosevelt forces now for the restoration of any dynasty which will take the federal governments regulator off the money market off the corporations oft off the power trust tits his speech though certainly stirred the roosevelt wing of the party many of them were appalled at the sight of the man whom roosevelt supported nominated befriended and defended a arising in the midst of bitter roosevelt toes foes to take their side against him 0 0 0 SMITH HELPS republicans smiths speech was in his best vein I 1 am not on one e of his admirers and never have been but I 1 appreciate preci ate the great appeal of his bis speeches and I 1 have no doubt that he made a great hit with many of his old adherents lie he helped the republicans solidify their growing strength in the industrial northeast and rast east but can anyone who follows politics do anything but tear the speech to shreds as far as logic aogle and constructive suggestion are concerned it was not 24 hours before senators congressmen and editors were showing the world that the legislative program smith attacked as socialistic and destructive tive was actually the same sort of thing he had backed and accomplished shed in part as governor of new york and had bad advocated as candidate for the presidency in 1928 in fact herbert hoover had bad made practically the same sp eeck bech about smith that smith just made about roosevelt one of the things that made me smile was wag smiths crack about a rubber stamp congress of course when an overwhelming majority in a legislature supports a pi president the opposition always uses that term of derision but the minority votes solidly and when the minority grows up and becomes a majority it would not be much of an asset to its voting supporters at home if it did not ballot the way the party leaders indicated but there never was in all the world a man who was so much of a rubber stamp as A al smith ile he talks with tears in his voice about his struggles in the tish fish market when a boy but from the time he was twenty one he never struggled lie he was wao handed banded job after job by new yorks tammany hall because he voted in the new assembly just the way tammany told him tits ills record of rubber stamp votes for that corrupt new york organization Is perfect from Tammany Tamm anys 9 stand point when he was leader of one house bouse of the new york legislature he cracked the file whip over oter his charges they voted the way he told them and when one or two failed to obey his raucous voice they did not come back next term when he was governor he be had publican opposition in the state house but for the two years that lie he had a democratic majority in the state senate he be had bad jimmy walker as tammany leader and walker came over to the governor every monday to t take e his orders on votes it if smith or wal walker had ever advised a democratic majority in the new york state le legislature isla to forget about election and vote as they pleased they would have been burned at the stake by tammany in deans I 1 nis his charges that roosevelt had violated his big platform pledges Is a charge that will be heard epard of all through the campaign somehow voters are prone to believe that a violated platform pledge or a pledge not completely carried out nut 1 Is 4 always a 8 cardinal sin As I 1 have previously pointed out in ID this coit column imn events sometimes have made it impossible for platforms to be followed in every detail reallie that the democratic platform was wag written in the summer of 1932 smith says it was a star of hope but he walked out oo on it then hen mail mad as he could be and would have nothing to 10 lo do with it IL at any rate roosevelt Koo sevelt came into office march 4 of the year following and during the intervening nine months this country had slipped to the edge banks were closing riots were starting fa banners were taking the laws into their own hands ten men women nod and children were starving and hunting through scraps arid and trash for food and roosevelt Koo sevelt acted suppose he be had bad sat eat there with the book of rules in tits his hands thumbing over the platform to see whether or not lie be dared feed the people to see whether or not lie he dared take over the banks ile he was elected as prest dent of a 11 united states which was then on the verge of moli mob revolution then was the time to forget partisan policies and he did so with the result that the very men whose thirty pieces of silver brought smith to washington to smear roosevelt in 1933 bo be surged the white house littering praise for a strong man in the presidents ch chair air and begging him to do sonie something thi ng and he did it SMITHS GROUCH smith does not turn on roosevelt because lie Is sincere lie started to be a grouch on roosevelt back it lii the days daya when roosevelt Ro ovelt was governor of new york and smith tried to give him orders roosevelt was independent of f tammany and has always been on 0 n the high plane of public affairs then too smith always bell believed eved that li he should have a second try at the presidency regardless of the fact that he had been snowed under in 1928 the year the solid south went republican against al smith there Is no doubt that he would have been defeated again but smith never forgot and never forgave it was only by pulling and tugging that they got him to come out of his shell after Roosevel ts nomination and utter a few words of seeming friendship smith once said he advocated a good strong public works policy wa with th something like a dictator at its head and if he be had any idea of criticizing the ickes public works program he should be informed that that program Is almost puny in contrast to what it should be ickes himself has said so and he ought to know its not his fault but to to do anything in this country where legal rights and property rights are involved means that for untold months the lawyers must haggle over commas and untangle red tape until a forward looking man goes insane with the delay OLD DEALERS ALARMED old dealers are alarmed by their own idea that this country Is going socialistic or communistic this la Is claptrap and hokum of the worst variety so we might as well expose this fake right here the socialist party drew a little un der a million votes when roosevelt drew his tremendous majority the socialists demand private ownership of the mines forests oil power railroads all utilities telephone and telegraph and radio and other basic industries dus tries well private ownership controls those fields and will for some time to come the socialists demand ownership of all grain elevators stockyards stock yards and packing houses the elimination of middlemen long and low interest loans to farmers farm land planning and weather insurance provided by the government overn ment compare them with the administrations farm program and you will see the kocl socialist aalst platform Is 13 far different the socialists demand direct election of the president an amendment to the constitution permitting direct so social el a I 1 I 1 insurance isura ne e bythe by the government the N new ew deal S social octal insurance and jobless insurance policy puts it in the hands g of the states with federal a aid I 1 d and mild regulation some republicans and some democrats in congress discuss and favor some or all of these measures but the present roosevelt administration lias has put forward none of them the socialists demand much higher income taxes the taxation of government securities which half of wall street apparently endorses socialists want the lie government to own the banks instead the government under this new deal improves the federal reserve board and its control insures bank deposits and regulates the sale of stock but the banks are still arl privately owned the socialists demanded a ten bil llon ilon dollar work relief program whereas the new deal had its shirt torn off for a meager four billion dollar program the socialists demand a 30 hour week so do most labor unions the socialists demand old age pensions so does borah so does landon and moratoriums on tax payment SL all socialists share our cough unites etc attack the new deal as too mild to call it socialistic or communistic muni Is deep ignorance in many respects it Is more conservative than teddy Roosevel ts program back in 1912 that disposes of the trend to socialism cial ism As for communism we have about as much chance at going to the soviets as we have of becoming chinese CHIPS OF POLITICS republicans trying for the big job play different tunes robert moses new york republican leader advises his party to discard all candidates and pick new starters ills his published description of a winner fits only himself or at al smith now a G 0 P hero in new york frank knox knot apostle ot of business before humanity lights fights borah as hard as he lights fights roosevelt alf air M landon kansas governor broad broadcasts easta that there Is much good in the new deal why not admit tt it governor landon Is building a republican platform but using roosevelt planks georgias antl anti roosevelt democratic governor talmadge promised to arouse georgia to a pitch where it would throw roosevelt out of the window result after six elx months of ballyhoo ballyhoo the talmadge convention consisted of political ca including strays from the cluey long territory with a nob mob of curiosity seekers of the sort that will follow any band with a loud enough drum and a crazy bazy drum major filth purveyors in the talmadge Taliu adge group sickened georgia twenty four hundred bundred has bas beens and half casts evidently cannot affect georgia so the liberty league and other groups supporting talmadge will now withdraw when the cash goes the georgia move against roosevelt collapses 0 western se shaper union |