Show Between You and Me Roosevelt Faces Difficulties in Putting Puffing Brakes rakes on Political Par Parade de Spending pe ding By Raymond Cl Clapper Political Issues are born and not made So In political a as In inthe Inthe-coure Inthe the course of blessed events expectant parents simply Imply have to wait walt for o delivery to see lee what the offspring Is like To some lome degree It Is hi possible by propaganda and exploitation to bring forward potential Issues But they do do- donot not take hold and really affect public sentiment unless unless unless un un- un- un less they make arU articulate the vague apprehensions or longings of ot large masses of workers Glance b beck back ck over over political history his his history tory in this generation In 1896 the c currency issue wracked the country We Ve h lid had d' d Bryans Bryan's cross of t gold speech the gold bugs bugs' Coin Harvey and a a. self appointed d currency currency cur cur- rency expert on every ner nero By 1000 they were as moth eaten as last Jut y tJ earmuffs The Intervening Spanish American war had made imperialism the issi issue e. e In In 1912 the portly Taft was c caught in the revolving door which was whirling with Roosevelt's Roose velt's new new nationalism and WIl Wil Wilsons Wilson's Wilsons sons son's new freedom Between them them they spun him clear out on Pennsylvania avenue But by 1916 these progressive issues Were Svere all on ice and Wilson pulled through because the public thought he would keep the country country coun coun- try tryout out of ot the European war In 1919 wh when n Senator Borah began Degan his fight tight on on the League of ot Nations his I senate enate friends told him hint he was silly People they told him would never become excited excited excited ex ex- ex- ex cited about it and anyway the anyway the United States was already dy as good goodas as in the league and it would be bea a dead the 1920 elec tion But the Issue fanned byas by as astute ute propaganda struck the response response response re- re of at a wanted to get out of at Europe and stay out When the Harding scandals broke one would have thought that the Republicans would have had been felled by a call for Her Hercules cules the he cleanup man But the issue issue It If there was enough of at an argument about it to deserve the name was name was name was economy The country Went for It like a dog after arter the cat next door From a Republican who has given much thought to the party's problem in 1936 This campaign will be for or or against just as Ih It h 1932 the people were v voting for or or r against Hoover The 1936 Heart platform will not be as Important Important Im Im- im- im as the he candidate and his political background If we should succeed in electing a president there Ither Js is en enough ugh legislation aready al already al- al ready on on th the books that has r re- re elved Haphazard administrative m methods to keep him busy for forthe th the next nex four tour years yeats' yeats Many of the thet things which Roosevelt have failed tailed because of ot the lac lack t of ot clear cear cut d definite a and vigorous us leadership and his apparent Inability Inability in inability In- In ability to pick the right man to do dothe dothe dothe the Job Any good administrator will have his hands full for a few years trying to bring order out of ot chaos Some of ot these experiments might work if they had a 1 chance The rhe regulations and the adminIstrative admin admin- policies are as Important to most of ot them and to the genera general general gen gen- era eral public as the legislation it it- it self So I want to see a man who will go in with 8 a fair fall fairand and open mind In man an atte attempt pt to adjust adjust and manage thc them plus a genuine geri ine budget balancing tax reduction program Then in a few more more yea yeats yeat's s we can tell which of ot the ri nesi deal experiments are basically basically- I wrong frong I suspect a good many of ot them are but I feel that some of oC them might be made made- to tOi Work satisfactorily The next president will be In much the he same lamo position as the th captain of 0 a tugboat hitched to a IL aliner liner ixer that thatis Is on the rocks If Ie- he tight tightens ns up his his his' cable too quickly it will part and nd the liner will wUl then be completely wrecked HI His job is is' to ease the he liner of off the rocks and he cant can't do that by a atoo atoo atoo too too- sudden strain on his cable In other words if lC wc reverse too quickly it t will put too much strain on on our social and political It is going to take a pretty good captain to know the limit of the str strain ln on The The ballot ballot baIJot will de decide dedde decide de- de cide the the next election and they n now nov w have a distrust both of or the Roosevelt leadership and of at the theold theold theold old guard leadership in our own party Poll Political definitions By a 8 Democratic senator senator- When you educate a 8 Republican he becomes a Democrat By a Republican Republican-If If a man has two thin dimes unies to rub together he heIs heis heis is a Republican But if It he ha has only one one dime he Is I. a Democrat Then there ther arc arc the the independent voters who de deIde decide de- de cide Ide most pres presidential elections Party politicians flatter them to get thc thel votes vote but they dont don't them never know wh where re they stand In ve- ve land Blame campaign of f 1884 a disgusted political leader named them The term is Indian meaning chief or big shot lit n It was used Ironically to Imply that the tho independent voters voters' regarded re re- re regarded regarded themselves as superior fellows somewhat above party In that c campaign one speaker de defined defined de- de fined tined a. a as a person educated beyond his intellect In the modern definition a mug mug- Js one vho o sits on the fence t with on on on one side etc I L Copyright 1935 bythe by Washington Washing Washing- i ton tori Post |