Show M Round Merry e r ry-Go- ry Rou n d By y DREW PEARSON and ROBERT ALtEN ALCEN Trade Trad Mark WASHINGTON While WASHINGTON While it is an old political cal strategy to tc o put up the biggest possible front before any convention nevertheless there are arc some very strong supporting factors behind the Landon camps camp's boast that the nomination is in the b bag g. g It probably has escaped most A people but but- 4 those two old master hands at at collecting southern delegates delegates delegates-C. C. C Bascom Slemp and Charley Hilles now Bilks now have the Dixie delegates securely in their pockets and th these se delegates all are tagged uL Landon This fact alone is t the e C. C Bascom and dapper Charley do not back losers They always play the winner Throughout Through Through- out the winter while lining up their southern cohorts they remained friendly to all candidates candidates candi candi- dates but did business with none They wanted to see which way vay the wind blew Several Se eral weeks ago they decided the Kansas cyclone was blowing strong Also th they y fig figured red that if the midwest Progressives were given their man in 1936 the eastern Tories could pick theirs in 1940 And 1940 is the year the most roost astute G. G O. O P. P bosses really are heading for Naturally they wont won't admit it publicly but they exude no optimism on the chances of defeating Roosevelt in 1936 AU All this does not I mean there will not be hot t battling at the Cleveland convention There will be But un ss there are are some major ups slip-ups it now looks pre pretty ty much like Landon Taking No Chances Dashing out of ot a s side de entrance of the senate chamber Senator Arthur Michigan's Michigan's Michi Michi- gans gan's horse dark-horse presidential candidate bumped into a young woman woman woman-a a congressional clerk I am terribly sorry said giving giving giving ing the young miss a fatherly pat on the shoulder shoulder der I hope I didn't hurt you I am quite all right said the girl and then with a a. mischievous smile And senator when you are in the White House if I 1 come corne and visit you will you put your put your arm around me drew back hastily cautiously announced Young lad lady I 1 did not put my arm around you Now you rou go on about your jour business In Sore Need Apparently there was sound reason for the formation of the Republican brain trust During the ann annual al convention in Washington last week of the American Society of Newspaper Newspaper Newspaper News News- paper Editors Malcolm W. W Bingay editor of the Detroit Free Press visited the offices of the Republican nati national nal committee Bingay isa is isa isa a prominent midwestern editor and the Free Press is widely known as a a staunch Republican organ Bingay first called on Ted Huntley bustling new G. G O O. OP P. P press agent How d do you do Mr Bingay Hun Huntley Huntley Hunt Hunt- ley warmly how are you and how is the Detroit News The editor of the Free Press looked pained but kept his peace After chatting for a few minutes Huntley t turned to th his caller said Mr Bingay your paper must have influence with Father Cough Cough- lin Why dont don't you get him to open up on Roosevelt and the new deal The Detroit Free Press has been waging a fierce running ig fight with the radio priest for several years Coughlin has attacked it over the air and the paper paper in turn has hammered him in its editorial columns Again B Bingay ngay swallowed hard but said nothing As he rose to go Huntley sug suggested ested he say hello to National Chairman Henry Fletcher In Fletchers Fletcher's office the dapper G. G O. O P. P boss greeted him cordially with Bin It is Glad indeed to see you Mr Bingay ay always nice to welcome folks from Wisconsin West Virginia Feud The row between West st Virginias Virginia's two Denlo- Denlo enio- enio cratic Senators continues hot personal and full of sizzling adjectives Latest charge harge which Senator Neelys Neely's contingent contingent con con- is spreading against juvenile Senator Rush Bush D. D Holt is that he used rubber checks in various poker games Holt they charge used to play poker at t night with the utility moguls whom he attacked by day Some of at the checks he gave were bad and bounced back The utility moguls kept them and were prepared to use them as anti anti- Holt Halt ammunition The c Neely eely faction cla claims ms they hushed up tip the whole thing But the junior senator pooh the whole story Let em bring out their checks he says I If they'd had any ci checks like that that they would have used t them em long ago Copyright 1936 by United Feature Syndicate Inc |