Show INS STUFF J The e News Behind the News rI I INSIDE N 5 I D E 5 T U F F By PAUL MALLON WASHINGTON WASHINGTON-If V If you will 1 look into the Republican delegate I situation through p. p practical r act i c a I glasses you will probably see a 8 lineup today Y something like this Landon more or less sure votes Favorite sons Knox 94 Borah 72 Still unclassified unselected or uncertain Necessary for nomination Breaking down the unInstructed uninstructed uninstructed further you would probably probably ably find the relative strength of two great influences hidden there thereabout thereabout thereabout about as follows Hoover Hilles etc Sc Scattered or possibly unallied l J. J Note These Note These are only approxImate approximate approximate mate estimates but they will vill aford afford afford af af- a- a ford a fair working basis upon which the situation can be accurately accurately figured if you will get out your pencil Fundamentals Arithmetic w will Jl prove provo that If the Hilles etc strength goes to Landon he will hav have I If only the Knox Hoover Hoover strength goes to Landon he will have Landon plus tho the f favorite sons sons plus Borah equals 44 Now lOW as a practical proposition any politician knows knows that if Lan Landon don ever gets within 50 vo votes es o of th the nomination he is as good as in No b bandwagons have ev ever r been stopped that near the finish lino unless a far more bitter in inside inside in- in side sido situation existed than does docs exist today tod Thus the fundamental situation situation situa situa- tion seems to be that Land Landon n can get the nomination by a combination combination tion Uon with an any one of the tho three outstanding u groups of h his s supposed supposed sup sup- posed adversaries Alternative An n equally reasonable combination combination combination tion shows vs Knox with Hoover could be nominated by getting three e favorite so sons s and Hilles This combination would give him Plus Borah Bomb it would amount to v The lineup likewise shows hOws h ws that if It Hilles Hoover four favorite s sons ns and Knox play ball for 8 a they will have a 8 majority majority ma ma- of or del delegates gates Plus Borah their majority would amount to But the main point is that while Landon can win with any anyone one of his adversaries everybody else need needs a 8 combination of two three or more Line Forming Thus you have havo about the same situation on the inside now as when Hoover was leading the pack before the Kansas City convention con con- of 1928 When any leading leading leading lead lead- ing candidate can win vin by a peal deal with one of his adversaries tho the adversaries generally scramble to tobe tobe tobe be the one The reason is obvious They want to be in on the party or organization or- or of the victor At Kansas City it was was Senator Vare of Pennsylvania who Budd suddenly suddenly sud Bud d denly ran o out t ozi on on the Mellons MeIl ns and land gave Hoover the tho votes ho needed Who it will be ho this time nobody yet knows knows for for sure Note Note Th Note This is is' not a 8 condition peculiar t t Republicans The Tho same situation developed at Chicago Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago in 1032 1932 when Roosevelt was was' nominated by the Democrats At that time the Hearst McAdOo a jump was publicly supposed to have brought the needed votes voles In reality the arrangement was made here with Garner long before before before be be- fore the convention and out of it Mr Garner got the vice presidential nomination Push The state department says it is not so so but it will never convi convince e ethe the Japan Japanese e that President Roosevelt's 42 per cent textile tarIff tariff tar tar- iff increase was not rooted in domestic domestic domestic do do- political considerations Just one day before the presidential presidential presidential order was issued Japanese Japanese Japanese Japa Japa- nese Ambassador Saito slipped i ithe Inthe in inthe the side door of the state department department department depart depart- ment unobserved He expressed privately to authorities there the hope that a satisfactory agreement agreement agree agree- ment meat could be reached within a t d day y or two Discussions had been going on for some time looking i toward ward a gentlemen's agreement It is true th the state tate tato department merit was a having a hard time getting any definite commitments B But t dis discussions were in a very active stage and the Japanese ambassador dor and his counselor were calling calling call call- ing at the department every two or three days Nevertheless s down don came the presidential order ab abruptly abruptly ab- ab terminating this line Jine of thought The hidden push behind it is supposed to have come from the New England delegation on Capitol Capitol Capitol Cap Cap- itol Hill HilI New England's Democratic Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic congressmen n d do not care anything about gentlemen's mens men's agreements p possibly b S S oS ibl y because Japan failed to keep the last Jast on one into which she entered regarding direct imports into this this' coun coun- try They want both bolh tari tariff increases and quotas and they also want to carry New England in the fall faU It is inconceivable but but never nevertheless thel ss true that this same Bame last Jast thought may have occurred to Mr R Roosevelt sevelt At least you will be able ble the Japanese Doubters Unnamed new deal authorities who are supposed to have had an inside hand in developing presidential presidential doubts about the wisdom wisdom of the house tax bill blU are Governor Eccles of ot the federal reserve board who favors favors' the theory of distributing corporation corporation corporation corpora corpora- tion earnings but who is supposed supposed sup sup- posed to have considered consider d the house effort a Ia mess Attorney General Cummings who is supposed to have expressed his doubts about the constitutionality constitution amy of the house bill in more than once in cabinet meetings And you will be CC surprised at this one Internal Revenue CommissIoner Commissioner Com Corn missioner Guy Hel ering upon whom the leadership of the initial fight was loaded but who is supposed supposed sup sup- posed to have weakened after alter he saw the bill bIlt I. 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