Show I N S I D DE C E S ST I U F F e By News PAUL Behind MALLON the News WASHINGTON The mystify mystify- mystifying ing lug Roosevelt technique on th the tho tax bill is not essentially different different different differ differ- ent from his established meth method d. d This big fight in the senate is ismore ismore ismore with more of a sparring contest soft gloVes than the brawl that it appears to be There is no doubt about the sincerity of ot President Roosevelt's sparring partners They really believe believe be be- lieve even his modified house hous corporation corporation corporation cor cor- tax plan is foolish andare andare and andare are trying to smash it But ut at atthe atthe atthe the same time they also know the heavyweight champ is merely practicing feinting with them The result of the match will be whatever he desires to make it Adamant What perturbs them is the private private private vate information they have picked up at the White House indicatIng indicatIng indicating ing that Mr Roosevelt really wants the house plan pIan with some somo further necessary modifications In the private conferences they have been having off and on at atthe atthe atthe the White House it has developed that Mr Roosevelt personally considers considers considers con con- siders the corporate earnings distribution distribution distribution dis dis- dis- dis idea an excellent t camp campaign cam cam- p ign issue For that reason as they understand it he is not willing willing will wm- ing to let the idea drop until next year As their only chance to win Isor is for or the president to let them win the only thing they can hope for forIs foris foris is that he will change his mind The heavy hand which the champ holds over them is well illustrated by tho the inside strategy which the Roosevelt leaders h have ve adopted At first they intended to offer the house corporation provision from the floor of the senate as an amendment They thought there was a fair chance it would be adopted In that event the sparring sparring spar spat ring match would be over The issue would go no further But after all that house provision provision provision pro pro- vision is too bad even for them Consequently th the treasury has worked out a series of corrective amendments These will be offered offered offered of of- to the senate If adopted or not adopted the issue will wUl go goto goto goto to a committee of senators and representatives who will write the final form of the bill bilI And these thes senators and representatives will be selected by Vice President Garner and Speaker Byrns If It they pick men who will not carryout carry carryout carryout out orders they will willbe willbe willbe be looking for jobs themselves soon It Itis is all so easy and has been done so often before that there is really little inside excitement about it except on the tho point of ot whether Mr Roosevelt will relent Note Note Another Another feature of the strategic plan is that the leaders will continue to talk about adjourning adjournIng adjourning ad ad- June 6 G and realty plan to do it June 9 or 10 Tip The inside story of how v John Hamilton got the tho job as nominator nomina nomina- tor for Governor Landon is material material material ma ma- for a textbook k on success None Nono of Landon's advisers wanted wanted want want- ed Hamilton to do the nominating The Tho task was thought to be of the type which William Allen AlIen White does best fill Bill White has humanized humanized humanized human human- Kansas itself even convincing convincing convincing ing easterners which is generally gener gener- ally aUy considered a a. major feat But Hamilton had an idea for tor fora tora a different type of nominating speech not the old stock stuff about a man who who who-It but a simple statement of human facts He wrote out the speech carefully carefully care care- fully in advance took it out to Governor Landon and got the job immediately Landon's announcement of ot the selection was a surprise to some of ot the bigwigs here who have never appreciated that a good way to to get a job is to prove you cando can cando cando do it better than anyone else Gate Open The best Republican people are behind tho the current talk about Senator Senator Sen Sen- ator as vice presidential presidential presidential candidate They have other things in mind beyond Van- Van denberg's personal future One of ot these is Senator Borah Some persons who have been more or less in Borah's confidence have havo believed all ail along that his real presidential candidate was Early in the game before Borah announced himself he frequently said as much in vate generally re retaliated retaliated retaliated re- re in kind and pronounced himself in favor of Borah This was before the campaign got so serious but it has encouraged encouraged encouraged aged the belief beliet here that the nomination nomination nomination nom nom- of as vice presidential candidate will open tho the gate for Borah to walk into the Landon fold Note Note is one of ot the few ew candidates who have made no enemies in the cam cam- He is not Hilles not Hoo Hoe ver He is a friend of Colonel Knox equally friendly with Borah and has done nothing against Landon Retrospect Borah's friends here have admired admired ad ad- mired the way he has taken his primary discouragements The fact that he personally knew from the first he would not win has not lessened their respect for the way he has conducted his cam cam- He could not have known how bad it was going to be And AndI I he did not know that he was going to get a raw deal from some somo of the local organizations excited over the prospects of his money views Copyright 1936 for The |