Show I N S I D E S STUFF T U F F The By News News' PAUL Behind MALLON the News News News' v WASHINGTON ASHINGTON The stage whisper has been started and it will be amplified that Governor Landon was put put over by Kansas newsmen Also that he ho could not have gone as far as he did without without without with with- out Hearst This seems to be one of those inadequate truths which does not accurately convey what really happened in the build up of the Landon candidacy It is true that most of his convention advisers and leaders were Kansas editors In fact three of the most Important important Important tant planks planks- in the platform were written by them They counseled his every move and said no plenty of times Yet the unbelievable truth o of the situation is that their contribution contribution contribution con con- to tOI the Landon candidacy was largely technical Most politicians poll poli suspect the result would have been the same without them Natural Just to give you an idea The first person to mention Landon's name around Washington was the lato late Ted Clark secreta secretary y to former lormer former for lor- mer President Coolidge He did not get his inspiration from Kansas Kan Kan- sas Ho He saw that Landon had been governor in ina a year when all other Republican candid candidates candidates candi candi- d dates tes for office were being tumbled tumbled tum turn bled down like tenpins No heavy glasses were needed to see that Others soon likewise saw it took the idea up investigated Landon and he swept on In other words the candidacy was what we would call calla calla calla a natural It was logical and certain There was nobody else While a lot of people could have helped him and did nobody could have stopped him Spirits It is still very much of a secret so dont don't tell anybody but th the Roosevelt Democratic platform Is being written largely by Senator B Bob b Wagner Vagner of New York This means it will Vill ill be sharply pro- pro labor decidedly liberal and sound A lot of other authors in the new deal think they are arc writing J the platform but they are only offering suggested planks Contrast Big time gossips of the Republican Republican Republican lican party have been speculating since the tho Cleveland convention about what kind o of Governor Landon will conduct The whispered complaint o of his opposition was that he would be bea a weak campaigner The Landon- Landon ites wanted a strong talking vice presidential candidate to contribute contribute contrib contrib- ute this kind a of strength to the tho ticket Most of the Landon advisers think that the best thing their candidate could do is to sit in his front porch swing ng with his llis good telephone at his elbow and re receive receive receive re- re people the way he has been doing They vetoed the Idea of having him fly lly to the convention No decision has been reached concerning the extent of his speaking tours Only one thing is settled That is that Landon will make his campaign on Roosevelt that his up build-up w will Jl be toward contrasting personalities The prairie governor versus the squire of Hyde Park Th The Landon manager John Hamilton gave the hint of that in his nominating speech Note The Republican campaign campaign campaign cam cam- is not likely to be very active active active ac ac- ac- ac tive at tho the start The traditional rule of Republican strategy is to hold back until September The Tho final linal 60 days of the campaign are arc always the ones that count Fixing American politics as witnessed at national conventions may be a bag o of tricks but those who do dothe dothe dothe the fixing in diplomacy still claim the prize Take the case of the present threat of south China to towage towage towage wage civil war against the central central central cen cen- cen- cen government at unless unless unless un un- un- un less it declares war against Japan Our best informed minds have been suspicious all aU along that the Japanese had something to do with the sudden development of patriotic fervor on the part of the Cantonese But even they are amazed at the word they now hear namely Japan has been boen selling to the Cantonese the arms and munitions munitions munitions muni muni- with which their troops arenow arenow are aro aronow now marching north purportedly to force forc Into a war with Japan Practical Politics Even beyond that western diplomats diplomats dip dip- have ground for suspecting suspecting suspect suspect- suspecting ing that the Japanese actually urged their adversaries to buy the arms on easy payments Conven- Conven this would be the same thing as a Republican candidate releasing his delegates to vote for forthe forthe forthe the Democratic president However However However How How- ever there is a joker in it The Tho Japanese were getting worried worried wor wor- ried ned over obstinate op opposition opposition opposition op- op position to extension of Japanese Japanese Japa Japa- Japanese nese control over north China If got tied up in a civil war with the Cantonese would have neither time nor energy energy en en- ergy to do anything about the Japanese in the north Thus Tokio stands to benefit from any civil war in China Note Note Toldo Tokio knows very well that wont won't fire shots against Japanese soldiers because that would mean a quicker end for President Chiang Kai In a civil war he has a chance In a war with Japan his end would be quick i Company You may havo have noticed that President Roosevelt came back to Washington after the tho Byrns funeral funeral fu funeral fu- fu trip and started out 2 24 hours later back on the same line to Texas The reason is a laugh It seems he had a luncheon en- en engagement engagement en en- out in the middle west with a certain prominent public utility owner If Ie he had gone on from Tennessee he would have havo been required to spend a night and a day as the guest of the Now luncheon is one thing but being a house guest is another especially with the campaign campaign campaign cam cam- now in its infancy Rather than do it the tho president president president dent backtracked his steps to Washington and did a double train ride |