Show I N S SI I D E F S STUFF T I U F F T By News PAUL Behind MALLON the News c NOTE During Paul gallons gallon's presence at tho the Philadelphia convention contention con con- as a an expert observer er forThe for forThe forThe The Telegram Rodney Kodney Dutcher Butcher will write write- Inside Washington news neus for this space Rend Read Millions Million's observations ob ob- ob on tho news pages By RODNEY DUTCHER V WASHINGTON The The political racket remains essentially the same from front ono one decade to another but it is rather out of ot tho the ordinary ordinary nary to find each big party this year presenting a candidate who was as you might say something bought in a pok poke It certainly veers a bit toward the quaint side when the Republicans Republicans who have been bellowing their anguish these last couple of years over the sad fate tate of a Democratic Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic party which elected a president president prest dent who disregarded his platform platform plat plat- form and demonstrated that the party had never known what he really stood for now discover themselves in a Do pickle jar on the same shelf shelt Vague indeed were tho the 1932 public utterances of at Franklin D. D Roosevelt and even more vague vague- also very scarce were scarce were the pre pre- convention remarks of Alt Alf Landon Landon Lan Lan- don on national issues Now in somewhat the same manner as Roosevelt took the Democratic conservatives for a aride aride aride ride by introducing the new deal but but of t course to a much lesser degree degree Landon Landon has fooled some of at the powerful Republican elements elements ele ele- ments by promptly broadening the party platform after its adoption He waited until his nomination was cinched before belore he took the party into his confidence The coy game goes on Landon in recent months has astonished several eastern liberals who have visited him by private statements indicating an adv advanced progressive progressive progressive sive point of view These liberals have returned from Topeka reporting t that at h he Was f for r everything in the new deal and merely wanted tho the country to get it cheaper and more efficiently As for Roosevelt he has very definite ideas as to what he wo would ld like to do about the United States supreme court whose decisions he feels are both political and But he wont won't tell you What these ideas are Their Words Dont Don't Add Up The Republican convention doIngs do dc Ings were conspicuous for the differences dif di- di between the public and private statements of statesmen Senator Borah for instance had been telling his friends that the backers of ot Landon were reactionaries reactionaries reaction reaction- aries arIas and monopolists of the worst type and that he couldn't support such a n. man in his campaign Publicly Pub Pub- however he insisted he was interested in the platform only Senator from the start has told every friend he has hasin hasin in Washington that he deems the 1936 Republican nomination to be worthless and that h he would be silly to take tak the presidential or orvice orvice orvice vice presidential nomination in a losing year Publicly of oC course he would say nothing of at the sort Borah Takes It on Chin Few men have taken worse lacIngs lacings lacings lac lac- lac- lac ings toward the end of their Careers ca careers careers ca- ca than poor Borah Plain fact Is that Father Coughlin and Dr Townsend were more influential in the writing of the platform than he Borah's big issue was bound up in hi his antimonopoly plank It IL now develops that the Lion of Idaho went wistfully back to the Democratic monopoly plank of oC 1912 and presented it almost verbatim ver vcr to the Republican platform committee Its essential paragraph proposed strict federal regulation of corporations corporations corporations cor cor- which would woud bar hold hold- ing companies beyond the tue second p degree interlocking directorates stock watering price fixing price discrimination and other monopolistic monopolistic monopolistic practices Of OC course the old line politicians tossed that part right out the window win vIn- dow retaining only a denunciation denunciation tion of oC monopolies and a promise of enforcement of oC the antitrust laws which gathered dust under Republican rule for 12 long years ears Coughlin Townsend Score The bid to Coughlin was in the currency planks plank's failure to mention mention mention men men- tion gold which of course was agreeable to Borah Dr Townsend was recognized in inthe inthe inthe the security planks plank's approval of a a. you pay-as-you-go policy old age pensions pensions pensions pen pen- for all needy Americans over 65 and financing by a ua direct tax widely distributed And then as Borah left town Landon hurled a couple of dead cats after him by suggesting a change in the constitution which Borah opposed and by declaring declaring- for the gold standard which Borah detests If Borah can now claim that hes he's even half satisfied by what happened in Cleveland hes he's the kind of fellow who would congratulate congratulate con con- congratulate a dentist who pulled the wrong tooth Copyright 1936 for The Telegram I |