| Show r Governor Landon Accepts i-i i LANDON'S LANDOl-f'S acceptance speech Jf 3 GOVERNO r ran n in the neighborhood of 40 0 words If anyone expected him to voice his views to diagnose the country's ills and prescribe specific the compass of a single address of af that length disappointment was foreordained If anyone expected him to lash the administration tion with a sharp tongue or to indulge in vehement vehement vehement ment attack upon upon any individuals of the thc opposition opposition opposition tion there was disappointment This the most significant and important public utterance he 7 has made at any time in his political career caleer was calm lucid and wholly in k keeping with the dig dignity ity of of aspiration for the highest highet office within with- with j in the gift of the American people It was delivered dc- dc 1 livered without rhetorical furbishIng furbish- furbish lug fug or benefit of calisthenics It was toward the concluding portion of his r speech that he revealed his conception of the fundamentals of Americanism He is wedded to the vital principles embodied in the Constitution Constitution Constitution tion including the right of the people to make changes in the basic law if and when there is is' s sneed need to adapt it to changing conditions of national national na na- na- na life The portrait of pf f the Republican candidate candidate candidate can can- as painted by himself himsel is that of a conservative conservative conservative conser conser- and a traditionalist but no diehard and standpatter The wool the of the G. G O. O P. P may have some difficulty in reconciling Governor Landon's liberalism with the undiluted diluted doctrines of the old Republican party They will do well weIl to remember that this is no new thing with him no opportunists opportunist's clutching for expedients It was manifest by bythe bythe bythe the Kansan when he as did his running mate Colonel Knox bolted to the short-lived short Bull Moose party when Roosevelt I took his walk Governor Landon's political convictions have havethe havethe havethe the merit of proved consistency Lo Looking k ng at present national problems the candidate revealed the chief issues of the oncoming oncoming oncoming ing campaign from the Republican point of vi view w. w They may be listed thus Recovery and relief without waste or political favoritism freeing freeing free free- ing jag business from governmental intimidation and hostility free competition without monopolistic oppression of the small busin business s man a workable social security program lightening the load of taxes and arid debts a farm plan based on soil conservation erosion control cash benefits and restoration of f foreign reign markets to American t agriculture a foreign policy based on the adjustment adjustment adjustment ad ad- of international disputes in accordance with law equity and justice a federal system anch anchored red t to the the constitution and strictly upholding upholding upholding uphold uphold- ing states' states rights labors labor's right to organize to tomake tomake tomake make secure its position and the rewards to which it is entitled workers' workers right to join any type of union they prefer or in the absence of a union contract to refuse to join a union and to tobe tobe tobe be be free from coercion or intimidation by the employer any fellow or any other per per- son He failed to amplify his famous tel telegram gram to John D. D M. M Hamilton read before his nomination nomination nomi nomi- nation at the Cleveland convention This postpones postpones post post- pones clarification of his monetary views He reiterated his adherence to the 1936 platform of the party without mention of the qualifications In his message to Chairman Hamilton Without reading into Governor Landon's Landona speech things which he did not say and without drawing inferences which are perhaps unwarranted unwarranted unwarranted unwar unwar- ranted n no such comment may be offered as was wasI I Voiced by the rabidly partisan press which were published in yesterdays yesterday's editions of ot The Telegram When the candidate as he has hasT T promised follows up his gener generalities with discussion discussion dis- dis 1 in detail it will be possible to weigh his stand on on major issues w with th that of the president IT as s voiced on Franklin field Taking the two acceptance speeches together and comparing their abstract statements of policy pol- pol t icy icy and promise there is a startling harmony of objectives but it is in technique and detail that t they ey must be judged Both candidates candidates' will iU at attend attend attend at- at tend to that later Perhaps a fair inference to be drawn from Governor Landon's restrained criticism of the new deal is is- that viewed as a whole he believes it has as been mark marked ed by careless thinking Unworkable unworkable unworkable un un- workable laws and incompetent administration a as he sai said in d discussing cussing recovery and relief policies poli poli- des cies- Is it as fair fall to say that he believes the new dealers have not conducted the public business with honesty frugality courage and commonsense common commonsense sense Probably so for his pledge is that those qualities will mark a Republican administration if it is put in office at the November elections |
