OCR Text |
Show Time Not Ripe, Landon Believes TOPEKA, Kan., Nov. I Alf M. Landon said today he did not regard the time as opportune for a midterm Republican convention, but reiterated the opinion that, if one is called, there must be "no limitation limi-tation on its scope of action and its personnel must come from precinct csucuses or primaries." In a letter to Representative Joseph Jo-seph W. Martin Jr. of Massachusetts, Massachu-setts, his eastern campaign manager man-ager last year. Landon aaid that, "if the convention ia to be held. It must be representative of the hearts and convictions and the enthusiasm of the rank and file of all groups opposed op-posed to the preaent national administration. ad-ministration. ' "I have given this matter very serious consideration and cannot agree that the convention be composed com-posed of delegates elected to the '34 convention, but the proposed convention con-vention should not represent 1934 or any other era of the past. If we are to write a new platform that says what the Republican party stands for today, the only authority the convention could possibly have would be to have delegates selected in caucuses in every precinct in the country. , "The opportunity must be provided pro-vided for the convention to represent repre-sent every shade of opinion in the Republican party, from Mr. Hoover Hoo-ver on one hand to Mr. LaGuardia on the other." The letter was made public just one day in advance of the meeting in Chicago tomorrow of the Republican Repub-lican national committee to consider con-sider the proposal of former President Presi-dent Herbert Hoover and others that the midterm, convention be called. |