| Show I 1 it 0 b 1 national interpreted by william bruckart washington alamor party strat 09 agy in tho present seny atorino ii G 0 A P has resolves it I 1 t so be I 1 if f hard task into it a determined effort by tile tho bjoin to hold tile thu two thirds ity laivo I 1 tn tile bolls bouso lolls 0 of cepro all nil equally equi illy deter irined drive by tile command to aroah the strangle holu hold there of tile now new veal varty larty tho the holding of this minority majority Is of v tat importance to tile democrats because bc canso with a i two thirds vote they will bo be ablo able in the next congress to continue fang rule which was invoked in tile alio last co ogress and under tinder which it ws was possible to pass measures with a of debate and effort in the light of tile outcome ont conio in tho the malno elections elect tona and lit in tile face of tile size of votes in tho the primaries in a number r of states regarded its da rather safely lic aill before 1132 1032 tile the 0 0 P 1 leadership apparently fins a hard task abend in tile the last congress tho the democrats find members or 22 more than a two thirds majority anil and were wera liuio to command most of the five votes of the farmer labor membership na as well 11 na S the votes vote of several republicans from wisconsin anti anil front ono one of tile tho northwestern states assuming a farmer labor membership in the nest h house as great as that in tile tho last the republicans would have to register a net gain coln of not less leas than thirty seats ats in order to break strangle hold even with such ft a gain tile the kerub laicans would have to muster their full strength on every vote in order to prevent rag gag nilo the democrats are certain to make substantial gains in tile the senate and they are by no means a senatorial contest democratic leaders lea ilera ito in headquarters hero here have been mentally kicking themselves ever since the maine balne election that they did not put pill on a vigorous drive against senator frederick halo in that state they explain privately that they did not do so BO because they never had an idea there was wag a possibility of defeating mr little halo because a hale in the senate has been maine tradition for or generations they detected it a flaw in their reasoning when mr kinle came it only a 0 scant cant majority and this fact ct hns 11 caused flu sed them to redouble th their air efforts f in other states and ilaray barly in 0 ohio hlo where simeon D fe fass 88 former r chairman of the rei publican national committee Is up tip for election reelection re i in Alit maryland ryland west virginia rhode island IsI tind new jersey bit missouri asburl indiana Del delaware debaare aare connecticut and nor nr are they even overlooking that citadel of Republica republicanism nisin pennsylvania Pennsylva where david A reed Is vp tip for reelection tho the democrats now have sixty m niem bera ln the senate four ur short of a two thirds majority and they are confident that november will see ece this membership increased by a minimum of five or one wore more than a two thirds majority alid when they get down to cases republican leaders somewhat mournfully adroit privately that democratic expectations may W b fulfilled A two thirds majority tin in the senate during the next two years Is highly important from the alie democratic point of view because of the number of important treaties now pending or to be submitted to that body for 0 0 0 it Is no secret in political circles here in N washington that the campaign strategy of talk of or those nt at present third rd party 1 command of 0 G 0 f P floes does not meet with the full approval of soule bonie republicans who are offering for reelect election reelection re elect ion I 1 have had several of them tell roe me that their pros proa geots for victory would bo be ipaty enhanced if the republican high command stayed out of their j states or districts these are men who heretofore have been regarded as aa the Ore regular gular wing of the party but who have the feeling which apparently patently ly la Is becoming more and more widespread among the tha younger leaders that there must bo be a re of the party and a younger and more liberal leadership if the party la 19 to refrain its ita place rn fa the american political sun enn meanwhile reports trickle into washington about a movement having its inception on the western prairies for the formation ot of a third party conferences of progressive gres sive leaders arrendy have been held and some of those who have participated tell nie me that the move went ment la Is gai gaining mainini nini sten tilly although gh it ling as had no publicity is as yet those participating desire no fanfare as they do riot not believe tho the time la in ripe rip for the announcement and that certainty certainly the movement should riot not be brought into the open until after the november elections clec tlona the fate of the progressive party in wisconsin BS as organized by nob ert M la follette jr and hla his brother phil can be expected it tn I 1 bave ha ro a bearing on the I 1 plans of those who are viewing the field to whether a able public sentiment vill cain be illar inar tile third party inove luent adaily strategists both in tile the national Cald till id elsewhere bell believed eved and gave ox pres slon to their views nt at tile time little that stint ln 1 n follette made 11 jor leal error when lie carim out openly for president roosevelt in loj 10 tills this mado alint tile Dellic rats would curry carry wisconsin tl state ninny regard ns as tile of tile alie party arty ii and it wits equi equally tilly certain that tile tho astuto junivs A varley na as of the democratic national committee would lose no time lit in bill building iding up lilt a democratic organization through the power of patro nt at his disposal ns as postmaster master general the roto in the ro cent democratic primary indicated that tic ho lind find ilono done a arither thorough jot job but whether the ln I 1 follette bollotte ol lotte hold on tho the wisconsin electorate cun call bo be broken remains romi itna to bo ba seen 4 a 4 whatever tile the democratic major ity may alay bo be la in tit tho next senate tile the now cw dealers to alra are would outdo certain to have kingfish two nica flies in tho the ointment w when it e n heretofore here they have had only ono one mississippi Is sending to the senate its former governor theodore 0 billie to join louisianan Loui ablo huey I 1 11 kingfish long mr who became a clipper in washington under tile tho now new deal tins has promised tits his constituents that if they would send him to washington lie he would ralso raise more it 1 than utley long ile ho tins set get for himself a very sizeable job bc cause admittedly mr air long has raised more h I 1 since he tins ims been in the senate than was ans raised by even two w ere parable h 1 raisers cole blanso of south carolina and tom cleflin of alabama they constituted a real team from the south during their stay in the worlds greatest deliberative body but unquestionably long rind bilbo will put their record to shame that la Is if they team up tip together senator long hits has demonstrated during hla his brief stay in the senate that lie ha likes to hold tho the center of the stage with a silent afloat cast about to admire whether ho he will take kindly to another ih ha ihl l raiser within tits his own party ranks rema remains ins to be seen democratic leaders do not overlook tho the possibility that it if these two team together they might brente a schism within tho the party ranks sen ator long hns far outstripped any of the now new dealers in some of the apropo proposals which ho he has made and mr air bilbo appa apparently la Is determined to keep pace with him it if not surpass him there are several dem democratic 0 senators serin tors who might conceivably go along with thero them ns as they are not wholly satisfied with what they regard as tho the conservative radicalism of the administration two pieces of legislation enacted by the last congress with a view to aiding tile tho farmer fanner due for seem destined for scrap heap the e scrap heap they tire are tho the bankhead Rank head compulsory cotton control law and tho the lompre frahler farm mortgage niort Rago bill strangely enough it Is senator son it for bankhead of alabama author of the cotton law who leads beadi tho the revolt against that measure which limited cotton production to ton ten million bales with each state allocated its respective share 0 of this total it so hn happens that tho the total yield was only nine million ba bales I 1 es a million less than permitted by statute hut but peculiarly enough some of the southern states had weather and raised more than they were permitted to ralso under tinder the allocation made by the agricultural adjustment Ind administration mInIstration there ts Is a penalty of 30 on every excess bale raised in tiny any state and taken to market mr bankhead would have this tax waived setting up the argument that since only nine million bales in all are available it la Is senseless to keep any of it off the market in the face of III a crop shortage thor tage tho the leephe frahler bill in the first test caso case brought in the courts before federal district judge IV calvin chestnut in baltimore has met the fate which its opponent a predicted it would meet it hns has been declared unconstitutional the pur pose of this athla measure was to declare a moratorium on farm arm mortgages for a period of live five years it will be recalled that this was one of the mea measures suros which ani I 1 passed by tha senate te I 1 in n the hectic closing hours of the lust last session and it Is no secret that many democrats voted for it tn in tho the belief that mr roosevelt would veto it stud and that even if he be did sign it which ho he did aid tho the courts would declare it invalid this was merely another one of tho the many closes of passing the buck which are to be found in the an annals nals of the congress mr roosevelt declined to take the buck bothe BO the holders of farm mort vaart gages were left only recourse to ohp th courts ft 6 western Nevio paver union |
