Show 0 i I 1 oil 1 9 0 4 4 q 1 11 1 1 I 1 N national t d n 6 I 1 topics lt interpreted 14 11 U by BV V IL IM lim l AM BRUCKART UZI NA ilba lag 6 D washington new deal political efforts have now reached an apparent nationwide democrats democrat scope in the stratin in party parly row egy tor for control of the democratic party machinery it is no longer a secret it if it ever were concealed that the white house board of strategy is determined to lick democratic representatives and senators who have failed to respond to new deal orders this has happened despite president Roosevel ts repeated declarations that he is keeping hands off of of all party primaries the only exceptions to the above information are in states where incumbent democrats are so solidly In trenched that there is no chance to defeat them tor for the latest of numerous new deal entries in primary races is in maryland david J lewis a representative bior for many years who is accounted a full fledged new dealer in all respects has entered the race for the senatorial nomination against sen millard tydings who has been off of the new deal reservation many times mr lewis is to be regarded as formidable opposition he announced his candidacy after a visit to the white house and there was none who failed to understand that he had the presidential blessings it had been known since the court reorganization fight that new deal leaders were looking for someone to do battle against senator tydings the lewis candidacy virtually completes the list there will be no new deal candidate against sen bennett dark clark in missouri the reason is that senator dark clark despite his frequent attacks on the new deal program can not be defeated for the democratic nomination much the same is true about senator lonergan of connecticut the new deal board of strategy has no love for the connecticut senator but he is rather firmly entrenched in his state so it seems the way to express the situation is that the new deal strategists do not hate him quite enough to run a candidate against him in colorado senator adams has opposition from an avowed new dealer senator adams has never been quite so outspoken as men like dark clark or burke of nebraska or wheeler of montana but he has been suspected of being none too friendly to the new deal as a whole the board of strategy therefore is taking no chances senator adams opponent is justice B C hilliard A few hundred miles to the westward a son of justice hilliard is seeking the democratic nomination for the senate in nevada he is after the scalp of sen pat mccarran who has jumped oft off of the new deal bandwagon when he disagreed with presidential ident ial programs so it has been decreed that he too must go the iowa battle is now over in that fight harry hopkins professional reliever of destitution sought to aid representative relieve sen guy gillette of the democratic nomination for the senate the hopkins outburst given to newspaper correspondents here before the iowa primary was if I 1 were a voter in iowa I 1 would support otho against gillette that raised plenty of hot winds in the senate and since it came on top of the pennsylvania primaries on belts endorsement of senator pepper in florida it gave a tip off as to how far the thing was going it was perhaps the iowa meddling by professor hopkins that caused president roosevelt to tell a press conference that he was taking no part at all in the state primaries prior to that time however he had quietly given his blessing to senator mcadoo over his several opponents in california senator barkley over happy chandler in kentucky and it is is understood he has shown a preference for senator bulkley of ohio who is opposed for the democratic nomination by former gov george white As is shown by the records things are not all ail milk and honey tot for the per not AF A all all 11 milk mi it centers ter who are anti and honey seeking mention was made of bulkley in ohio and barkley in kentucky sen elmer thomas of oklahoma the great advocate of cheap money and the man who forced congress to enact legislation allowing for printing of three billion dollars in new silver certificates has opposition that promises a bitter fight to the end the same is true of senator thomas of utah who is confronted with a campaign of a defensive character ile he must show why he is so strong for the new deal to win in that state from which also comes senator king senator king has been a violent opponent of the new deal then there is another per center in the far west sen james P pope has to fight oft off the attack of worth dark clark for the senatorial nomination mr dark clark now a member of the house of rep representatives reser ita tIves 1 Is said here to be making a battle of it for senator pope whose chief claim to fame seems to be that ho he fathered the agricultural act of 1938 and nobody knows yet how to make the law work clarks record is regarded by many colleagues in the house as proving him to be a democrat of the liberal type for he has supported the president on numerous occasions while voting against white house dictation when he felt that he should do so the new dealers have persuaded governor johnston of south carolina to run against sen cotton ed smith at least it is the assumption that the governor was persuaded to enter the race there is a fight on in another southern state also sen walter F george has opposition for the democratic nomination lawrence camp P united states attorney at atla atlanta ta and a roosevelt appointee has as filed ed for the nomination against senator george the understanding in washington is that the new dealers settled on camp when they found that governor rivers of georgia could not enter the fight because he was vulnerable on several points senator george one of the ablest constitutional lawyers in the senate and long highly regarded in that body apparently has a hard fight because of the likelihood of a divided vote there are several other candidates in the field and it has been suggested that the vote may be so divided as to bring about defeat of senator george months ago of course sen fred van nuys was marked for liquidation in indiana because of his activity against the presidents court bill the state machine in indiana is completely under the domination of former gov paul mcnutt who aspires to the white house himself in 1940 and mcnutt is sticking with the new dealers but to turn to another phase of the fight the question of use of relief funds in politics has become hotter than a pan of boiling grease judge brady stewart manager for chandler in kentucky lately wrote a letter of protest to president roosevelt charging among other things that relief was being handed out only to persons approved by the barkley faction of the party from pennsylvania there have been many squeals about political use of relief funds by senator guffey and in neither case has there been proof that the charges are not true undoubtedly if the workers are being used politically in some places they are being used in many places it is a condition that must be expected if the country is going to turn relief of destitution over to politicians they win will fill their gullet first 0 0 0 the death of an individual whom one does not know however important the individual passing may be creates of warren onty only passing interest perhaps that is why so little attention was paid to the death a few weeks ago of dr george F warren professor warren was nationally known as a cornell authority on the economics economics of agriculture he was known too for his famed experiment in causing hens to lay more eggs by keeping them in electrically lighted hen houses at night but professor warren will go down in history for a much more important reason than either of these it was he who convinced president roosevelt that prices could be controlled by the federal government by means of changing the gold content of the dollar our currency structure had remained much the same for 50 years until professor warren became an advisor a consultant for the new deal there had been many attempts much fanfare many of trumpets about tight money or wall street con control of of money or various other ideas such as the free silver of bryan days and the equally silly scheme of senator thomas of oklahoma who wanted to print three billion dollars in new paper money to bring the country out of the depression the native intelligence and solidarity of of the me country however brought us safely through those periods until professor warren came on the scene one need not review how the thomas scheme for printing money was forced through congress nor how the warren plan tor for control of prices was propagandized until members of the senate and the house knowing nothing about economic subjects swallowed the proposal the gold content of the dollar was lowered the doll dollar ar was devalued and the government kept the profit amounting to more than two billion dollars the important thing to remember is that a great government made such a costly experiment on its citizens and failed for it must be said that the warren scheme for raising prices has tailed failed 0 western newspaper union |