Show IL N and B N HEA HN EE N AR around 1 tie 27 61 NATIONAL CAPITAL I 1 by y carter fl field i eld FAMOUS washington correspondent washington comments by admin stratton leaders including include ng lice 1 ice chair man crowe of the democratic na onal that president roosevelt oo sevelt would be re elected reelected by the votes of the NN west est and south thus virtually concede ng the northeast as enemy country have driven political wiseacres to the electoral vote table WI at they have found Is highly siant firant in a nutshell if the democratic campaign for roosevelt Koo sevelt should be waged on that basis next year new sorts york would again be the pivotal state as it used to be in calculations at the turn of the century for new tort york has not been the decisive state since the cleveland days in fact ln in the only close election held since 1 cleveland that of wilson jeisus hughes in 1910 new tort york was on the losing josing side she cast her electoral vote for hughes by the fairly tight majority of talk of re electing reelecting roosevelt with the west and south has brought back interest in that very close election when everyone waited for word from california to see who had been elect ed an inspection of that vote how lever brings out the highly interesting fact that the real ley key state in that election was ohio the buc buckeye eye state was the only one so to speak to go out of line ohio voted against the trend in surrounding states for penn syl sylvania vanta michigan indiana and west virginia all went for hughes had ohio gone for hughes no one would have waited three days to set sel how california went hughes would have been elected the point of which now Is that the entire south and west are not enough unless the candidate carrying them can also carry one of the big states at least east of the mississippi and north of the ohio new york with all th the e west and all the south would b be e enough enoh so would ohio or iliin illinois ol 01 s or a c combination of indiana and W WIs s coasin now vital state all this too it must be remembered Is on the ass assumption e emption that the candidate carrying the south and west carries california that state Is now vital vita I 1 far more important with its heavily increased electoral vote than it was in 1916 before election day of that year rumblings from california are that the golden gate cate state today Is n ni more friendly to the new deal than Is rhode island whose vote precipitated all this talk washington attorneys who attended the bar association asso meeting in los angeles most of whom also visited san francisco and some of whom honi visited san diego bring back these reports they say california has lias been so frightened by radicals that it has swung all the way con serva lve tive add to this possibility the fact that ohio never was a strong roosevelt state that even in 1932 its majority him was only about and since then it has had many squabbles that both its senators voted against the AA amendments and it becomes clearer why new yorks york s 47 electoral votes are irre apt to be absolutely essen bial to roosevelt nest next year which again brings up the question of tammany so far the tiger has not put a stone in the presidents president s path it rolled up a tremendous majority for him in 1932 its delegation in the house has voted almost solidly for everything he wanted in many ob instances against the local sel fish interests of the new york tax payers whereas tammany has got ten very little parleys s backing of mckee for mayor of new york result ed in the election of la guardia which deprived the wigwam of local plunder and it has fared very badly on federal patronage now no one accused the tammany chieftains of being stupid about this sort of thing and there will be no forced municipal election in novem avem ber 1936 as there was vi As in 1932 fol lowing the resignation of mayor walk er so do not be surprised if sudden ly there should be manifested a much more kindly spirit toward tammany at the white house churches and charities sudden realization of what the roose loosevelt elt tax ideals would do to their sources of incomes Income snot not to mention en dow ments has been driven home to prominent churchmen as well as those interested in hospitals and othel char aties up to about a month a ago go the atti attl tude toward the new deal of most persons whose chief interest was in churches educational and charitable enterprises had been rather benedo lent they were glad especially those interested primarily in church and ca c allty to see the federal govern ment take so much of their burdens from them this was especially true trul because thie tle new deal program bean at a time when hen for several years con had shrunk and expends buies skyrocketed both due to the de pres slon but suddenly their interest was forced on the whole subject of where the nev deal policies would lead with respect to contributions and be q lest if by the rich by president I 1 stoos el s firn firm stand against ex emption of corporation contributions to charities from corporation income taxes churches have long been beneal claries clarles from the wills of the rich so han hae e universities hospitals and charl chart atles and while some of the shrewd er leaders in such circles had been somewhat alarmed by the heavy tm fm posts on b g fortunes proposed in the roosevelt tax message of june they had not taken any public stand in fact if they bothered to write to their senators and representatives during the last days of june or early in july it escaped general noticed then the president made his position clear on corporation gifts to charities which brought the people interested up stand ng and resulted in an immell ate barage of protests be ng received on capitol hill started them thinking this got them to thin ng about the whole tax program and its poss ble effect not only on the things in which they were interested but in many cases on their jobs church leaders began to realize that if the heavier income taxes on big in comes and heavy imposts on ingerl proposed by the president were imposed there might be a serious fall ing off in their donations and bequests as the first place the rich would start to cut would be on their charities when it came to readjusting their ex benses to conform to the new taxes very prominent churchmen of four of the largest denominations in this country have already moved into ac tion writing their senators and mem bers hers of the house at length ab about out w what hal the new taxes would do to the their ir churches in many instances these let were the second to be received by the same samp legislators from the same writers within a month first came cam e the protests about the president presidents s desire to elim nate the ex eruption emption for corporation gifts to charities then within three or four weeks came the second letters pro testing about the higher taxes on the big incomes and inheritances one very important figure in church circles in this country wrote his sena tor that he believed the whole system of financing his church and for that matter all other churches in this coun try would have to be changed it if the policy of sharing the wealth is car ried out incidentally a few of these protest letters also strike at the idea of the sliding scale corporation taxes point ing out that the same curtailment ef of gifts to church and charities would follow reduction of corporate dividends as would follow higher income and in herl tance taxes indications are that if the tax bill fight Is long drawn out in the senate this church and charities influence may become one of the potent elements in the final votes on amendments cut relief costs real pressure to cut the relief costs of federal government has been under way since ince ma maj and effects are begin ning to show this Is not being ac complis hed as some seem to think by any the federal men are mak ing on the contrary it Is being ac complis hed exclusively so far by state and local agencies agen cles but it Is being done because of fed eral pressure very few people realize what a czar the four b illon dollar re ilef bill made of harry hopkins al ways allowing for the fact that dent roosevelt can tell him what to do but he has the power to say to any state cut your relief rolls by so many by the first of the month or next month you get no federal money whatever when congress was passing the relief bill giving the pres dent four billion dollars to prevent suffering and spend our way out of the de pres slon the senators and represent atiles were much concerned about how part of the money should be ap portioned as beti between een the states they laid down the old exacting formula arrived at in days of good roads aid appropriations they applied this not only to such money as should be spent for roads but also to the money to be spent for el mina ting grade cross ings it simply did not occur to them that it might be a pious idea to decide how the relief money should be distributed the idea was it if people were hungry they would be fed that Is still ti tie C idea of course but the national legis gators never thought of the possibilities of harry hopkins saying to their state governments go that if they did not proceed according to his ideas he would cut off their federal aid all this really goes back to dent roosevelt Roosevel ts s ideas in january when he was vas explaining his 1938 1936 bud get for year be beginning inning july 1 1935 and talking abat about the four billion dol lar appropriation he was then asking at that time the idea of the white house was that everybody who could work would be given work and every body who could not would be thrown back on the states and local communities for support in short that the federal government would be taken out of the relief business as soon as the works relief projects got under way copyright service gervies |