Show roosevelt Is marching Mar ebing on plans campaign of social pioneering tl takes wallop at newspaper critics by EARL GODWIN ASHINGTON it if there Is any W washington sentiment about such a thing ng as a two thirds rule in a democratic ac batic convention I 1 should think that roosevelt would feel eel like kissing hissing it goodby good by when it Is changed to a rule whereby a plain ordinary majority of delegates can nominate tile the choice for president what will probably happen in rhua philadelphia delp hift when the democratic national convention adopts its rules rul es for a hundred years since andrew jacksons day the democrats have required two thirds of oc the delegates for nominating purposes the republican conventions require merely a majority one more than half and the demo cratic requirement of two thirds has bag caused some frightful rows it caused i a row in 1920 when cox cos mcadoo and la IA mitchell Ml palmer tangled up and cox won iwon palmer always said that cox I 1 I 1 bought the band and swayed therele the dele gates with certain tunes that apparently were effective then the long drawn IMa madison illson square squabble between and al smith resulted in nominate gsg ling james davis who was a walkover ifor coolidge these fights left scars the leaders want to smooth over party matters abut I 1 wonder it if roosevelt concurs in labe the idea that he be Is in the white house itogay because of the two thirds rule at baltimore in 1912 that was the year william jennings bryan dominated ohp convention from his bis seat as a delegate ill the nebraska convention demand ling a progressive in the place ot of a ten con like underwood or narmon harmon that was the year bryan excoriated tammany the year that champ clark who was flirting with all elements had the ithe lead and actually had a majority on the tenth ballot under a majority rule lie he would have been nominated bryan let the country know what he was doing and the convention was deluged with approving telegrams wilson was nominated I 1 on n the forty sixth ballot and the trend of history changed progressivism stepped into government again and a young new york state senator who had been working to build up the progressive end of 0 athe the party was brought to washington and made assistant secretary of the navy ills his name was franklin roosevelt and it was that touch of national administration at the time of the world war which set roosevelt on his way had champ clark been nominated I 1 would be have been elected and would anyone have heard of 0 franklin roosevelt Koo sevelt out of his own dutchess county new york would he have bate become governor of new york at any rate roosevelt marches on inis his platform for the campal campaign n Is ling up it will be written by a committee beaded by senator wagner of new york it will be a document of 0 social pioneering and wa will 11 have the tame fame place in events as that occupied liy Y theodore progressivism progress elsm tind woodrow wilsons Wll Wil sons great reforms I 1 take it that the 1930 1936 roosevelt platform will have a place for a great na lion wide house building program which will provide cheap and good homes for low income people and also take up a great slack in the unemployment field it will provide for better labor conditions it will promise the prevention of child labor and the spread of employment through the reduction of hours unless industry wakes up and spreads the jobs it promises continued progress in social old age pensions aid to the underprivileged etc DARK HORSE they keep referring to senator van denber of michigan as the republican dark horse and it if they keep on with it turn that dark horse into a sure thing vand enberg has been the dark horse so long it would not be surprising if the delegates went to tile the 0 0 P conen consention tion in cleveland pledged tor for for president lils ilis name for vice president and Varde for dark horse this dark horse strength came to a peak just about the time that pulled the bone headed play of demanding publicity on all big AAA checks of or more supposed to show the vast benefits from tile the federal government to tremendous concerns gr browning owning wheat cotton and other commodities it developed that there were many farm operations by corporations but that the bulk of farmers are on ordinary sized american farms it would have been impossible to administer the triple A without including all farm operations the request tor for triple A publicity turned out to be a boom boomerang crang for his party a the se senate nate coupled with that request a demand on the tariff commission for tariff information to show the benefits a protective tariff lias has handed to industry this adminis contends that triple A was an offset against tile the high prices farmers have had to pay on account of protected industry voted agal against ast AAA under which millions of little payments were made to average fa tanners but he voted tor for the jones costigan sugar control act under which only large pay ments meets are made to large sugar corporations po rations it seems to me that no republican should stir up the matter of ills his bartys record in the sugar industry over the years there la Is a heavy trail of corporation dollars in that direction and a boug gouging ing of tile american housewife that would not make good reading in campaign years the smoot hawley tariff tor for instance bo boosted ostel the price of sugar at retail by two cents a pound and lifted a hundred million dollars a year from amerlean american housekeeping budgets into corporation treasuries all that ahat AAA did was to hanl hand to the farmer some of the protection that had bad been accorded to ills his industrial guilu brothers in the cities this Is the first year that senator has championed this type of publicity ne ire was a mighty opponent of it senator norris resolution in 1932 calling tor for light on the tremendous loans made by the to banks railroads and other corporations they were large loans running as high as ire had a good argument at tile the time to too there was no campaign pending then and it seems inconsistent for senator to press for publicity on these farm checks at a time when there Is no doubt about his political motives SLAPS CRITICS metropolitan newspaper columnists lambasting lam basting the new nev deal have almost come to personal grips with president roosevelt who finally found a chance to bawl them out they have been putting pebbles la in his bed now for three years and when he landed on them good and hard some ot of them proved that they could hand out the pepper but take it roosevelt la Is a bit thin skinned about newspaper criticism I 1 wish he were not but lie he Is and all there Is if to it of course he be has been more completely misrepresented than any president with the possible exception of lincoln and there Is a quality of superior personal hatred in some of these prisoners poison polso ners ers general that gets under his skin other presidents have been sensitive to press attacks none more so than president hoover president harding hated to have the newspapers comment adversely on his style ot of writing or speaking coolidge seem to mind it if its against you dont read it was his advice wilson took criticism of his official life calmly but became enraged at it some of the personal quips shot at him there are about a halt half dozen columnists and washington correspondents who act like gad flies files toward roosevelt and everyone of them Is now in that well fed section of humanity which does not have to scratch for a living they are independent writers men of experience who say what they think but they think on a different plane from roosevelt their truth Is different in aspect from his truth it Is not entirely a matter of differing mentalities rather a difference in spiritual concept and it has the effect of giving the journalist the ability to appreciate the price tag but not the quality of the goods all these gad flies started out carrying spears in some crusade all ot of them were once progressives progress ives most of them were democrats or on democratic papers at a time when the party was at a crusading minority and filled with lery flery zeal days which produced woodrow wilson they were such active and good newspaper men that sooner or later they went over to the big newspapers close to big business today their style and vigor remains but their spirit has the gout I 1 have in mind two or three of these men who who came here about the time wll son was wag inaugurated wilson allson with his ideas for the mass of humanity with ills his regulatory ideas for corporations ills his humane feeling for labor and his conviction that the money trust needed curbin curbing was looked upon as dangerous radical aud and crazy by the same set of folks who right now would throw roosevelt to the lions for his new deal attitude these young men wrote brilliantly about wilson so brilliantly that they eventually moved over into that glittering company of conservatives serva tives who vilio pay well and entertain smartly smothered with smugness these men no longer crusade they merely croon ONE COMMON PROBLEM the chamber of commerce of the untied united states when it convened here did not show its teeth with the same growling menace at the white ilou house s e as usual there was a near conciliatory attitude the administration administrate on through uncle dan roper secretary of commerce gave them the su suggestion gg estion that they get together with the e government eril ment and work out the unemployment problem there is but one common problem for government and business unemployment its no longer a sad problem its a dangerous one let business keep on malling making profits and paying dividends with one fifth of the people in ill ing on relief and we will see one of those radical movements in this country which will settle the problem of by taking business over hut but there were some odd ideas proposed pos ed at the big business meeting one well uell known manufacturer proposed that if congress would loosen up the governments ern ments watchfulness over t the he stock ma macket ciket then business would relinquish its fears cars and employ ever so many more people lie he was criticizing the s securities c act which takes the crook crookedness ed out of stock promotion well we did no have the securities act under mr r hoover but we did have the empire and its ruined stock stockholders helders and since that time it might be well to note that unemployment has been reduced by about 6 0 western newspaper union |