Show V 0 16 I 1 I 1 by williim bruckart najt D C washington With the national cofi convention of the republicans only a week A away new deal I 1 seek 4 to h strate strategists gisis are disrupt G 0 P be riding bending everi arery effort toward a program designed to make a kno knockdown knock ck down and drag out fight of that session it Is not disclosing any secret to say that the kaw dealers are using this diibon weapon up to the hilt because disruption of the republican party would make victory easy for fati candidate roosevelt predictions in politics always are perilous governor alt alf sf M landon of kansas acorn in the lend lead at this time for the republican nomination but bk there are many s gh out the country who con contend ten d that the kansas coolidge cannot win and that various other aspirants aspli anta for the nomination men hose hats bats are in the ring alj likewise muff druif bo be counted out this Is to say that a feeling Is ei owing growing that a dark dai k bo be nominated arom iro inthe the sirl washington agton view lew point may be than elsewhere in the country astute political ob senera are that there must be a swift change in sentiment to keep the nomination away from governor landon ye it must be said that P politics is just such things and so it Is entirely liely possible that the republican nominee may be someone other than the present alpar ent lender in the race those who feel that governor landon albe win be the nominee claim li ae elias has I 1 played lay ed his I 1 s cards welt well but others others insist los ins S bahe tha the kansas governor made a bad mistake la in allowing his n nine name to be linked with the hearst faction la in calif oraa indeed 1 have heard comment that this fact alil alone 0 will defeat governor Lando Lan dori fi at t has been interesting to observe the maneuvers of the new deal strategists kz u ailt r alth re te f ferene arence to the new I 1 deal landon boom some strategy egy observers contend that the efforts being put forth from new deal quarters in an attempt to discredit governor landan were being engineered because the yew new deal fears governor landon asa as a roosevelt OW ehlt opponent more than it fears some of tle the other e candidates andl dates for nomination frank it kent the washington comman commentator tata forthe for the democratic baltimore sun asserted that the ivea against Lan landoas dons nomination constituted the best evidence dence of the 6 increasing creasing probability of the kansas governors nomination mr kent ent did not say that which some other writers feel fee namely that the landon candidacy would mean a bitter campaign on the part of the roosevelt forces to reelect re elect the president nevertheless it has been interesting to note the various ways ways in which scolie spokesmen s men and democratic publicity berf men have been trying to show the country that governor landon Is not the man who should be nominated I 1 hae no quarrel with these efforts it js as the game of politics virtually anything goes it la Is to be assumed that present republican maneuvers will be concentrated in a few weeks on sir mr roosevelt Koos erelt personally tilly 43 as the democratic candidate rn in fact one hears expressions around washington that for the first time in mr political career lie fie Is going to bo directly under fire just in connection one can recall that through most of the new deal administration criticism of new deal policies and plans almost without 1 exception cep tion ans directed ot it roosevelt appointees poin tees the president himself has been exceptionally free from the type of personal attack that frequently characterizes acte political opposition ite he has had absolutely none of the kind of cratl criticism c asni that occurred in the hoover administration and was directed at herbert boover personally so as we look at the campaign picture just ahead of the republican convention and only it a month in advance of the meeting of the democrats at philadelphia where president roosevelt will be without opposition in his own party I 1 think it can be said without fear of contradiction that both candidates this year are gol going ng to be smeared smeary personally just as fast and as long fig as the ammunition holds out while we are talking about the forthcoming quadrennial conventions the two keynote speak the ers naturally enter keynoters Keyn oters into iny y discussion r senator alben W 13 arkley of kentucky pen tucky will do the key noting for or the democrats at philadelphia ona ana senator frederick irdi lerick of oregon will deliver the hie main address to the cleveland convent knof odthe chece 0 publicans public ans senator send tor barkley wad badith Ith keynoter at the chicago when mr I 1 tjui was by the democrats fourbears four years ago and although it asa as a subject not freely discussed it is said in high places that sir roosevelt who wanted ted the same man mail to 16 do the job again believing en tucklan to be an omen of good luck thu ie selection of senator steh er was oab ile 0 of t os can be said to bea surara mhd d ye yet i not a surprise ise it 0 doubt a good man for ho 0 job yet et to la some quarters there is It conviction tant senator was pick picked edby by the so called old guard of eastern republicans some observers still hold the billet belief that the selection of senator was not wholly pleasing to the landon forces but be that as it may there has been no pa particular r nicular III feeling created by it if it represents a piece of strategy by the etsfern easiE ern republicans who were dealing with their problem by remote control they apparently have hae played into the hands of the more moie liberal wing of republicans public ans itis it Is being predicted rather freely that the oregon senators keynote speech win will lean strongly to the liberal side but that it will stress sound eco economics the best advance information obtainable on senator Bork leys plans Is that lie hel will ivill devote the bulk of ills his time on ori the convention platform to a review of RO nooses elt accomplishments in the belief that such a review will take his presentation out of the class of a defense speech those with whom I 1 have talked concerning the barkley speech believe he has adopted almart a smart political course that he feels there Is no need to defend anything that has been done and that the record itself Is the thing upon which the democratic party pai ty can make a plea tor for re reelection election 0 of 1 mf it roosevelt oo sevelt having senator barkley in action in the senate for a number of years I 1 believe I 1 am justified in s saying a yang that hal Is a square shooter and a fighter in this respect lie he and senator seam r s elwer the republican keyn keynoter ot r are much the same type ot of man and therefore if either convention gets off on a wrong foot the fault will lie ile with the convention managers rather than with the proposals offered by the men who are supposed to lay jay before the delegates a rough outline of their respective tive bartys campaign policies concerning the record of the key loters to in the senate each stands foursquare senator barkley has consistently battled in behalf of the president and new deal policies throughout mr air Roosevel ts administration senator has been just as consistent id 16 his opposition certainly senator has been much more outspoken against new deal policies than most of ills his republican colleagues and much diore more so than senator Alc mcnary Nary for many months washington has big heard the plaint of business leaders who wanted to fight ali ht fear socialistic schemes crack down and unsound eco A policies given birth by newdell new ideal Deal brain tr usters but were afraid to do so because of ire retaliation tal lation almost constantly information ling has filtered into washington to tho the effect that if a corporation undertook to oppose spose new deal plans vigorously there was vas danger that some agency of the government would crack down on them much of this information has been taken j by b y washington observers with a salt but a different aspect ling hns been placed on the situation lately I 1 it was in the senate that n new deal democrat senator alomi T boneff washington broke loose with statements that seemed to substantiate the fear voiced so frequently by business senator done bone charged thai there TO a veritable find and budding ned within the government the as most persons red realize llie js Is th the secret spy system af of the erid I 1 think no one in this cou country ha doaa al complete knowledge of its at vicious character so senator BoU likened the alie espionage terfa in 1 0 to the he inq making tomy to my mind one of the themos fc bertous charges yet leveled et tOT course senator bone was attacking this espionage system oystein of il afe ahng that it might fie be used to co 0 members of congress and even x or administrative officers of the government who we were re opposed to plans propagated by presidential ad ir r alls thought obviously concerned tb q lotical phases of such a system but the fact that he be brought the matter to to public attention serves in a me measure certainly to substantiate sofie some of the claims that business interests have bave ninde made I 1 am unable however to reconcile senator dones bones position respecting the which flitch he charged wai wag in opera tion within the government and tits his utter titter silence when the th obnoxious senate lobb lobby y committee headed by senator black democrat t of alabama engaged in the wholesale selz seizure ifie of private telegrams it will be recalled that I 1 reported in these columns how senator black and agents of the federal communications commission went into the flies of the western union telegraph ceol company i and carried oft off literally thousands sa of bf private telegrams I 1 was convinced vinced then and I 1 repent repeat it now that the black seizure was nothing more than an nn attempt to dig up dirt on anybody against whom they could find discrediting information yet tet senator bone by hij silence condoned that course only to denounce later the te sd so called inspectors used by secretary ackes of the department of the thoa interior and reputedly by several other agen agencies cles of the government I 1 can only hope that if senator dones bones charges betrue aredrue til that atthe the usual condition lion will result iau ely that tw will lie le other spies to spy on th these 50 BPI spies es f 0 ar 1 l av T Nw U aalon |