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Show ;iinJl Topics Interpreted A Iffl; by William Rruckart -IJ-lijI ,lim.-M:iJor party strat tpresont rongressloiiiil-scn-? lUorlal campaign " . p Has resolves 1 1 se 1 f 0 't b Into a determined s 'i laS effort l).v the L'om-h L'om-h ., hoUl tlu' two-thirds nmjor- 'yive 1,1 llu' lumse of l'l'l'r(v ( ,' ami mi eo.inilly deter- by Htn'i'ulloan "IK" . .' to "break the "strangle of the Now IVal party. ,; w of tills majority Is of vrtam-e to the Democrats - sith a two-thirds vote they ;.' s')le I" tlie next congress 7 ,lje' g.,g rule which was :- :'j the Inst congress and .,:otl it was possible to pass -ation measures with a 1- of debate and effort. ... " jjht of the outcome In ,e elections and In the face 'e of Democratic votes In -"rles In a number of states 83 rather safely Repub-?" Repub-?" 'ore 1932. the G. O. P. lead-':! lead-':! 'apparently lias a hard task :: m the Inst congress the :: '.,.3 hail S12 members, or 22 ;jn a two-thirds majority, 1 Orally were nble to cora-; cora-; ' -,st of the five votes of the 'Labor membership as well ,lWs of several Republicans , v;nsln and from one of " ..-ifffstern states. Asstim- rirmer-Labor membership in it tense as great as that In tlie Republicans would -"register a net gain of not 3 u thirty seats In order to vtnocracy's "strangle hold." 5 -h such a gain the Repub-i, Repub-i, jonld nave to muster their a -s;tn on every vote In order at "KflS" ru'e- a . Democrats are certain to ! nbstantial gains In the sen-'3 sen-'3 : they are by no means over-i! over-i! ; a single senatorial contest, siic leaders in headquarters jve been mentally kicking 1 jes ever since the Maine 1 : that they did not put on a Q i drive against Senator ::i :;t Hale In that state. They "privately that they did not because they never had an plans of those who are viewing the Held to determine whether n sizeable size-able public sentiment can be marshaled mar-shaled behind the third party movement. move-ment. Many political strategists both In the National Capital and elsewhere believed, and gave expression ex-pression to their views at the time, that Senator La Follette made a major ma-jor political error when he came out openly for President Roosevelt In 19:12. This made certain that the Democrats would carry Wisconsin the state many regard as the birthplace of the Republican party and It was equally certain that the astute James A. Farley, ns chairman of the Democratic national nation-al committee, would lose no time In building up a formidable Democratic Democrat-ic organization through the power of patronage at his disposal as postmaster post-master general. The vote In the recent re-cent Democratic primary indicated that he had done a rather thorough Job, but whether the La Follette hold on the Wisconsin electorate can be broken remains to be seen. Whatever the Democratic majority major-ity may be In the next senate, the New Dealers are Would Outdo certain to have "KingUsh" two flies In tlie ointment, when heretofore they have had only one. Mississippi Is sending to the senate its former governor, Theodore G. Bilbo, to join Louisiana's Irrepressible Irrepress-ible Iluey P. (Kingfish) Long. Mr. Bilbo, who became a newspaper clipper In Washington under the New Deal, has promised his constituents constit-uents that If they would send him to Washington he would "raise more h 1 than lluey Long." He has set for himself a very sizeable job because be-cause admittedly Mr. Long has raised more h 1 since he has been In the senate than was raised by even those two theretofore Incomparable Incom-parable h 1 raisers Cole Blease of South Carolina, and Tom nefliu of Alabama. They constituted a real team from the South during their stay In the "world"s greatest deliberative delib-erative body," but unquestionably Long and Bilbo will put their record rec-ord to shame that Is if they team :ere was a possibility ot ae-:: ae-:: Mr. Hale because a Hale !' saate has been Maine tradl- :t generations. They detect-o! detect-o! :iw in their reasoning when s ') Me came through with only a sajority, and this fact has : them to redouble their ef- !j c her states, and partlcu-i;e partlcu-i;e Id )hio, where Simeon D. m former chairman of the Re-a Re-a a national committee, Is up i 3 -election; In Maryland. West i, Rhode Island, New Jersey, :rl, Indiana. Delaware, Con-n Con-n :t and Michigan. Nor are I ;m overlooking that citadel - -?i:hlicanisrn, Pennsylvania, :s( David A. Reed Is up for re-mi re-mi 1 Democrats now have sixty In the senate four short ".thirds majority and they it . afident that November will i -:j membership Increased by to i md of five, or one more ' ! hro-thlrds majority. And -aey get down to cases, Re-n Re-n leaders somewhat mourn-,ti. mourn-,ti. ulinit privately that Demo-t'ii Demo-t'ii fspeetatlons may be fulfilled. 't ;')third3 majority In the sen-the sen-the next two years Is Important from the Demo-i Demo-i point of view because of the :ri ' of Important treaties now B - or to be submitted to that y -'S ratlHcatlon. 'M secret In political circles ' Washington that the cam-' cam-' . ,, paign strategy of ' ' those at present " 'i Party In command of the G. O. P. does jft with the full approval of y 'publicans who are offering section, i have had several up together. Senator Long has demonstrated dem-onstrated during his brief stay In the senate that he likes to hold the center of the stage with a silent cast about to admire. Whether he will take kindly to another "h 1 raiser" within his own party ranks remains to be seen. Democratic leaders do not overlook over-look the possibility that If these two team together they might create a schism within the party ranks. Senator Sen-ator Long has far outstripped any of the New Dealers In some of the proposals which he has made, and Mr. Bilbo apparently Is determined to keep pace with him if not surpass sur-pass him. There are several Democratic Demo-cratic senators who might conceivably conceiv-ably go along with them, as they are not wholly satisfied with what they regard as the "conservative radicalism" of the administration. Two pieces of legislation enacted by the last congress with a view to aiding the farmer Dae for seem destined for Scrap Heap the scrap heap. They are the Bankhead compulsory cotton control law and the Lempke-Frazier farm mortgage bill. Strangely enough It Is Senator Bankhead of Alabama, author of the cotton law, who leads the revolt against that measure, which limited cotton production to ten million bales with each state allocated Its respective share of this total. It so happens that the total yield was only nine million bales, a million less than permitted by statute. stat-ute. But, peculiarly enough, some of the southern states had superb weather and raised more than they were permitted to raise under the allocation made by the Agricultural Adjustment administration. There ' tell me that their pros- ' 'r victory would be mate--r rahanced If the Republican 'iMnd stayed out of their w districts. These are men f ;;Wofore have been regarded V ;'renlr" wing of the party, j .-"lave the feeling which ap- i,'s booming more and 3J spread among the young- 's that there must be a re-) re-) ;n of the Republican party in.! '.Joiinger and more liberal ' ' P If the party Is to regain K In the American political . jHe reports trickle Into ,'J'r"i ahout a movement Hit lno'I,tIon on the western 1. the formation of a third ffi ,Preral conferences of pro- Naders already have been k '. fme of those who have , ,' tel1 me that the move-P. move-P. lnns steadil.v, although nln no PuWIoIty as yet. S '"Mclpatlng desire no fan-S fan-S , f"p? do not believe the time -Vl ;rh lle ""oiincement, and. 8t;" ''iir t,le movement should 4.'"'' Into the open until h fl ,Vember Sections-"L,of Sections-"L,of the Progressive party. iP . , n as organized by Rob- KFo,,ette' Jr- "! hls 1 . can be expected to ns!(lerable bearing on the Is a penalty of $30 on every excess bale raised In any state and taken to market. Mr. Bankhead would have this confiscatory tax waived, setting up the argument that since only nine million bales In all are available It is senseless to keep any of It off the market in the face of a crop shortage. The Lempke-Frazier bill, in tlie first test case brought In the courts before Federal District Judge W. Calvin Chestnut, in Baltimore, has met the fate which Its opponents predicted it would meet. It has been declared unconstitutional. The purpose pur-pose of this measure was to declare a moratorium on farm mortgages for a period of five years. It will be recalled that this was one of the measures which was passed by the senate In the hectic closing hours of the last session, and It Is no secret that many Democrats Demo-crats voted for it In the belief that Mr. Roosevelt would veto It and that even if he did sign It which he dirtthe courts would declare It invalid. This was merely another one of the many cases of passing the "buck" which are to be found In the annals of the congress. Mr. Roosevelt declined to take the "buck" so the holders of farm mortgages mort-gages were left only recourse to the courts. I , Western NoW-paDer Unloa |