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Show Topics Interpreted by Williamjgckart igfe ton. 'Hw smoke of bat-,.!,-:irod away sutllolently since the election ':'i)rt to permit of an j-j analysis and already al-ready there Is a collision discernible as to , Republican party must j oiMin'lote reorganization, ( rumination of the old J si and the assumption of ! virulent forward looking ' uomou of the newer geu- ihlont Roosevelt, accord-,1 accord-,1 jjtest vote of confidence 4 j a Chief Executive, Is yj'.wlth the greatest respou-'J respou-'J ;r laid on the lap of one j in the history of tills na- ere can be no doubt, ac-' ac-' j astute Judges, that Mr. j ami his administration U:l dimger because he has I blind followers. It seems j erally agreed among po- :ers and observers that , Meal leaders excepting fc, refuse to believe a chnnge that the Republican into the recent campaign 1 that campaign without i ( program. Some critics that Henry P. Fletcher, Ictm national chairman, : I do not find that crit- jrted generally. But In ae one always must be :sd apparently Mr. Flet-- Flet-- be made the goat by :l)licans who have been -swilling "to take it." her and his co-workers, iy stings of Delaware, and jve Bolton of Ohio, are -.ave pulled back In their fthe administration. The eai seems to be, however, or 'one was not sufficient to m ed In the overwhelming til :h the party suffered. It :, an entire lack of defl-iigl defl-iigl als from the Republican nei and throughout the coun-ligl coun-ligl .Dg to well authenticated i, the younger crowd of a was apathetic They re, to offer In argument in of the things the New r. reaching. carters it is emphatlcal- I that the New Dealers, "4' all, amounted to a light ll" :al darkness of the eco-esslon. eco-esslon. This school of Iie' T-es that it does not mat-e'1' mat-e'1' it success has crowned -at's recovery efforts. He ei s maintained a forward- wement and in the ab-unl ab-unl '"thing constructive from ;, a people down-trod-rou ith resources exhausted aith a hope which they a" to any other flagstaff. ... ion j aid above, Mr. Roose-milj Roose-milj .is problems. They are no t) 01 re dangerous by 1 than when he took ns office. With more than a two-thirds ' ?ach house of congress, i a -t it is held generally, Jans : himself against too InvlJ yhod Tiirds majority always nat .arded as a fine asset e pf 'nistration in forcing Nation where it is nec-L nec-L 11 :ly a gag rule. This Is .epf"! true in the house of te Id !3 which has a tend-J)' tend-J)' h ae a maelstrom on too 10s. Many new mem-ie mem-ie i with the idea of a ns In mandate, will swallow ieiir. :'s legislative proposals rinW stion. History shows its m : moat dangerous condl-;mll,c condl-;mll,c ' Chief Executive. He 'a''e ;ition to call attention 5s' I wMknesses, or vulner-tne vulner-tne , 5 the programs which st. 1 13 "g and a rather high & . '-ti suggested the other we'53 ln favor of "or" e . 'PPosItlon bloc in the Moc 8te- Tt wa3 his con-"7 con-"7 there were critics efti ernocrats- they would r r (( :e,nns of a leadership .'b,lcan minority and f f k ,t,v Sroups, valuable ' "J '""nistration policies :s 0'( ;ahIe. All through the l,y the congress numer-untH numer-untH ,e "roocrats, mainly tW 'K were working un-rs un-rs ,rv ,h!(l the brain trust oi 1,11 bonds. Many of ": t about their work ,,e the less effectively 's conceded by most m-f "sltlon to know, that ,!rh 'the New Deal from a'y 1 "ie ,eft- 4 He of the Roosevelt WM i cnnslderation- Tne lOjjcaJ caniPaign showed """ any number of men seeking elec- a Uon on tne Dcm" 4 'Have Ideas far be- B h 6a' PTSram- In & I . em are ultra-radical. ' ,! contend that Mr. - ,Jce'l with a genuine ICse personages. In 11 rds. It appears to be within bo realm of possibility (l;lt ho will liavo to swerve smewh;lt to the il.U.t In Insure victory Tor the policies poli-cies ln whirl, he believes. I.e-lsla Hon always Is by compromise. It tbe President does not desire to go so tar to the radical side ho may be forced to support certain more conservative propositions In order that when the radical group makes demands, he can make concessions to them and accomplish the ends sought. This conjecture, of course, Is predicated pre-dicated upon the frequently heard condition that the radical bloc will be larger in congress than heretofore hereto-fore and that they will assert themselves. them-selves. The President's ability to meet this condition obviously will be tested, but there are many observers ob-servers who say that the President Is the best tight-rope walker the country ever has seen. Looking into the future, It seems perfectly safe to say that the realignment re-alignment of parties has taken greater strides than most observers thought possible when Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt was proposing the New Deal ln the 1032 cnmpalgn. It was perfectly perfect-ly patent then and became more apparent ap-parent as he took otlice, as I reported re-ported to you at that time, that Mr. Roosevelt was building a party of his own. ... I heard a Washington political writer, a man of forty years' expo-c expo-c ... Hence, say the bees break-Up other day that of 'Solid South' !t wns not impossible im-possible for a breakup of the "solid South" to occur oc-cur within the next six years. He envisioned withdrawal of the conservative con-servative South from any party that tied closely into the liberal or radical rad-ical groups that dominate the Middle Mid-dle West and the Rocky Mountain areas. It presented a picture rather new In the political scene in that it seemed to suggest the possibility of an alignment of the East against the Middle West and the far western sections of the country. The thought was expressed with two factors in mind. It was pointed point-ed out that the bulk of the territory terri-tory east of the Mississippi river is based in manufacturing Industries. In that territory are many large and medium sized cities. Their interests inter-ests are different than those west of the Mississippi. The condition resolves the question into one of economics. The second factor to be considered consid-ered is the fact that the so-called solid South Is inherently conservative. conserva-tive. That links with the great manufacturing sections of the country. coun-try. If Mr. Roosevelt has succeeded succeed-ed or does succeed In creating his own party, under whatever name it may eventually be known, this Washington observer told me he foresaw gradual defection of southern south-ern Democrats and their alignment with manufacturing interests in a conservative party. History shows that such developments develop-ments as are pictured in the above prediction are very slow. Notwithstanding Not-withstanding the rapid changes that have come since Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt became President it is unreasonable unrea-sonable to suppose that accomplishment accomplish-ment of an entire political party revolution can be accomplished in time to affect the result of the 1030 Presidential election. Some students stu-dents of politics maintain, however, that the development will have been sufficient by 193G to wield some influence. From all of the discussion 1 hear at this time the result in 19IS0 will be dependent upon whether there has been complete recovery and whether federal money holds out that long. There are few with whom I have talked who disagree with the premise that withdrawal of federal aid, for relief or otherwise, other-wise, can be accomplished without Important political reactions. This is the story of a man whose name many of you have seen engraved en-graved in stone ou many post offices of-fices throughout the United States. It Is the. story of a man who grew up in government service and who is now retiring to the rest and recreation rec-reation which 49 years of government govern-ment service certainly entitles him. At the end of this month, James A, Wetmore will close his desk at the treasury where he has served since 1915 as acting supervising architect and from which office he has directed the greatest public building program ever undertaken by any government. Mr. Wetmore Is seventy-one years o'.d and he says that he Is going to enjoy the rest of his life at play but he always al-ways hastens to explain that he has enjoyed nearly every day of the work he has been doing. Thus a career officially ends, o career about which few of his countrymen coun-trymen knew. While his name appears ap-pears on hundreds of corner stones, he participated In the ceremonies of the laying of only one. That was at Bath, N. t., bis birthplace. And that is the one corner stone of which he Is proud. , Western Newspaper Uclon. |