Show 0 national topics interpreted by william brucker washington tile the smoke e of battla battie lias has cleared away sufficiently since the election election to permit of an analysis analyse s analysis and already there la Is a general conclusion discernible as to two things 1 the republican party must undergo a complete reorganization a complete elimination of the old line leaders and the assumption of power by virulent forward looking met men and women of the newer gon gen ernt erat long lons 2 president roosevelt Roosevel 4 accorded the greatest vote of confidence ever glien a chief executive Is confronted with the greatest responsibility lity ever laid on the lap ot of one individual in the history of this nation thus there can be no doubt according to astute judges that mr roosevelt and his bis administration are in real danger because he has too many blind followers it seems to be generally agreed among political leaders and ers that la is all political leaders excepting those who refuse to believe a change has come that the republican party went into the recent campaign and finished that campaign wl without phout any kind of program some critics are saying that henry P fletcher the republican national chairman to li to blame I 1 do not find that criticism supported generally but in politics some one always must be the goat and apparently mr fletcher V el Is to be made the goat by those republicans who have been unable or unwilling to take it mr fletcher and his workers coworkers co senator hastings hasting s of delaware and representative dolton bolton of ohio are known to have hare pulled back in their criticisms of the administration the consensus seems to be however that this alone was not sufficient to have resulted in the overwhelming defeat which the party suffered it was rather an entire lack of 0 nite proposals from the republican leadership and throughout the country according to well authenticated information tile the younger crowd of republicans was apathetic they had nothing to offer in argument in the place of the things filings the new deal was preaching in some quarters it Is emphatically insisted that the new dealers theories and all amounted to a light in the dismal darkness of the economic depression this scho school 01 of thought argues that it does docs not matter ebether success has crowned the presidents recovery efforts lie he at least lias has maintained a forward appearing movement and in the abt tence sence of anything constructive from kj the other side a people down trod 5 den and with resources exhausted look to him with a hope which they could not pin to any other flagstaff flag but as said above mr roose velt has his problems they are M more dangerous presidents president s than when he took problems office with more than a two thirds majority in each house of congress i the president it Is held generally general ly ff must guard himself against t too 00 many friends the two thirds majority always has been regarded as a fine asset for an administration in forcing L through legislate leg legislation islat on where it Is essary to apply a gag rule this Is particularly true in the house of representatives which has a tendency to become a maelstrom on too many occasions many new members imbued with the idea of a new deal mandate will swallow the presidents legislative apropo proposals without question history shows this to be a most dangerous condition for the chief executive ile he has no opposition lon to call attention to mistakes weal weaknesses messes or vu vulnerable iner spots in the programs which aleli be ae offers one official and a rather high caal at that suggested the ot other lay day that he was in favor of or gall izing an opposition bloc in the house and senate it was his con t fiction that it if there were critics among the democrats they would constitute something of a leadership for the republican minority and that by these two groups valuable criticism of administration policies would bould be available all through the last st session cession of 0 the congress numerous conservative democrats mainly from froin the south were working under cover to hold the brain trust Tro grams within bounds many of the senators Ecna tors went ment about their work quietly but none the less effectively nd 1 I think it Is conceded by most lle rOns in a position to know that these men kept tile new deal from too far to the left other ph phase as e 0 of f the roosevelt problem in deserves consideration the ultra radical campaign showed any nn y number dumber of threat oen men seeking election on the demo alc bratic tlc ticket to have ideas far be tile the new deal program 1 in act cl some boine of them are ultra radical observers here contend t that ht sir mr roosevelt Is faced with a genuine threat cat from these personages in other words it appears to b be 0 within the realm of possibility that he wll will have hare to swerve somei somewhat bat to the thi right in insure victory for the poll cles in ID which he be believes le isla tion always Is by compromise if I 1 the president does not desire to go gi so far to the radical side he may ma be forced to support certain more mon conservative propositions in order that when the radical group makes demands he can mako make concessions to them and accomplish the ends sought this conjecture of course Is pre dilated upon the frequently heard condition that the radical bloc will be larger in congress than hereto fore and that they will assert them selves the presidents ability to tn moot meet this condition obviously will oe be tested but there are many observers who say that the president Is the best tightrope tight rope walker tile the country country ever has seen looking into the future it seems perfectly sate safe to say that the realignment ot of parties has taken greater strides than most observers thought possible when mr roosevelt was proposing the new kew deal in the 1932 1032 campaign it was waa perfectly patent then and became more apparent as he took office as I 1 reported to you at that time that mr roosevelt was building a party of his own I 1 heard a washington political writer a man of forty years experience say the sees breakup break up other day that of solid south lt it was not dot impossible for a breakup of the solid south to occur within the next six years he envisioned withdrawal of the conservative serva tive south from any party part y that tied closely into the liberal 0 or r radical groups that dominate the middle west and the roc rocky mountain areas it presented a picture rather new in the political scene in that it seemed to sug suggest gest the possibility of an alignment of the east against the middle west and the tar far western sections of the country the thought was expressed with two factors in mind it was pointed out that the bulk of the territory east of the mississippi river Is based in manufacturing industries la in that territory are many large and medium sized cities their interests are different than those west of the mississippi the condition resolves the question into one of economics the second factor to be considered Is the fact that the so called solid south Is inherently conservative that links with the great manufacturing sections ol of the country if mr roosevelt has succeeded 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 democrats and their alignment with manufacturing interests in a conservative party part history shows that such developments as are pictured in the above prediction are very slow notwithstanding the rapid changes that have come since mr roosevelt became president it Is unreasonable to suppose that accomplishment of an entire political party revolution can be accomplished in time to affect the result of ti the e 1930 presidential election some students of politics maintain however that the development will have been sufficient lelent by 1930 to wield some influence from all of the discussion I 1 bear at me the result in 1930 1030 will be dependent upon whether there hasi has been complete recovery and whether federal money holds out that long there are few with whom I 1 have talked who disagree with the premise that withdrawal of federal aid for relief or otherwise can be accomplished without important political reactions this Is the of a man whose name many of you have seen engraved in stone on many post offices cices throughout the united states it Is the story of a man who grew up in government service and ambo la Is now retiring to the rest and recreation which 49 years of government 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 2915 as acting supervising architect and from which office he has directed the greatest public building program ever undertaken by any govern government meat mr wetmore Is seventy one years old and he says that he Is going to enjoy the rest of his life at play but he always hastens to explain that he has enjoyed nearly every day of 0 the work he be has been doing thus a carter carer officially ends a career about which few of his countrymen coun knew while his name appears on hundreds of corner stones he participated in the ceremonies ot of the laying of only one that was a at t bath N Y his birthplace and that Is the one corner stone stona ot of which he be Is proud 0 western newspaper union |