Evening Star Newspaper, October 18, 1935, Page 13

VT SEES NEED OF LANDON TYPE Publisher Says Kansan Is Liberal and “Forward.” Record Stressed. William Allen White has just sailed for the Orient for an absence of four months. Before leaving, he wrote the following article as his going-away message on the state of the Union and the relation thereto ofg Gov. Landon of Kansas. Mr. White, distinguished editor of the Emporia, Kans., Gazette and a life- long Republican, writcs, of course, jrom the Republican point of view. BY WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE. EMPORIA, Kans. (N.AN.A) —The Political issues of 1936 are vaguely d cefnible on the horizon. Tt is obvious that the Democratic party. now that Huey Long is dead, will range to the lertward. Also, if the Democratic record can guide us, we are safe in prophesy- ing that the Democrats will be more and more partisan in their adminis- tration of the vast machinery of re- construction and relief. The spending to meet those prou- lems during the last three years has been far beyond the need we faced Its prodigality has somewhat been the direct result of partisan administra- tion. This partisan prodigality, to all intents and purposes, has become and will solidify into an orderly system of vast national tax-eating Fascist cor- ruption wherein money will take the place of storm troops and party loy- alty will bludgeon the American peo- ple into a regime which is abhorrent ic their ideals. What will the Republican party present to the American people as the alternative of this Democratic united front of coerced corruption? Shall we 8s Republicans be content merely to chant: “No, no, a thousand times no!” Mere indictment, unsupported by a positive program of definite construc- tive plans for relief of the poor and restoration of normal production, will get us nowhere. We must define our aims. We must specifically say what we are going to do about it. Nor will it suffice to make “save the Constitu- tion" our slogan. We must answer, “save Not merely for yesterday but for to- morToy. Must Go Beyond Pause. And what is our program for tomor- row, shall we promise mere reaction, negation and pause? Or shall we promise the American people to try earnestly and courageously to cure the evils which plunged us into the de- pression? Shall we define a plan of action to promote more equitable eco- nomic relations than those which pro- duced the cataclysm? Here is where Kansas steps into the program. Kansas offers America the Xansas idea plus a Kansas leader. ‘The Kansas idea is definitely liberal, ungtalifiedly progressive. We are looking forward, not back. We believe in using Government as an agency for human welfare. Kansas believes and has justified her faith by her works, that a community is better off in which men are neither rich nor poor, in which everyone earns all that he gets, and absolutely gets all he earns. ‘We are not a partisan State, During the last 40 vears, Kansas has turned from one party to the other and al- ways kept the gains which change has brought. It has not been treadmill radicalism and reaction and back. It has been a steady, sane for- ward march. We have attained a fairly equitable distribution of our income, a fairly just solution of many economic problems. The farm prob- lem alone is unsolved. But Kansas believes it can be solved and does not deny its tragic reality. It happens at the moment that young Alfred Landon is our Governor. He is typical of our State. He has thrived in Kansas politics for a decade. He is a business man, fairly well-to-do, who has made his own business suc- cess. He is no genius. He is no po- litical giant. He is a good, straight- forward, clear-visioned, hard-working Young man in his late 40's He has continued, as Governor of Kansas, the forward-moving program which Kansas has been slowly working out through passing and changing po- litical administrations for 30 years. || He has administered, without crossing his fingers, the budget law., which a Republican Legislature presented to Landon’s Democratic predecessor. We have, under that law of necessity, a balanced budget, for which Landon the Constitution for what?” | every | deserves due credit. But more impor- tant than that, under Landon’s lead- ership, Kansas enacted a cash basis law, and when a Kansas town or coun- ty or the State balances its budget, it stays balanced or some one is auto- matically ousted. We have taken care of our own poor, our unemployables, the chronics. We have administered under the set-up of Landon’s Democratic predecessor the national relief measures, without bias cr partisan corruption. The re- lief dollar in Kansas goes more di- rectly to the poor than it does in any cf our surrounding commonwealths with Democratic Governors. The | Washington records will prove this. A Republican Legislature under the Jeadership of Gov. Landon has worked {out in a few 8ays laws which put | Kansas in full co-operation with the | National Government’s relief meas- | ures, while Democratic Legislatures in | Colorado, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Missouri have been wrangling for months doing imperfectly what we have done so quickly and so well. Kansas Held for G. O. P. | tion, Gov. Landon’s friends will pre- sent him and his record for con- sideration. They will not say that he is a superman. They will not point to him as a miracle worker. | They will not compare him either to| | Lincoln for wisdom or Coolidge for | parsimony. They will say to the Na- | tion, here is a Kansas product, a | straight, diligent, prudent, conscien- | tious young Republican who was a lgood soldier, and has made a public | record which has held Kansas in line for the Republican ticket in a time of Democratic tidal wave. We believe he will grow under the ter- rific force of his higher responsibili- ties into a competent president. We don’'t know and he doesn't know. No one knows what he or the times will develop. But he will go forward and not | back. That we know. He will go straight and not devious into his work. We make no bond for any- thing else. Take him or leave him. He stands shoulder high with any of his fellow candidates and if he and his friends are too modest to brag their hopes into realities, and if he loses by his modesty—well the game is not worth winning by ballyhoo. 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