Evening Star Newspaper, October 25, 1935, Page 26

r B-6 VOTERS CRITICEE NEW DEAL AN Electorate Lines Up For and | Against—Fight Held Crucial. BY JAY G. HAYDEN. Any one who travels 6,000 miles from | the Atlantic,to the Pacific and back again, talking with people of all sorts, as J have done in the last four weeks, is bound to come home laden with a | confusion of impressions, but this| much can be said without peradven- ture: ‘The presidential campaign of 1936 s going to be one of the greatest po- litical battles in the Nation's history. comparable both in importance of the issues involved and the intensity of the conflict with the election won by Abraham Lincoln in 1860, the McKin- ley-Bryan campaign of 1896 ,.or the ‘Wilson-Roosevelt-Taft contest of 1912. Voters are lining up for and against the New Deal and this is true as much in the sandy reaches of Arizona and Utah and along the Pacific Coast as | it is in the industrial East. Every American citizen, man or woman, has opinions and there is no difficulty in 1 persuading him or her to express | them. | Roosevelt Favor Shrinks. President Roosevelt has lost heavily in popularity with the business men | during the last year and, excepting a | few isolated communities which are more than ordinarily dependent on Federal bounty, this goes for the small shopkeepers as well as the big fellows. ‘The same is true of the more pros- ‘perous farmers, among whom dislike of the largely increased governmental expenditures and the consequent tax bill. The average man may not analyze the Government's financial situation very deeply, but he knows that much more money is being spent than is being collected in taxes, and he is wondering how long this will be continued and where it all will end. One detects a fear for the future in the minds of many people, and this is 50 of taxi drivers, railroad men and other workers interviewed, as of the great riajority of business men. If President Roosevelt finds a way to balance the budget next year, or if his promise to attain this end in future is sufficiently convincing, he may allay this feeling, but at the moment it is causing him to lose supporters, more than any other feature of his adminis- tration. It is apparent also that a great many people are waiting to see what the opposition to Mr. Roosevelt will have | to offer before deciding how they will vote next year. One gathers that many of those who are dissatisfied with the present doings in Washington have not yet lined up with the Re- publican party. Much, obviously, will depend on both the character of can- didate and the platform that party offers. In the Middle West, for example, there is a very well settled opinion that if the Republicans propose to abolish the A. A. A. without offering something at least equally tangible in the way of farm relief in its stead, they might as well kiss the electoral votes of that region good-by. In slightly less degree the same opinion holds with regard to -unemployment rellef. Few people believe it is pos- sible to end doles immediately and the reasonableness of the Republican proposal with this regard will deter= mine many votes. G. 0. P. Contrasts Loom. The two poles in the Republican party, as the average voter views it, are exemplified by Hoover and Borah, and there is an impression, particu- larly in the West, that the contest in the Republican convention next year will be between these men and what threat of increased taxes outweigh |they stand for. even the crop bénefit checks they are Teceiving from the Federal Treasury. The big question mark is as to the Hoover, justly or otherwise, is linked in the public mind with what | happened in the years between 1929 ettitude of the far more numerous |and 1933. He is regarded as emblem- classes of industrial workers and poor Tarmers, & considerable proportion of whom are drawing their whole in- come from the Government in doles of one form or another. Adherents of President Roosevelt are confident that these latter groups | make his political position im- pregnable. Republicans and many neutral-minded observers, on the other hand, declare there are deep currents of discontent among the masses, as well as the classes, and that these are bound to become more pronounced &s the inequalities and wastes in dis- tribution of doles are further devel- oped. Novelties Cause Defection. It is an axiom of politics that the officeholder lasts longest who attempts the fewest innovations; that each new thing devised, however popular gen- erally, stirs up its opposition minority. President Roosevelt has initiated more new and startling measures than any President in history, and in the appli- cation of these to communities as widely divergent as are found in the United States there unquestionably | atic of the first four years of de- pression and the measures, or lack of | measures, which the Federal Govern- |ment then employed to relieve it. In !the eyes of a great many people he |stands as the exemplar of big business control. The attitude toward Borah is less | tangible, but a belief is abroad at least that he is against Hoover and against the policies which Hoover is believed to stand for. If Borah should be the | Republican candidate, or if, when the | Republican convention is ended, the | impression prevails that Borah, rather | than Hoover, dictated its policies and the choice of a candidate, the chance of Republican success, in the territory west of the Mississippi River at least, will be greatly enhanced. The biggest single problem that the | Republicans face is to find a candi- date and formulate a platform which will bridge this difference in their ranks and assemble in one political basket the vastly divergent elements which now are tending to turn against | President Roosevelt and the New Deal. have been many inequalities and in- | (COPYTIZRL 1935 by the North American Justices. It is a significant fact that almost every man or woman interviewed, | whether friendly to the New Deal or | otherwise, had some detail to complain | of. Each one had a story to tell as to how the unemployment relief pro- gram, the farm program, the N. R. A. or some other Federal activity had | been mishandled in his particular | community, or of some individual or | class who had been beating the game. There is a tendency for these stories to grow with each repetition, and there | is an impression at times that the | tellers are vying to see which can produce the biggest one. Almost without exception these stories relate to Roosevelt spending and, judged by the talk now going on in the country, this is immeasurably the biggest single issue that the New Deal has produced. Everybody knows ewspaper Alliance. Inc.) Oil Croquignole P ermanent ment relief appropriation, the $600,- || Price includes Sham- 2 about the $4,880,000,000 unemploy- |} This greatly reduced 52.50 000,000 a year being dispensed in farm bounties, the President’s promise of “parity prices” to every farmer and a full-time job for every employable now on the dole. Taxes Cause Unrest. Tnescapably linked with these things | in the public mind are the processing | tax and its effect on living costs and t) President’s “share-the-wealth’ poo and Finger Wave Realiy a $6 Value! 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