Evening Star Newspaper, June 19, 1936, Page 7

NEW DEAL TESTS LANDON PUNCHES Begin Cautiously to Break Through Defenses of G. 0. P. Nominee. BY CARLISLE BARGERON. The New Dealers are getting around quietly to the business of unloading the stuff they always said they had on Gov. Landon They are peddling, and it 18 appearing with increasing fre- quency in the newspapers, the story of how the Governor was a party to a Governors’ petition to the President late in 1933 urging him to set up an N. R. A. for agriculture and also to pay off the fourth Liberty Loan with greenbacks. These Governors, it is contended, far from being worried about regi- mentation of the farmers, wanted to put them under a licensing system. And the point is made that the urg- ing of a greenback issue does not square with Landon’s gold statement, which was read to the convention as an addendum to the platform. Strangely enough, it was the influ- ence of the so-called reactionary group that prevented the inclusion of the gold statement in the platform ftself. They argued against it on the grounds of political expediency. Then Landon came along with a statement saying, in effect, that it was his understanding that there should be a return to the gold basis when it could be done without injuring farm values. Gold Change Unlikely. Neither his statement nor a similar declaration in the platform is more than a political gesture to the East, however, because no authority is seri- ously advocating a return to the gold standard at this time. It is another one of the New Deal “reforms” which must be accepted simply because it is something that has been accomplished, right or wrong, and it is impossible to get away from it. ‘What the New Dealers hope to do in peddling the greenback story, how- ever, is to knock down the interpreta- tion that Landon's’statement, after the Platform Committee had refused the gold plank, was courageous. And they also want to question his sin- cerity in denouncing regimentation of the farmers when the Governors ‘wanted to license them. The Governor did not personalty at- tend this famous conference. him. It was in October, 1933. Ghost of Bull Moose. The New Dealers are also going back to the Bull Moose platform of | 1812 in an effort to show how “Landon has changed.” One of the most con- troversial points in this platform was | that providing for the overriding of judicial decisions by referendum. The | Governor bolted the ticket to follow ‘Theodore Roosevelt and this platform. He was in his twenties at the time. The handicap under which the New Dealers are laboring with this sort of ammunition, however, is that they can’'t make any use of it ex- cept to pass it out to friendly news- papers and they haven't got many of these. : They can’t make an issue of it be- cause the only point they make is that “Landon i§ as progressive as Roose- velt.” One of the most uncomfortable figures is Harry Hopkins. He would like to tell how it was his Federal funds that made it possible for Landon to balance the budget. Lan- don, however, has never said this was not the case. Indeed, he has never boasted about the budget being balanced. His ballyhooers have. Un- der the circumstances for Harry to be shouting that he was responsible for the budget balancing would only eerve to emphasize that it is balanced. He wouldn't get any argument from | the Governor. Voters Tired of Past. There are indications, in fact, that the New Dealers are running into the same attitude that confronted the Republicans so long. That is, the people don't want to hear any more about the past. They are asking where they go from here. That some- thing is wrong in Washington is rather generally assumed. There was criticism of the conven- tion speeches of Senator Steiwer and Representative Snell on the ground that they were not ‘“constructive.” Of course, they could not have been *“constructive” because they were not writing the platform. The criticism reflected a mood, however, which militates against the efforts of the New Dealers to knock down Landon. He sent | & representative authorized to act for | THE EVENING STAR First Boys Leave for Camp Letts Nearly 100 boys stormed Camp Letts today for the opening of the season at the “¥” play- ground near Annapolis. Above is the first group to leave by bus this morning from the Central Y. M. C. A. Building. —Star Staff Photo. 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