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THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1936. *% A—S 'VIRGINIA GROUP TO FIGHT REPEAL OF TWO-THIRDS RULE SUPPORT OF WEST 1 ot B Mo . ANDNGRTH ASKED Regulation Held “Major Feothold” of Leading Democratic States. By the Assoctated Press. PHILADELPHIA, June 24—Angry delegates from Virginia appealed to friends in the North and West today to rally to their stand against repeal of the two-thirds nominating rule at future Democratic conventions. The issue headed for its first show- down today in the initial meeting of the Rules Committec. Representa- tives of the 48 States gathered to debate the administraion proposal that only a majority of delegates be required for the nomination of presi- dential and vice presidential standard bearers. The scrap—one of the few in sight for this 1936 convention—will be car- ried to the convention floor tomorrow if the rules group approves repeal, as all observers expect it will. Virginians Talk Fight. Encouraged by sentiment in the 34-vote Massachusetts delegation for retention of the 104-year-old require- ment, Virginia leaders went to the meeting talking fight. | “I regard the two-thirds rule as one of the major footholds possessed | by those States which are consistently furnishing the electoral votes in the selection of Democratic candidates,” said State Senator Aubrey G. Weaver : of Front Royal, Va.,, @ member of the | Rules Committee. 1 “Why such Southern States as our ! neighbor, North Carolina, as well as | numerous less populous States in all | sections of the country, should de- | sire to surrender this veto power pass- i es my comprehension.” | Although National Chairman James ! A. Farley has reiterated the question was for the States to settle themselves, | he continued to perdict a majority for repeal. i He denied at a press conference that the administration, in favoring ab- rogation, wished to open the way for & Roosevelt third term. *Asinine” was | the term he applied to rumors to that effect. Follows Walsh Statement. Weaver's statement came after Sen- ator David I. Walsh of Massachusetts approved the action of the Massa- chusetts delegation in favoring re- tention of the two-thirds rule, 27 to 6. Walsh said it would be wise “at the present time” to leave the rules alone. The South, which has clung te- naciously for years to the existing rule, has broken at last on the issue. Although nine opposed repeal in the North Carolina caucus, that State’s entire vote of 26 will be cast for abro- gation under the unit rule. Arkansas was directed, with Gov. J. M. Futrell favoring repeal and Sen- ator Robinson, Senate floor leader, leaning that way, while Representa- tive Claude A. Fuller led the oppo- | sition. | No formal action was taken in the big Ohio caucus, but most of their 52 delegates were reported for repeal, Convention | (Continued From First Page.) The Barkley speech was at one and the same time a defense of President Roosevelt and the New Deal and a vigorous attack on the Republican of today and of four years ago. “We are assembled here not merely to defend. but to proclaim the New Deal as the surest highway to that “life, liberty and the pursuit of happi- ness’ to which Thomas Jefferson de- voted his life and Franklin D. Roose- velt is consecrating every fiber of his immortal spirit,” said Senator Barkley, eddressing the delegates last night. | Ready for Amendment. ] The New Deal has command of the Government in all its branches save one—the judiciary—the keynoter pointed out. Barkley did not suggest a constitutional amendment to validate the acts of the New Deal. but he indi- | cated that the Democrats would not ! hold back if it became necessary. “If in the future further amendment | should become necessary to enable the | people to work out their destiny and | protect their fundamental rights, or to | overcome some archaic interpretation never intended by its framers, I doubt | not that the people will face that duty with the same calm intelligence which has guided them in the past.” Throughout his keynote address, | Barkley made it clear that the par(yl did not intend to retreat a foot from the position taken by President Roose- velt more than a year ago, when he criticized the Supreme Court’s deci- sion holding the N. R. A. unconstitu- tional and pictured the interpreta- tion as belonging to the “horse and| buggy days.” “But we are told,” said Barkley, “by the smug and cynical apostles of status quo that the Supreme Court has nullified some of the acts of this administration. And while anxious farmers ponder their fate, and labor- ing men scan the heavens for a rain- bow of hope, and women and children look in vain for the preservation of their lives and health, a voice from the grave at Palo Alto shouts, ‘Thank God for the Supreme Court. Denies Supreme Court Attack. Senator Barkley insisted that he made no attack on the Supreme Court. He sald, however, there is nothing new in controversies ovey the Constitution. From the “exultant voices of the tree- sitters and the devotees of the hitch- ing post you would imagine that the Bupreme Court had never nullified an Today’s Program By the Assoclated Press. PHILADELPHIA, June 24. Here is the program of today’s business of the Democratic Na- tional Convention (time is East- ern standard): 9 am—Platform Committee hearings. 11 am.—Convention called to order by Senator Barkley, tem- porary chairman for confirmation of routine committee appoint- ments. Indefinite hour—Rules Com- mittee takes up two-thirds rule. 7 p.m.—Night session convenes for routine preliminary business prior to hearing speech of per- manent chairman, Joseph T. Robinson, Senator from Ar- kansas, scheduled for 9 p.m. * < | Barkles Senator Matthew M. Neel, former Senator Tom Heflin of the 1924 convention, exchanging greetings.—Wide World Photo. y of West Virginia (lejt) and Alabama, the stormy petrel of act of Congress until Franklin D. Roosevelt became President of the United States.” He pointed out that during the ex- istence of the Nation, more than 25,- 000 laws have been enacted by Con- gress, and about 67 of thent have been nullified by the Supreme Court, 21| from 1920 to 1930. “We have sought to serve the Amer- ican people under the Constitution. We have thought that under its broad and generous outlines, we might res- cue the people from national disas- “We have sought to treat it as a life-giving charter, rather than an ob- ject of curiosity on the shelf of a mu- seum.” Denies Freedom Tampering. Barkley, replying to Republican at- tacks, denied that the Roosevelt ad- ministration had tampered with the freedom of the American people. “What is this freedom which we have crucified?” he demanded. “This liber- ty we have slain? Is it the freedom of workers to free collective bargaining? Is it the freedom of farmers to escape the loathsome peonage imposed on them by land and produce specula- tors? Is it the freedom of investors to circumvent the secret devices of stock manipulators?* The New Dealers have destroyed a | certain type of liberty in this countr Barkley admitted, “the liberty of small groups to pick the pockets of the American people; the liberty of organ- ized greed to pervert the agencies of | | government to their own enrichment.” The extension of government under the New Deal administration became necessary for the welfare of the people, contended. “Thomas Jefferson is often misrep- resented,” the Kentucky Senator said, “by those who pay to him the dubious homage of the lip as having said ‘that government is best which governs least.” If that sentence must be taken | without context or reservation, it is but a step to the doctrine that ‘that ALONG BROAD STREET —— government is best which governs not at all.’” Denounced Cost in 1932. It was Senator Barkley who, as key- note speaker at the Democratic Na- tional Convention in 1932, denounced the Republican administration for “an enormous increase in the cost of government.” Barkley said at that time: “What will the incoming Democratic admin- istration do about this imperative situ- ation? Do we propose to reduce the expenses of government, or merely to hold conversation about it? Do we propose, as our opponents have done, to let not our right hand know what our left hand is doing, and keep our lips ignorant of both? “Our answer again is emphatically no! We propose to reduce the ex- | penses of this Government not only for its own sake and that of the peo- ple, but as an example to smaller units throughout the Nation. We pro- pose to abolish every useless office, every unnecessary bureau and com- mission which has grown by what it fed on until the total has become an insufferable weight upon all the activi- ties and resources of the American people.” Now Denies Waste. The keynoter last night replied to criticisms that the New Deal had wasted millions of dollars. He in- sisted that the administration has given employment to millions of Amer- icans. That it has carried out be- tween 25,000 and 30,000 worthy proj- ects of public need. “Who shall assert that these sums have beep wasted?” he demanded. “Shall we measure these values against a budget temporarily unbal- anced?” He denied that the administration has unduly increased the public debt and pointed out that from March, 1929, to March 4, 1933, the public debt had been increased from $17,000,000,- 000 to $21,000,000,000 “without the in- auguration of either a relief or public works program of any consequence whatever. Hence during the four long years of the Hoover administration the public debt had been increased by $4,000,000,000. From February 28, 1933, to the present time the public debt has increased to spproximately $31,500,000,000, an increase of $10,- 500,000,000.” $8.000,000,0000 has been devoted to relief and public works and $3,000,000,- 1 BELIEVE HOW WELL I you! - REMEMBER ' !- - e 000 to State and national banks, a part of which has bsen repaid. The Republican slogan, “Three long years,” coined by the Republican ke note speaker at the Cleveland co vention two weeks ago. Senator Stei- wer of Oregon, did not pass unnoticed by Barkley. He referred again and again to “long vears” of Republican rule during which he insisted nothing had been done by the Governmenrt for the peo- ple; nothing for the farmers nor for labor. He quoted many Republican utterances pledging aid to the farm- ers, Nothing, he insisted, had ever come of them. It remained for Presi- dent Roosevelt to lead the farmers out | of the wilderness, he said. As a prelude to the kevnote speech | by Barkley the national convention |h.ilentd last night to an address by Gov. George Earle of Pennsylvania Earle, it is rumored, is being groomed by the Democratic leader of the Key- | stone State, Senator Guffey, for the presidential nomination in 1940. Earle is the first Democratic Governor elect- ed in Pennsylvania for two score years or more. “Four years ago,” said Gov. Earle, | “I was a Republican. All my life I had been a Republican. My father | was a Republican. My grandfather |was a Republican. His father, Thomas Earle, was the vice presiden- tial candidate of the Liberty party, lout of which the Republican party grew. “I left the Republican party be- cause it no longer represented the principles and the ideals of its founder, the immortal Abraham Lin- coln, I left the Republican party be- cause its leadership was controlled by the forces of predatory wealth.” Earle said he and millions of others had followed the lead of America’s “great progressives” and had given his support to the Democratic party. “Together with those same millions,” he continued, party.” He predicted that in Novem- ber Pennsylvania would cast its electoral vote for Roosevelt and that the “erstwhile rock-ribbed Republican stronghold” would become “the great ic Commonwealth of Penn- Earle was given a great ovation by the Democrats who have come to Pennsylvania this year for their na- tional gathering. Owing to the tardiness of the holders of guest tickets in reaching the hall, the doors of the galleries were thrown open to the public last night—as they were for the opening meeting of the convention earlier in the day. Barkley slashed his long keynote speech ruthlessly as he proceeded, leaving out paragraphs and even pages of the copy. The great crowd cheéred him vigorously, particularly when he declared the right to criticize the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States. TIRED FEET MADE NEW OVERNIGHT Simply wash and massage with Evons' Oxylin Ointment. Not a messy liquid or salve, but absolutely new and different. Powerful pain-relieving cooling. greaseles irri es. Permanent most severe skin conditions. sweating. burning, itching, odor. be delighted. back gua! Clip this EVONS' OXYLIN OINTMENT SPECIAL PRICES: 49c, 89 & $1.5¢ Sold in Washington Liggetts and all_good_drugeists. 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While discussing this at his press conference yesterday, Mr. Roosevelt did not mention monopolies by name, but when asked directly whether co- operatives were not more effective as weapons against monopolies than against unemployment, he replied in the affirmative. The President’s disclosure of this study has suggested in Some quarters that the Democratic monopolies plank to be adopted at the National Con- vention in Philadelphia this week might seek to reinforce anti-trust statutes with co-operative enterprises. ‘The White House gave the impres- sion, however, that it looked upon the study as being strictly non-political ‘The President said he has named the | following men to make the co-opera- tive study: Jacob Baker, an assistant administrator of the Works Progress Administration; Leland Olds, secretary of the New York Power Authority, and Charles E. Stuart, member of a New Yowk engineering company. The Presi- | dent said the committee will leave | for Europe within the next week. He explained that studies will in- clude co-operative enterprises in the British Isles. Sweden, Denmark, Fin- land, Norway, Czechoslovakia, Swit- | zerland. France and probably Hungary. | They will cover retail stores, housing, credit, electric distribution, insurance, banking, agricultural production, mar- keting and in general the co-ordination of these co-operatives with each other | and the study of other forms of con- | ducting similar services ‘The President admitted he had been ! | giving the ~subject considerable thought for a long time and that he' | was impressed greatly by a book deal- ling with the co-operative movement, principally in Sweden. which he read recently,. He said he had been in- terested to find that in Sweden, for instance, rerresentatives of royal, capitalist and Socialist groups had been working side by side in happy and successful fashion in co-operative movements. He said he thought this was worth studying. | While Mr. Roosevelt agreed the co- operative movement might be taken as one answer to monopoly influences, he | did not agree with the suggestion that the Patman-Robinson anti-chain store bill, passed in the last Congress, would deter the proper operation of co- operatives, He explained that the Fed- eral Trade Commission is authorized to control proper discounts so that all | may get the same price on the same quantity. | ession (Continued From First Page.) | Nor have the other directors of the show. o Another tune by the orchestra. Be- fore it finishes, Senator Joe Robinson, | | Arkansas’ gift to democracy, who to- | night becomes the permanent chair- man of the Democratic National Coni- | mittee, comes in. looks around at the | | still nearly deserted balconies and goes | to the platform. A few paces behind |him comes District Commissioner George E. Allen, who, as a member | of the District's delegation to the con- | vention, is up here fighting for a plank in the platform for national repre- sentation for those voteless folks back home. He doffs his straw hat to an attractive member of the Texas dele- gation and moves on. Cameramen Surround Farley. | | And now, in comes Farley. Photog- | raphers surround him. But Farley | | must have said “no.” There were no | | flashlights. | | The floor is more crowded with ‘delexate& Senator McAdoo of Cali- | fornia is out in the main aisle auto- | graphing something for an admirer, | using the back of a delegate for a | | table. The photographers “shoot” | | him in action. ‘ | “Dixie” from the bandstand. A chorus of cheers. There's Farley | | again on the floor. The photograph- | | ers are successful this time. They get | |8 shot of him with & member of the | Texas delegation. A petite blond | rushes up and thrusts an autograph | book into his hand. “Not now,” he | says politely, and goes to the plat- form. It won't be long now. Farley’s on the platform holding & whispered | NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING IS e g e 7of ADVERTISING | music—the Farley Family Looks On Mrs. James A. Farley, wife of the chairman of the National Committee; her daughter Betty Ann and James jr., shown at the convention. conversation with Senator Barkley of Kentucky, the convention keynoter and temporary chairman of the con- vention at this time. The band again. This time it's the piece that identifies Rudy Vallee in “Stein Song.” Bang goes the gavel. The clock points to 1:19. The curtain goes up on the third act of the 1936 Demo- cratic political drama, | A prayer by Rev. Marshall Shepard, | pastor of the Mount Olivet Baptist Church of Philadelphia, it includes a tribute to the President and Mrs. | Franklin D. 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