Evening star., 1932-09-18
PRESIDENT ADVISED
TO TOUR THE WEST
Urged by Some Supporters
to Garry Fight to Roosevelt
Personally.
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probable that decision as to whether
the President is to undertake tour
of that section of the country, or make
q trip all the way to the coast, may
hang upon what the Republican scouts
report after Roosevelt has completed
his present trip If it appears that
the President is needed in those States,
he certainly will be strongly urged to
60 there.
Republicans in favor of an aggressive
campaign by the President himself be-
lieve Mr.. Hoover could well afford to
deal with Gov Roosevelt in some of
his speeches. They see no reason why
the President should not challenge Gov.
Roosevelt to say, for example, just what
his position is toward the immediate
payment of the soldiers bonus. This is
a question which Gov. Roosevelt has
continued to evade for some time, al
though he has been questioned re-
peatedly, according to reports, by news
paper correspondents.
They believe, too, that the President
could well ask Gov. Roosevelt how he
stands on the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation and whether he would
favor repeating the law creating the
corporation if he should become Chief
Executive Gov Roosevelt has spoken
slighthgly of the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation on several occa-
sions. Further, they would like to have
the President tackle Gov. Roosevelt on
the question of the tariff.
Fear Special Session.
Republicans are arguing that If the
country should elect Roosevelt and
to-, ,Inr Of
things which the Democrats would de-
mand after March 4 would be special
session of Congress to revise the tariff.
Such session, they say, at the very
time that the business of the country
was struggling back to its feet, would
be throwing a monkey wrench into the
machinery, with many months OF un-
certainty ahead for all kinds OF pusl-
ness affected by the tariff.
The Maine election last Monday and
the Democratic victory there was dis
tinct shock to the Republican high
command, which had believed that with
an upturn in many businesses the tide
was swinging to the G. o. P. Many
attempts have been made to explain
away the result in Maine, declaring it
was due to prohibition or to the unpop-
ularity of some of the Republican can
didates. But when all is said and done,
there was huge vote out in the Maine
election, and it was emblematlc OF the
unrest and diSgruntlement in the coun-
try, because of hard times. Under
such circumstances, no passive cam
paign by the Republicans, it is said,
will get them anywhere.
The great advantage of having Pres1-
dent Hoover himself get out on the
stump lies in the fact that every word
he says will be published all over the
United States. Furthermore, his travel
through the States would give courage
to a lot of Republican leaders today
down in the dumps. None of the Re
publican spellbinders now on the stump
have been able or are likely to be able
to have all their speeches printed. On
the other hand, Gov. Roosevelt'S S
speeches, as the presidential candidate
Of the Democratic party. are carried in
full in all the large daily newspapers
of the country.
The Republicans are hopeful that
Gov. Roosevelt will stub his toe on his
Western trip. He may do so yet But
up to date he has made no glaring mis-
takes, even though the Republicans
insist that his Topeka farm speech was
a futile thing There was nothing in
it to offend the farmers. On the con-
trary, his promises to the farmers were
gratifying. The job of the Republican
campaigners is to show the farmers. If
they can, that there is nothing in these
promises.