Evening star., 1932-07-11

It's a fairly open secret that it will
suit President Hoover down TO the
ground to have the Democrats make re-
peal the paramount issue OF the 1892
campaign Apart from the fact that
the Republicans consider the dryer END
Of the prohibition controversy national
ly still the politically stronger end, the
stressing of repeal takes the curse on
the depression issue. Every ounce OF
emphasis the Democrats lay on booze is,
from the G. o. P. standpoint. just that
much poison extracted from the one
thing the Republicans don't want loud
pedaled-hard times. At Chicago Gov.
Roosevelt branded economics as the
main issue" That theory doesn't sit at
all we'll with the leaders who bossed the
convention. even those who brought
about the New Workers. nomination.
Their enthusiasmS were overWhelmlngIy
and almost exclusively for repeal. De-
preston got plenty of oratorical atten-
tion. but only when war was declared
on the eighteenth amendment did the
convention go ioyously mad. The Demo-
Gratis scattered from Chicago In the
firm conviction that repeal Is their big
noise. If Roosevelt doesn't play that
card, early and often. therell be wall
ing and gnashing of teeth. The ex-
pectation is that he will glorify repeal
where it will do the most good and min
inlize it where it would do the most
harm.
Few political old timers at Washing
ton can remember when any candidate
for the vice presidency contrived at the
outset of a campaign to hog the lime
light to the extent Speaker Garner IS
now doing. Usually the people have
hard time recalling off-hand who the
vice presidential candidates are. The
Republicans are jumping on the Texan
with both feet apropos his rene1 Dill
and overlooking no opportunity 10
brand him, and the Roosevelt-Garner.
ticket through him, as "demagoglc
100 per cent. The situation isn't un-
like the one provoked in 1924 py tne
nomination of Brother Charlie" Bryan
of Nebraska as John w. DAVIS run
ning-mate. except this time the RepuD-
lican effort is to paint the Democrauc
ticket radical from top to bottom. 10
tho eytent that bv the same token the
Rennblicans stamp themselves as hard
boiled conservatives, their antl-Garner
vendetta is O. K. with the Democrats.
Gov. Roosevelt's thwarted attempt TO
talk over the st. Lawrence waterway
with president Hoover synchronlzes with
the presence in Washington OF Col
Hanford MacNider, American Minister
to Canada. Probably it's mere com.
cidence. as the colonel finds himseli
here on the eve of the British Imperial
Conference in Ottawa, at Whlcn ne IL
hold an important watching prleI 1oI
the U. S. A. MacNider has speclailzeo
In Canadian American shipWay matters
ever since he was sent to Ottawa tnIee
years ago. If Charlie GURUS haoh
made the grade on the first oaliot at
Chicago last month the stage was
nrettv solidlv set 10 nominate Col. Mac
Nider for Vice President on the next
round. The American Legion has the
Young Iowa soldier In DELL
mite reserve for national honors some
sunny day.
One of French Ambassador Paul
Claudel's vacation purposes in Europe
this Summer is to attend the maiden
performance of his new mystic play,
THE Satin Slipper" at Cologne, Ger
many. It Is a dramatiZed version OF the
cultured envoy's book by the same name.
Last year the premiere of M. Claudeps
opera, christopher Columbus" took
place in Berlin. Americans are to have
opportunity of hearing that piece at
the Chicago Worlds Fair in 1888. The
French Government Building there Is
to contain a theater, and its opening
performance will be christopher Co.
lumbus." Ambassador Claudel is re-
sponsible for the libretto. The score
is the work of M. Darius Milhaud, emf
nent French composer.
Little or nothing has cropped out
since Franklin D. Roosevelts nomina-
ton about the role. played by that
gilent but sage old political bird. Col.