Evening star., 1933-06-26
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

National Chairman Sanders and
Republican House Leader Smell nave
lust fired the opening guns in the cam
paign to bring the G. o. P. back TO
power, first in the congressional elec-
tions of 1884 and then in the presl-
dental contest of '36. All concerned
concede that at this writing everything
is on the lap of the gods and that hope
full long distance views of the elephants
prospects are little more than Wisnes
which are father to the thougnt. many
straws indicate even thus far IN ao-
vance that the Republicans intend max
| ing all the whoopee they can out OF
soecalled Roosevelt dictatorship ana
tampering with the Constitution. Such
| indications are categorically forthcom-
| ing from the two men regarded at tnls
| time as the most promising RepuoncaIi
presidential white hopes-namely, Ogoen
| l.. Mills and Representative James W.
| Wadsworth, both of New York. Eacn
OF them during the past few weeks mas
| found occasion to take filings at the
new deal, especially in its more reVoiu,
| tionary aspects, and strongly nlnteo
that the situation is bound to present
| I0e fIGpupiiSdA pdlNJ nAiA a.
issue. AS to this, of course, everything
depends on how the deal works out.
| If "happy days are here again" year
from now, 1t won't be easy for the Re-
publicans to capitalize politically the
alleged liberties which the Democrats
are taking with the Constitution. Tnat
| issue will be decided both in 1884 ana
| 1885 by the condition in which the
country finds its pocket nerve.
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Two national Democrats have re-
Gently had something to say about the
Roosevelt dictatorship, too. When he
received degree at Amherst, Newton
| D. Baker expressed the view that no
damage has been done by clothing
Franklin D. Roosevelt with extra-con-
stitutional powers, because the Presi-
dent is patriotic and devoted pubic
servant But Mr.. Baker thinks 1t
needs to be remembered that Congress
may be establishing possibly danger
Gus precedent, should some chief eXecu-
tive less trustworthy than Mr.. Roose-
welt some day receive dictatorial
authority. Therefore, Mr.. Baker holds,
an adequate amount of congressional
| authority requires to be reserved, IN
the peoples interest. In commence
ment address last week Owen D. Young
warned against the peril Of letting the
new deal turn its back on too many
of the lessons taught by experience,
and suggested that forthcoming expert
ments which fail to take due account
of them are doomed to failure.
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It appears that it pays to be not
only a deserving Democratic woman
politician but also to be the husband
of one. At any rate, the story is cur
rent that the next governor of the
Virgin Islands is going to be DR.. Peter
Olesen, husband of Mrs. Anna Dickie
! Olesen, former Democratic national
committeewoman from Minnesota and
Democratic nominee for the United
| States Senate against Senator Henrik
| Shipstead, Farmer Labor in 1922. Dr.
Olesen is registrar of Carleton College,
Northfield. MINI, and, If he goes to
the Virgin Islands, would succeed
another college professor, DR.. Paul M.
Pearson of SWarthmore
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News dispatches from Nantucket
Island last week failed to record the
fact that among those who anxiously
awaited President Roosevelts s arrival in
the harbor aboard the Amberjack II
was Alfred E. Smith. For hours before
the Presidents arrival, Mr. Smith stood
guard on the edge of the dock scanning
the horizon with long telescope. He
happens not to have been the great CAP
in person, but Alfred E. Smith. Nam
tucket plumber, whose shop overlooks
the old whaling harbor Mr. Smith
was Republican postmaster of Nan
tucket during thf Coolidge administra-
lcn, and 1t is fJuSt possible that he