Evening star., 1934-08-12
ROOSEVELT HITS
TOOPPOSE BRYAN
Drops Neutrality Policy and
Starts New Deal Drive
in Nebraska.
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clared for a presidential program Of
reform without parallel in practical
American politics.
Mr.. Roosevelt, II develops, consid-
cred the time propitious for such a
move in view of the manifestations of
popular approval Of him which he
had stirred in his trip across the con-
tinent. The manner in which he thus
undertook to keep radical sentiment
from getting out Of hand is cited as
following substantially the procedure
he took in two major instances to con-
troll infiationist tides in Congress. In
the first instance. 1t is pointed out, the
President averted mandatory imitation
legislation by agreeing to discretionary
legislation of the Thomas amendment
In the second major instance, it is ex-
planned, he accepted the Frazier
Lemke farm mortgage bill to avert
something more extreme.
The timed naturalization of silver
at about the moment Mr.. Roose-
welt was making his Wisconsin speech
is explained as a part of the Presi-
dents purpose to keep pace with the
leftist sentiment. He had seen evi-
dences Of this resurgence In the Demo-
cratic denomination of the radical
Senator Burton K. Wheeler in Mon
tana by surprising vote greater than
the combined vote of all other candi-
dates, Democratic and Republican
He had seen 1t in the strikingly radical
platform adopted by the dominant
Farmer Labor Party in Wisconsin un-
der the stimulus of Gov Floyd Olson's
defiant declaration that he was no
liberal but downright radical.
Warned by Mullen.
The President had heard of 1t in
Nebraska from Arthur Mullen, who
haStened out to meet him in the Rocky
Mountains with the news that his Ne
braska political rival, Brother Char
lie" was firing the huge radical vote
Of that State with his assaults on the
new deal and his proposed alterna-
tives. He had seen it in the defeat
Of administration backed Clem Shaver
in West Virginia by more liberal 29-
year-old Rush Holt for the senatorial
give California q wide berth had been
strengthened by the indications that
the radical Upton Sinclair was in
fair way to capture the Democratic
gubernatorial nomination and posi-
bly, the control Of the State govern
ment.
That the Presidents resolution to
take more radical turn at the cul-
mination of his speaking trip grew as
he moved Eastward is suggested by
several known changes in his plans.
When he left for his Hawaiian trip,
the White House strongly resisted all
suggestions that his overland tour
would have any political flavor The
White House secretariat went so far
as to apprehend that correspondents
who had foreseen such a turn would
be on the alert for every opportunity
to prove the fulnllment of such pro-
pheSies.
The first retreat was the admis-
sion that the President, in the home
State of the radical La Toilette
dynasty, would come his closest to
politics BY discussing his social pro-
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subjects. The next step Was the dis
closure that the President would ex-
press gratitude TO Senator Robert NJ
| La Toilette, independent candidate
for reelection. but without naming
him. And in the final disclosure he
showed that between the time of the
writing and delivering the speech, the
President decided to go the whole way
and name Senator La Toilette over
the Democrats proteStationS that 1t
| would "re-elect" the erStwhile insur-
gent Republican before the Presidents
own party had had q chance to name
their candidate.
Reaction is Mixed
Whether the President has gone far
enough TO consolidate his left wing
leadership is considered uncertain In
/ the presidential circle. The reaction
} to the Wisconsin speech has been
mixed. 1t was pointed out that If
there was to be any further move at
all. il would have TO be TO the left,
since the President has gone beyond
competing for the conservative vote.
1t was suggested, however. that Mr..
Roosevelt had gone TO q point where
he was yielding no more ground to
the left than was imperative to hold
his control.
The New Deal Is Just coming to its