Evening star., 1934-07-09

Not only has the 1884 congressional
campaign opened up earlier than
usual for these biennial contests, but
it gives promise of being fought on
an uncommonly high plane. With the
new deal and correlated questions as
the paramount issue, political argu-
ment during the Summer and Fall
will revolve primarily around eco
Monies and require candidates and
other SpellbinderS to get down more
than ordinarily to brass tacks and cut
out political bunk. Party managers
believe voters are in distinctly
show me" frame Of mind with re-
gard to the merits and dement's of
the Roosevelt revolution, and that
office-Seekers angling for support are
going to have to come forward with
persuasive facts and figures that the
average man and woman can grasp,
instead of relying on the old brand OF
campaign ballyhoo.
X
Evidently the Republican National
Committee under Chairman Henry P.
Fletcher has gone brain trust on its
own account. AT any rate, the new
G. o. p. chieftain announced in his
jackson, Mich, speech on Saturday
that he proposes in due course to
set up committees Of the most COM
petent men we can find to make q
study Of current economic questions.
so that their reports may furnish
the basis of q constructive and for
ward looking Republican legislative
program"
This years elections should result in
a clearer perspective with regard TO
Republican presidential possibilities.
II Senators David A. Reed OF Penn
sylvania and Arthur H Vandenberg
of Michigan are reelected by impress
sive ma ajoritieS. they are sure to loom
conspicuouSly on the 1886 horizon,
along with men like Ogden L. Mills,
Representative James w. WadSworth
of New York and others who have
hitherto ranked as G. o. P. white
hopes. In the long g-distance reckon
ing. the two congressional minority
leaders, Senator Charles L. McNary
Of Oregon and Representative Bertrand
H. Smell of New York and Gov. John
G. winant of New Hampshire continue
to figure, too. Among others whose
names are beginning to crop up is Col.
Hanford MacNider of Iowa, who
opened the Republican party's recent
eightieth anniversary celebration in
Michigan with an anti-new deal blast.
The forceful young former national
commander OF the American Legion.
later Assistant Secretary of War and
Minister to Canada. has long ranked
as a favorite son with World War vet
Grams
Gen. Werner Won Blomberg, Ger
man minister Of defense and head Of
the ReichSwehr. who is q key man in
the critical situation in Hitler's strife
torn Reich. visited the United States
in 1890 as chief of German military
mission invited to inspect our Army
establishment. He made a deep i'm
preston in Washington as a practical
soldier and student of military science.
Soon after Gen. Won Blomberg was in
this country an American military
mission visited Germany and came
back with glowing accounts OF the
Reich's postwar land establishment.
In some respects the American officers
thought that for its size, 100000 men.
it was perhaps the finest army in the
world
WsShington's growing Importance
as the center of the American labor
movement is enhanced by the estab-
ishment here for the first time of
the international headquarters of the
United Mine Workers, the powerful
organization Of which John L. Lewis
has been president since 1920. For
ths past quarter Of o century the