The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-05-17
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National Topics Interpreted - fT7T1561F&
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by William Bruckart

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is right or wrong, many voters get
suspicious when campaigners persist
| in talking about raids on the federal
!! treasury. They always think of it in
terms of theft of money from the local
bank or stores and not in the terms
of political maneuvering, although /
confess / can see little difference. It
always has happened that the polit-
| ical party in power has controlled the
flow of public moneys into the spots
where the funds will do the most good,
politically, and when either side
kicks about that, it seems to me it is
exactly like one mule calling anoth-
er "longear."
Il won't even suggest that l can
guess what the ultimate effect of
these strangs arguments is going to
be. Anyone who tries to predict the
result at this time is just being silly.
The best judgment / can get is that
the results in the various congression-
al districts are going to vary. The
difference likely will be dependent en-
tirely upon how many mistakes plain
bonehead statements the various
candidates make in their attempts to
follow arguments and analysis laid
down for them by the national politi-
cal committees. My belief is that there
will be plenty of them and there ought
to be, therefore, a considerable amount
of surprise when the votes are count
ed.
1t is quite apparent to the Demo-
cratic leaders, and they say so, that
a number of house seats, now held by
Democrats, will be turned over to the
Republicans next fall. There are seats
occupied by democrats who have no
reason on earth to be in the house ex-
cept by virtue of the tremendous
landslide that placed Mr.. Roosevelt
in the White House. Districts normal
ly Democratic are more than likely
going to continue to elect Democrats,
but the political accidents" that elect
ed many others of the vast majority
in the house are going to send many
home because they come from over
| whelmingly Republican communities.
The Republican leaders are asserting
they will pick up eighty or ninety
seats from the Democrats next No
vember There can be no doubt that
they will gain some, but eighty or
ninety is a high figure in anybody's
language.
First Termer' Wins Honor
It seems to me that Representa-
tive Mark Wilcox of Florida has won
rather signal honor in his first term
as member of the house of repre-
sentatives by obtaining passage Of
| the legislation that has come to be
known as the municipal bankruptcy
bill. 1t is something like twenty years
since a freshman" member Of the
house of representatives has sponsor
ed a piece of legislation of national
scope that was passed and became a
/ law. Plenty of new members have in
PRODUCED bills, nationwide in their eff
feet, but as far as my research has
disclosed, none has been successful in
| the last twenty years.
/ Mr.. Wilcox won membership in the
house by defeating Mrs. Ruth Bryan
Owen, daughter of the famed William
Jennings Bryan, for the Democratic
nomination in his district where the
nomination is tantamount to an cleo
ton. So he was given baptism Of
fire before he ever reached the house
. itself.
The measure, as | said, is national
in scope and it probably will affect
the financial status of some $500
communities which the bill calls tax
j ing districts This list of taxing dis