Evening star., 1934-05-23

Gay IlOIlllIlS LIldll OClldIOLo oOA GIL oAo
Nye when they read the Darrow re-
port.
They are good, sensible Republican
liberals, but not Socialists or Com
munists. Their liberalism shines &C.
casionally by contrast with the doc
trineS of some OF the conservatives OF
their party, but they are not radicals.
Yet. here was all their good ma
terial against the N. R. A. in the Dar-
row report completely topped by the
recommendation for socializatlon OF
system.
It was enough to make them Shud-
der, and they did.
Somewhere along the pdy Of pre-
pairing the report Mr. Ddrrot0 had
been led into Offering the SocialiStic
remedy Only the insiders kno1c
that portions OF the report lDere
reUritten four or fire times after
he conferred with administration
authorities.
1t was upon one of these rewriting
occasions that the socialization theory
found a place in the report. 1t Is
supposed to have been put in by Mr..
Darrow's ghost writer, Charles Ed
ward Russell with assistance from
member of the committee. =
At any rate. it gave the admins
tration a perfect response. The boys
had been breathing hard and were
worried before the report was made
public They thought it might prove
very damaging to the new deal After
they saw it, their faces we're wreathed
in smiles. All they had to say was:
These N. r. A. opponents are So
cialists and Communists"
Some of the sincere opponents OF
N. r. A. policies were bitter enough
to suggest that Darrow should be re-
warded by the administration for put
ting N r. A. opposition on a So
cialistic level.
About all it amounts to, however,
is political by-play.
To Be Put Through Wringer.
The best inside data indicate clearly
that the administration Is going to
put the N. r. A. through the wringer
during the next few months. 1t Will
adopt the best features OF the DarroW
report.
Also, If there is sufficient basis to
the Borah-Nye charges, as they con-
tend, the matter cannot end with the
Darrow report.
In fact, it appears the debate has
only started.
The real story behind Republican
preparations for the election Of ma
tional chairman next month is that
there is no story.
No inside fighting is diScernible.
No one seems to haze an dct1Ue
candidate. The Eastern cro10d
dppedrs to pdnt to appedse the
West under all circumstances. The
Westerners as get haze no candt-
date of their otCn.
The boys may possibly agree on
Walter Hallanan, well-to-do West
Virginian. or some one like that, or
they may cling to their original idea
of letting Vice Chairman Ralph Will
sional elections.
There appears to be rather strong
sentiment underneath in favor OF
choosing some one now, but no one
knows who.
There is one, and only one, Demo-
crat in the House of Representatives
running for reelection on program
of full-fledged opposition to the new
deal. He is James I. Claiborne of St.
Louis. Claiborne voted against every
thing except the N. r. A. and has
lately turned against that.
The answer is he is running in a
normally Republican district, which,
however. now is supposed to include
Chance for Oil Legislation.
There seems to be better chance
for oil legislation before adjournment.
The experts in that line agree legis-
lation Is necessary to save the code,
now that the test violation case has
gone over until Fall in the Supreme
Court.
Ogden Mills is the only Republican
outside of Congress who is attracting
any national attention, but liberals
within the party are dead set against
him for any position.
There Is a group of Democratic Sem
ators in the amen corner OF the
Senate who call themselves "the
common people They organized
spontaneously and frequently consult
each other on voting. Included in the
group of 10 or IL are Bone, Bulow,
Erickson, Long, Pope and Wheeler.
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