Evening star., 1934-06-22

Whether the times are good or bad
next Fall will largely determine the
outcome of the congressional elections.
President Roosevelt and the new deal
will be the issues around which strife
will rage. But, when all's said and
done. the thing that will count most
heavily will be the state of the coun-
try's pocket nerve. If business in No
vember Is on the upgrade, unemploy-
ment visibly less, and the whole out
look correspondingly brighter, voters
are likely to 60 to the polls favorably
inclined toward Democratic candidates.
1t is therefore the trend OF business,
including agriculture, on which poll
ticians will keep their eyes peeled. AS
the campaign opens, Democrats count
confidently on control of the next
Congress. with possible loss OF seats in
the House and prospective gains IN
the Senate. Rooseveltians are ready to
give heavy odds that the President will
continue to be monarch of all he sur
veys on Capitol Hill by big majorities
in both houses. Only a wholly unex-
pected recession in recovery, they say,
can prevent such result.
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Even though they view the future
through rose-tinted spectacles, Demo-
Gratis will take no chances and will
put up a battle in every congressional
district and State where there's the
slightest possibility of hitch. The
political swing around the circle
which Jim Farley is about to make
will lay the groundwork for the cam
paign. Republicans. on their part
under the militant leadership OF the
reorganized National Committee, VIII
launch no less vigorous night. Inc
new deal will be assailed hammer and
tongs, with stress on the necessity OF
the people to determine whether the
United States Is ito remain democ-
racy or to substitute the domination
of an all-powerful central govern
ment." This is the keynote struck by
the recent G. o. p. statement OF
party policy" when Henry P. Fletcner
was elected national chairman. II Is
along that line that Republican
strategy during the next four months
will principally assert itself.
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Everybody who has had business at
the white House any time during the
past generation rejoices In the COM
pliment Mr.. Roosevelt has paid to
Rudolph Forster, executive clerk III
charge of the White House offices, by
inviting him to 60 along on the Ha-
waiian trip. Mr.. Forster's status in a
very literal sense has been that OF an
assistant to every President OF the
United States from william Mckinley
| to Franklin d. Roosevelt. AS In All
those 81 years Forster has seldom hao
A genuine vacation. 1t occurred to Mr..
Roosevelt the time had come to thrust
one upon him, so the executive vet
eran Is making the Pacific journey as
the only member of the White House
STAFF in the party. Forster, para
eon of mcdesty, courtesy and discre-
| tion. has been the custodian OF more
Executive secrets than any American
| in contemporary history. and there's
no case on record of his ever having
divulged single one.
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In nominating Oscar Ryder Of vir-
ginia to one of the Democratic va
cancies on the United States Tariff
Commission, probably the. only one
to be filled for the present, the Pres
ident has chosen q man OF sound
economic scholarship and long expert
ence with tariff problems not only IN
the commission, but under Gen.
johnson IN the N. r. A. Mr.. Ryder
will be generally regarded as low
tariff man, and thus representative OF
the old Democratic tradition, but per-
sons who know his work in the en-
forcement of section tE) of the
national industrial recovery act, re-