Evening star., 1934-06-24
Bid for Progressive Support
Seen in Plans for Wis
ConSin Speech.
AIDES TO STUMP STATES
TO INTERPRET PROGRAM.
Address in La Follette's Territory
Expected to Set Policy Toward
Opposing Democrats.
BY THEODORE C. WALLEN.

President Roosevelt, upon his re-
turn from Hawaii, will open the ad-
ministration campaign to expound
and sell" the new deal to the coun-
try. With the administration seeking
decisive new deal maiorities in Con-
gress regardless of party labels. Mr..
Roosevelt will make a series of
speeches across the country, the most
political of which will be at Green
Bay, Wis.
The Presidents going into WiScon-
sin under the political conditions
that obtain will be a friendly gesture,
if not an open Endorsement, of
Senator Robert M. La Toilette, an in
dependent candidate for reelection.
1t will also be a basis Of Mr.. Roose-
velt's bid for progressive Republican
support IN November. The congress
sional elections will be the first
referendum on the long-range aspects
of the new deal, and administration
leaders believe the insurgent Re
publicans will hold the balance of
power in certain States.
The Wisconsin speech is anticipated
as likely to show how the President
will meet the dilemma of supporting
insurgent Republicans without offer
ing local Democratic candidates. In
California, the decision was simpli-
fled by local Democratic Endorsement
Of Senator Hiram johnson, whose re-
election as a commonwealth progress
Sive" is now virtually conceded by
Republican leaders.
Understandings Sought.
In Wisconsin and New Mexico, the
administration has been hesitating
in the hope that understandings could
be reached by which the Democrats
would accept the inSurgent Republic
an senatorial candidates in return
for progressive Republican support
of State candidates.
Whether Mr.. Roosevelt comes out
for Senator La Toilette in his Wiscon-
sin speech will depend on the success
of current negotiations to unite Demo-
Gratis and insurgent Republicans to
re-elect the insurgent Senator La Fol-
lette and the Democratic Governor
A. G.. Schmedeman. Administration
Endorsement Of Senator Bronson Cut
ting, insurgent Republican. In New
Mexico hinges on similar plan. The
effect of Mr.. Roosevelt's speech, it j:
expected, will be beneficial to Senator
La Toilette in any event.
The most Mr.. Roosevelt has pro.
jected for Wisconsin for the present
is a speech on the social program
which he is projecting for the Con.
greSs to be elected in November
Speaking at the States Tercentenary
celebration at Green Bay, the Presi.
dent will outline his plan for old-agt
insurance and related measures which
he mas said he would study this Sum-
mer for presentation to Congress next
Winter
To Become Salesman.
In series of three or four speeches
which may be expanded as he move.
Eastward. Mr.. Roosevelt will be coins
to the country as the head sales.
man" OF the new deal. Conscious that
the projected reforms need interpreting
in the light of their hurried legislative
projection, and that the new dea
cannot continue without a clear-cut
Endorsement in November, the ad.
ministration has arranged to senc
folloW-up statesmen throughout the
country IN advance of the hurly-burly
Of the straight political campaign.
Supersalesmen, straight from the
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