The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-09-17
Price Claims Republicans Have
Failed In Strengthening Cause
Leaders o. Party Are
Said To Have Learned
Much In Recent Else-
ton In Maine
By BYRON PRICE
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orshOdoS rspuhlissa. 80 . 49,
son in Maine I've ys.Fs sgs A.
the one IN the slsstions isst ssss.
Il vas thai their sampsisa ~ss
missing fare. thsy sd bstssr esa
busy Or take The consequence.
Il was two months bsfore ne
Roosevelt avalanche. They So
buster. surely enough. and recap
lured rocky Maine for uopveFs
but nevertheless lost a. ~ the
other az states.
Now Maine Is definitely cut 80
far a. strengthening their cause
IN November g. concerned
Tsking u To Heart
How much they will profit from
this new lesson can Only bs
guessed: but the national organ
zation is manifestiy taking b. to
heart.
The incidents are not strictly
parallel IN 1899 the party uas
;aug' mapping. The hiEh cam.
Hand had no idea % the eztenf
1f the swing away from Hoover
Intii the Maine returns we're in.
This time the organisation yes
alert. militant. II bore down a.
with some Of thu besi
talent Il could muster.
The results Wers ahoai tha
same, only more Of 10. Democratic
Governor Braun's majority o. q.
100 became so.0oo. This Aerp.is
Fails for his defeat 10 diroun thc
new deal"
Review OF Strategy
No party can laugh off such re.
'ults uneOneernedly. Nor are re-
publican regulars doing ~. Their
;Ountenanees are grim. Smile
hat were all set Co break uuf
when republican Maine went re-
publican have s0urcd.
The leaders will take council in
heir own way. The situaa,r
would seem 10 presage a scrisrs
review Of strategy 80 far. e. srrt
! strengthening. Pronounccmcnf.
IF both parties from now on uin
De- studied the more closely fpr ina
LEGATION Of new tactics.
An latenser Campaign
The first siraws in the wind
are not unlike those after the ias
Maine tally. President Hoover at
hat time telegrsphed Chicago
Of a "need for re-
lewed and stronger effort that
he people may fully understand
he issues at stake"
Now Chairman Fletcher savs
the people have not yet under
too j. We intend % rcdoubis
BUR efforts all along the line"
And Senator Hastings predca
lire results unless the Amerieaf
people can be made TO see tht
hangers that confront them"
Thus. IT, only clear prospect TO-
lay Is for an even intcnser cam
Of the familiar pattrrr.
One possibility that could change
, would be- for more pronounce
party cleo -ce. with greater uum-
'ers Of lifelong democrats en-
ering the republican lists and vice
feTsa.
farley IL Active
On the new deal side. enc
natural thing to say is being said
enthusiastically. II will BE- heard
,ftener. in the words of Char. an
Farley. that Maine. decision
proves the majority II people,
are with Roosevelt.
He knows the people ike a rrn-
Ter. He also knows they like
who carries the fight %
he other fellow. And no stiT rs
great believer in CORE
ipOndence.
These are three of the ba-cs an
which he Is conducting hr pan
ocular part ~ the "new deal"
;ause. What Maine did,. he PEE
terates. shows Roosevelt winning.
His speeches bristlc with denuncIa-
ion of "stand-patters" TAX ip
Washington has it that $4,000 let-
ers went from democratic head
quarters into Maine during the
wO weeks before the vote The
postage bill will be higher by No-