Evening star., 1934-05-20
NEW DEAL STORM GAINS
ON NATIONWIDE FRONT
Many Sections Are Disappointed Over
Funds Delays, Tariff Bill Is Unpop-
ular and Agencies Draw Fire.

pOuClcal SITUATION In tne State ana
the tenor of the letters he has been
receiving recently have convinced him
that there Is a tide of revolt against
phases Of the new deal which is
sweeping to larger and larger propor-
tionS. The reports to Senator FeSs
are borne out in =. communications
reaching members of the Senate and
House from other States.
Dissatisfaction General
These indicate deep dissatisfaction
with the N. r. A. on the part of the
farmers, consumers in general, small
business men, and strong elements of
labor; dissatisfaction with phases of
the A. A. A. among the farmers; feel
ing on the proposition that farm prices
have not gone ahead to the extent
that industrial prices have advanced;
dissatisfaction with the Farm Credit
Administration; and great unrest with
respect to unemployment. 1t is indi-
Gated that while the men and women
attached to the governmental pay roll
through the c. w. A. and its success
sion are well disposed toward the ad-
ministration, the great numbers who
were on the Government pay roll tenn
porarily and have been Topped off are
not in Il calm frame of mind, nor are
the millions of unemployed who never
succeeded in In getting attached to
the, Government pay roll.
Perhaps views and reflections of
public sentiment which come through
the old-time Republican politicians
such as MeSsrs Watson and Fess are
open to criticism as not being impair
tlal and reliable, but it must be borne
in mind that this is not year when
cold-blooded political experts of the
opposition to the party in power are
seeking to deceive themselves. Letters
reaching Democratic members of the
two Houses from such of the country
also indicate that the new deal has its
troubles and difficulties.
Important reflections of sentiment
come in letters to members without
regard to party, from the corn and hog
States of the Middle West. They re-
veal deep-seated dissatisfaction with
the prices of hogs and belief that the
processing tax is being raised wholly
or In part at the expense of the pro-
ducer. This complaint about the pro-
cessing tax and its failure to strike
at the professor, is the most vociferous
among ralSerS of hogs, but it is not
confined to them.
1t Is significant that recently.
aroused by the protests against the
operations of the processing tax from
his district, Representative E. C. Eicher.
OF the flrSt Iowa district, introduced
a bill providing for ice-fixing of
hogs. Mr.. Eicher served notice that
unless the House Committee on Agri-
culture gave him hearing and took
up the bill seriously, he would seek to
bring 1t before the House by petition.
Strong Farmer Sentiment.
Representative Eicher is a Democrat
and supporter of the administration.
and the Introduction of such a bill in
dlcates strong farmer sentiment in
his part of the country that the
A. A. A. policy has not achieved the
results expected.
All these phases of public sentiment
will be talked over when the Republi-
can National Committee and other
leaders meet in Chicago.
They will seek to calculate what the
reported and alleged revolt against
the new deal means in votes next Fall.
The Republican leaders look on the
silver movement, the demand for the
bill and the demand for the
farm mortgage refi-
nanclng bill as clear indications of
political unrest. Demands for such
legislation all bear on the extent of
the dissatisfaction with the workings
OF the new deal. However, they leave
unsolved the question whether the Re-
publican party is to be made the
political beneficiary of this dissatis-
faction.
Ihe warning note sounded some
days ago by Senator William E. Borah.
lnSurgent Republican, Of Idaho that
the Republican party must reorganize
and put new blood in charge: that it
must get abreast OF the times or 90
down like the old Whig party, has not
gone unnoticed. While Mr.. Borah's
utterance may be criticized by many
OF the regular Republican leaders they
are showing disposition to make i'm
portant concessions to the more pro-
gress1ve and liberal elements of the
party.
Ihe result of the primaries in Penn
sylvania. where Senator David A.
Reed, regular Republican. defeated
GOV Clifford Pinchot, progressive Re-
publican and insurgent, for the sena-
torlal nomination, has greatly en-
couraged the regular Republican lead
ers. This is not merely because they
prefer Reed to Pinchot. They are
well aware that if Pinchot had won.
the Democrats and supporters of the
new deal generally would have as
serted that the public will not stand
Tor criticism of the Roosevelt pro-
gram and policies and that these had
1ully gr1pped the masses of the peo-
pie.
The Pennsylvania result, as viewed
by the Republican leaders, indicates
that rising protest against the new
deal is on in the East as well as the
West. Whatever Democratic leaders
may say for publication about the
victory of Senator Reed, it cannot be
concealed that the outcome is a dis
appointment to them, as it seems to
SHOW clearly that a vast element of
the population in a great industrial
and agricultural State is far from won
over to the things the administration
is doing and attempting to do.
(Copyright, 1934.)