Evening star., 1934-07-27
THRIFTY MUST PAY
|NEW DEALS BILLS,
|G. 0. P. CHIEF SAYS
Huge Expenditures Become
More Alarming, Fletcher.
Finds in Survey.
| MILLIONS TO BE SPENT
| IN CAMPAIGN, is CHARGE
Checks for Crop Reduction Held
Up Until Election Time,
n Chairman Declares. II
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

BY u. GUILD LiNCOLN.
The thrifty must pay for the huge
expenditures made by the Roosevelt
administration, and the thrifty are
beginning more and more to under
stand that" said Henry P. Fletcher,
chairman Of the Republican National
Committee today.
These great expenditures Of public
funds. in the opinion Of Chairman
Fletcher, will become more and more
an issue in the political campaign as
the people come to understand what
paying for them means.
Fletcher has just returned to
Washington after a visit to New Eng
land and to Eastern States. He de-
clared himself greatly encouraged
over Republican chances in the COM
ing congressional elections. There is
a growing feeling of revolt against
the new deal, he said.
Republican Funds.
Questioned about contributions for
the Republican war chest, Fletcher
said: I'VE are not down-hearted
about money" He added, however,
that he did not believe the Repub-
licans would have as much to throw
into the campaign as the Democrats.
The Democrats, he said. would pour
out hundreds of millions of dollars
from now on. and particularly as the
date of election approaches. These
millions would go for drought relief,
for general relief, for reclamation
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and for crop reduction under the
plans of the A. A. A.
Fletcher charged that the Govern
ment checks for crop reduction were
being deliberately delayed by the ad-
ministration so that they would reach
the farmers at the psychological mo-
ment, shortly before the election and
when the campaign is at its height.
Farmers Incensed.
In this connection and from other
sources, 1t is learned that the farmers
in Indiana and other parts of the
Midwest have been incensed because
they have not been receiving checks
for their participation In the corn
hog program of the A. A. A.
Today it was announced by the A.
A. A. that first -installment checks,
totaling approximately $1,000. 900,
have been distributed to the farmers
participating IN the corn-hog pro-
gram, and more than one-half of the
county Corn-Hog Committees have
been authorized to prepare regular
payment contracts for the final sig
natures Of producers.
The disbursements have been made
in more than 20 States up to date,
with Iowa, the great corn and hog
State receiving the highest amount,
1924, ,946.65.
Relief Funds Aid.
1t is by the distribution Of great
sums of money, in this and other
ways, that the Democrats will press
their campaign for the new deal and
continuance in power, according TO
Fletcher. While these expenditures
may be temporarily effective, in the
end they will be the undoing of the
Democrats and the new dealers, he
contends, particularly when the peo-
pie understand that they must pay
all these bills themselves.
In the meantime, however. he
contends that these great sums of
money really constitutes a Democratic
campaign fund.
i think the issues Of this campaign
are clearly joined today-more so than
in any campaign since the congress
sional campaign of 1918, when the
late President Wilson demanded of
the country the election of a Demo-
cratic Congress while we were at war.
II believe that some of the features
of the new deal are finding a grow
ing opposition, and people are begin
ming to rebel against the desire of the
administration to make some of the
so-called emergency measures, per-
manent law. This desire on the part
of the Government would mean put
ting the Government further into
business and I find that people are
beginning to realize that this idea is
bad"
Answering arguments Of the Demo-
cratic speakers that some of the new
deal laws we're passed with the sup
port of Republican members OF the
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