Evening star., 1934-04-20

young Teddy" Roosevelt's inaugural
address as president OF the National
Republican Club, at New York, with
its smashing attack on the new deal.
is considered by some Washington
politicians as a bid for consideration
as the 1885 G. o. P. white hope. The
colonels availability has been quietly
discussed in certain quarters which
hold that the magic name OF Theo-
dore Roosevelt is an asset Of which
the party might well take advantage
three years hence. The present T. r.
struck what Is undoubtedly to be the
Republican keynote-"unconst
ansm" Along with the growing We
hemence with which the Roosevelt
revolution" is nowadays assailed, Re-
publican 1886 thought tends to crys-
tallize more and more around the men
who are leading the attack. Hitherto.
as far as presidential possibilities are
concerned, that group has been con-
fined to men like Ogden Mills and
Jim Wadsworth. If the young Loch-
invar is to come out Of the West,
rather than the East, the names most
frequently encountered as potential
candidates are those of Senators
Vanoenberg Of Michigan. Dickinson
Of Iowa and McNary Of oregon. If
Senator David A. Reed smashes
through to reelection, he might be-
come a towering figure in the situa-
ton, although the Republicans seldom
timber.
II
In view of the gunpowder which
Japan's amazing pretensions about
China have suddenly injected into the
Far Eastern situation. more than
ordinary interest will attach to Presi-
dent Roosevelt's Summer naval cruise
through the Panama Canal to Hawaii
and his inspection OF our Gibraltar in
the Pacific, at Pearl Harbor. 1t was the
other President Roosevelt who damp
ened Japan's ardor for trouble with
the United States on a previous oc-
casion by sending the American fleet
around the world. It's just possible
that the hotspurs of Toxic may read
some significance into F. D. RS jour-
ney into our Pacific defensive area
at this psychological moment.
Some inkling OF how stern a fight
the administration faces in the Sen
ate on the reciprocal tariff bill is sup
piled by a recent inside poll of that
body. which is said to have disclosed
81 opposition votes. The tabulation
included virtually the solid Repub-
lican strength Of IS members and
some IS Democrats. The figures do
not particularly terrify White House
leaders, because they denote that
change Of only four votes would suf-
fee to give the administration a ma
jority and victory. There Is such
wealth of controversial legislation
awaiting action, with corresponding
opportunity for mutual concessions"
that unless the opposition to the tariff
proposition assumes Unexpectedly new
dimensions administrationists are
confident the President will carry the
day. But he will know that he had
fight on his hands.
D. A. R. leaders await the arrival
OF current issues of foreign news
papers to see whether any Of them
this year pulled the immortal boner
about Washington in mid-April
having been the scene of a "revolu-
ton" staged by thousands of deter
mined women who marched upon the
Capital with flying banners and after
taking possession Of it, assembled in
a Congress and adopted resolutions
on a variety Of national subjects.
Lurid news" to that effect was once