Evening star., 1934-06-24
ROOSEVELT MAPS
AUGUST CAMPAIGN
Bid for Progressive Support
Seen in Plans for Wis
consin Speech.
Continued From First Page.)

EAASS o5S'(
home Offices in Washington, ad-
ministrators of various emergency de-
partments are already leaving the
Capital. DR.. Rexford G. Tugwell,
storm center of the A. A. A, plans
far-flung speaking tour. One of the
new deals most expert and attractive
speakers, Harry L. Hopkins, relief ad-
ministrator, has laid out an extensive
program. Gen. Hugh S. Johnson,
national recovery administrator. will
carry the case of the N R. A. to the
country. Chester C. Davis, agricul-
tural adjustment administrator, will
take to the hustings. Cabinet officers
in direct charge of important phases
of the program, including Harold L.
1ckes, public works administrator, will
be on the speaking circuit.
Interpretation Required.
Far from leaving the Interpretation
of the new deal to the politicians, the
administration is sending out its key
men to explain what they have been
doing at their desks in Washington
and the broader aims of the Roosevelt
reforms. The candidates for Congress
will be helped along later. Many left
Washington frankly admitting that
they did not understand many Of the
vital measures they had supported
through Congress The political STRAIT
egists of the new deal will be thankful
if they can keep the politicians from
Contradicting each other. They real
ize that the really comprehensive de-
scriptions of long-range objectives
must come from the experts in charge
of important sectors. For the few con-
gressional candidates who understand
them it is felt that there will be more
who do not. Hence the steps to mini
mize confusion in the campaign by
getting a head start with the interpre-
tative program.
Mr.. Roosevelt, laying the ground
work in his cross-country train trip
back to Washington from the Pacific
Northwest. is expected to stress the
social aspects. In the Columbia River
Basin and at Fort Peck, Mont, he will
be speaking in the center of immense
water power and land rehabilitation
projects.
Farms Weakest Link.
Against these backgrounds, Mr.,
Roosevelt will be in a position to
describe the projected developments
Of the plans underlying the Tennessee
Valley Authority, with its aim. among
other things. to bring cheap power
and better living conditions to the
hinterland. In the farm belt, weakest
link in the new deal chain, the ad-
ministration will lose no time counter
acting the feeling that higher prices
under the N. r. A. will be permitted
to offset the advantages of the A. A. A.
The Presidents speaking tour will
begin with his Decentralization from
the cruiser Houston upon his arrival
at Portland, Greg, or Seattle, Wash,
from Hawaii Hence the campaign
will begin about August /, a full
month and more ahead of the usual
starting time for congressional cam
paigns. Against the political rule that
short, intensive campaigns are better
than long ones, the administration
feels the need to make an excep-
ton this year.
This is because the new deal cam
paign will fall, roughly, into two
phases. First will be the broad edu-
cational campaign by the new deal
experts, considered necessary IN view
of the intricacies of the broad reforms
under way and the lack OF general
understanding of them. Second will
be the usual political campaign, tor
the reelection or replacement of the
members of Congress who voted the
extraordinary powers underlying the
new deal.
Wheat Belt Trip Uncertain.
While Mr.. Roosevelt has been plan
ming to make three or four speeches,
only the speeches at Fort Peck, Mont,
and at Green Bay, Wis, are definitely
projected. 1t is assumed, however,
that he will make some statement
at his port of Decentralization and
make innumerable eXtemporaneous
remarks" from his train. In his
return to Washington he is likely to
take the northern route to the Twin
Cities and to Upper Wisconsin.
Whether he will deviate from the
usual route from there into Chicago
and enter the wheat belt is not GER
tain in washington and may not be
vet in the Presidents mind.
The Democratic Senatorial Cam
paign Committee, under Senator
James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois, has
made it plain that, far from max
ing the mistake Wilson made in 1915" j"
which was to ask for a Democratic
Congress to see him through the war
and postwar period, the Roosevelt
administration will not ask the cleo
ton OF Democrats as such but rather
for the election of candidates regard
less of party who support the RooSe-
welt policies.