Evening star., 1935-12-09
THE POLITICAL
MILL
BY C.. Could Lincoln.

| Court of the United States arguments
begin over the constitutionality of the
agricultural adjustment act and the
| processing taxes levied hereunder.
President Roosevelt speaks in Chicago
before the Farm Bureau Federation in
| defense of the agricultural program of
his administration. And, in Washington,
Maj. George L. Berry, N. R. A. industrial
co-ordinator, opens a much-heralded
| meeting with industrial leaders and
| labor for the avowed purpose of outlin-
ing a program of returning the unem-
| ployed to work. 1t has been suggested
that the meeting is to be devoted in
| part to plans for restoration of the
| N. r. A. in some new form.
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Upon the A. A. A. and its benefit
checks to the farmers the Roosevelt
| Democrats are basing much of their
hope OF carrying the great farm States
| of the West next year. If the Supreme
Court holds the act unconstitutional, as
| it did the N. R. A., what then becomes
the attitude of the President and his
administration? The decision of the
court unhorsing the N. r. A. brought
| from the President statements in which
| he seemed to indicate that the Govern
ment was helpless to aid the people meet
certain problems of modern life. Will
he have something to say further along
such lines if the court eventually rules
out the A. A. A? And what if the court
finally holds unconstitutional other New
Deal acts-perhapS the Wagner labor
act, the Guffey coal act and the public
utility holding companies act? 1t seems
impossible that the question of a con-
Stitutional amendment giving the Fed
eral Government meager powers to deal
with the problems outlined by the Presi-
dent after the NJ r. A. decision will not
bob up in the national political campaign.
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Senator Guffey of Pennsylvania, new
chairman of the Democratic Senatorial
Campaign Committee, promises to be an
active and aggressive leader in the 1886
campaign. 1t is his job to hold for the
Democratic party all the seats it now
| has in the Upper House and to increase,
| if possible, that already overwhelming
| majority. He has a real job on his
| hands to hold all the seats occupied
| by Democrats who come up for re-elec-
| ton. On the other hand. with only
third of the Senate membership to be
chosen, it is mathematically impossible
for the party in power to lose control OF
the Senate, even if there were a Repub-
lican sweep next year against the New
| Deal.
The Pennsylvania Senator has no fear
! of such sweep Indeed. in a statement
made public today, he said: 1T is my
belief, generally speaking. sitting Demo-
cratic members of the Senate will be
renominated and reelected" He has
| still to take leaf from the book of Post
master General James A. Farley. Demo-
cratic national chairman, when it comes
| to making claims of Democratic success
at the coming election. Mr.. Farley would
| certainly have omitted that generally
speaking" However Senator Guffey is
quite positive in his statement about
! Democratic successes next year. He
said, for example:
Issues in the States will be sharpened
| by the individual candidates. National
issues will necessarily predominant in
| our senatorial contests. President RooSe-
| velt's popularity and the New Deal ac-
complishments will undoubtedly be the
main issues both nationally and locally.
| The American people will express their
| gratitude by their votes and it is un-
believable that they will repudiate the
| splendid administration of Franklin D.
| Roosevelt"
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The first senatorial primary will be
| held in Louisiana January 81. In that
| primary a successor to the late Senator
| Huey P. Long, bitter foe of President
Roosevelt and all his acts, will be chosen.
| No one doubts that the nominee Of that
| primary will be elected to the Senate in
| the following November. Louisiana will
| send a Democrat to the Senate. The
| only question is whether he will be a
| critic of the Roosevelt New Deal or will
| go along with the President. The death
of Senator Long removed from the next
| campaign one of the thornS in the side
| of the Roosevelt Democrats.
The dates on which primary elections
| for the nomination of Senators will take
| place, together with the names of those
| States which hold conventions for max
| ing such nominations. are given by Sen
ator Guffey, along with the names of the
| Senators who are up for reelection, as
| follows:
January 81, Louisiana, vacancy, Demo-
| crat; April IA, Nebraska, George w. Nor
| riS, Republican; April IA, Illinois, j. Ham
| ilton Lewis, Democrat; May S, Alabama,
| John H. Bankhead, Democrat; May 5,
| South Dakota. w. J. Bulow, Democrat;
| May II, West Virginia, M. M. Neely,
Democrat; May Is, Oregon, Charles L.
McNary, Republican; May 19, New .Jer-
sey, w. Warren Barbour, Republican;
June /, Iowa, L. j. Dickinson, Repub-
lican; June 6, North Carolina, Josiah
| William Bailey, Democrat: June IS, Min
nesota, Thomas D. Schall, Republican;
June IS, Maine, Wallace H. White, jr.,
Republican; July 7, Oklahoma, Thomas
P. Gore, Democrat; July 81, Montana,
| James E. Murray, Democrat; July 25,
| Texas, Morris Sheppard, Democrat; Au-
! gust l, Kentucky, M. M. Logan, Demo-
| crat; August 4, Kansas, Arthur Capper,
Republican,; August 4. Virginia, Carter
| Glass, Democrat; August 6, Tennessee,
| Nathan L. Bachman, Democrat; August
| IL, Arkansas, Joseph T. Robinson, Demo-
crat; August II, Idaho. William E. Borah,
Republican; August 18, Wyoming, Rob-
ert D. Carey, Republican; August 25,
South Carolina, James F. ByrneS, Demo-
crat; August IS, Mississippi, Pat Harri-
son, Democrat; September l, New Hamp-
shire, Henry w. Keyes, Republican; Sep
tember 8, Michigan, James CouzenS, Re-
publican; September g. Colorado, Ed
ward P. Costigan, Democrat; September
Is, Massachusetts,, Marcus A Coolidge,
Democrat. Convention: New Mexico,
Carl A. Hatch, Democrat; New Mexico,
Dennis Chavez, Democrat; Georgia,
Richard B, Russell jr., Democrat; Della