Evening star., 1935-09-09
THE POLITICAL
MILL
By G.. Could Lincoln.

VelL ana his NeW Dchl. Particularly
was the Presidents correspondence with
Roy w. Howard, publisher, regarding q
breathing spell for business the target.
The c. o. p. National Committee had
plenty to say about 1t. 1t declared that
the publication Of the exchange Of let
ters was a good piece of partisan
propaganda. even though perfectly
transparent" and that it had changed
no ones opinion OF the President and
his New Deal program.
1T is obvious the frightened business
men, out of Solicitude for whom the
correspondence was ostenSibly initiated,
are not going to be treasured regarding
the Roosevelt program" said the @. o. p.
committee. Certainly not until they
obtain some definite and dependable
answer to the questions which Mr.. How
ard did not ask" Among those qlles-
tionS were the budget. sound money.
The committee charged that President
Roosevelt and Mr.. Howard had arranged
the exchange of letters; that the Presi-
dent knew in advance what questions
would be asked, and that Mr.. Howard
knew In advance what answers would be
made.
In Portsmouth, N H.. the Young Re-
publicanS Of New England had a. field
day shooting at the Roosevelt admin
istration, with another Roosevelt to
egg them on. Col. Theodore Roosevelt,
IT, Col. Roosevelt particularly assailed
the A. A. A, with its processing taxes.
which are decidedly unpopular in New
England. Gov. Bridges of New Hamp-
shire characterized as tyranny" the
potato act"-an amendment to the
A. A. A. passed by Congress in the Ses-
sion recently closed. Said Gov. Bridges
in this connection:
Just what President Roosevelt in
tends to do with our people and our
farmers is shown in the potato control
bill that he has just passed through
this bootlicking Congress. 1t shows to
what length these plans Of his 20. for
that bill not only will affect the 3 900 900
farmers who grow potatoes, but every
one who buys a potato, and that means
practically every one in the United
States.
TO begin with, this bill OF Presi-
dent RooSevelts permits the Secretary
OF Agriculture TO decide just how MANY
potatoes every farmer will grow. He
VIII allot quotas to each State and to
the farmer. That is the first step"
The "crowning atrocity" Of the potato
act, he said, is that which imposes a
$1,000 fine and jail sentence for selling
potatoes in other than prescribed con-
tanners and with prescribed tags
attached.
That tears the veil from all their
protests. That shows in plain words
to what lengths they are trying to 20.
This act is not merely the essence of
idlocy 1t is the essence of TYRANNY.
1t is blood brother to the edicts in
Russia, Germany or Italy Any man
proposing such an act-any man in
sympathy with it-doeS not belong in
free Nation, such as America was,
and We should retire him definitely and
permanently to private life"
While Col. Frank Knox. publisher of
the Chicago Daily News in Boston was
asserting that President Roosevelt had
merely promised a breathing spell to
industry and that industry would require
greater assurance before confidence was
restored, Hanford MacNider, former
Assistant Secretary of War, was In
dieting the New Deal in Chicago. Mac
Nider said that the Roosevelt admins
tration was virtual dictatorship MAIN
tained half by fear and half by liber-
ality with other peoples money" At
the same time Senator Dickinson of
Iowa. addressing a meeting of Repub-
licans in st. Charles Mo. said that the
American people are facing crushing
taxes and a standard of living likely to
be lower than higher for the future"
x**
Up in Massachusetts Republicans are
plucking up courage and beginning to
make plans for their State campaign
next year, as we'll as the national cam
paign. They were badly beaten in the
governorship race in 1884 when Gov.
Curley, Democrat. won by big vote over
former Lieut.. Gov. Gaspar G. Bacon. a
brother of Representative Bacon of New
York. After that contest a wag asked
why the election of Governor was like
pigs tail. The answer was: Cali Cur
ley and no Bacon" But Mr.. Bacon has
returned from a trip to Europe and de-
clareS that he is not out of politics by
any means. 1t is reported from Boston
that if Mr.. Bacon runs again for office
next year he will be a candidate for
Senator, and that he will particularly
seek election to the Senate If Gov. Cur
ley decides to become the Democratic
nominee for that Office. And yet Cur
ley is considered by most Of the political
observers In Massachusetts, to be the
strongest candidate the Democrats could
put forward. Apparently. Mr.. Bacon
wants to have another tilt with the
Governor
No one knows whether Gov Curley will
run for the Senate or seek to be Gov
ernor again. He rather indicated that
he would seek senatorial honors in q
speech which he made last Winter.
Since then, however, many have come
to believe that he would prefer to con-
tinue for another two years in Boston
as Governor OF the State.
Two or three Republicans, beside Mr..
Bacon, have been suggested as possible
contenders for the Republican nominal
tion for Senator in Massachusetts next
year. One of them is Representative
Henry Cabot Lodge. jr.. of Beverley, a
member OF the State Legislature. Mr..
Lodge has made a good record in the
Legislature. 1t is believed he has ambi-
tion to fill some day the seat in the
Senate SO long occupied by the late
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. for years
dominant figure among Republicans
in the Bay State. The son Of another
Senator from Massachusetts,, Mayor Sin
clair Weeks of Newton, Mass, also is
believed to have senatorial aspirations.
Mayor Weeks is the son Of the late Sem