The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-04-12
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SBy CARTER FlELD1

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Washington.-During the next few
months President Roosevelt will seem
to be moving a little toward the right,
on every issue Of any consequence ex-
cept the public utilities. Actually there
VIII be very little change, but the ap-
pearance will seem very important,
and there will be loud cries from the
radicals.
In fact, the left fringe Of the brain
trust Is already disturbed. So much
30 that it is feeding out propaganda
intended to have a direct effect on
Roosevelt personally. 1t is certainly
not Intended for anyone else, for the
last thing these particular radicals
want to do Is to hurt him. The trou-
Die with them is that they have not
analyzed the higher politics Of the sit
nation. They are worried about an
eddy instead Of the main course of
the river. And their conversation Is
80 free, at all times, that even II the
president was concerned about their
attitude he would not dare tell them.
Fol In that case they would not be
able to rest until they had told their
favorite column conductors, just to
show they were still in the sinner cir
cle' and knew what was going on.
The present situation starts, not with
the President, but inside the Repub-
hcan camp. Yes-strange as it may
seem-there is still such a thing. The
Republicans, not all Of them but some
Of their strategists, are simply delight
ed with the Huey Long-Father Cough
lin situation. What they want NOR
than anything else in the world Is to
see a third party-a very radical third
party-with a Presidential ticket in the
field next year.
Their theory is, Of course, that this
radical party will garner a few cleo
toral votes-Wisconsin, the Dakotas,
possibly Montana, and maybe Wash
ington and Nebraska; that it will poll
a very large vote in some Of the big
eastern states such as Massachusetts,
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois enough
votes in this last group to make sure
that the Republican candidate would
walk off with the electoral votes. They
are not worrying about Connecticut
which stood by Hoover, although the
majority was very small, n Rhode
Island, which has suffered so in its
textile industry that Republicans feel
it is "in the bag"
See California Safe
Nor are they worried about Califor-
MIA, whose big electoral vote Is now SO
essential. The Golden Gate states re-
lection of Upton Sinclair, and its out
ragged protests about the reciprocal
trade treaties, makes them sure Of It.
Altogether. they think. their only
problem Is to get the right candidate
and the right platform!
OF course. in the Roosevelt view.
that is just where they fall down hard.
Who, Ro0sevelt's friends inquire, cyni-
cally, would the candidate BET And
what could the platform say?
But it has been part Of any
Roosevelt strategy to underrate an OPP
ponent, o to leave any stone un-
turned Just because it did not seem
necessary to move it. AS witness the
efforts in last falls election.
So Roosevelt Is m~aneuvering into his
favorite middle ground position, be-
tween the Tories and the radicals. And
to make this more secure, he is going
to seem a little conservative for a
while. He confidently expects to scare
the Republicans to death by this
course, for the natural reaction will
be just what they have been planning,
with one important exception.
Roosevelt plans to have the radicals
grow in strength, while he grows in
strength with voters who are normally
Republican,! But who are frightened
at the radical menace
Meanwhile the radical fringe of his
own supporters, trying to figure his
course out, have come to the conclu.
sion that the trouble is that Louis Nc.
Henry Howe has been sick. So they
say NJ. h. Mcintyre, the secretary who
makes all the Presidents appoint
ments, will no: let anyone except con-
servatives see him!
"Scotch" Tied Up
Millions Of gallons of fine-and per-
haps not so good-Scotch whisky, are
lying in government warehouses, under
the eagle eve of Uncle Sans customs
officers, and with little apparent pros
pect of being marketed through orr
nary channels.
This stock offers a fine chance for
bargains, If one could only appraise
the quality Of the liquor in some fash
ion. But how to do It? How to tell
what Is really good liquor, so to speak,
and what would have no appeal what
everf
For the trouble is that this whisky is
what the trade calls unknown brands"
II Ia Derhaps the best argument in