Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-12-19
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President in his annual message gives
some idea of what he proposes to
spend for relief and recovery later on.
The two must be taken together. Fur
Their, believe if past practices are re-
peated, there will be White House re-
quests for supplementary appropria-
lions for the ordinary expenditures as
well so that the total may not be dis
closed for several months after con-
gress meets.
Under conditions that always have
prevailed, the political party in power
has always avoided
DlfHcult tearing down bureauc-
Task racy in Washington in
an election year. The
civil lists Of the government include
most Of the local politicians on whom
the party in power must depend in its
campaign for reelection. To remove
many of them means naturally the loss
of power in the local communities and
no political party can hope to win by
tearing down its campaign machinery
in that manner.
Thus, Mr.. Roosevelt's task appears
difficult. He will be seeking economy
in government OUTLAWS in an effort to
satisfy and reassure business which is
calling for economy. At the same time
he is under the necessity of holding
his political machine intact as the
vehicle upon which he will seek to
ride to reelection.
Besides this circumstance, there IS
the snarling and crashing of business
interests at the heels Of the New Deal
because business leaders contend the
government is trying to run everything.
Although the MIRA is dead, there re-
main such things as the social security
act which carries a tax on business
pay rolls; the Guffey coal control law
with its taxing powers, and the steady
encroachment Of government in bust
ness as is exemplified by the Tennes-
see Valley electric power project. 1t
is no secret that business interests
do not like any Of these things and
business has it's heavy guns loaded to
wreck the man who, by introducing the
New Deal, must take responsibility fof
the government policies to which BUSH
ness objects.
Senator William e. Borah Of Idaho
his been much in the news lately. He
is INDUCING in a
0OTdn sport, or a game, he
ActiUitv takes up once each
four years. The date
of this activity always coincides each
time with the maneuvering that pre-.
cedes the selection Of the Republican
Presidential nominee.
Congress being in recess, very few
seniors or Representatives are in
Washington. When they are scat.
tered to their homes, most of them
rate very little publicity outside Of
their own bailiwicks. SO, whether
Senator Borah is in Washington or at
his home in Idaho, he commands atten.
ton and hits the front page whenever
he chooses to speak,
The current circumstances involving
Senator Borah, therefore, are no diff.
ferent than those which surrounded
him in previous periods when political
discussions ran to Presidential nom
inees and party platforms, except that
Senator Borah this time has COM
manded a little more attention and has
been on the front pages with his state
ments to greater extent than in pre-
vious years. This results from the
situation in which the Republican
party, being the minority party now,
finds itself.
The woods are full of potential Re-
publican Presidential nominees. Fa-
yorite sons are everywhere.
In the midst of all of this stands the
figure, somewhat bulky, of Senator
Borah. He has given every indication
in the last several months: first, that
he is not candidate for the nominal
ton; second, that he is a candidate
for the nomination, and third, that he
has not made up his mind. He has
done all Of these things we'll and no
one knows whether he is a candidate
or whether he is not a candidate or
whether he has not made up his mind.
Having made quite clear that am
not informed as to Senator Borahs
plans, can fairly relate some of the
things that have happened heretofore.
I can recall for example that many
times the Borah maneuvers have had
as their objective the establishment OF
a political circumstance for the senator
that has enabled him to exert unusual
influence on the Republican national
convention when it came time to write
a party platform and select the party
standard bearer. / believe it is fair to
state that Senator Borah is master
tactician in this regard. I know that
some Of the old-line party wheelhorses
fear him and his tactics UNNECESSARILY.
I have seen evidences of that fear
during the last several months and
have no doubt that there will be more
of it displayed in the months to come.
Astute political observers around
Washington contend that the senator's
outward Irritation with the question
of Presidential candidacy is nothing
more nor less than repetition of
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