Evening star., 1935-12-17
Cleveland G.. @. p. Choice

The Republican National Committee
Yesterday took the preliminary steps
looking to the partyS national conVen-
ton in 1886, a convention that promises
to be momentous. Despite efforts to
postpone the date of the G. o. P. meet
ing until after the Democrats have
written their platform and nominated
their candidates, the Republicans de-
cided to meet June in Cleveland, Ohio.
AS Walter Brown, national committee
man from Ohio, remarked: why bother
with what the Democrats put IN their
platform, they themselves never Will.
In the light of that forgotten document,
the Democratic platform of 1882, Mr..
Brown may be right
The demand that the Republican Ma
tional Convention be taken into the
Middle West has been complied with, in
a measure. Ohio is one Of the great
pivotal States in political campaigns. 1t
has shown distinct signs of swing back
to the Republican fold. One Of the
motivating reasons for taking the con-
vention to Cleveland lay in the fact that
it is neutral ground-Ohio, the mother
of seven Presidents of the United States,
has developed no favorite son candidate
for the Republican presidential nominal
ton next year. Chicago and Kansas City
have their Colonel Frank Knox and
Governor ALI M. Landon, respectively.
And it was in Cleveland that the late
President Calvin Coolidge was success
fully nominated in 1924.
The meeting of the Republican Ma
tional Committee showed its members
to be confident and ready to fight. A
resolution was adopted by the committee
inviting all the ''Jeffersonian Democrats"
opposed to the Roosevelt New Deal to join
with the Republicans next year to throw
the present administration out of office.
If President Roosevelt can go to Los
Angeles and call upon all the liberals"
to get behind him, why is it out Of place
for the G. o. P. Committee to invite
the "JefferSonian Democrats" to rally
with them against the New Deal? Fur
thermore, the resolution adopted by the
committee gives promise to the anti
Roosevelt Democrats that they are not
to be treated like stepchildren after the
election of Republican President. 1t
is not strange that the resolution origi-
mated with the national committeeman
from Texas, R. B. Creager. Strenuous
efforts will be made in that State and
others of the South to turn the tide
against Roosevelt next year.
The Republican National Committee,
by two-to-one vote, turned its back on
an emergency" proposal advocated by
some of the old guard members. 1t was
no more nor less than proposal to cast
aside the rule laid down by the Repub-
lican national convention itself, provid-
ing that each State which cast its elec-
toral votes in the preceding presidential
election be allowed three additional dele
gates at large, each being permitted four
delegates at large in any event. Under
the rule made by the convention this
bonus" will go to only six States next
year, those which stood by Hoover,
Pennsylvania, Delaware and four in New
England. And thirty-four States which
had this bonus of delegates in 1882 will
have their delegations curtailed. John
Hamilton of Kansas, a new driving force
in the committee, reminded the men,
bers that it would scarcely be good form
for the Republican committee to talk
about abandoning basic rules. That is
the kind of charge which the Repub-
licans have been hurting at Roosevelt
New Dealers.
The national committee has provided
the time and the place for the nomina-
ton of the Republican candidates for
President and Vice President. That is all
it can do. The selection of the candi-
dates must be made by the people.
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