The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-03
President To Meet
 GoUenor London
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Rram to combat a national crisis a fifouth that has dwarfted the tall corn of Iowa, sifted the wheatfields of the northwest to c powdery dust and baked the pasture lands of Kansas and Missouri.
 Stage Set With Care
 But actually, in the public mind, the stage set with extreme care will be dramatic scene upon which two men competing for the nations highset .off1ce must stand for a mo- ment.-and which must until the very end contain the potentialities of an incident, which if they de- velop, would be of paramount im- portance in the balloting next No- vember.
 Nor is that all. There will be prob ably 100000 persons along the route which the president and republican nominee will follow when they mo- tor to the capital; 100000 persons drawn from the farming lands which many veteran political ob- servers are convinced will be the deciding factor in the November. election. %
 President VetOes Bands K
 It was because of the political fac- tors necessarily involved in this mo- mentous "non-politicap meeting that President Roosevelt vetoed the proposal for brass bands, which would have lent political rally at mosphere to the occasion.
 It was for that same reason that the flags fluttering across some 30 blocks of the route which the con- ferees will travel were strictly non- partisan flags which showed max imum of red, white and blue and which said: Welcome" but which bore no reference either to the pres ident or the governor of Kansas. It we the same factor that prompted the city officials to request business men not to display pictures of either candidate.
 Gov. Herring Is Hurt
 All of these complications were Altering through the mind of the official host, Gov. Clyde B. Herring, when he leaned back in his chair be- hind big, flat-topped desk in the executive office and remarked to newspapermen that it was splendid that everybody had cooperated" in making the occasion non-political affair.
 FPolitics?" the genial, baldish Her. ring unused in reply to a question, "there won't even be brass band"
 The conferees were determined to follow routine, to act as if 1t were normal occasion and a part of the presidents announced non-political dTouth tour. But they knew they weren't putting it over except for the official record.
 The president, swinging eastward again after personal tour of the neithwestern drouth states arranged for his train to reach Des Moines about noon. His schedule called for meeting with Herring and Mayor Joseph H. Allen at the station and asdrive over a circuitous route to thu state capital shortly after noon.
 Gov. Landon by Auto
 Asov. Landon, emphasizing his role of governor of Kansas" rather than republican presidential nominee, un- dertook 8 Seven-hour automobile drive from Topeka because any train schedule would have put him in Des Monnes long before the first event of the day-the luncheon which Her. rnC arranged for the visiting gov- eELors and senators.
 .At about 12:30 p. m. (2:30 p. m. EpT) according to the schedule, the governor of Kansas will step into one of the official automobiles at the hptel Fort-Des Moines and, accom- panied by his friend, Cyrus Leland join the cavalcade of governors fol- lowing the presidents route to the capitol.
 sAlong that route will be scattered troopers, police, four companies of national guardsmen and two troops Of cavalry.
 At the capitol, where secret service men inspected preparations yesterday, huge strip of canvas across the center of the main cor rtdor isolated the conference room tn which the president will meet his republican rival.
 Democratic Governors
 The conference will bring together q agroup of democratic governors and senators, with Governor Landon, Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas and Senator Lester J. Dickinson of Iowa as the only regular republican Participants. There also will be progressive Governor Philip P. La- Toilette and his brother, Senator Robert M. LaFollette, of Wisconsin. and farmer-laborite Governor Bjalmar Petersen of Minnesota.
 The only regrets" Herring re- ceived were from the two Nebraska , senators - George Norris, a repub- licen supporter of the New Deal, and Edward Burke, a democratic op- ponent of the Roosevelt administra- ton. whose secretary telegraphed that the senator was inspecting the much debated Passamoquoddy prof eet in Maine and would be unable to attend.
 Huge Crowd Awaits Them
 The advance guard of the huge crowd - attracted by both the Iowa State Fair and the drouth confer cllce - and of the conferees began arriving late yesterday. Among the early arrivals were Petersen. Gov eKncr Guy B. Park of Missouri, Cap- per md Senator Elmer Thomas of 41kIahoYna. Governor Roy l.. Coch. x&ne of Nebraska was expected to arrive aboard the presidential train md other confereeS planned to reach ues Moines by rail or automobile nISCrtly before the p. m. luncheon.
 .aThere won't be any place cards nk the luncheon" Herring explained. 4. guess you fellows will think we nfe 6 rough and ready crowd out Ezfe, but we just expect everybody k& come in and find place to sit 1.. -