Evening star., 1936-06-12

Bandwagon developments at Cleveland
make il virtually certain that Gov. Lam
don will lead q united band OF Repub-
lican brethren into the battle Of 1895.
There is now every prospect that Borah
Vandenberg. Knox. Dickinson and all
the rest of the temporarily more or less
embittered rivals of the Kansan will bury
the hatchet on the shores Of Lake Erie
and Join ferventlv in the fray to smash
the New Deal. It was never thought
that any of the other aspirants 10 the
nomination. with the possible exception
of Borah would indulge in opposition or
dog -in-the -manger tactics in the event
Landon should be the conventions s
choice. With the Idahoans views on
foreign affairs, monopoly and the gold
standard finding pretty solid expression
in the platform, its hoped. but is by no
means already certain, that all danger
of his taking a walk is past. Exactly
to what extent the Senate veterans
potent voice and popular influence will
be flung into the breach remains 10 be
disclosed. but no one any longer expects
him to be a thorn in the G. o. P.'s side.
If he does as much for Landon as he
did for Hoover in 1928. Borah will be
a prime factor in the campaign.
Herbert Hoover can no longer be In
any doubt about his warm and eminent
place in the affections of the Repub-
lican party. The tumultuous convention
reception accorded him will live in polit-
ical history as q forensic triumph and
personal tribute II by some miracle the
wheels of the Landon bandwagon had
been stopped a stampede to Hoover
would have been we'll within the range
of possibilities. AS things turned out,
the chiefs" admirers feel that he can
afford to rest on the laurels represented
by his vociferous welcome. His indict-
ment of the New Deal was far and away
the supreme oratorical event of a con-
vention which was drab and dreary up to
the time he set it afiame. Already the
suggestion is current that Gov. Ian
don, if elected. would set a precedent OF
assured popularity within the Repub-
lican party by naming a former Presi-
dent as his Secretary OF State port
folio which Hoover would ideally adorn
because of his incomparably rich inter-
national experience. The Californian
Is sure to be on the spellbinding firing
line for the ticket. and. next to the NOM
inee, probably its outstanding exponent.
President Roosevelt's Arkansas speech
persuades many politicians that he has
now definitely pitchforked the constitu-
tional issue into the 1886 campaign. He
has not categorically proposed an amend
ment to validate New Deal purposes but
he seems to have embarked upon a cru
sading effort to popularize a broader
legal conception of national needs than
is permitted under Supreme Court re-
Strictions. The apparent implication is
that he will appeal for greater latitude
of Federal authority within existing law
on the ground that there are certain
inherent qualities of sovereignty which
cannot be separated from a Federal
Government If such a government is
permanently to endure"-in other words,
full application to present hour con-
ditions of the doctrine laid down by JEFF
ferson when he was under attack for
making the Louisiana purchase in viola
tion of the strict letter of the Constitu-
ton. The Little Rock address looks like
sure-fire indication that the lid is Of
to make'the Constitution 1895 issue.
Senator Burton K. Wheeler. Demo-
crat of Montana In q recent broadcast.
entitled America Must Choose" also