Evening star., 1936-04-18
KNOX TO STRESS
3 MAIN ISSUES
Pledge e-Breaking, Waste and
State Rights Usurpation
Are Charged.

1ndicting the Roosevelt administra-
ton for failing to think through
the very real problems which face the
Nation, Col. Frank Knox, Chicago
publisher and candidate for the Re-
publican presidential nomination, said
here today he would continue his cam
paign on three main issues. They fol-
low:
l. UntruStworthineSS of the admin
istration with regard to its platform
pledges and other promises.
2 Prof1igate and wasteful spending,
with the certainty that heavy taxes
must be enacted to pay the costs.
3. The question of Federal intrusion
and usurpation of rights of State and
local government.
Most vulnerable of administration
activities thus far, he said, is the
Tugwell program of resettlement,
which he termed sheer waste" Run
ming it a close second, the Chicagoan
continued, is the whole administration
of relief.
Instances Are Cited.
AS a signal instance of the adminis-
trations failure to think through"
its problems, Knox cited the social
security act, calling it an absolutely
unavoidable" attempt at solving a
problem which is real concern to the
entire Nation. Another instance
quoted was the pending tax legisla-
ton, by which he predicted the real
burden will fall upon those receiving
incomes from dividends rather than
upon the corporations singled out by
the President in making his proposal.
Fresh from his preferential pri-
mary contest with Senator Borah of
Idaho in Illinois, the Chicago pub
Usher planned a series of meetings
with Republican chieftains in WASH
ington, New York and other key
points on the Atlantic seaboard
With returns nearly complete, the
Knox supporters at Chicago laid
claim to SIS of the 81 delegates the
State will send to the national con-
vention at Cleveland in June.
Vote 46s,760 to 396,02s.
The latest count shows the Knox
vote to be 468, ,760 to Borah's 396,o29.
Knox carried Cook County (Chicago)
by 110,294 votes, while Borah was
running 1858 ahead downstate.
OF particular interest to the Demo-
Gratis was the showing made by Presi-
dent Roosevelt, unopposed in his
party's primary in Illinois. Latest
figures show his vote was 464, $50
greater than that polled by Borah
and Knox together.
Democratic Chairman James A. Far
ley said in statement yesterday
that there would be "a tremendous
Roosevelt sweep in November"
Democratic claims regarding Illinois
were disputed by Republican leaders
OF that State, who maintained that
the bitter struggle between Gov.
Henry Horner and DR.. Herman N.
Bundesen for the Democratic guber-
material nomination caused many Re-
pubhcans to get into the fight. To
this, the Democrats replied that the
primary voters in the gubernatorial
contest on the Democratic side were
under no obligation to mark a ballot
for President Roosevelt.
Two Missing Districts.
Carl c. Bachmann, chairman of the
orah-for-Preside forces in the
Capital, declared it was Every queer"
that official returns from two districts
had not come in.
"The information I have does not
indicate that there is any good rea-
son for the final returns in these dis
tricts fourteenth and twentiethl not
to be open to the public at the present
moment, and it appears to ME that
apparently there is something wrong"
Arizona was slated to hold its State
Republican convention today. Ned
Creighton, national committeeman,
said supporters of both Knox and
Gov. Af NJ Landon of Kansas were