Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-09-17
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BY Carter Field WTA
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Washington. - Governor Alfred
M. Landon is being overwhelmed
with conflicting advice as to how ne
should conduct his campaign. Ii ne
still retains the calmness and gooo
nature that his old friends admire,
by the time election rolls around ne
will have graduated into the super
man class. More likely there will be
some kind of blow-up, with advisors
dropping away from his train, from
Topeka, and from Estes Park, in
procession resembling the deser-
tons from the train of Queen Marie
of Roumania when she toured this
country.
But of course there is no telling
at this stage which particular group
of advisors will be dropped or
pushed overheard in the time re-
naming of the campaign.
Landon's natural impulse, and his
calculated thought so far, is to make
a very dignified campaign, not
striving for oratorical effects, not
pretending he has cure-all for the
nations ills, and developing the
theme that was so successful in his
pre-convention campaign-that he is
a kansas Coolidge
Many of his old advisors agree
that this is shrewd strategy. They
like the idea of such a contrast with
Franklin D. Roosevelt They point
out that in the first place Landon
could not possibly beat the Presi-
dent at his own game, especially as
Roosevelt is recognized as having
just about everything it takes to
make, perfect orator. He not only
has the voice, but he is a good actor,
has a marvellous sense of dramatic,
and has developed timing
more important in oratory than in
golf-to an amazing degree.
There simply is not time, these
advisers point out, to bring Landon
up within striking distance of Roose-
velt's near perfection as speaker,
either before a multitude or before
a microphone.
Some Disappointed
Those who insist on Landon's
changing his style admit his linita-
tons as an orator. They admit that
probably the Kansas governor just
cannot be made to change his voice,
and that while he is a little better
now than he was last spring, his
f;,,o;,r c%;11 4l,.o,- glol
This, they insist, is hopeless, but
just because that is true is no reason
why the governor should not put
more punch in his speeches. They
stress the failure of the governor to
measure up" as they put it, to
tour.
Much had been expected by the
country, they insist, of that partic-
ular trip. And they further contend
that the country, to put it very
mildly indeed, was far from thrilled
at the governors either
his set speeches or his short back
platform talks.
So they want the governor to take
off his gloves and start trading
punches with Roosevelt. Not by pure
oratory, but by smashing charges,
alternated with simple promises of
what he will do, if elected, to cor
rect the situations he assails.
That course, and that only, they
insist, will give Landon a chance to
beat the New Deal.
But that, insist what might be
called the old school of Landon's
advisors, is just what the Demo-
Gratis want. The New Dealers, they
say, want Landon to talk lot so
they can shoot at him. They have
the best propaganda machine in the
world, and are all set to tear the
G. o. P. nominee to pieces. Whereas
so far they have been deprived of a
target.
Of course to the old political hand
it is obvious that the G. O. P. ma
chine should concentrate it's fire on
Roosevelt, while Landon should con-
fine himself very largely to con-
structive statements as to what he
will do if elected-being very care
full on the last not to take in too
much territory, SO as not to ALLEVIATE
any Of the widely differing groups
:.now.held sogether by a common be-
lief that New Deal policies spell
ruin in the long run.
Theory Upset #
James AT arley may be building
zap to an awful 1et-down in his theory
i. that folks will not bite the hand
that's feeding them. He certainly
is. if the election recently in Knox
county, Tennessee, is anything of a
Weather-vane.
Farley was counting on the fact
that some 5000 Tennessee Valley
Authority workers have been living
in Knoxville for the last three
years, and that his efficient local
organization had seen to it that
most of them were registered-and
gotten to the polls on election day.
But they didn't vote RIGHT. Knox
county rolled up the biggest Repub-
lican majority in it's history for the
Republican candidate for sheriff,
and, for the first time since 1913
the year Woodrow Wilson appealed
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