The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-03

VC0nJlnUe0 1Com SAR0 4J presidential campaign almost c month in advance of the customary starting gun.
 Gov. Ali M, Landon will invade the east this month and president Roosevelt will entrain for the north- drouth area. Gov. Landon will speak in his Middlesex, Pa, birth place, in Buffalo and Chautauqua, N. r., and perhaps in Boston. Mir. Roosevelts speaking engagements have not been announced for the swing that will carry him into the sun-baked Dakotas.
 Maine will anticipate the general election in September by election of Q governor, one United States senator and three members of the house. Maine's presidential electors will be chosen Nov. on general election day.
 35 Senate Seats
 The 35 senate seats to be filled that includes Maine's--are now dis. tributed as follows: Democratic, a, republican 12, farmer.labor one. The house division is: democratic 3l4, republican 104, progressive seven, farmer-labor three, vacant seven Three of the 36 senate seats were vacated this election by deaths of democrats whose terms would not have expired this year.
 Eleven of the contested senate seats are in the solid south, leaving only Il contests in which the re- puhlicans could have Q chance of gaining In the senate. It Is not possible for the g. o. D. to regain control of the senate this year.
 "As Maine goes, 50 goes the na- tion," Is the best known political adage. It is not automatic that the nation will follow in November the September trial bla1ed by Maine, but the psychological advantage of Q clean sweep in Maine would be tre- mendous for either party. The gov. ernor of Maipsand two members of the house are democrats. one representative and Sen. Willace w. White are republicans.
 August Schedule
 On the August schedule of poll. tical maneuvers are the following:
 Republicans: Gov. LLandon'S eastern speaking tour. Republican National committee Chairman John D. M. Hamilton's l6-day journey through western states. He leaves Chicago today. Opening of the mid. western campaign of Frank Knox. republican vlce-presidential canal. date.
 Democratic: MT. Roosevelt's in. spection of drouth states. OrganiSa- ton of national campaign headquar. ters in New York and the beginning of a series of conferences between state leaders and Chairman James A. Farley of the democratic na- tional committee.
 Union party: A mid-western swing by Candidate William Aeinke through Michigan and Colorado preliminary to his first eastern in. vasion late this month. Lemke Will campaign in Maine in late August and early September.
 Communist: Presidentialy candi- date Earl Browder started a trans continental campaign tour yesterday and will make his first major speech in Denver, August 6.
 Socialist: Candidate Norman Thomas began his active campaign last month and will continue his series of speeches through August.
 May Endorse Roosevelt
 Progressives: There is loose working agreement between progress sive and farmer-labor organizations of which the leaders are the La- Toilette brothers of Wisconsin and Governor Floyd B. Olson of Minne- sota. A progressive conference is scheduled for late August or early September. It is expected to endorse Mir. Roosevelt.
 The union party coalition crusade will not begin to march until Sep tember 2. On that date Chicago will have the first glimpse of the four man team which made news in July at the Cleveland convention of Townsend clubs--Lemke, Dr. Francis E. Townsend. Father Charles E. C0ughlin and Gerald L. K. Smith. Through them. Lemke expects to ob- tain election day support of the Townsend organization. the Nation al Union for Social Justice, and the late H,ey P. Long's hare.theswealth