The Washington times., 1936-06-24
FULL BACKING
IS GIVEN TO
ROOSEVELT
New Deal, Supreme
Court Big Issues
of Campaign
BY EDWIN C. HILL
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CONVENTION HALL, PHILA-
DELPHIA, June "a QN.S0.-The
Democratic party has definitely
broken with the past. That is the
thought light-heartedly expressed
on all sides as the convention
transactS the routine business on
its second day.
Gaily and enthusiastically the
new democracy runs up the flag
of the New Deal and prepares to
follow its new leaders on a road
unhampered by stop and go signs
and traffic signals.
The delegates and the camp
following whole-heartedly approve
and accept the ringing declara-
tion of Keynoter Barkley that a
new social order is being built and
that the Roosevelt mandate must
be extended to bring the more
abundant life" within reach.
Issues Laid Down
There are primal and indie
Spensible rights which outweigh
all political Journalism, all party
tradition. That is the stand
which is taken by the two men
who have spoken for the President
National Chairman Farley and
Senator Barkley.
And there is no doubt of the ap-
proval with which this diCtim has
been received by the representa-
tives of the party assembled here.
The old timers. stepped in the
traditions of Jackson, Tilden and
Grover Cleveland, are silent and
thoughtful, but the young men are
vociferously behind the President
and his spokesmen.
Already the convention has
raised definite fighting issues for
the coming presidential campaign.
Mr.. Farley laid down the major
issue thus: The continuance of the
New Deal.
Rap at Supreme Court
Senator Barkley supplies an
other no less important: The pos
sible necessity of constitutional
amendment to bring the Supreme
Court of the United States into
harmony with New Deal social and
social principles.
While the brilliant and eloquent
Kentucky Senator, whose keynote
speech furnished the high note of
the convention thus far, was care
full to state that he was making
no attack on the Supreme Court,
every listener in Convention Hall
knew that he had come straight
from the White House to deliver
that rouSing address.
You could have heard a feather
hit the floor with thud when the
Senator, slowly and impressively,
said just this:
eff in the future further
amendment should become nee
eSSary to enable the people to
work out their destiny and pro-
tect their fundamental rights, or
to overcome archaic interpreta-
ton never intended by its franz
ers, doubt not that the people
will face that duty with the
same calm intelligence which
has guided them in the past"
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And in almost the same breath
the Senator, delving into the sta.
tiStics of Supreme Court decisions,
recalled that out of $4,000 acts of
Congress, only 81 have been null
lifted by the great court, and
most of them within the past so
years.
The talk today, as the conven
ton confirms it's committees and
gets ready to hear the speech OF
Permanent Ch irman Senator
Robinson tonight, revolves around
the platform, which will be pre-
sented tomorrow, the possible ef
fects of the abolition of the two
thirds rule and whether or not
the national leaders, Spurred on
by the President, will be able to
persuade Herbert H. Lehman to
run again for the governorship OF
New York.