The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-06-08
BULL MOOSE
ASSOCIATES
RIDICULED


broadcast last night charged theil
national convention opening to
morrow at Cleveland will be ICON
trolled" by William Randolph
Hearst.
In bitter personal attack Ickes
called the newspaper publisher
ian absentee boss. the discov
erer and principal hacker of Gov
All M. Landon," asserting:
"AII that the convention will
be expected to do is sign, as
usual, on the dotted line"
LASHES OLD FRIENDS
The Kansas Governor-the pros
pective Republican nominee-he
charged, was chosen in advance
by substantially the same interests
that selected Candidate Harding
at Chicago in 1920"
A former Republican, IckeS
dashed Clifford Pinchot and other
ex-aSsociateS in the Bull Moose
movement as political medicine
men,"
He nkened the conventions pro-
jected platform hewing to the Ia
bors Of "a mouse that conceived
and brought forth a mountain"
He declared:
"As the platform tinkerers at
Cleveland will want their brain
child to disclose as little as pos
sibIe, and that ambiguOuSly, so
apparently the candidate. =. is
to be a man whose record is the
most cOlOrless, whose views on
the burning issues Of the day
are least known and whose con-
victi0ns are the most accOmmO-
dating.
"The final hurdle that the Re
publican platform makers will
have to take will be William
Randolph Hearst himself"
PREDICTS PLATFORM
Ickes said there is reason to
believe Mr.. Hearst will do the
final editing of the platform" He
voiced his expectations it would
contain "a ringing declaration for
a Buy American policy" adding:
This is, buy everything
American except print paper
and other products that Mr..
Hearst himself can buy to bet
ter advantage in foreign cOun-
tries"
The Secretary termed the as
yet uniformed Republican platform
the result of the misalliance be-
tween the Republican party and
the Liberty League"
Former President Herbert Hoover
he said, had been engaged as
"obstretrician" Frank Knox, the
Chicago publisher and contender
for the nomination, as bone doc
tor" and Walter F. Brown, former
Postmaster General, as "dietician."
He added:
"JOuett Shouse will vOlun-
teer as wet nurse. The famous
du Point doctors will stand by
with a pulmOtOr in case Of
need"
BORAH BIB Powder
Ickes said Senator Borah (R0
of Idaho, would contribute IAN an
monopoly bib" towards the plat
form "layette.' Clifford Plnchot
of Pennsylvania would provide
conservation rompers."
Again assailing newspaper pub
1ichoYc ha oddnd.
Gas gOdfathers, William Ran.
dOIph Hearst and Robert H. Nc
COrmick, the morning news
paper colonel Of Chicago, are
ready to be sponsors for Baby
Platform. They fOndly hope
that from birth the child will be
sound in wind, if not in limb"
The Republican platform draft
ers, he claimed, would be required
to satisfy rugged individualists.
and vested interests, financial anc
industrial, that resent bitterly the
legitimate checks put upon then
by this Administration.
Hoover, he said, would demand
a personal Endorsement by this
rear guard of his party" contin
uing:
ct will require all the pa
tience, diplomacy and tact OF
which the Republican platform
thinkers are capable to select wea
. sci words that at one and the
same time will seem to indorse
Mr.. Hoover's administration while
in effect repudiating it"
Must Obey Court
On the minimum wage-maxi
mum hour question, Ickes claimed
: the platform would have to be
silent or declare it's adherence
to the principle announced by
the Supreme Court" The court
he claimed, had ruled that
, neither State nor Federal govern
mentS had power to establish
such wages and hours.
Unless they had been shadow
boxing" the Republicans woulc
be forced ito declare for an i'm
mediate return to the gold stand
ard" he declared, adding:
''COnsidering the present H.
nanciaI policies of foreign cOun-
tries, return to gold would spell
misery and ruin for the United
States.
1.-THE report is that certain
New York interests will write
the money plank"
IckeS expressed suspicion the Re