The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1936-09-10

by the time election rolls around he
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
Kansas Coolidge. =
Many OF his old advisors agree
that this is shrewd strategy. They
like the idea OF such q 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 a perfect orator. He not only
has the voice, but he is good actor,
has marvellous sense OF dramatic,
and has developed timing even
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 limita-
tons as an orator. They admit that
probably the Kansas governor just
/ cannot be made to change his voice,
and that while he is little better
now than he was last spring, his
timing is still rather bad.
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 tc
measure up" as they put it, tc
expectations on his recent eastern
tour.
Much had been expected by the
country, they insist, OF that partic
ular trip. And they further contend
that the country, to put 1t very
mildly indeed, was far from thrilled
at the governors orations-eithel
his set speeches or his short bacl
platform talks.
So they want the governor to taxi
off his gloves and start trading
punches with Roosevelt. Not by pur'
oratory, but by smashing charges
alternated with simple promises Q
. what he will do, if elected, to cor
! rect the situations he assails.
That course, and that only, the
insist, will give Landon chance t
beat the New Deal
But that, insist what might b
called the old school OF Landon'
advisors, is just what the Demo
T, Gratis want. The New Dealers, the
saw. want Landon to talk a lot $
!. they can shoot at him. They hav
: the best propaganda machine IN tn
: world. and are all set to tear tn
G. O. P. nominee to pieces. Wherea
so far they have been deprived OF
!, target.
OF course to the old political han
it is obvious that the G. 0. P. m;
chine should concentrate its fire G
> Roosevelt, while Landon should COZ
= fine himself very largely to CO..
n structive statements as to what
: will do if elected-being very car
full on the last not to take IN t
much territory, SO as not to aliena
+ any of the widely differing groul
P | now held together by common Q
& lief that New Deal policies spt
IS ruin in the long run.
st Theory Upset
y James A. Farley may be bulldil
n I'D to an awful let-down in his theo
q, that folks will not bite the hal
ic that's feeding them. He certain
or is If the election recently in kn
to county, Tennessee, is anything OF
>. weather-vane-
r. Farley was counting on the fs
lie that some 5000 Tennessee Vail
er Authority workers have been hvl
lot in Knoxville for the last thr
N years, and that his efficient io'
organization had seen to 1t II
Of most of them we're registered
Ter gotten to the polls on election d
~ But they didn't vote RIGHT. kr
set county rolled up the biggest Rep
an lican majority in its history for
i'd Republican candidate for sher
m and for the first time since l9l
ina the wear Woodrow Wilson appea
INK for Democratic Congress-elec
vill . solid Republican county ticket.
ost Just before the August 8 elect
Gordon Browning, Democratic nc