Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-07-09
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by William Bruckart pIl@galRZ
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warp and wool. There will be old.
line Democrats who will do as Sen.
ator Copeland of New York has done,
take walk. Alfred. E. Smith is not
going to support the New Dealers nor
will great many of his followers. &c.
it is obvious that each party will be-
subjected to OBJECTIONS of one kind OF
another.
Now, concerning mistakes that have
been made:
Chairman Farley made a bad mis-
take politically when he said that AL
fred M. Landon was.
S0f1e ''just the little
Mistakes known governor of
a typical prairie
state" That remark has been rising
to haunt the Democratic chairman al
most daily since it escaped from his
lips, and unless I miss my guess he
will hear it repeated, thrown into his
teeth, so many times between now and
November that the words will give
him a stomachache equivalent to
green apples.
The reasons this remark was Sc
rious blunder are two. First and fore
most is that every state in the Union
rightfully has justified pride of its.
people, it's commerce and industry and
it's future prospects. Every state feels
profound resentment when it's ca
pacity to do great things is questioned.
Consequently, when Mr.. Farley cata.
logued Kansas as typical prairie.
state and its governor as little-known,
there was a surging tidal wave of re.
sentiment. and it was not confined to.
Kansas alone.
The second reason why Mr.. Farley's
remark cut the wrong way was that
Mr.. Farley is a New Yorker and q
Tammanyite. There is something re-
pulsive to the millions of midwest
erners about Tammany, and very
great many residents of prairie states
long have objected to the attempt of
certain New Workers to run THINGS
for the whole United States.
Another mistake that has been
made, really a series of mistakes, is
the coercion that has been permitted
to go on among those receiving relief.
1t is not exactly fair to charge Mr..
Farley and President Roosevelt with
these, yet I am inclined to believe
they could have prevented local
Democratic politicians from attempt
ing to force relief clients to vote the
Democratic ticket. That condition has
obtained in as many as fifteen states
1t is one Of those things in politics
that naturally causes revulsion Of
feeling, yet it is one of those things
with which the leaders possibly may
have had nothing directly to do. The
fact that they might have prevented
it and did not is accepted by the
average voter in exactly the same
light as though written order direct
ing such procedure had been issued.
The handling Of the tax question by
the administration in this session Of
congress has not been of character
warranting too much praise. 1t has,
alienated many influential persons,
who might otherwise have supported
Mr.. Roosevelt. OF course, in the end
the President can say that he wanted.
additional funds in order to start the.
balancing of the national budget, but
1 know of great number of Demo-
Gratis in congress who have been thor
oughly displeased by the White House.
insistence for reform tax law rath-
err than revenue law. 1t seems to,
me. therefore, that considerable
amount Of campaign material will be.
developed from this fact.
And so it goes with Democratic mis-.
takes.
On the other side of the picture, the
Republicans can make mistakes yet.
plenty of t h m.
On the They have an adj
Other Hand vantage over the
Democrats in one
regard: they have not been charged
with the responsibility Of government
for the last three and one-half years,
and therefore will not have to answer
for mistakes in administration. It
lies in the hands of the Republican
managers, therefore, to prevent po-
litical mistakes between now and cleo
ton if they are capable of so doing.
They have started out with an often
sive campaign and have an opportu-
nifty to continue it, whereas. the DEM
ocrats can conduct an offensive cam
paign only so long as they can avoid
entering into a defense of Roosevelt
New Deal policies.
I understand that the Democratic
national committee is loaded to the
dashboard with material for attack,
but from this stage of the battle it
seems quite apparent that they are
going to need plans for defense as
well as offense, and they will not have
enthusiastic support from some spots
in their own army.
The Democrats are prepared to at
tack Governor Landon on the theory
that the country cannot feel sure Of
his plans and policies; that. he has
done nothing to enable the country to
appraise him and that there is no as
surance, in event of his election, that
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