Evening star., 1936-05-08
ROUGH CAMPAIGN
H|NTED BY LANDON
. lntimates Drive Won't Be
"Pink Tea Affair" if He
3z Is Nominated.
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
I Z TOPEKA, Kans.. May 8.-The Ma
ton had broad hint from Gov. ALI
! M. Landon that the coming presiden-
tial campaign will be mo pink tea af-
fair" if he receives the Republican
nomination.
Mixing in criticism of the Roosevelt
administration, the Governor gave his
own ideas on issues Of the contest In
O radio interview at the executive
residence last night with H. v. Kalten-
born, political commentator. 1t was
! broadcast nationally.
What the Nation needs most. Lam
don said, is a revival of confidence.
He assailed the New Deal as betraying
sour high national ideals" with waste
/ full, slipshod, incompetent, happy-go-
. lucky administration" and said pro
gressive government deserves some
! thing better than casual experiments.
. The pink tea" remark came when
Kaltenborn asked the Governor wheth-
er he would make a real fighting
campaign" if he were nominated.
Cites Kansas Campaigns.
: Landon replied: We'll, that all de-
: pends on how you Judge a man. Some
people Judge man by the amount of
! talking he does. Other people judge
him by what he gets done. AS to a
: fighting campaig1-well. you can never
tell how a horse will work until you
hitch him up.
. b ~ IA 10 ct tOTn KQnCQg
elections might answer that question.
don't think any one ever considered
our political campaigns in Kansas as
pink tea affairs"
Z The interview was Landon's first
extensive public discussion of national
issues since his Kansas day address,
I January 90.
After accusing the present admin
/ istration of needless retarding OF
recovery" Landon said:
Il believe the real issue before the
! American people today is not whether
you are better off now than you were
Z in 1888. The real question and issue
( is this: Have we made as much
/ progress in coming out of this depres-
sion as you have reasonable right to
! expect?"
Sees Campaign as Education.
: Asked how he thought confidence
could be restored. the Kansas execu-
z tive replied, Il believe a presidential
c campaign can be made great means
. of public education-one that will in
form the public and give the people
{. q chance to study and understand
what the real issues are.
"You must realize that for three
and one-half years, we have had only
one side of the story. We've been up
against the greatest political propa-
ganda machine that the country has
ever seen. And the worst of it Is, 1t
is being paid for out Of the public
treasury"
Kaltenborn guided the conversation
into prohibition, social security and
foreign affairs.
In his first declaration of the wet
question since becoming widely dis
cussed as a presidential possibility,
Landon said he accepted the verdict
of the people: THE people rendered
an overwhelming verdict, that the
question should be returned to the
various States for such decision as
their citizenry wished"
Should Follow Washington.
On foreign affairs Landon observed:
, ut might repay us all to read Wash
ington's farewell address again =.
wouldn't say for a moment that we
should slavishly follow Washington or
any one else. But do say that if we
60 forward in his spirit we shall meet
Our obligations to America. and the
world"
The Governor said he was "for"
social security. believing I'VE have