Evening star., 1936-05-17
C.. 0. p. is HELD LACKING
In POLITICAL ACUMEN
Failure to Take Advantage of Attitude
of Anti.New Deal Democrats
Is Cited.

sistance against seizure Of their party
by leaders and ideas alien to their
principles. 1t is a surprising history
and one discouraging to those who
hope America may be rescued from
the attempt to impose upon it a new
conception Of society and government.
For unless the anti-New Deal Demo.
Gratis help, and help aggreseively, it u
difficult to see how America can be
saved. In any event the history Of the
rise Of anti-New Deal sentiment
among distinguished Democrats and
its more recent ebbing is easy to
identify.
Anti-New Deal sentiment among
highly placed Democrats was at its
peak-at least the frank expression OF
it was at its peak-during 1884 and
early 1885. about year or two years
after Mr.. Roosevelt took ONCE. 1t was
on April 9. 1884, that the most re-
spected leader in the Democratic party
Il use the superlative deliberately
Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, said:
The New Deal, taken all in all, is
not only a mistake, 1t is q disgrace to
the Nation. The time is not far dis
tant when we shall be ashamed Of
having wandered so far from the die
tates of common honesty and COM
mon sense. - would rather have
died than see the disgrace of this
era
On another occasion Gin the Senate
May 13, 1880 Senator Glass said OF
N. r. A: IF could do so would
terminate it on the spot; have had
nothing to do with it, nor have per.
mitted 1t to have anything to do with
me or my business"
On yet another occasion Gin the
Senate April II, 1889 Senator Glass
said of Triple A: There Is no human
being who has ever been created by
God upon whom I would confer the
authority and the power that this bill
undertakes to confer upon the Sec
retary of Agriculture"
TN the light of those sentiments
one wonders what Senator Glass will
do after Mr.. Roosevelt is renomi.
mated? If Senator Glass remains
regular how will he explain to an
America that respects him, regards
him almost with veneration.? One
hopes his explanation viii not cause
the country to abate its faith In him;
the country, as spiritual matter,
can not afford to lose faith in q SYM
Dol so valuable as Senator Glass at
time when so many other symbols
have tHmbled)
It was on May %, 1884, that Sena.
tor Harry r. Byrd of Virginia. in q
public address, said that the Triple A
powers asked for by Secretary Of Agri.
culture Wallace would make Mr.. Wal.
lace "a Hitler of American agricul-
ture" and reduce American farmers
to the status Of peasants In Soviet
Russia" -
It was in March, 1884. that Demo-
cratic Senator Joseph w. Bailey OF
North Carolina, speaking in the Sem
ate on the, bill giving Secretary Wall
lace power to dictate how much cotton
q farmer might raise, said: II believe
we have come to the crucial hour Of
decision. 1t is going to be q free
Republic or it is going to be social--
istic regimented communism.
If this bill shall pass the Congress
and If the Supreme Court shall sus-
tain it, I shall know that the end or
all things has come in America and
I shall prepare for the sociahstic
regime and the dictator"
II sentiments like these could be
uttered by the most distinguished
Democrats in the country, and II
nothing comes from it, If there Is to
be no independent Democratic party
or other form Of organized protest,
what shall We infer? ANY interference
we can make would be somber..
Democratic hostility to the New
Deal-at least spoken hostility by
Democratic Leaders in ofiice-wss at
its heights In the Spring Of 1885. For
its subsiding. for the present and re.
cent silence Of some Democratic leads
/ ers, who once were so forcefully vocal.
CONTINUED on twelfth 'Tase.).