Evening star., 1936-03-08
POLITICAL FRONT
TENSION GROWS
Pre-. Convention Phase Puts
Spotlight on Primary
Strategies.
BY the Associated Press.

presidential race is shaping up rapidly
after . week Of fast-moving Develop
ments centering about President
Roosevelt on the Democratic front
and Gov. ALI M. Landon and Senator
Borah on the Republican.
The Chief Executive. by formally
entering the Ohio. Massachusetts, and
Maryland primaries, obviously was
embarked on campaign to crush
any possibility Of a convention revolt.
His move came after Col. Henry
Breckinridge, outspoken foe of the
New Deal, entered the Ohio and
Maryland contests.
On the Republican side Borah
broadened his campaign for the NOM
ination by entering the Nebraska pri-
mary While the Idaho Senator re-
lied on the primaries. Gov. Landon's
friends were following a different
strategy.
Landon Plays Waiting Game.
The Kansas Governor stayed out of
the Nebraska primary, as he has done
elsewhere. But the Kansas Repub-
ncan Convention instructed the
States l8 delegates to the national
convention to vote for his nomination
Landon forces were relying on SINH
lar action by conventions in the nom
primary States, and the election of
friendly, uninstructed delegates from
States holding primaries.
Borah was expected by his friends
to meet this strategy by entering vir-
tually all the big State primaries Over
the week end he was studying the sit
uation in Pennsylvania, where filing
closes tomorrow. Supporters also were
active in California, where E. Weaver
Campbell, Los Angeles lawyer, said
he believed Borah would enter the pri-
mary election in California. Senator
Borah recently asked me to survey
the California situation for him."
Campbell said. Il have done so and
reported the result to him. In my
opinion he will enter the California
primary"
Landon Club Forms.
The Massachusetts, Landon-for-
President Club, at Boston, opened
headquarters last night to organize
sentiment in New England to bring
Gov. All M. Landon of Kansas the
Republican presidential nomination.
Edwin Parker of Wellesley, president
OF the club, said application for q
charter, adopted at meeting yester-
day. would be made with the secretary
OF State next week.
Parker said Landon would be asked
to speak in Boston in April.
I'VE have no intention of putting
Mr.. Landon's name on the ballot
here" Parker declared I'VE couldn't
get that authority from Mr.. Landon
even II We wanted to-
The march of voters to the polls
begins in New Hampshire Tuesday,
with the first of the more than a
dozen presidential primaries. Repub-
licans win select delegates friendly
to Col. Frank Knox Of Illinois. In
the Democratic primary, Roosevelt
supporters are seeking to elect an in
structed delegation.
Democrats Seek Harmony.
Developments of the past week en-
couraged Roosevelt campaign man
ayers to hope for a harmonious con-
vention. The President won a 5-to-l
primary victory over Gov. Eugene
Talmadge in rural Georgia county.
while in Maryland, where revolt had
also threatened, Senator Tydings
pledged support to the Chief Ex-
While the chief pre-convention &C.
tivity among Republicans continued
to center about Borah, Landon and
Knox, speculation about the inten-
tions of former President Hoover con-
tinued.
They were accentuated by a line
in his speech last night at Colorado
Springs, in which he casually re-
marked that he had had every honor
that any man could want" The for
mer President did not emphasize the
remark, however.
At the same time, Charles Michel.
son, director Of publicity Of the DEM
ocratic National Committee, under
took to answer charges Of dictator
ship against the administration by
citing cases in which Congress has
broken away from the Presidents
leadership.
Carefully avoiding commitments
for presidential candidates, the Re-
publican State Committee in Macon
called their Georgia convention yes
terday for May In Atlanta amid
talk of organizing a solid bloc of
Southern voting strength in the ma
tional convention in Cleveland.