The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-08-11
Prelude to Battle

(New York Times)
 If 1886 follows the traditional pattern of an election year, we have reached point-with both acceptance speeches made-when an interude may reasonably be expected before the campaign begins in earnest There will of course be no let-up in the run of routine Echoes of the acceptance speeches will continue to reverberate BoterS from Democratic ranks will be welcomed by jubilant Re publicans, and vice versa. Campaign managers who have hitherto claimed all but six States will be tempted to risk still rosier forecasts and early visi tors to Maine will broadcast their predictions. But all this will be incidental For weeks precedent decrees a period of comparative inactivity. It not until mid-September, four years ago, that MT. Roosevelt set out his first important campaign tour and not until early October that MT Hoover started in pursuit of him.
 At this stage with the preliminaries over and the actual contest still distance in the future tain broad differences of opinion to the functions and responsibilities of government separate the two parties By and large the Republicans believe that larger proportion of the major problems before the country be solved by purely local action than do the Democrats; for while the Republicans them selves propose to expand the activities of the Federal Government at many points they do not go so far to accept the thesis of the Democratic party that working conditions in industry, monopoistic and unfair business practices cannot be adequately han ded exclusively by forty weight separate State Legs latures forty-eght separate State Courts" The two parties likewise disagree concerning the of social control which is desirable essential under modern conditions. The Republican party regards as "regimentaton" many of the innovations of the Roosevelt Administration The Democratic party tends that 'regimentation" is a word which might have been applied with equal force to many earlier reforms concerning which both parties now agree
 Philosophical issues of this kind translated into the homespun terms of direct personal experience, seem certain to figure largely in the debate which lies ahead But those who interested in speculatng now to the course of the campaign when it begins in earnest will do well not to overlook the familiar issue of prosperity" That issue variously described in earlier campaigns the full dinner pail, the American standard of living, the two-car garage and prosperity around thecorner has way of emerging with full force late Summer yields to early Autumn Eight years ago, the peak of great boom which seemed to its more optimistic observers to be des Washington by the Republican party dominated the closing days of the campaign, despite all Democratic efforts to turn the controversy into other channels Four years later the Republican party then on the defensive, spent the final days of the campaign tempting to prove that a turning point had at last been reached in the depression while the Democratic party rode into power the demonstrated belief of great majority of voters that it hadn't
 In 1886 recovery is plainly under way. Much will be heard in late October of the part that MT welt has played in bringing about recovery, in de- laying it, and of the probable consequences they seem to ardent partisans, of a change in Admins- trations