The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-08
HIGH COMMAND
IRKS VETERANS
IN G. 0. P. RANKS
Dog Food Charges Among
Others Sad BIunders,
Leaders Think.
BY THOMAS l.. STOKES
Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, May s.-The
American voter Is being deiuged
with some innovations In this cleo
ton year, which promise a new
high-or low-in campaign history.
AS a matter Of fact, some veteran
Republican leaders are becoming
alarmed at the activities of the Re-
publican National Committee, In
some of which they see Ito put it
mildly an excess Of enthusiasm
over Judgment.
Some have been so impolite as to
use the words "Blunders" or bon
ers" in mentioning such incidents
as these:
/. Chairman Henry P. Flctcher's
selection of Is financial and indus
trial leaders, including a member
or two of the American Liberty
League, to collect campaign funds.
That Dog Food Episode
2. Appointment of Republican
brain trust, which includes at least
one professor who formerly was in
the Roosevelt brain trust and others
whose views conflict sharply with
Republican political and economic
philosophy.
3. Dispatch of a letter to Repub-
lican editors who had asked for
campaign material, suggesting that
they buy the syndicated columns
of four Washington newspaper men
with anti-New Deal slants.
4. Publication of rotogravure
funny paper" which many Repub-
leans did not find so funny.
5. Raising of the dog food issue"
by Senator L. j. Dickinson of Iowa,
an aspirant for the presidential
nomination, who told the Senate
that many Americans were living
on diet of canned dog food.
Counter Attack Provoked
The last incident provoked
counter attack by Senator James F..
Byrnes Cd, S. c., who read to the
Senate press release by the Repub-
lican National Committee on the
dog food" issue, telling in graphic
detail Tin advance) how "the white
haired" Iowan made Sensational
speech" to the Senate and had cans
of dog food on his desk.
The cans of dog food were miss
ing, but the Iowa Senator advised
his South Carolina colleague that he
had them in his office where any,
body could see them. Democratic
monographs Immediately began to
turn out $4,000 copies Of Senator
Byrnes' Satirical speech on the dog
food issue"
The professors could hardly be
blamed for the canine canard," as
1t appears little below their level.
But they have been a continuous
source of embarrassment to hard
boiled conservative Republicans, as
curious people have dug back into
the previous writings Of the pro-
feSSors.
Getting Somewhat Nervous
1t developed, for instance, that
three of them, Profs. r. s. Tucker,
F. A. Bradford and N. w. Carp
enter, had signed a protest in 1880
against the Hawley-Smo tariff
bill which the Republican Admin
istration offered and subsequently
enacted.
The Republican tariff policy also
was called erroneous" by another
Of the Republican brain trust, Prof.
Thomas Nixon Carver, in a book
on economic problems which sug-
gested numerous other cures for
the ills of the body economic, in
Guiding restriction of marriages in
the common labor class and elm
ination of detectives from the pop
ulation.
Republicans are getting nervous
about what may be discovered next
by the book-worms who are porting
through other writings of the Re-
publican brain trust.