Evening star., 1936-07-25

ize, he said, means to him the right
of employees to join any type Of union
they prefer, whether 1t covers their
plant, their craft or their industry.
This would cover the right Of labor
to organize industrial unions" such
as John L. Lewis and his c. I. o.
are demanding. But Mr.. Lewis Is
doing all in his power to defeat
Landon-and long before Landon was
nominated Lewis committed himself
and the United Mine Workers of
America, of which he Is head, to the
reelection of Roosevelt.
Labor Views Hurtful, Too.
But Landon also declared his be-
lief that workers should have the
right not to join unions, If they did
not desire to join them. This. in the
eyes of labor organizers, is heresy.
Landon's pronouncements on labor
are likely to help him and also to
hurt him in the campaign. They are
likely neither to satisfy the extremists
among the workers and the employers.
But on the other hand, they will ap-
peal to large numbers of both groups.
There is one thing to which the
Republican nominee is strongly COM
mitted-a war on monopoly. I'VE
propose" he said. ito use the full
power of the Federal Government to
break up private monopolies and to
eliminate private monopolistic prac-
tices." There is no slightest doubt
that Gov. Landon has in his mind
the absolute need of preventing a new
era of growing monopoly and imitation
when recovery and prosperity set in
on a big scale. In his opinion, many
of the biggest business men in the
country are coming to realize that
there must be a halt on monopolistic
practices. If he is elected he intends
to see that there is such halt. He
does not believe in waving big stick.
Rather does he agree with an earlier
Roosevelt who said, Walk softly and
carry Dig stick"
Campaign Strategy Weighed.
Gov. Landon, in conjunction with
his campaign manager. John Hamil-
ton, is giving a great deal of con-
sideration to the kind of campaign he
is to make-whether he is to do a
great amount of travelling about the
country and make a large number
of speeches. The candidate will make
several trips to different parts of the
country-the first into the East,
where he plans to speak at his birth
place in Pennsylvania, near the Ohio
line On this trip he will speak in
upstate New York and may make
one speech in New England, probably
Boston. He will on another trip
reach into the great States of the
Middle West, including Illinois, In
diana, Ohio. Michigan, Iowa and
Wisconsin. It seems to be unlikely
that he will make swing clear across
the continent to the Pacific Coast,
although plans may be changed to
bring this about.
There have been calls from practi-
cally all the States for Landon. The
people want to see him. The high
command is taking all this into con-
oAASA oeAOAA' ~ 40 DCllCFCu LlldU llC WILL
make friends wherever he goes. Nev-
ertheless, he will be able to appear
before comparatively small propor-
tion of the people, no matter how
much he travels in the next few
months. The Republican leaders feel
that he must rely on the newspapers
and the radio to get his ideas across
to the voters generally.
Improves in Delivery.
Landon does not look upon himself
as an orator. He isn't. But he has
a message to carry to the people and
he is improving in his method of de-
livering this message. It is not al
ways the best talker who wins in a
presidential campaign. While Abra-
ham Lincoln had wonderful gift as
a writer of prose and for summing I'D
issues, he was awkward and ineffec-
tual as speaker when compared to
the man he defeated, Stephen A.
Douglas. William Jennings Bryan cut
circles around William B. Mckinley
and AL Smith was q great cam
paign speaker as compared to Herbert
Hoover. Calvin Coolidge fell far short
of the eloquence of John. w. Davis.
Yet in each instance the orators in
these presidential contests were de-
feated and the less-gifted takers were