Evening star., 1936-06-05
Kansan's Manager Declares
ldahoan Also Supported
Roosevelt Steps.
INCREASE OF STRENGTH
ENVISAGED BY HAMILTON
Governors Floor Leader Forecasts
First.Ballot Nomination if
Rush Continues.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN,
Stan Correspondent of The Star.

G. Bachmann, to link Gov. Alfred M.
Landon of Kansas with the Roosevelt
New Deal brought an immediate re-
sponse today from John Hamilton,
Landon manager, who pointed out
that Republican members of Congress
had during the first two years of the
Roosevelt administration supported
New Deal measures. That included
Senator Borah.
"I could take the Bible" said Ham
ilton, land by using lot of asterisks,
make the devil appear saint"
He was referring to the Bachmann
statement which quoted sentences
from speeches and letters of Gov.
Landon which praised Roosevelt's re-
lief program.
Partisan Relief Caused Change.
During the first two years of the
Roosevelt administration" continued
Hamilton, Republican members of
Congress, including Senators, went
through a period of elf-abnegation.
! do not know of any sincere Repub-
lican who did not wish the Roosevelt
recovery program to succeed. When
it reached the point that this relief
program was being used for partisan
political purposes there was a change
on the part of the Republicans"
Hamilton was asked if he knew how
many of the New Deal measures Sem
ator Borah had supported He re-
piled that he did not know the
Senator's record, nor did he intend to
single him out from other Repub-
ican Senators who had supported New
Deal legislation.
Since the Bachmann statement"
said Hamilton, with a smile, there
have been new accretionS of delegate
strength" He did not say in what
delegations.
Representative Joseph w. Martin,
jr., of Massachusetts,, floor leader of
the Landon forces at the coming ma
tional convention, who reached Cleve-
land today, predicted a nomination of
Landon on the first ballot, if the rush
to the Landon standard continued.
EHSt-DdiIOt DtCISlOu SeCn.
"A flrst-ballot nomination" said
Martin, looks to be inevitable, in the
light Of what has been happening"
Martin said he would not be sur
prised If Massachusetts, went practi-
cally unanimous for Landon" on the
first ballot.
There may be two or three men,
bers of the delegation who are per-
sonally friendly to other candidates"
he said, who will vote for them on
the first ballot. The overwhelming in
dorsement given Landon in the Mas
sachusetts primary, however must
convince Republicans they should sup
port Landon."
Martin predicted that Massachusetts,
and, indeed, all of New England,
would vote for the Republican presi-
dental nominee and against Roose-
welt in November.
There is no hope for New England
as long as the New Deal is in the
saddle" he said.
THE people understand that"
Hamilton said that he did not be-
lieve the Borah charge about the ex-
penditure of national committee
money in Ohio for the Taft slate of
delegates had any bearing on the
Landon candidacy.
1--WE did not go into Ohio" he said.
Kansans Hold Caucus.
The Kansas delegation, all wearing
sunfowers in their buttonholes. went
into caucus today to make plans for
advancing the Landon candidacy and
to select members of the various COM
mittees of the convention. One prob
lem which is disturbing the Landon
group in connection with the platform
has to do with the recent Supreme
Court decision, invalidating the New
York, minimum wage law. That de-
cision seems to preclude the Republi-
cans from taking the position that the
regulation of such economic questions
was matter of State action, not Fed
eral. The question in the minds of
the Landonites is whether they should
support q constitutional amendment
giving the States the right to deal with
such matters exclusively, or whether
they should just ignore the Supreme
Court decision.
The drive against the Kansan has
been accentuated by the Bachmann
statement showing that Landon has
praised President Roosevelt's relief
program to the skies in the past and
has urged that Kansas take all the
money it can get from the Federal
Government"
Gov. Landon, in a letter to Presi-
dent Roosevelt, dated April II, 1884,
the Bachmann statement continued,
said:
This civil works program is one
Of the soundest, most constructive
policies of your administration and
I cannot urge too strongly its con-
tinuance."
Sees Reason for Silence.
"The foregoing" Bachmann said,
may explain the significant silence
on the part of Gov. Landon as to
his views and policies. But it seems
inconceivable for the Republican
party to write a platform suitable to
Republicans and Jeffersonian Demo-
Gratis and then nominate an avowed
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