The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-06-19


 convention to hear It's accom- plishments recited. It may be that having lost out in certain patron. age battles with the adFninistra- ton he is disinclined to sit around and whoop 1t up for the winner. Or it might even be that Mfr. Wii- liam Randolph Hearst has been giving him advice. Senator Cope land is alleged to be one of the most faithful Man Fridays in the Hearst entourage and if such ail allegation should be true his moe tive for staying away from Philas delphia is anything but complex. Hearst is among President Rooses velt's best haters and his intlu- ence, more than anything else, is responsible for the ballyhoo which came to Q climax with the tlcIl1is nation of Governor Landon. Have ing selected, by proxy, the candi- date who heads the Republican ticket Mir. Hearst is not the sort of gentleman to leave any monkey wrench ct his disposal unthrowH1 into the Democratic machine. T have Q feeling that Senator Cope lands absence from Philadelphia may not be as calamitous AS it might appear to be. It has one bright side in any case. There will be only about Q million peo- pie looking for badges to get Into the convention. Senator Cope. lands refusal to use his will make one more available.
 
 Unrepentant
 Someone who is no friend of mine has sent me Q copy of the platform adopted by the Repub. lican convention in Cleveland. If today's columns are foggy 1t Is be- cause I have been re.reading 1t and I am still unable to make 1t COG ordinate mentally. Candidate Lane don'S telegram clarifying CD his interpretation of the platform makes it as clear as mud. I would like to apply Senator BorahS rec ported exclamation oil the curreils cy plank claritlcation--"What the hell does he mean by that7"--to the entire document. To me, aS to countless others, as Q declaras ton of party principles and inten. tions 1t Is, politically neither fish, flesh, nor good red herring. The platform committee would have saved time and energy if 1t had taken the only sentence which rang true in Senator Steiwer'S keynote speech and used 1t aS runs ming gear for Candidate Landon. The sentence was "What we have done we will do." l am willing to admit that Senator gteiwer left Q lot to be desired as 6 keynoter and that he made Q laughing stock of himself by attacking the New Deal when he had voted for 50 many of It's measures. But emitting all that he was the keynoter, his voice was tho voice of the Republican party, he was speaking aloud what the party had in mind to do and he certainly let the cat out of the bag with e vengeance. "What we have done we will dol" Not all the pious promises to reform and lead Q better life with which the platform is larded can wipe out that unconscious but allsilluniin. ating admission that what the party has done in the past 1t will do again in the future. Candidate Landon may during the campaign hit the sawdust trail of new found liberalism which the plat- form handed to him prates about but Senator steiwer hit the true party key--'and stayed on it,--of unrepentant conservatism and of unregencrate return to political principles which were outlawed in l032. I do not know who made up the platform committee but whoa ever they were their finished prods uct leads to the inevitable conclu. sion that 1t was the spirit of Rabeiais which animated them, the same Rabelais who wrote
 "The Devil was slck-the Devil .
 monk would bej
 The Devil was welI,-the devil
 . monk was he." \ What Again?