Evening star., 1936-03-03
MILL Of POLITICS
SPEEDS ITS PACE
Farley Asserts New Deal
Brought Upturn-Mott
Denies Recovery.
Nv the Associated Press.

3y the Associated Press.
Grist from a quickening polltlcai
mill today included a Democratic
declaration that an upturn IN indus
trv results from New Deal policies
and a Republican assertion that the
recovery problem is where 1t was
March 4, 1888.
In industrial New England, Chair
man James A. Farley of the Demo-
cratic National Committee opened a
drive for delegates pledged to Presi-
dent Roosevelt at the. Philadelphia
convention in June.
Speaking to young Democrats at
Manchester, N. H., he said, economic
suicide for New England would result
from a sudden halt in emergency ex-
penditures as demanded by New Deal
critics. Federal relief money" he
said. lis the measure between good
times and desperate times in New
England"
Weird Crowd of Professors.
Representative Mott. Republican, OF
Oregon, on the other hand, said in
a broadcast under the auspices of the
Republican Congressional Committee
that industrial recovery and farm
solvency are lust where they were
when the New Deal came into power
He attacked governmental advisers
whom he termed "a weird crowd OF
professors and subprofessors."
foy-
as "transparently unconstitutional
adding that Its only real purpose
Is to keep the farm checks moving
until after the November election"
A defense of the brain trusters'
came from Secretary Ickes. Speaking
at Howard University here, he said
"entrenched privilege" was responsible
for attacks on men of trained in
telligence, called in by the admins
tration to meet the social and eco
nomic crisis it had inherited"
Fights in Primaries.
Primary matters occupied the politi-
cal observers in California, North
Dakota and New Mexico.
In California two members of the
E. P. I. c. forces who had bolted from
the Democratic delegation to the ma
tional convention went back to the
fold.
The men are J. Stitt Wilson and
John Packard. both members of the
Upton Sinclair group. With eight
others, they had quit when State
Chairman Culbert L. Olson charged
that Senator McAdoo would have con-
troll of the delegation.
In returning to the fold, Packard
said he believed "the reelection of
President Roosevelt is of paramount
importance"
Republicans in California were hav-
ing primary difficulties. While COM
mittee completed slate of uninstruct-
ed delegates, as favored by former
President Hoover, there were threats
Of competing slate pledged nomi-
nally to Gov. Frank Merriam.
Two Bismarck Conventions.
Two conventions met in Bismarck
N. Oak. today to indorse Republican
candidates for office, as a result of a
split among Non-partisan Leaguers,
members of the dominant faction of
the party.
Former Gov. William LANCER was
the issue. Harry Peterson, chairman
OF the State Executive Committee,
sought elimination" of the LANCER
1nnuence, and called upon delegates
opposed to LANCER to meet separately,
However, the former Governors sup
porters claimed majority of the
delegates to the regular convention.
After Peterson's action, other men,
bers of the committee announced his
removal as chairman.
Landon Is Endorsed.
In the first State Republican con-
vention Of the current campaign, the
New Mexico organization yesterday
unanimously indorsed Gov. ALT M.
Landon of Kansas for the presidency.
However, the delegates recommended
for the national convention will not
be instructed.
Senator Vandenberg, Republican, Of
Michigan, another whose name often
is mentioned in connection with the
coming convention, defended the Su-
preme Court and the Constitution in
a broadcast last night,