The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-21
Gov. Landon' S Ideas
Parallel Rooseve|t's
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER

M ASHlNGION, April 21.-WhereaS President
w Roosevelt is being criticised for talking too
much, Gov. Landon of Kansas is getting it because
he does not choose to talk at all.
Complaints about the loud silence at Topeka have
become so persistent that the Governors friends
have undertaken to deal with it in two WAYS They
are sa ing that after he is nominated he will talk
his head off until election day. Secondly they are
digging up the many things he did say before he be-
came such favorite for the Republican nomination
and swallowed himself up in the prairie silence.
This latter activity disclosed a curious political
phenomenon. From the beginning of time, the first
rule of politics has been that when you want to hang
something on candidate, you dig up his old
speeches. Generally speaking it is good rule Moth
ing looks ridiculous of a candidates last
years speeches. Some of the Republican National
Committees most humorous literature consists of a
simple reprint of speeches Roosevelt made while he
Governor of New York
But in the of Landon it is his friends not
his critics, who are digging up his old speeches They
go better than if he delivered them now because he
made them before even he suspected there was
chance at the presidency.
ONE which Gov Landon made on Nov g. 1884
~ just before he was reelected Governor for his
second term, sounds almost like a New Dealer
in cautious mood In spots it almost parallels
Roosevelts recent Baltimore speech, which is why
this particular speech happened to be dug out
few days ago President Roosevelt urged that
the working span be limited to those between 10
and 65 years of age.
In 1884, Gov Landon said:
"a broad old-age pension plan offers relief for
the aged and also distinct help in combating
employment. With such pension plan removing
many aged persons from the labor ranks at one end
and national child labor legislation keeping children
out OF certain employment at the other, opportu-
mites should be improved to the great mass of
American labor
Here's another quotation for those who are en-
ragged over Roosevelts suggestion that something
in place of NRA ought to be set up: THE real
solution dor UNEMPLOYMENT is not one of relief
but lies in securing for every worker job at fair
and just wages. Steps in this direction must be
made through the cooperation of business industry
and government"
After the Cleveland convention dominates him
either Gov Landon or good many Republicans are
going to have to eat their own words
MOTHER and less astute bit of technique is used
n by one presidential candidate Robert Taft Ohio
Republican favorite son. When he was in Washing
ton few days ago, newspaper reporter attempting
TO verify report called the Taft home here and son
Robert returned his reply through his mothers house
maid Yet, he probably complains that newspapers
don't get their facts straight.
The inside trouble in the new Republican Ma
nonl Committees brain trust is due the fact that
Chairman Fletcher didn't know it was loaded One
OF the professors Niles Carpenter turned out to be
a. left-winger. He worked with Socialists in Buffalo
and was active in the League for Industrial Democ-
racy there.