Evening star., 1936-06-28
.LAND0N, RESTING,
SPURNS POLITICS
Refuses to Discuss Subject,
Passing Lazy Day in
Colorado Sun.
BY ERNEST X. LINDLEY.
,r teiai Dispatch to The Star.

BY ERNEST X. LINDLEY.
gyeciai Dispatch to The Star.
ESTES PARK, Colo, June III
Gov. Alfred M. Landon passed a lazy
day in the Colorado sunshine while
the Democratic National Convention
moved toward its grand finale.
Ostensibly, politics and public af-
fairs are far out of the consciousness
Of the Republican presidential nomi-
nee. He refuses to talk about them,
but he gets his mail and big batch
Of newspapers daily and he put in
some telephone calls to Topeka this
morning to check up on one or two
State affairs, and perhaps on the ma
tional campaign as well. At 10
O'Clock this morning Gov. Landon
paid his daily visit to Estes Park
for press conference. He was
wearing a tight flannel shirt, open at
the neck, in place of the gray-green
flannel of yesterday, dark brown whip
cord riding breeches, held up by
woven leather belt, in place of the
khaki Of yesterday, and the same
well-broken-in riding boots His elder
daughter Peggy Anne. attired in
jodphurs, a polo shirt and a leather
Jacket, was at the wheel Of the
family coupe.
Il just kind of lszied around this
morning" the Governor reported in
his slightly drawing voice. Il chop
ped some wood for the kitchen stove"
he added.
Did he cut down any trees? mo.
it was just some old dead wood out
in the wood shed"
How did the chopping go? well, I
was putin before long" the Governor
acknowledged with a grin.
Stiff From Fly Casting.
He confessed he had a little stiff
ness in his shoulders from his two
hours of fly casting yesterday.
Urged to give more details about
his morning, he said: We'll, I put
Jack and Nancy 10 (his children by
his present marriage, on the horses
and rode them around. Jack did
pretty good job of it. I led the
horses and he held on the Western
saddle all by himself. Nancy 10 had
to have somebody walk along side
her. He had no plans for the re-
mainder Of the day. Il may go fish,
ing this afternoon if 1t doesn't rain
and muddy up the water" he said
He didn't know whether he would
go to church tomorrow in the village
Of Estes Park, and he was having no
guests over the week end.
Extensive questions evoked two
more details about life on the Nc
Graw Ranch. Last night the Cover
nor had to lock up the pups" to keep
them away from the coyotes He said
they had heard coyotes both nights
since their arrival. Gov. Landon
uses the prevailing Western pronoun-
citation of Coyotes" with 10y" pro-
nounced as 'eye.'D
Maggie and Matilda, the colored
servants. whom the Landons brought
from Topeka. also slept last night
behind closed windows and locked
doors. Spot" Stone. the foreman at
the McGraw Ranch, told them a
bear had come down one night about
four or five weeks ago and tried to
get in the kitchen door. Maggie said
this morning she wasn't enjoying 1t
out here very much" the Governor
said.
Silent on Radio Use.
There is radio in the house. but
Gov. Landon is adamant in his refusal
to say whether and when he uses it.
Asked If he could be pictured at
the radio tonight when President
Roosevelt accepts his denomination to
the presidency, Gov. Landon said:
you can picture me spending the
evening in bed-beginning early"
The Governor admitted he hadn't
been very sleepy out here. The other
times when I have been here I have
been very sleepy the first two or three
days" he said. But 1 haven't been
so sleepy this time"
Gov Landon has completed his
message to the special session of the
Kansas Legislature which meets July
to act on a proposed amendment to
the Kansas constitution, permitting
the State to conform to the require
ments of the social security act 1t
will be devoted to the States business,
and will not be a campaign document,
he said. In answer to other ques-
tions, he explained the preliminary
steps that already had been taken in
getting the amendment drafted and
adopted by the Legislative Council.
sort of Steering Committee for the
Legislature.
The council will meet again on
Monday, July 6. to take final action
before the Legislature meets on the
following day. This final meeting
was scheduled for this week, but, the
Governor said, some of the members
were busy with the harvest and 9TH