Evening star., 1936-07-31

Judging by the two-fisted language
of his acceptance speech, it's going to be
left to Col. Frank Knox to perSonify
the rough-and-tumble fighting end of
the Republican ticket. The vice presi-
Dental nominees opening blast at Chi
cago last night was conSpicuouSly more
militant in tone and terms than Gov.
Landon's acceptance address. That cir
cumstance Ia due in part to the fact
that the colonel temperamentally is a
more pugnacious type of politician than
the horse and buggy" Governor. Knox
Is scheduled to conduct far more ex-
tensive speaking campaign across the
country than Landon, and the sledge-
hammer blows he's Just delivered are
evidently typical of the slsshing attack
he plans to deliver during the next three
months. Knox can lay claim to almost
pioneer honors in opposition to the New
Deal. From the earliest days, and even
when F. D. RS recovery measures were
evoking popular enthusiasm and nom
partisan acclaim, Col. Knoxs Chicago
Daily News, generally under his sigma
ture to front-page editorials, was blaz-
ing away at RECOMMENDATION, usurpation,
extravaganza and the other cardinal sins
Iow alleged against Rooseveltism. A
rugged campaigner, Republicans consider
Knox we'll equipped to bear the brunt
of the battle on the stump.
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Senator Carter Glass Lynchburg News
doesn't chime in with the anvil chorus
Just chanted by six Democratic Gov
ernors against Gov. Landon's acceptance
speech. The Virginian's newspaper has
this to say about the Topeka address:
"The tone of Gov. Landon's speech is
admirable. There are barbs in it and
it shows evidence of an aggressive atti-
tude, but there is no tearing to tatters.
There are no wisecracks and only one
or two expressions verging upon wise
cracks, and few efforts at phrasemaking.
There is no violent denunciation.. 1t is
a we'll considered, dispassionate arraign-
ment of the opposition, with evidence of
thought not only as to what is wrong,
but as to what may be done to make
correction. There is in it nothing often
sive. And 1t gives picture of man
who is well-balanced, is conservative in
thought and utterance, has little tend
ency to experimentation, who, though
sure of himself, is not adventurous, who
will not be rushed. It gives a picture, in
short, of a well-meaning, capable, natu-
raj, slow-fnoving man, who, without
being great, has character and force and,
while not above compromises and not
entirely above evasions, will not be the
creature Of others"
There's q Republican enthusiast who
evidently believes there is political magic
in a certain kind of names. He writes
to the New York Hera1d-T Tribune to
point out that whenever the American
people have been faced by q great
crisis, the man to take us out of trouble
had a name ending with the phonetic
"on"-Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln,
and now, Landon." Possibly to avoid
appearing too New Dealishly inclined,
he failed to include jackson and Wilson
In his list of heroes with ION" tails to
their names.
President Roosevelt heard much, while
tarrying on Canadian soil this week, Of
the havoc that drought has wrought
throughout the farmlands Of the Do
minion, 90 well as in the United States.
The two great prairie provinces OF
Saskatchewan and Alberta report dis
astrous crop failures which are among
the worst In their history. In some