Evening star., 1936-02-10

mess in which it found itself on March
4. 1888, and then asked to compare it
with the economic state of the Union
now. There are indications that this will
be the kernel of the Democrats pros
perlty sales talk on the hustings next
Summer and Fall. Jim Farley hinted
as much last week when he said that for
every captain of industry who bankers
to bring back Hoover days" there are
10 of his ilk who appreciate that the
New Deal, which they're now asSailing,
stopped the panic and gave each of them
a chance to recover"
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Col. Edwin A Halsey, secretary of the
Senate, who will be sergeant at arms of
the Democratic convention in Philadel-
phia. thinks that the loaveS and fishes
problem to be confronted there will be
the toughest of its kind in national con-
vention history. The demand for admis-
sion tickets at the big party meetings
in any city of considerable size always
far exceeds the supply, but because of
PhiladelphiaS own metropolitan area
population of roundly 100000 and its
proximity to New York. Washington,
Baltimore and other populouS communi-
ties Colonel HalSey predicts wholly
unprecedented clamor for gallery places.
Once upon a time, when the New Deal
conclave seemed predestined to be a
placid love feast and mere ratification
meeting, the convention seating PROPOSE
ton conjured up no difficulties. Now,
with promise of a first-claSS fireworks
display, standing room only is the certain
r1roSnect at PhiladelDhia
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National Chairman Farley's recent
Miami onslaught against the Liberty
League and It's moneyed Affiliations may
be an expression of Democrats realiza-
ton that -Rooseveltism Is at white
heat in upper-crust financial and indus
trial quarters. Especially in New York
the citadel of Mr.. Farley's predatory
plutocracy," F. D. r. nowadays is dis
cussed in terms of undisguised enmity
Even the unmistakable upturn in busi-
ness, as reflected by late reports from
the steel and motor industries and by
improved Stock Exchange conditions, ha.
not mellowed the wrath of big business
over the New Deal and all its works
Chronic uncertainty as to the future anc
unstable Federal financing are most COM
monty named as the causes of Manhat-
tans unquenchable crouch against the
administration.
Ever and anon the suggestion crops UP
that DR.. Glenn Frank, president of the
University Of Wisconsin, IS dark horse
upon whom would-be Republican PreSi-
dent makers would do well to keep an
eve peeled. Meantime he's mentioned as
an ideal keynoter for Cleveland His
friends think it well within the range of
possibilities that Franks gift for phrase
making might charm the delegates just
as on a silver-tongued occasion 40 years
ago william Jennings Bryan spellbound
himself into sudden political eminence.
II Il 4
Evidence multiplies that Governor
Landon is crowding closer and closer to
the G. o. P. inside track, particularly in
the conservative East, largely in conse-
ouence of his Kansas day speech on jan
uary 20. New Yorkers approve his safe
and sane" views so thoroughly that
there's likely to be a scramble to get
SECOND place on the Landon ticket for
some Empire State Republican like Rep
resentative Wadsworth or House Minor
ity Leader Smell. Landon headquarters
in New York City will presently give
form and direction to the Governors
boom along the Atlantic seaboard. No
Republican aspirant at the moment
seems to outrank him in potential
strength in that region. The hope Of
his supporters is that Eastern unin-
Landon- minded.
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