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to assure all rivals they would have q
run for their money.
Nevertheless, the Landon claim Of
400 votes drew immediate sharp re-
plies from both the Knox and Borah
camps, and was followed in a few
hours by circulation of an unsigned
handbill urging the delegates to look
the field over" and get away from
this grasshopper storm" 1t was ap-
parent that the contest was assuming
a bitterness which hitherto has been
notably lacking.
The declared purpose Of John M.
Hamilton, the Landon generalissimo
was to avoid pressure which might
leave hard feelings afterward. Still
the talk of urging matters to con-
cluSion on the initial roll call did not
die out entirely in other Landon
quarters. An earnest discussion of
the subject seemed to be progressing
in the inner councils Of the Kansas
delegation.
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Dental choice itself stood thus at a
crossroads of controversy, specula-
tion continued among the arriving
delegates as to second place on the
ticket, should Landon be placed at
its head. There was persistent talk
of Representative James W. Wads-
worth of New York. Nothing like a
decision was indicated.
Attention to Platform.
The prospective platform also came
in for increasing attention. 1t was
disclosed that several groups of dele
gates, some meeting in the West and
some in New York and Washington,
had been at work putting their ideas
into words. AS a result, something
resembling batch Of tentative planks
were being passed around quietly
today for preliminary inspection.
One of the proposals-which still
lack any sort of official standing-was
for a constitutional amendment to
permit the States to pass minimum
wage laws. Another would turn over
the administration of relief to the
States. A third would condemn COM
pulsory crop curtailment, but propose
a farm subsidiary to equalize prices.
These volunteer efforts at platform
making appeared to have struck sew
eral snags. There was only faint in
dication Of what the party might be
heading for with respect to the cur
cency issue, the tariff, and several
other controversial subjects.
Some seasoned political leaders be-
lieved the money plank might make
the most trouble of all There are
Eastern elements of the party who
want to go long way toward de-
manding a return to the old standards
Of currency stability, and there are
Westerners who want nothing of the
kind. Whatever tentative agreement
might be reached beforehand, a plat
form committee BATH seemed GER
tain.
A considerable group, including
some Eastern leaders, look with favor
on the general policy of reciprocal
tariff, without committing themselves
as to the specific manner in which
that policy has been applied by the
Roosevelt Administration. But among
Landonites from the West, particu-
larly in the cattle country, such an in
dorSement is vigorously opposed.
The proposal to suggest a constitu-
tional amendment stirred special in
terest in view of the Supreme Courts
decision Of last Monday, invalidating
the New York State minimum wage
law, and President RooSevelt's subse-
quent remark that mo mans land"
was thus created in which neither
State nor Federal government could
function.