The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-01
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TOPS IN IOWA.
STOKES SAYS
AAA Decision Solicited Him
With Farmers, Writer
Declares.
BY THOMAS L. STOKES
Times Special Writer

name Of Franklin D. Roosevelt is
still one TO conjure with in Iowa.
The grumbiing of the business
element which rises elsewhere Is not
so noticeable here, for Iowa is pre-
dominantly agricultural and the
heart Of the farmer out in the corn
rows-now buried under several
inches of snow-still beats warmly
for the man in the White House.
Mr.. Roosevelt's strength appears
to have been solidified by the SUI
preme Court decision which killed
AAA, and the states Is electoral
votes should be chalked down in the
Roosevelt column in November.
The New Deal influence may
sweep out of public lite at the same
time former idol of Iowa, Senator
Lester J. Dickinson, the white
haired orator who has raised his
voice so often against the Roose-
welt regime.
The Senator is up for reelection
this year and there is also some talk
about him as Presidential candi-
6ate-but this is not taken very
seriously.
Mr.. Dickinson has alienated many
of his former farm supporters by
his fight on the AAA. Other former
friends have been angered by his
attacks on New Deal programs with
which they are affiliated. He has
attracted the anti-New Deal ele-
ment, of course, but close observers
of Iowa politics believe this will be
minority in November.
First Hurdle June
Nor have the farmers liked their
Senator's TRADES against Secretary
Wallace, an Iowan who has grown in
popularity here because of the farm
relief program he devised for Presi-
dent Roosevelt.
Senator Dickinson has prelimi-
nary hurdle in the Iowa primary,
which comes on June l, eight days
before the Republican National Con-
vention meets at Cleveland. If he
should lose there his presidential
boom would collapse Immediately.
just how formidable foe he may
have in the primary-if any-de-
ponds upon negotiations now going
on. There is some disposition in
the Republican organization to
squelch any hopefuls on the theory
that, while the Senator's course in
Washington has not been to the
liking of every one, he has fought
the regular Republican fight and
should not be sacrificed because of
it.
But former Senator Smith Brook
hart is thinking about trying to take
Senator DickinSon's measure in the
primaries-and the organization can
have no influence with Mr.. Brook
hart, for he always has fought it.
The entrance of Mr.. Brookhart, who
has worked with the New Deal in
Washington, is said to depend upon
his success in getting together a
campaign fund.
There Are Other Possibilities
There is still a possibility that
former Gov. John Hammill, who has
been friendly to the New Deal farm
program, may challenge Senator
Dickinson's right to return to the
Senate. Howard Clark, Des
Moines attorney, who has not held
political Office before, also is dis
cussed.
The Democratic senatorial candi-
date, 1t appears now, will be Gov.
Clyde L. Herring. He already has
announced. He may have opposi-
ton in the primaries.
The Republicans may benefit from
a series of scandals in the Demo-
cratic state regime involving alleged
slot machine rackets, campaign fund
irregularities and liquor stamp
frauds.
Gov. Herring, who has not been
involved personally, has a way with
him of CLOSING over such apparent
handicapS. He has frank, wise
cracking manner that wins friends.
Keeps State in Good HumOr
His exploits keep the state in good
humor, such as his visit to Gov
Floyd Olson to present the Mime
sofa chief executive with an Iowa
pig, which was the stake in foot
ball bet involving the two state uni
versity teams.
He's full of such tricks and Iowans
seem to like them.
There is one aspect of the New
Deal which farmers do not like and
which Republicans will capitalize
heavily in the campaign.
This is the spending program.
Iowa farmers abhor debt They
have had enough of it, They are
pretty we'll liquidated now, but their
comment on the state of the Union
includes frequent references to the
public debt, even including the cost
of AAA.
Oppose Big Expenditures
Its just one tax piled on top of
another" said one farmer who was
against AAA. They vote billions
and never think where the money
Is coming from"
''It looks as if some day we're 60
ing to have to pay for this money
they're putting out now" said an
other.
Farmers have indicated some hos
tility toward relief expenditures, not
only because of their size, but be-
cause. when they we're faced with
shortage of labor, they saw able
bodied men drawing relief money
from the Government.
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