The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-25
Editorial Comment on Old Guard Campaign

"senator steiwer of oregon, key noter for the Republican St2te con. yention, condemned the ESbsevelt Administratio with all the adjec. tives and parts of speech approved in Liberty League and Old Guard circles. Business recovery seemed a hurdle to him, but he took 1t ii1 good form with the usual disseat- ing explanation that restoration is coming about in spite of the New Deal.' Many voters unquestionably will be entirely unable to forget that recovery is taking place while the New Deal is on the job."-Ashville Times. Ind. Den1.)
 "There appears to be little prog ress in the effort of the Republi- cans, open or undercover, to solve their twin problems-their candidate for the presidency and the platform on which he will stand. There never was more vocal party. More words already have been expended in their assaults on the Roosevelt administration than suffice for ar ordinary full campaign and we have six more months to go. Yet 1t is undisclosed what policies they will ask the country to accept or what Kind of @ man they mean to offer to carry out their still non-existent program. ."-Billings Times (1nd0
 "If only the Republican party could adopt the Democratic plat form of 1932," sighS Senator Bar bour in an outburst of belated ap- plause for the work of his op- ponents. Why, in his enthusiasm for the platform on which Roosevelt was elected, has Barbour wasted al- most four years before endorsing it?"--Asbury Park Press Qnd.)
 "Big Money and the Old Guard closely allied in attacks on the Roosevelt administration, have very short memories. Four years ago Big Money was white with abject fear It saw closing in on 1t from every side the threat of revolution. The poor man was destitute in the midst of plenty. The white-collar worker was desperate and said so. Only the man who had plenty laid aside feared no imminent want. But Big Money is dissatisfied because 1t is out of power. It very decidedly wants back'."-Charleston Gazette (Ind. Den)
 "Like a man trying to play a vio- lin with two broken strings, Hoover harps ceaselessly upon brace oi major 'menaces to national well fare brought into being by his suc- cessor, Roosevelt has destroyed the country's credit, Roosevelt has de- stroyed the country's foreign com merce.' And Hoover is the ace at tacker of the Roosevelt policies. Il it were not that we continue to accept him as an honorable man we would suspect that he is work ing, not for the Republican Nation al Committee, but for Jim Farley himself. ."-Los Angeles News (Ind0
 "Now we hear that the g.op. is out to enlist the largest campaign army in history. The outcome will be interesting but it will have to do more than raise an army. It will have to inform the people what t is going to do that will be different from what Roosevelt is doing."- New Haven Journal (Ind)
 "Mark Sullivan appears to feel that one of the major problems oI the Republican party this year is that of how to attract anti-New DReaI Democrats to it's support. We find 1t difficult to agree. The ma jor problem of the Republican party, beyond any doubt, is to gel the support of the normally Rspub. lican voters Of the country."- oFeenville News (kndJ